Originally Posted by
pajaro
OK. I am wondering what the restorer does with the nibs on some of these pens when the tipping is gone, possibly on one tine only. Retipping would be expensive. Do the restorers have access to replacement nibs? Theat was one factor that decided me against restoring a Challenger.
If you have been restoring pens for a while, you would have a collection of good nibs that has no body. So let's say you find a Parker Challenger that no tipping on its nib, you would just replace it with preferably another Parker nib from the same era, but I have in the past successfully put an Eversharp, Warranted, and another Parker nib on a Challenger that had no nib.
Retipping would be too expensive because I have to send the nib off and the cost is a lot higher than the value of the Challenger nib.
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