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DWitt
July 30th, 2020, 05:28 AM
I'm repairing a RHR Sheaffer 46 Special. Looks like it had a white dot at the bottom of the barrel as well as one at the top of the cap. Has anyone else seen this? I know the white dot location migrated between these locations, and I think 46 specials can have it in either location. I have no other indications that the cap and barrel may be originally from different pens, but I guess that's a possibility.

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controlsfreak
July 30th, 2020, 08:42 AM
46 Specials don't have white dots. They aren't LIFETIME pens.

That looks like radite to me.
DWitt
July 30th, 2020, 01:51 PM
From these comments, I found this site (https://timsvintagepens.com/pens/sheaffer-jade-special/), which was informative. What do you suppose the deal is with the missing-white-dot-shaped holes? Random damage?
Chrissy
July 30th, 2020, 02:18 PM
Is it remotely possible that someone might have cut it so it could be used as a hanging pen? Then the hanger part has subsequently been removed?
DWitt
July 30th, 2020, 03:27 PM
???

There's an identical hole on top of the cap, too, and this is a good theory for that one, but it's harder to use it to explain the bottom-of-the-barrel hole; hardest of all to explain this one given the presence of the other!
Chrissy
July 31st, 2020, 12:16 AM
It was just a thought. I've seen a guy on UK TV who likes his pen to hang by the barrel so that he can unscrew the cap at the bottom. Maybe some caps aren't as tight as others to hang the rest of the pen from? Or they won't accept the fitting inside for some reason?
DWitt
July 31st, 2020, 04:46 AM
Interesting—never seen that!
FredRydr
July 31st, 2020, 05:45 AM
My opinion is, that pen is the victim of someone's attempted customization.
Chrissy
July 31st, 2020, 09:22 AM
Interesting—never seen that!
It hangs on a long chain...
Ron Z
July 31st, 2020, 11:33 AM
This is like unto the 3-25, and like Chrissy says, the 46 special would not have had a white dot. Did Sheaffer put white dots on the end of the barrel of flat top pens? I know that they moved around quite a bit in the 40s, but I would expect to find them on the top of the cap in this era.

It looks like the hole in the barrel is off center. Sheaffer would have chucked the barrel in a lathe and drilled the hole with a drill in the tail stock, so unlikely that it would be off center. ...not that Sheaffer never screwed up, but it was pretty rare. Holes for the ringtop attachment are also quite small, typically for something around an 0-80 or 2-56 screw. This one is way too big.