Hi All.
I'm wondering if you could help me with a problem.

I recently bought a bottle of the Montblanc Elixir ink (Wood and Tobaco). I'm not sure if its related or not, but after a few hours using the pen with this ink I noticed drops on my fingers. It was quite a lot, actually.

I removed the ink, washed the pen and filled with the regular montblanc ink. Same problem, after I start writing for some time (seems like handling and turning the pen causes the problem more than writing) I see a lot of ink building up on the tins (see picture). I have never noticed behavior like this on the other montblancs I have.

The pen have a couple of hairline cracks in the barrel where the piston is screwed, but they are really hairline and interestingly they were there before and I haven't had any issues before.

Sending it to Montblanc is hard, from what I know here in Brazil that would cost me more than a new pen.

Any suggestions?

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