Had my first ink incident today ...

[cmeisenzahl]

Been using FPs for I guess about 7-8 years now. I'm always a little worried when I have a bottled open and extra careful. I've read some of your horror stories, but hadn't had one, until today.

At my desk at work, about 10 minutes before heading down to a meeting. Decide to fill the M800 from the Edelstein Sapphire bottle. Filled the pen as usual. Knocked a couple drips off the end of the nib. Normally at this point I would expel two drops, wipe it off, and be good to go.

Then I thought to other instructions I'd read and for some reason at that moment it seemed like a good idea to tip the pen nib up and pull the plunger back in to pull the ink from the soaked feed into the reservoir.

In my haste I neglected to realize that I was turning the plunger screw the wrong way, and quickly expelled pretty much all of the ink over my hands and desk.

The downside? This is an M800 with a huge reservoir.

The upside? It wasn't an M1000.

[D N Ravenna]

Mine was when I was traveling and I had a bottle of MB ink with me. The bottle leaked in flight. Fortunately, I had it in a ziploc so the damage was inconsequential. But I had no ink for several days!!!

Cheers!
Dan

[mateo44]

A few months ago I dropped a just-purchased bottle of Waterman Florida Blue on the marble floor of the ritzy shopping mall. Smash! What a scene. I think the grout is still stained a bit!

[Shangas]

LOL!!

Now THAT is a bad one!

I remember uncapping a fountain pen on a tram (I regularly write on the tram. Nothing else to do on long commutes). I had stupidly put the pen into my bag nib-down and all the jolting had shaken ink into the cap. Opening the pen cap-up, all the ink came running onto my hands.

From now on, I always open up pens nib-down, to prevent a recurrence of this.

[Monocrom]

A few months ago I dropped a just-purchased bottle of Waterman Florida Blue on the marble floor of the ritzy shopping mall. Smash! What a scene. I think the grout is still stained a bit!

Could have been worse . . . Could have been a bottle of red ink and a police officer walking by two minutes afterwards.

"What the Hell happened here?!"

[mateo44]

Could have been worse . . . Could have been a bottle of red ink and a police officer walking by two minutes afterwards.

"What the Hell happened here?!"

You're exactly right, and that's what I said to the mall security officer who was nearby (and came over to direct people around the spill and broken glass).