It is my understanding that the nib vein should get narrower from the breather hole to the tip, but that the tine tips should not quite touch. I have a #6 nib I'm trying to adjust. The tips of the tines are touching, rather solidly together. I can use the old trick of placing a finger on top of the nib, and then pressing the tip of the nib on a hard surface, in order to separate the tips. This works, but the result is an ever so slight upward bend to the nib. No big deal except that now, the bottom of the nib is no longer resting on the end of the feed.
How to I get those tine tips apart without bending the tip of the nib upwards, thus raising the end of the nib up off the feed???
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