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57 minutes ago, Mech-for-i said:

Well , Jinhao about to made the classic trio of vintage colours complete I suppose

 

I saw the new colours on AliExpress, but since the only seller that is offering them is 1. uncharacteristically charging explicitly for shipping for those at this point, and 2. as before not carrying 03 nibs as an option, they're a flat ‘no’ from me for now.

 

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I note that too and am not remotely interested ( at that price ) , while I enjoy these classic colours, would like to see some bold ones , say industrial orange , slab / battleship grey , olive , French blue , BRG ... LOL

 

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I found a seller on Aliexpress offering 3 shipping options.  For Sept.13 delivery,  it was 4.97 per pen. If I wanted them shipped from a US address,  it was 8.66. 

I can wait a few weeks and I am interested in the new colors. I will swap the nibs for broads and stubs anyway so I am not bothered with only the two nib options being offered.  

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Not sure if I can add anything more than what's already been said, but mine arrived a few days back. I've been using it as an EDC and honestly, I've no complaints.

 

It's got a metal spring-loaded clip that works perfectly, an EF nib that isn't too dry with a pleasant amount of feedback, a converter comparable to Schmidt's own, and the ergonomics are just about perfect— it just disappears into your hand as you write with it. I got it on sale, but I've no reservations against getting more, recommending it to others, and using it as a penabling tool.

 

At a seventh of the price with virtually all its benefits to boot, it's much better than a Lamy Safari.

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I've been enjoying both of my black 80s.   Surprising how good they are.  I bought 2 Lamy nibs to play with but so far I'm having enough fun with the stock nib.  I have no "won't" power so I had to order the brown, green, red, and blue versions.  Will buy the white and grey when they become available to me.  I'm buying from ebay, from vendors with whom I have successfully bought before.  

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They are a curious mash of different design elements. What diameter is the orifice on the converter? I have some Jinhao Blue cartridges that have s smaller opening. They don't fit my X450.

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57 minutes ago, Dip n Scratch said:

They are a curious mash of different design elements. What diameter is the orifice on the converter? I have some Jinhao Blue cartridges that have s smaller opening. They don't fit my X450.

 

It's roughly the same as whatever Lamy/Parker is using. I've heard of people having some success with using Lamy cartridges in theirs.

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I have used Parker Cartridges in a Hero 359. I thought that Jinhao always used the slightly larger diameter almost-but-not-quite-International size. I like Lamy blue better than the weak Parker 'washable' blue. Can't get Permanent Blue locally.

Hero 203 is an improvement on that washable stuff and Jinhao Blue may be better still. I haven't got that far into blues. I used to use Raduga, but have been forced to look at other blues as my source was in Ukraine.

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2 hours ago, Dip n Scratch said:

I thought that Jinhao always used the slightly larger diameter almost-but-not-quite-International size.

 

Nope.

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I bought two of these from Amazon with free Prime shipping for $15.00 yesterday. The pens arrived today. I inked them both up with Noodlers Blue. Left them on my desk at 5:30 PM.  Can down at 8:30 PM and both gave me a hard start.  And not a small one.  I had to write almost 2 full words before I got ink on the page.

 

And as I write now, it's skipping all over the place.

 

I did flush out the pens before I inked them up and got some blue ink in the water.

 

Does anyone else have hard-start issues with this pen?

 

They've been getting so many glowing reviews, and not a single one has said anything about the pen hard starting.

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2 hours ago, apastuszak said:

I bought two of these from Amazon with free Prime shipping for $15.00 yesterday. The pens arrived today. I inked them both up with Noodlers Blue. Left them on my desk at 5:30 PM.  Can down at 8:30 PM and both gave me a hard start.  And not a small one.  I had to write almost 2 full words before I got ink on the page.

 

And as I write now, it's skipping all over the place.

 

I did flush out the pens before I inked them up and got some blue ink in the water.

 

Does anyone else have hard-start issues with this pen?

 

They've been getting so many glowing reviews, and not a single one has said anything about the pen hard starting.

 

One of my Jinhao 80 converters was empty, so I filled it and it only took a

couple of strokes for the ink to begin to flow.  After that I wrote a whole

paragraph and did not experience any skipping.  I will be journaling 2nite,

and will update you after some extensive writing.  Inked the pen with

Diamine Sherwood Green.

 

UPDATE:  After 5 1/2 pages of writing in my journal I have experienced

absolutely no skipping or hard starts.  Good ink flow.  Like so many others

this pen has been an absolute delight.  Are you using the converter or

an ink cartridge?

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7 hours ago, Helen350 said:

 

One of my Jinhao 80 converters was empty, so I filled it and it only took a

couple of strokes for the ink to begin to flow.  After that I wrote a whole

paragraph and did not experience any skipping.  I will be journaling 2nite,

and will update you after some extensive writing.  Inked the pen with

Diamine Sherwood Green.

 

UPDATE:  After 5 1/2 pages of writing in my journal I have experienced

absolutely no skipping or hard starts.  Good ink flow.  Like so many others

this pen has been an absolute delight.  Are you using the converter or

an ink cartridge?

I am using the converter.

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Well, this is strange.  Left the pens sitting overnight and they both have no issues this morning.

 

I flushed one of the pens out last night and changed the ink from Noodlers Blue to Namiki Blue to see if the ink was causing an issue. I've had problems before with Liberty Elysium causing skipping and hard starts in a Parker 51, so I wanted to rule the ink out.

 

Very odd that they both wrote this morning.

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11 hours ago, apastuszak said:

Well, this is strange.  Left the pens sitting overnight and they both have no issues this morning.

 

I flushed one of the pens out last night and changed the ink from Noodlers Blue to Namiki Blue to see if the ink was causing an issue. I've had problems before with Liberty Elysium causing skipping and hard starts in a Parker 51, so I wanted to rule the ink out.

 

Very odd that they both wrote this morning.

Glad to hear the issue has resolved!  

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