DrChumley
December 7th, 2013, 05:36 PM
I recently purchased a Conway Stewart 24 (1950s era). I have been disassembled the pen, cleaned it, replaced the sac, fixed the level/floating bar (that was an epic PitA), and mostly reassembled the pen.
However, now I'm thoroughly and completely stuck. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I can not, for the life of me, get the feed and the nib to fit back into the section. The fit with the section alone is extremely tight. When I try to fit them both back into the section together, I can only get it about 1/2 seated before I can go no further. Additionally, the nib appears to "see-saw" on the feed. If I lay the writing end flat against the feed, there is a gap between the back of the nib and the feed. If I lay the back of the nib flat against the feed (in order to get them inserted into the section), then there is a massive gap between the tip of the feed and the writing end of the nib.
When it removed them, there were tight, but not impossible. I've been at this for about 30 minutes, and if I had any hair, I would have pulled it out by now.
What can I do to get these pieces to fit back together properly? Should I be heating up the section before attempting to put the nib and feed back? Or heating up the feed? And anything in particular I can/should do about the "see-saw" problem? (Will it be solved by simply getting the nib into the section far enough? I've pulled and replaced nibs and feeds hundreds of times, but I have never had this much difficulty getting one to sit properly...especially since they were fitting together properly an hour ago when I took them apart the clean out the old, dried ink.
Thanks. :)
However, now I'm thoroughly and completely stuck. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I can not, for the life of me, get the feed and the nib to fit back into the section. The fit with the section alone is extremely tight. When I try to fit them both back into the section together, I can only get it about 1/2 seated before I can go no further. Additionally, the nib appears to "see-saw" on the feed. If I lay the writing end flat against the feed, there is a gap between the back of the nib and the feed. If I lay the back of the nib flat against the feed (in order to get them inserted into the section), then there is a massive gap between the tip of the feed and the writing end of the nib.
When it removed them, there were tight, but not impossible. I've been at this for about 30 minutes, and if I had any hair, I would have pulled it out by now.
What can I do to get these pieces to fit back together properly? Should I be heating up the section before attempting to put the nib and feed back? Or heating up the feed? And anything in particular I can/should do about the "see-saw" problem? (Will it be solved by simply getting the nib into the section far enough? I've pulled and replaced nibs and feeds hundreds of times, but I have never had this much difficulty getting one to sit properly...especially since they were fitting together properly an hour ago when I took them apart the clean out the old, dried ink.
Thanks. :)