Need Fountain Pen Advice

[seleneheart]

I know many of the members of this comm are fountain pen enthusiasts!

I have a Sailor Compass 1911, which occasionally spews huge amounts of ink into its pen cap. Of course, I don't notice, so when I go to use it, I plop the pen cap on the barrel and then everything gets covered in ink. I normally store it on its side.

I've had this pen for about six months, and it just started this behavior in the last three. Before that, I was very pleased with it.

Any suggestions as to why this is happening and how to fix it?

Comments

[grayestofghosts]

It kind of sounds like the nib and feed might be out of alignment and loose, causing the usual capillary action of a fountain pen to just go splort instead. This would be an easy fix if that's the issue, the nib and feed would just need to be realigned. There are probably youtube videos on how to do this.

[seleneheart]

I had a look at it and can't really tell anything. I'll poke around YouTube.