I got this pen for very little because of the bad state it was in. It's a Swan 3160, the smallest pen in the late 40s/early 50s range. The clip had been snapped off, leaving a small part of it in the cap. I should have taken photos all the way through the repair, but I didn't so this next photo is one of the seller's ones. A fuzzy, out of focus effort it is too, but I think you can see that there is a piece of metal in the cap where the clip once resided.
I applied heat in short bursts, letting it build up enough to reduce the brittleness of the material. Then, using my dentistry skills, I pulled out the sliver of metal with needle-nosed pliers. I had a donor cap of the same size and as it was already damaged I applied considerable heat to loosen things up. A small flat-bladed screwdriver was used to lever the clip out and a few taps of a plastic mallet seated it in the cap of the 3160. It's a good clip, with just a little loss of plating on the ball end.
Unfortunately that isn't the end of the problem. The nib that had been fitted in the pen came from a Conway Stewart. It's a nice stub nib but it isn't right and, at the moment, I don't have a No 1 Swan nib so this pen will need to await the arrival of one. That's how it was when pens were just the tool you used every day. The repairer fitted whatever nib he had of the right size to allow you to continue using your pen.
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