Help! Vintage Pilot "57G" not writing

[Nikilesh]

Hello All,

 

This is my first time posting on this forum, so please excuse any errors made from my side!

 

I recently bought my first vintage pen, a pilot "57G" aerometric which was manufactured in Chennai,India from the late 1950’s (Do correct me if I'm wrong!)
This particular one was lightly used and arrived with two replacement rubber ink sacs for the old aerometric filler.
The first thing I did was disassemble the pen and thoroughly cleaned it by letting it soak in clean water for about 20 minutes.
I then proceeded to dry all the components and check for and residual ink and other small particles which may be present.
After assembling the pen I filled it up with Waterman's "Mysterious Blue" ink, as the nib looked to be quite fine and I wanted to try a slightly wet ink.
I left the pen inverted for about 10 minutes, but still the pen was refusing to write. I then tried to refill the ink and try again, but to no avail.
It was evident that the ink was able to flow until the breather hole but wasn't able to make it's way up to the tip.
I have attached some pictures of the pen below (sorry for the bad quality, please request more images if necessary), and I hope that I have not misassembled the pen in any way.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Also, If anyone knows where I can get the pen repaired in Bangalore then please do send me a private message.

 

Thank you for the support,
Nikilesh

Edited January 9, 2021 by Nikilesh
Wrong name of pen