I have a blue stripe Waterman W5 which otherwise works fine - fills, writes. But it will shoot ejected ink or water horizontally out of the breather hole in the nib instead of downward. As you can imagine, this has caused a couple of surprise ink incidents when refilling it...
I'm assuming this means it has something stuck in the feed just below the breather hole, for that to be the path of least resistance out of the pen.
Any tips on what to look for or do?
The section will come out of the barrel easily. I've removed the sac (not sure it was shellacked at all) and pushed water through the section-with-nib using a squeezy bulb - so far this has made no difference and even at the higher pressure water will still come out the breather hole.
I haven't been able to remove the nib and feed from the section - haven't tried for very long yet as I don't want to damage it.
I don't actually *need* to do anything to it, as it does fill and write, so I could just leave it be.
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