Yesterday
while I was trying to kill the last 15 minutes before I had to pick C
up from work I decided to clean my Noodler’s Ahab Flex pen. It’s been
working pretty well, writes nicely, with plenty of flow. It was in
desperate need of a good cleaning. So I gave it one in plenty of warm
soapy water. Everything got a good scrubbing, including the tiny
breather tube.

Then
I brought it back into the office for a good once over with my floss
(piece of tin can cut to scrape gunk out of the fins of the feed) and
get it put back together right. I blew the water out of the breather
tube and sat it down, never to be seen again. Did I mention that I had
it working perfectly? Once you get an Ahab tuned perfectly you don’t
really want to mess around with that perfection, you never know if you
will get it working right ever again.

I
searched for it and was nearly late for picking up C, and never found
it. I have no idea where it went. One might think it’s somewhere on my
workbench, but I can't see it. Resolved that I wouldn’t find it again
and prepared to fiddle with the *(&*%*^*&* pen for
the rest of the night, I put it together with 9 fins showing and the
nib fully seated.

And wouldn't you know, it works perfectly and if anything, better than before.

Oh and later I'll  have my first 30 in June post up. Are you playing along?