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Pictures of some finned feeders which can directly replace the stock friction fit ebonite feeders on Indian eyedropper filled pens which have the Indian no 8 (28mm in length. Sitting over a 1/4 inch diameter feeder) nib or the Indian no 35 or no 40 nib. top view: L-R: Sheaffer NN, Kim & co., Kanpur. side view: the nn feed would not stay in place for me to take the pic. Bottom View: as you can see the Sheaffer and Kim feeds have deep fins for very good ink buffering. I am not sure if kim & co still uses the same feeds shown here. Can anyone who recently purchased one pls confirm? Thanks.

So, I did not know where else to post this, so i will post it here. I yesterday Got a bunch of pens, Some of them in ebonite. Was very happy to have these good pens. So i filled them up in the night, Checked them and kept them in my carry case for the next day. I inked the two Kim&co. pens with black and blue inks and that is what i use the most in office. came to office today. Took out the black pen and well it didn't write, gave it a tap, shook it.... and still nothing, so i open up the pen and to my surprise the pen is empty. Then I picked up the blue pen because i needed to take notes, and it doesn't write as well, Shook it, tapped it, failed to write, then opened that too and whooooaaa..... its empty too. Two fully filled ED, with decent capacity, completely dry overnight with no signs of leakage whatsoever. So out of surprise i took out my Ratnam and sons and Gama (filled at the same time, and both ebonite as well) to see if they were dry too..... but to my surprise they were still full. So, i suppose the Kim's i have are just thirsty and drank up all my ink..... Just wanted to share this experience to see if someone else has had such a thing happening to their pens. Sorry to make it so dramatic... Its more fun to write this way.... Let me know what you people think might have happened. And If you have had such experience.