Platinum Cool Starter Issues

[AlenB]

Hello FPN

I recently purchased a Platinum Cool with a medium nib. I can say it's the smoothest pen I own up to now, also the wettest. Although I seem to be getting a similar issue to Stephen Brown in his cool review horrible "Starter" issues. Has anyone else encountered this? Would running a brass sheet through the tines resolve my issue?

[haruka337]

Did you flush and clean the fountain pen prior to inking?

 

It's a smooth writer with a generous ink flow and I've not had any issues with hard-starts to date.

 

Wonderful pen, retails between $40 to $50, but, can be won on eBay for between $10 to $20.

[EMPen]

Running a brass sheet through the tines should make the pen write wetter. However, if your problem is dry-starting that might not solve the issue.

 

Are you storing your pen nib-up? I lay my pens flat and find that helps.

 

Do you leave it uncapped for extended periods? Ink can begin to dry in the nib and might be causing this problem.

 

Have you tried different inks in it? Pilot, Waterman, and Noodler's Eel series are widely available free-flowing inks.

[prf5]

Hello FPN

I recently purchased a Platinum Cool with a medium nib. I can say it's the smoothest pen I own up to now, also the wettest. Although I seem to be getting a similar issue to Stephen Brown in his cool review horrible "Starter" issues. Has anyone else encountered this? Would running a brass sheet through the tines resolve my issue?

 

I have a Platinum Cool's in medium and fine. I have used Platinum and Aurora inks. There have been no difficulties in staring up, except when the pens have been unused for a month or so and I've stored them nib up. In those cases, I start writing, ink moves into the small chamber, and all is well.

[maclink]

Could be a quality issue then.  I just got a Cool and first tried it with MontBlanc Permanent Black.  It wrote with a nice wet line.  A nice writer actually.  However, after several hours without use, it would hard start.  The next day (~10hrs later), I could not get it to write.  I had to flush.  There was dried ink at the tip of the nib/feed (the transparency of the feed allowed for me to see this).  It took 4 bulb syringe flushes to clear that.

 

I then tried a regular ink, Diamine Forest Green.  Again, same hard starting though less intense as with the indelible ink.  Just now, which is after leaving overnight, I thought I wouldn't get it to startup but it eventually did after a few shakes.  

 

This particular unit has a seal issue with the ink drying at the nib even when capped.  From the other testimonies here, this seems to vary from unit to unit.