Grant Monteverde has quality issues. I have had a Limonada model that was a hard starter and railroaded too. I decide to tinker a bit, I never pulled a feed out of a pen before today. I decided to this pen would my guiena pig.

After I pulled the feed it was obvious what the issue was, a white substance was on the nib. I cleaned it off. It took a couple tries to get the feed to set right ( I was not lining it up properly). Refilled it and was hoping for the best. To my surprise my tinkering fixed the problem. I was surprised on nicely it does write, nice steel nib with a touch of feedback.

I went on to tinker with two other pens and great results with them also. I'm confident now to pull the feeds out and correct some minor issues.