Mont Blanc ink question
Submitted by docradium on Mon, 03/14/2005 - 17:21.
Beginners - Help Me!
Purchased my fourth pen recently (Charles-Hubert Paris?
Black Lacquer with Chrome trim, via ebay). Didn't get a
converter with it, and therefore I'm using a box of
Mont Blanc (black) ink cartridges that I ordered with
my first pen. The other pens in this very young collection
are using converters all filled with Noodler's.
Now, keep in mind I *just* installed the cartridge like
ten minutes ago, but when writing with this, I'm noticing
a weird behavior I've not seen in any of the pens. Lines
start out very washed out, and then reach normal opacity
mid stroke. This isn't the unusual part. Before it settles
down, I see the color flowing up the stroke, as if I've just
run my finger through a small muddy puddle displacing some
of the mud.
Is this unusual? Maybe the pen nib/feed is dirty?
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Montblanc Black— just isn't very.
Submitted by engelpens on Wed, 03/16/2005 - 22:03.
Hey doc,
My experience with Montblanc black is that is simply not a very good ink. I've always found it to be very washed out. Not really black at all but sort of a varriable grey. Just as you're experiencing. They're burgundy is a great color, however. And the blue is not bad... though I tend to prefer other blues. I'd just try using your converter with a better black. Or try their burgundy. I doubt the problem is with your pen.
Joe Engel
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that's the problem...
Submitted by docradium on Tue, 03/22/2005 - 23:11.
I don't have a converter for this pen. There's a perfectly wonderous bottle of Noodler's in the desk just waiting to fill a converter for this pen if I can get my grubby mits on one, but since I bought it off eBay, I wasn't able to order one with it and I'm too cheap to pay $5 shipping for a $5 converter 
Now if only I could find somewhere local that has converters available retail...
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Your other option...
Submitted by mbacas on Wed, 03/23/2005 - 11:23.
is to get a syringe and fill up a cartridge with Noodler's. Not as good as a converter, but should work. I'll see if I can't get you one cheaper somehow. What model pen is this for?
- Mark
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You may want to flush it.
But I guess that might be difficult without a converter. I use a baby nose sucking bulb to sometimes flush pen parts. You probably want to just try water at first. If that doesn't change it, it may be just the way the nib is and the way the ink is flowing. It's possible that it could be corrected by tweaking the nib or trying another ink (again difficult without a converter, but some people refill there cartridges with a syringe).
- Mark