bassocontinuo

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[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Autofahrer 🤝 Fahrradfahrer (so soll es sein)

[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meinst du Aktionismus? Inwiefern ist das reaktionär?

[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely ahistorical comment. The GDR denazified much more thoroughly, especially in the conservative /monarchical-leaning juridical branch, with well known consequences (eg, lack of judges with proper education). You can make a point that the ideologically loaded suppression was fostering an resurgence after the fall of the wall, but what you write is .. false.

[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the helpful comments, I will try your suggestions out (I am traveling atm so my inks are not readily available)! A stupid little thing I've just tried is to fill the cap with water ... and it leaks quite a bit, where the fancy "edge" is situated. So that might be the issue

[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you mean you screw the converter a little to lower the piston and that gets it going again?

Yes, that's what I am doing. I had no trouble with the cartridge I used before, so I could try that again to identify the converter as the issue. The ink is Parker Quink Black (but two decades old, so possibly alcohol-based? I read something about a change in formula). It is supposed to be one of the more reliable ones.

If I don't have problem with a cartridge, then I can exclude the cap as the source of the problem, right?

[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, I've google that name and from the looks it could be this one https://www.schmidtpenparts.com/collections/ink-converters/products/schmidt-k1-ink-converter (no labels on the converter)

[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

No springs or balls in the chamber. And I flush the pen regularly, because the damn thing keeps drying up. ;)

 

My Kaco EDGE is drying out, even when using it the next day. I feel that the issue is related to the converter, because usually I can fix the issue (even for a couple of days) by driving the converter just a little bit outwards and then cleaning the pen. The converter is a rather cheap one made of plastic. It came in a set with the pen and the schmidt EF nib. I saw this set of many places, but it looked like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Matte-Fountain-Schmidt-Cartridges-Original/dp/B07HG1J9M1

What is the "right way" to fix this. I know the TWSBI Eco wants to be greased regularly – is this a thing with converters?