Breaking pens into clusters
Please don't
Not even clusters of red grapes?
(Or perhaps orange...)
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Posted by Teej47 on 08 January 2014 - 07:59 PM in SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
Breaking pens into clusters
Please don't
Not even clusters of red grapes?
(Or perhaps orange...)
Posted by Teej47 on 07 November 2013 - 08:14 PM in PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
Posted by Teej47 on 03 May 2013 - 07:17 PM in Say Hello!
Posted by Teej47 on 19 June 2013 - 07:29 PM in Elements of Collecting: Hunting, Valuing and Polemicizing
Posted by Teej47 on 21 May 2013 - 07:19 PM in R & R: (Repair and Restoration)
Posted by Teej47 on 13 May 2013 - 07:03 PM in SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
I have a Koh-I-Nor pen with a Yugo badge. You guys are pikers.
Posted by Teej47 on 02 July 2013 - 07:17 PM in Elements of Collecting: Hunting, Valuing and Polemicizing
Posted by Teej47 on 07 May 2013 - 07:20 PM in Post Your Pen Finds
Posted by Teej47 on 03 January 2014 - 08:33 PM in Post Your Pen Finds
The Estie did set me back nearly four dollars, so there was a moment of internal conflict. If I'd had two or three more dollars cash in my wallet (which would have been enough to pick up the Sheaffer) I would have had to pass on the Estie. But I couldn't very well pass on the Sheaffer... which meant the debit card came out. I didn't have authorization from the CFO (the lovely mother of my five kids), so I fugured another four bucks wouldn't really get me in any additional trouble. Besides, it was blue.
Tim
Posted by Teej47 on 02 January 2014 - 09:01 PM in Post Your Pen Finds
Went for my first antique shop crawl in a couple months last Saturday. My first stop was at a recently opened place that I hadn't been to before. There were about a dozen pens lined up in a display case, and a blue Esterbrook LJ and an orange Sheaffer of some sort both grabbed my eye.
The orange Sheaffer was in great shape; clearly whoever O. W. Haney was didn't use it much. Then I looked at the bottom of the pen... "R3-25C Semi Fine $3.00". Yep, stickered!
As if that wasn't thrilling enough, I walked out with both pens for under 30 bucks.
Dandy way to finish the year! Now I guess I should take a picture or two...
Tim
Posted by Teej47 on 10 June 2013 - 07:21 PM in R & R: (Repair and Restoration)
So don't forget that although these are screw-in nibs, you can actually treat them like any other friction-fit nib/feed.
Sometimes.
Look before you go whacking away to knock the feed out.
If you look at the underside of the collar around the nib, you will see that many have an indentation where the plastic has been pressed down. There's actually a cut at the deepest point, and it points toward the BACK of the nib. There is a corresponding notch in the feed. The purpose is to lock the feed in position so that the nib and feed don't rotate as you screw and unscrew the nib unit in the section. If you knock the nib out on one of these nibs, you can break the collar. At the least this pushed in piece will break off. At worst, the whole collar can break.
The way to handle this is to coax the nib out, warm the collar, rotate the feed so that the indentation is pushed up, then work the feed out.
Posted by Teej47 on 10 July 2013 - 06:52 PM in WAHL, WATERMAN and CONKLIN (USA "Big Five")
Posted by Teej47 on 05 June 2013 - 06:53 PM in Elements of Collecting: Hunting, Valuing and Polemicizing
[Of course, I probably should also shoot my possible heretofore unseen Olive Ripple Waterman variant. Of course, that claim does rather throw down the gauntlet
regards
david
Posted by Teej47 on 26 April 2013 - 07:23 PM in USA "Other": Bexley; Cross; Esterbrook; Carter, Chilton, Moore, Leboeuf, Dunn, Triad, etc.
Posted by Teej47 on 21 May 2013 - 07:41 PM in R & R: (Repair and Restoration)
Posted by Teej47 on 27 June 2013 - 07:40 PM in PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
Page 163 of the Shepherd book says this:
"A mystery remains as to the meaning of the letters imprinted below the name Duofold. The letters N, P, Y and Z were stamped there for some reason, possibly to identify the group or company that made the nib and in order to maintain quality control. Unsatisfactory nibs might be returned to an outside manufacturer as rejects."
Posted by Teej47 on 14 May 2013 - 07:08 PM in SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
Thanks, David. Have you seen a red "twist-sac"?
Posted by Teej47 on 06 January 2014 - 08:24 PM in PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
It sure looks like an overfeed, doesn't it? Are we certain it's actually soldered?
Tim
Posted by Teej47 on 08 March 2013 - 05:00 PM in SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
Posted by Teej47 on 08 January 2014 - 07:49 PM in PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
"Nice" is a remarkable understatement!
Tim
Posted by Teej47 on 15 July 2013 - 07:34 PM in USA "Other": Bexley; Cross; Esterbrook; Carter, Chilton, Moore, Leboeuf, Dunn, Triad, etc.
Posted by Teej47 on 19 February 2013 - 01:17 AM in SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
Posted by Teej47 on 30 July 2013 - 07:00 PM in What's New in Your Life
Posted by Teej47 on 22 February 2013 - 09:00 PM in SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
Posted by Teej47 on 21 May 2013 - 08:08 PM in WAHL, WATERMAN and CONKLIN (USA "Big Five")