Having revived a couple of Parker 61 capillary fillers recently, after sticking them away and forgetting them for about ten years: the capillary system seems like an elegant design. Solid design as long as users have patience to soak a '61 if it seems clogged. I soaked the filler one night and the nib-feed all day, and each filled and wrote. No trouble. No extra parts to fill and clean or replace. One had the ordinary old-pen problem of slightly uneven tines. The other is perfect. Nib is too fine for my taste, but it writes enthusiastically even after having been left for a week.

Flawed users, rather than what I called, five years ago, a single flaw in the design.