Jeph
July 9th, 2013, 01:30 PM
This is a pair from my sack-o-crap pens to practice pen repair on.
The black one has Stratford in script on the cap.
The blue one has Platignum on the cap and the nib.
Neither one appears to have been high quality when new.
These two are scratched, scuffed, deformed, dirty and defective. Perfect for practice!
I thought that both were simple school cartridge pens since there was no external filling mechanism.
But when I removed the sections, both had sacs installed.
After scratching my head for a while, it looks like both of these pens were squeeze fillers but the filler mechanism is stuck in the barrels.
You really can't tell from the picture, but each pen has a metal cylinder in the barrel with what looks to be a J bar of some sort.
I can't find anything specific about stuck squeeze fillers on the interwebs. I suspect that this is so common and the types of pens that used this type filling system were so cheap that nobody cares.
So question #1 is: Do these pens simply have squeeze fillers stuck in the barrels?
I tried rapping the barrels on my hand and lightly tried pulling with a scribe but did not get anywhere.
Then I remembered to pretend that these were my grail pens and slow down, make a plan and ask for help.
My plan is to soak both barrels in water overnight and then try to knock them out by tapping on my palm again.
If that does not work, I plan to put them in the refrigerator (not the freezer) for 2-4 hours, and then take one out and allow the barrel to warm in my hands for a few minutes and then try to knock them free again using only minimal differential temperature.
Question #2 is: Would this plan be bad for a pen barrel (overnight water soak and small temperature differential (~50 deg F)?
Question #3 is: If/when that plan does not work, what will?
Here is a picture, although without professional lighting or high levels of detail.
3876
Thanks for any help.
Jeph
The black one has Stratford in script on the cap.
The blue one has Platignum on the cap and the nib.
Neither one appears to have been high quality when new.
These two are scratched, scuffed, deformed, dirty and defective. Perfect for practice!
I thought that both were simple school cartridge pens since there was no external filling mechanism.
But when I removed the sections, both had sacs installed.
After scratching my head for a while, it looks like both of these pens were squeeze fillers but the filler mechanism is stuck in the barrels.
You really can't tell from the picture, but each pen has a metal cylinder in the barrel with what looks to be a J bar of some sort.
I can't find anything specific about stuck squeeze fillers on the interwebs. I suspect that this is so common and the types of pens that used this type filling system were so cheap that nobody cares.
So question #1 is: Do these pens simply have squeeze fillers stuck in the barrels?
I tried rapping the barrels on my hand and lightly tried pulling with a scribe but did not get anywhere.
Then I remembered to pretend that these were my grail pens and slow down, make a plan and ask for help.
My plan is to soak both barrels in water overnight and then try to knock them out by tapping on my palm again.
If that does not work, I plan to put them in the refrigerator (not the freezer) for 2-4 hours, and then take one out and allow the barrel to warm in my hands for a few minutes and then try to knock them free again using only minimal differential temperature.
Question #2 is: Would this plan be bad for a pen barrel (overnight water soak and small temperature differential (~50 deg F)?
Question #3 is: If/when that plan does not work, what will?
Here is a picture, although without professional lighting or high levels of detail.
3876
Thanks for any help.
Jeph