I picked up a Sheaffer Snorkel on that auction site. The seller represented that the pen took in water and expelled it in "cartoon fashion". He was correct in that, but the snorkel tube was not seated far enough into the plug at the top of the sac protector. The slit at the end of the snorkel extended past the feed, so no ink was reaching the feed and the pen could not write. Also, the snorkel slit was slightly out of alignment with the nib and feed. I repositioned the snorkel tube so that it is properly aligned and seats just below the edge of the feed. In doing this, I noticed that there was some grease around the snorkel tube where it entered plug, and I suspect that was what was making the seal around the snorkel tube. I guess it could have been lubrication that ran down the snorkel tube, but either way it had to go so I could reposition the snorkel tube and reseal it. I (re)sealed snorkel tube and realigned the tines of the nib so it was smoothly putting down a wet fine to medium line. I thought I was done.
Now to the problem. When I push down on the blind knob, the pen expels the proper amount of bubbles, so the seal at the bottom of the barrel is doing its job. However, the pen just will not draw ink. I pulled the snorkel/sac assembly and tested to make sure the sac is good and all about it is airtight. All good there. I assume that with the pen producing a copious amount of bubbles, the snorkel tube puck seal is good.
With all that, the pen refuses to take in ink. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance.
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