Fountain Pen Question

[coach]

I finished my first baron fountain pen this morning. It will be for trade for some tools I will probably post a gloat about soon! Now, It is all together except for the ink parts. There is an ink cartridge and a clear plastic piece with a twist like mechanism on the top. I know I'm an idiot, but what goes where and how do I make it work? Thanks in advance for your answers and swift kicks in the butt. LOL

 

[arehrlich]

Coach,

The clear plastic piece - with the twist mechanism - is an ink pump. You use it if you want to fill the pen from a bottle of ink. Old style. The cartridge is disposable - the pump you can refill forever.

Looking forward to seeing the tools.

Alan

 

[DCBluesman]

Alan is exactly right. The pump is called a "piston-fill" style.

 

[Old Griz]

Another reason to like the Baron kit, it comes with the piston assembly so the customer does not have to buy one... My customers love that little extra, even though I doubt some of them will use it..

 

[hobby_dale]

coach, thanks for asking the question as it helps others in the group like me as well. Remember that the only dumb question is the ones we don't ask. I think FDR once said that. Sometimes I feel that that only dumb questions as those that I ask. [] I too am self-efacing at times as well.