Yesterday I bought a Pelikan m215 with a broad nib, and then hopped on a plane to a different country for what could be a long time, making going back and exchanging the nib problematic...
It's not that it writes badly, but it's a very very hard starter (especially on really smooth paper), and writing with some inks (Apache Sunset) is downright unpleasant. Edelstein Aventurine is much better, and Waterman Havana is OK. But the hard starts persist, along with some skipping that seems to be based on angle of writing.
I've flushed it through several times and when I get it going, the feed keeps up however fast I write, so it's definitely a nib issue.
I don't really want to do anything to it myself (I have a 3 year guarantee and would prefer to avail myself of it), but I would be interested to know what is wrong with it, and how it could be fixed.
Buying an m400 nib for it, as I was already planning to do anyway, becomes more of a priority now...
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