Duncan that is sweet. I can see it would be quite a bit of extra effort in the section. I think the eye dropper is the easy way out. I think I am a little slow on some things as I can't wrap my brain around the way that bulb filler works, do you fill it through the nib when squeezing the bulb, and what is the little thin tube from the section for?? To give it some pressure.?
Lin
Thanks
To load the bulb filler, first remove the blind cap from the tail end of the barrel, and then dip the nib into a bottle of ink.
Without that thin tube, you would only be able to pull in as much ink as the air expelled when you squeeze the bulb -- subsequent squeezes would push ink out and suck it back in.
With the tube, the air in the bulb is expelled down the tube, then ink is drawn in up the tube and it spills over into the body of the pen. The next squeeze pushes out air again, and pulls in more ink, etc, etc until there is only a little air left in the bulb and the body is full.
Then you realize that there's no way for the ink to feed into the nib ... which is where a pin-prick through the side of the plastic tube helps. It allows just enough ink to leak through to feed the nib, without totally undermining the function of the tube for the filling process.