KBeezie
April 25th, 2016, 02:14 PM
I have a 1964 (EE22 date code) Pilot Super 250 I recently got in a trade, and seemed ok at first, but noticed some ink was around the seam between the sac protector and the section when I got it.
So after I completely flushed it (and rinsed out the sac protector), and syringed out the back of the section (just to make sure it wasn't old ink prior to a re-saccing just getting condensated again), I did a water test, and consistently it would have colored water on the outside of the metal part at the right-under-side, but not inside the sac protector (ie: not coming from the sac or sac lip).
And based on images online (particularly Crónicas Estilográficas (http://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2013/02/ultra-ii.html)) just like the 70s elites and the murex I have there's a clear rubber plug that sits between the feed and the rest of the pen. I suspect there is a leak along the side of it, rather than a leak in the sac.
Seems minor (assuming it's not cracked inside) however problem is, I can't get at it, as you can see.
I imagine it would require removing the nib forward (which is a pain), and then pushing the feed back thru the section (which is also a pain, especially in the 1970s Elites), and then after doing everything, putting the nib back on (which was also a major pain when I did it on a 1970s pilot elite).
http://i.imgur.com/bnRpEJ7h.jpg
where it shows blue in the initial picture is roughly how far the sac protector goes in, the dark ink on the paper towel is just from around the sac protector lip.
So wondering if there's anyone in the US that has experience with disassembling these and repairing around the feed if it's either the gasket or the sac needing to be replaced.
So after I completely flushed it (and rinsed out the sac protector), and syringed out the back of the section (just to make sure it wasn't old ink prior to a re-saccing just getting condensated again), I did a water test, and consistently it would have colored water on the outside of the metal part at the right-under-side, but not inside the sac protector (ie: not coming from the sac or sac lip).
And based on images online (particularly Crónicas Estilográficas (http://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2013/02/ultra-ii.html)) just like the 70s elites and the murex I have there's a clear rubber plug that sits between the feed and the rest of the pen. I suspect there is a leak along the side of it, rather than a leak in the sac.
Seems minor (assuming it's not cracked inside) however problem is, I can't get at it, as you can see.
I imagine it would require removing the nib forward (which is a pain), and then pushing the feed back thru the section (which is also a pain, especially in the 1970s Elites), and then after doing everything, putting the nib back on (which was also a major pain when I did it on a 1970s pilot elite).
http://i.imgur.com/bnRpEJ7h.jpg
where it shows blue in the initial picture is roughly how far the sac protector goes in, the dark ink on the paper towel is just from around the sac protector lip.
So wondering if there's anyone in the US that has experience with disassembling these and repairing around the feed if it's either the gasket or the sac needing to be replaced.