Happy New Year From Ms Gulf Coast

[poekeith]

Happy New Year!

 

I am brand new to this venture in fountain pens; both in product and use. I was visiting an antique store after Christmas and I spotted a brown marbled Diplomat Classic Collection pen in a seller's case. Though used, I figured I could clean it and learn with it. The deal was made and the Diplomat came home with me.

 

It certainly is a beautiful pen and I like the weight of it. I have since cleaned it and filled it with ink. Have used it some to learn the feel and how to best hold it when writing. It is certainly different from what I am used to using; a ball point.

 

I've discovered that, I believe, I should purchase an ink converter (so I don't have to purchase refills). But as for operation, the pen seems to skip and run dry at times. I don't know if this is normal behavior for fountain pens or not. To get ink back into the NIB I have to tap the pen, NIB down, a few times with the cap on, then it begins to write again. The NIB appears to be in great shape. in fact, except for a few scratches from use where you hold the pin on the upper portion of the NIB, it appears to have very little writing time on it.

 

That about covers my knowledge of my one and only pen. Except to say, I realize it is a discontinued model but if there is a way to prevent if from running dry on ink and periodically skipping while writing I would appreciate any help offered. I've attached a photo of my Diplomat CC.

 

Thank you,

Diplomat CC from MS GC

 

DiplomatCC.pdf

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[OCArt]

Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the universe from a fountain pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information waiting for you to discover on this site. Write On!

[ThomasB]

Hello and welcome from Baton Rouge, Louisiana...Enjoy your time here

[PAKMAN]

Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

[MyPenAndI]

Hello, and welcome! Nice looking instrument, that.

I am by no means qualified to offer advice on your pen's situation, but

I have already learned that, if they know anything at all about fountain pens,

they are around this site. That is a very good thing.

Check out some of the forums (I know, but take your time. You'll find them and

they will find you!) for answers to your questions.

I look forward to learning, growing and sharing with you here. And do please

let us know when you find the helping answer to your dilemma. I love to learn!

[northstar]

Hello and welcome to FPN.

[MRose]

Well for sure you got some fun and research to do with you new fountain pen, but is all here so welcome to the forums

[Bro78]

Hello, welcome to the forum !

[Ink_Chick]

Welcome and congratulations on your 1st fountain pen purchase!

 

On other forums there are lots of sharers of knowledge of fountain pens and fountain pen inks, and can possibly help you with the dryness and skipping. From these helpful people, I’ve learned to only load your fountain pen with fountain pen ink, and ink can change how your pen writes (wetter, thicker, dryer).

 

My Montegrappa Napoli would skip and dry out, and to get it writing again I had to unscrew it and push the ink through the converter. I sent it for warranty repair and got it back in the same condition I sent it. Grrr.... I tried different inks to no avail. I finally bought a new converter and voila! The converter it came with was really tight and I got quite a bit of resistance when pulling/pushing ink through it; the new converter works great.

 

Best of luck with your Diplomat, and enjoy the Fountain Pen Network!

[Wahl]

[mitto]

Dried up ink in the section might be the culprit.

 

Greeying and welcome to FPN.

[JotterAddict62]

Welcome to the FPN.

[Henricum_Tropen]

Hello and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

[poekeith]

Thank you all for your kind words of welcome and helpfulness. Since my original post I have learned quite a bit more about my pen. The problem with it was lots of dried ink in the feed. Soaking the feed in warm water did the trick! It works great after the cleaning and some alignment. Take care and thanks again!

[ygv]

Welcome!