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Message:: [QUOTE="Shangas, post: 160562, member: 360"]This is a VERY old pen. It's 80 or 90 years at least. Inside is a rubber ink-sac, a J-shaped pressure-bar and the lever that presses on the bar to force the ink in and out of the pen. For it to work, the sac has to be leak-proof and pliable and springy. After all this time the sac has probably perished. It's either turned to muck, or it's turned rock hard. To work, the pen would have to be entirely disassembled, cleaned, and have a new sac fitted, then reassembled accordingly. Once that's done, it should work fine. There are pen-repairers in the 'States and in Britain and a couple in Australia who do this. But it's a niche market, and they have waiting lists which stretch for weeks.[/QUOTE]