Platinum Cool: It Was The Ink After All?

[senzen]

The long term answer to my own question seems to have been... The converter was the problem, it even stopped going all the way back up. Popped in a blue / black (I guess it's called) cartridge, no more problems after a couple of days. Not a bad ink but I feel like I'm in a monochrome world. This pen glides nicely though.

[Bo Bo Olson]

If you take 1/4th a rice corn of silicon grease, your converter will not be hard to turn.

Vert empire is a good shading in.

Converter.....needs a piece of spring or a steel ball bearing to prevent vapor lock.

 

Piston pens are so much wider so those problems don't happen....

Edited November 2, 2017 by Bo Bo Olson

[senzen]

If you take 1/4th a rice corn of silicon grease, your converter will not be hard to turn.

Vert empire is a good shading in.

Converter.....needs a piece of spring or a steel ball bearing to prevent vapor lock.

 

Piston pens are so much wider so those problems don't happen....

 

Thanks, I'm waiting for some Molykote, I'll give it ago, I also got another converter just in case. I think this particular pen has a FM nib, it has made the few inks I've tried with it look more saturated and quite spectacular, Sailor Souten in particular; hence in part my exasperation with the flow problems.