I decided to buy a copy to hopefully expand my knowledge of repair.
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I decided to buy a copy to hopefully expand my knowledge of repair.
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Lady Onogaro (July 7th, 2018)
It is a very good book to have in your personal library, but there *is* one caveat: while Mr. Dubiel was a respected repair person and one of the first to put a lot of this down, repair knowledge and techniques have advanced in the years since. As such, some of his ways of working on pens are thought of as a little sketchy these days.
One basic example is heating the barrel/section for section removal - these days people use a dry heat source, everything from a basic hair dryer to a heat gun. In the book, he puts the pens over the open flame of an alchohol lamp. This is not to say you can't damage a pen with a heat gun, but you'll rarely have it catch fire!
Anyway, still a great resource to have. I get by with Da Book, Richard Binder's massive online resource for pen repair/restoration and my favorite, "Pen Repair" by Marshall and Oldfield.
I think it's pretty neat you decided to buy a book to learn more; not many people seem to do that anymore!
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Deb (July 8th, 2018)
Would cleaning and adjusting the nib slit with a pocket knive be an example?
Jon Szanto (July 7th, 2018)
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