This past week has been a very bad week for me and fountain pens. I first had a beautiful Skyline barell break on me when I barely applied any tension to the angle in which I was holding the pen. Next, I was trying to get the section and feed of a Parker Junior Vacumatic and the threads separated from the rest of the section, ruining it. I was heating it up, but I don't know if I caused this because I didn't heat it up enough. Then, I was so excited to get a working Parker VS in this blue color, but it started leaking ink from the section so I was attempting to remove it and the same issue, the threads stayed in place and the rest of the section broke. From what you can tell, is this happening because I am applying too much force when turning? I have allowed the section to get hot enough where I can feel it in my finger when I put it on the section. Is this caused by someone sealing them with a glue? What is a good measure of knowing that one has got the section warm enough? I did apply a fair amount of force when attempting to twist them off, but I did this because they were not turning after several attempts of heating them up. I would appreciate any advice to this frustrated newbie. I included a picture of my makeshift heat gun from my wife's blow dryer.
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