I've recently filled up all my pens, yes, all 9 of them. Some are piston filled, but I want to talk about the converter filled pens. Recently I've found that my converter filled pens suck up a lot of ink. I'd fill it up to the fullest with the converter dunked into the ink bottle, suck up the ink and then plug it in, prime the feed, start writing, and then refill the amount of ink that was taken up by priming. Why do I do this? Because every time I suck up the ink with the nib, I never get a good fill. It gets really messy for me too.
Normally my pens should last several pages of writing. But lately I've noticed that if I leave my pens sitting for some time (ie a week, maybe two), the ink in the converter is half gone. I'd twist the converter and find out I'm more than 50%, almost 75% used up. I swear I've never used up that much ink before in that pen.
Mind you I used to use cartridges for a while and they'd last several pages before even making a dent in them. Even if I leave them for a couple of weeks. Now, when I switched over to converters, they seem to suck the ink right out. I have no idea where the ink went. It's not leaking and not pooling in the cap, so I don't know what gives.
Now, I have done it with the nib in the bottle and filled it up with the converter in place, but the same thing happens.
I must have filled up 4 times in a converter and I barely wrote 2 pages in total over the extended time I've inked up this pen.
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