Maintenance & cleaning of Visconti Wall Street LE

[ubremin]

Hi all,

I'm considering a Visconti WS LE for a reasonable price. One thing before buying though - I seek your opinion about the cleaning procedure and effort needed for maintenance and keeping the pen in good shape. The reason for asking is its vacuum filling system with two chambers. Any thoughts, advice welcome!

It is supplied with a PD Medium nib. Any considerations?

Thanks in advance,
Ulf

[Crazyorange]

Check out the Visconti thread. There's a ton of information in the thread.

Cleaning the pen is easy. Unscrew the nib unit and use a syringe to clean out the barrel. Very easy.

There's varying opinion on how well the double reserve system works. I recommend doing some research. I think Visconti pens are wonderful so I would say go and get it. But it's best to do your research and make sure it's the right pen for you.

If you get it, post some pics on the Visconti thread.

[Rusty888]

I've got one. Honestly it's probably the easiest pen to clean when you unscrew the nib. If you don't want to unscrew the nib then it's going to be tough.

What colour are you going for?

[ubremin]

Many thanks for your replies. I have seen the long Visconti-thread, I will browse it again. Good to hear that the nib-section can be unscrewed. Color is red.

[Rusty888]

Good luck. It's my favourite and almost grail pen. I just love it

[ubremin]

Thank you, You all encouraged me to order it. Will upload a couple of pictures when it arrives.
It will be my second Visconti, I have an Opera Elements which I bought recently in Florence. I chose between the Opera and a Wall Street regular model. Both had 14K F nibs. (Most of my pens are F:s). The nib on the Opera was better and the price too.

[Crazyorange]

Sounds like you have viscontitis. Welcome to the club.

[Waltman]

Hi....new guy here. I just purchased a Visconti WS LE in gray/charcoal and am very pleased with it so far but I, too, was curious as to how to clean it, as this is my first power filler pen. Thank you for the useful information!

[ubremin]

Sounds like you have viscontitis. Welcome to the club.

Ooops, can it be cured?

[Wile E Coyote]

Sounds like you have viscontitis. Welcome to the club.

Ooops, can it be cured?

Easy, buy one of each.

[Crazyorange]

Sounds like you have viscontitis. Welcome to the club.

Ooops, can it be cured?

Nope. Doomed to buy more Visconti pens. It's all downhill from here.

[Bogon07]

Sounds like you have viscontitis. Welcome to the club.

Ooops, can it be cured?

Nope. Doomed to buy more Visconti pens. It's all downhill from here.

The Deltas will start calling; then when you think it can't get any worse ......................Omas collectoritis will take hold.

[Rusty888]

[Misfit]

I have the Wall Street LE in red. I did not know about unscrewing the nib for cleaning, so glad I found this thread. If the green had been in stock when I bought, I might have gotten it. The red is very nice though. Mine takes the my pen system toppers. My brother has an earlier numbered version and it does not.

[ubremin]

Sounds like you have viscontitis. Welcome to the club.

Ooops, can it be cured?

Nope. Doomed to buy more Visconti pens. It's all downhill from here.

The Deltas will start calling; then when you think it can't get any worse ......................Omas collectoritis will take hold.

It's getting worse, I already have 4 omas pens. Double infection. Guess I'm doomed.

[Crazyorange]

Sounds like you have viscontitis. Welcome to the club.

Ooops, can it be cured?

Nope. Doomed to buy more Visconti pens. It's all downhill from here.

The Deltas will start calling; then when you think it can't get any worse ......................Omas collectoritis will take hold.

It's getting worse, I already have 4 omas pens. Double infection. Guess I'm doomed.

Sorry dude, no hope. On a happier note, many of us here have bad afflictions....so we understand.

[Special K]

Pretty much all of viscontis nib units come out pretty easily. The exception is the Pininfarina. There must be some special tool to use. I think Visconti and Coles of London keep this secret pretty close to the vest

[ubremin]

Update: Received the pen today. It turned out to be an 18k gold nib instead of the 23k pd. I'm not disappointed! It is a fantastic pen. I will post images in the Visconti-thread as agreed.

[ubremin]

Cleaning the pen is easy. Unscrew the nib unit and use a syringe to clean out the barrel. Very easy.

I can remove the nib and feed from my Opera but just pulling it out. But my new Wall Street LE seems to need a tool for unscrewing the nib and feed assembly. Searching for Visconti Nib removal tool and browsing info confirms my findings. But I'm not in a hurry with cleaning. Will just fill it up with a nice ink and stick with it for a while and enjoy writing.

[Crazyorange]

Have you tried using an ear bulb to clean the nib section on your opera? No need to pull the nib out.

Try to gently unscrew the nib on the Wall Street. Most of my Visconti pens have nib units that unscrew.