Conklin Endura Broken Lever Salvage

[Tony Rex]

Hi Geeks,

If you know where to buy replacement levers, lemme know. Should be something like the one in the middle in this picture: http://jakespens.net/parts/#CONK ...

Meanwhile, the pen was just sitting around and I've got nothing to lose anyway...

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Voilà. And the rest was easy.

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I did the full write up in the blog, but for you geeks I reckon the pictures should speak for themselves. :lazy:

Enjoy. :wave:

[Jon Szanto]

Not an easy fix, so congrats! I have an Endura in that same black/bronze material that has lost one of the ears off the lever end. <sad> Still sitting, unrestored at the moment.

[Cob]

Brilliant; an elegant solution to what on the first face of it, was a pretty nasty problem.

My compliments.

Cob

[cwent2]

Great job, ingenues repair, curiosity however has begged me to question what is the glass jar with the black cylinder in it as viewed in the next to last picture?

[Cob]

Great job, ingenues repair, curiosity however has begged me to question what is the glass jar with the black cylinder in it as viewed in the next to last picture?

That would be shellac I think.

Cob

[Jeph]

Fantastic job. I have not seen any source for a replacement lever, but now you don't need one!