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    Default Balance - This is how it really happened!

    Apparently in the dead of winter of 1937, the Sheaffer Pen Co. factory in Fort Madison suffered a major steam leak in the main boiler, so fitters were sourced for emergency repairs from the local roundhouse of the Aitchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. When things were brought under control and the pen fabricators could return to their lathes, Walter A. Sheaffer personally thanked the men for saving production that day, and presented the foreman of the crew, one Chris Thompson, with a genuine factory-made oversize Balance lever-filler made from copper and brass scrap taken from the repaired Sheaffer factory boiler.


    Amazing, eh? For more information: The copper Balance.

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    Default Re: Balance - This is how it really happened!

    Wow! Thanks for that. Amazing story indeed.

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    Default Re: Balance - This is how it really happened!

    April is still over a month away!

    --Daniel
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    Default Re: Balance - This is how it really happened!

    Quote Originally Posted by kirchh View Post
    April is still over a month away!

    --Daniel
    I thought for sure when I saw you responded that the model number would be disclosed in the post. It is of course something like Cu-BS 1V

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    Default Re: Balance - This is how it really happened!

    It has a new owner, who just so happens to already own a titanium Balance that Chris Thompson made.

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