I’m restoring an old (c. 1949) Sheaffer Touchdown Statesman, and had to get a new nib for it because the original had a tine broken. I didn’t notice that when I bought it (cheaply, at a small-town thrift store long ago), but tried writing with it and found it extremely scratchy. I looked at it with a 10x loupe and saw the nib was broken. I was able get a new nib online (this pen has the huge No. 5 two-tone 14k gold nib), but was trying to dry-fit that new nib and feed to see if it would clear the cap. However, found that the tail on the feed (a breather tube, I imagine, due to the TD’s pneumatic filling action) had snapped off close to the feed’s back end. It looks like I could try to glue the tail back on, but I’m not sure if Krazy-Glue will work on what I assume is hard rubber. Failing that, I wonder if the pen would work without the tail on the feed. I think a new intact feed (with tail) might be very hard to find. Any suggestions here would be most welcome, thanks.
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