Leaking Platignum Silverline

[OldGreyBeard]

I have an old (1970s) Platignum Silverline. It fills OK and the ink sac is fine. However, every time I use it I get inky fingers. It seems to get a lot of ink where the nib emerges from the barrel and the ink then gets on the barrel. Oddly, it tends to dry up at the business end of the nib quite easily.

 

I was wondering about getting the nib out and cleaning it up. Is this easy to do?

[Zanshin]

I don't know about removing the nib on that particular pen but inky fingers when you write can be indicative of a crack in the section. Have a good look around the section with a magnifying glass or loupe. Even a barely perceptible crack can leak ink.

[Beechwood]

These pens were never particularly well made, made to a price is perhaps the most favourable description. You may take the view that significant effort on a repair and the aggravation of ink on your fingers isnt worth the reward.

[OldGreyBeard]

Yup, that's it! Difficult to see in a black pen. What's the recommended cure? Pop some superglue on it? I think I can hear the screams from here

Edited September 5, 2014 by OldGreyBeard

[OldGreyBeard]

It was my school pen from the mid 1970s onwards a part of a pen & pencil set (I still have the pencil as well) when the Conway Stewart 27, that was a present from an elderly relative, filling mechanism failed.

 

I was considering trying to repair it just for fun. The Platignum that is. The Conway Stewart 27 has been repaired recently and is great.