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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
(As an aside, one of my pens is a 1935 lever fill, and at one point it really did demonstrate one reason they might be called fountain pens  . It was being a temperamental and not putting ink to the nib properly. What I usually do in these situations is squeeze or twist the sac or plunger. You can't do that with a lever fill, you have to pull the lever on the side. Which I did, without thinking. And a fountain of ink shot upwards and everywhere! I ended up sorting the problem out by attacking the nib slightly with some pliers) |
That's why they're called
fountain pens?
While in school and in the first years of university, I had a couple of fountain pens whose nib was a bit crooked from some incident- which, against all panicky feeling, made writing with those pens easier.