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is my Pilot VP nib damaged?

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I used it happily for some years, but in the last several ink changes I run into unexpected problems.

First the flow was noticeably increased - that's why I changed several inks, to test it. I used some Noodler's and a Sheaffer.

Last, I saw that it had problems starting writing unless I used the nib upside-down, and it never happened before.

I don't remember it to fall or being damaged, but the nib point seems slightly irregular - what do you think?

 

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It looks like it too me. 
The tines look splayed and pushed up away from the feed…

 

did you press REALLY hard on it while writing?…

Just give me the Parker 51s and nobody needs to get hurt.

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Every nib flexes at least once.

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15 minutes ago, FarmBoy said:

Every nib flexes at least once.

 

That's a ‘funny’ way of defining ‘flexes’, especially when replying to someone who is new to the forum, notwithstanding:

13 hours ago, Alzyx said:

I used it happily for some years,

with regard to a particular fountain pen, or fountain pens in general.

 

Every nib deforms at least once. Whether the metal deforms elastically or inelastically in that instance is a different matter. Such calls for hours of careful study of material science (if one wasn't already from an engineering background), to understand what is done and cannot be perfectly undone, so that one can consciously and rationally avoid doing it again to some other nib in the future.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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