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Richard

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New Made Parker "51" Nipples (Connectors)

31 March 2014 - 02:34 PM

If you repair Parker “51”s, you’ve probably run into the problem of broken Aero-metric nipples or nipples with sac nipples that are all soft and gooey. (The nipple is the part that the barrel and shell screws onto; it also holds the sac.)

A run of these parts, both for early threaded sac guards and for later press-on sac guards, is being made — not by me! — and we need numbers. The parts are acrylic, and the price will be in the $10-$15 range per piece for either type.

If you don’t sock away a few of these now, a couple of years down the pike you’re going to wish you’d done it. Please let me know ASAP how many you will be able to purchase.


A new demonstrator in the house

27 March 2014 - 11:54 PM

I don't make a point of collecting demonstrators, and I really don't have very many, but this one stepped up and bopped me on the nose and said, "Buy me!" How could I refuse such an offer from a Waterman C/F demonstrator — especially one that came to me from the son of Waterman's head of development in Canada?
 
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The trim apron on the section shows a little corrosion around the nib because the pen was actually used. (The cart that's in the pen had the remains of Waterman blue ink in it.) This is not a problem.   :)

Mythbusters: are "51" collectors just clear or black?

28 December 2013 - 12:25 AM

It's long been something of an article of faith that collectors for the "51" were machined of transparent acrylic (including the red collectors in the first-year demonstrators) until the arrival of the Mark II in 1962, which brought with it black injection-molded plastic collectors. Well, fans, 'tain't so, at least not entirely. Today I opened up a black 2Q1944 "51" with a Lustraloy cap. This pen was captured in the wild, and it had obviously had no restoration. Here's the machined acrylic collector I found in it.

 

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