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[Norm]

A feed on a P51 with no channel?  Out of all the pens I've had, I have never had one in decent shape that was made in my birth year until the other day. I cleaned it and put a new diaphragm on it and it wrote very dry then stopped writing.  The next day it would not start at all. I took it apart again and examined all the parts and discovered the feed was completely smooth on top. It had no channel for the ink.   I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem before?  Fortunately for me, I had a spare feed and replaced it so it is working OK now.

Edited by Norm, 19 October 2014 - 05:51 PM.

[FarmBoy]

Have seen many.

[Norm]

They made so many of those pens.  Someone making the feeds must have been drinking on the job... or QC was slipping.

[David Nishimura]

Nope, that was just the design.

[Widget]

How did it work?

[David Nishimura]

On most pens, the ink is channeled to the nib from inside. On the 51, the flow along the nib's exterior is just as important -- both of ink and of air.

[Norm]

I wonder why the pen wasn't working until I put in a different feed.  I'd prefer it to be all original since it was made in 1944, the year I was born.