What's remarkable to me are trays full of Marine Green and black and pearl OS Balances!
What's remarkable to me are trays full of Marine Green and black and pearl OS Balances!
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Jon Szanto (October 21st, 2021)
And note that Sheaffer posted their Balances!
Jon Szanto (October 21st, 2021)
I'll close out my contribution to the thread, if somewhat diverted, with a blow-up of the rules posted for the Assembly area of the Sheaffer factory, as seen in the previous photo. Some fascinating tidbits of information on the daily life of these workers!
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
I like that last one. I wonder if there were lots of Snorkels tossed out the windows.
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Regards, Chrissy | My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
The pen is on it's way back to Marco fully re-assembled.
The section is celluloid and I had it in my ultrasonic up to 70 Degrees C for quite a while along with the feed, to ensure the heat was transferred right through the material. Then with the nib and feed positioned and firmly held in a ring clamp, they were re-introduced and installed in the still warm section. Parker vacumatic pens also have celluloid sections, were dry heat is far more dangerous to use at the level at times required, for re-assembly of nib/feed. I've never had any problems with material discolouration of the sections using this method.
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Chrissy (October 25th, 2021), eachan (October 25th, 2021), Jon Szanto (October 25th, 2021), Yazeh (October 26th, 2021)
Last edited by Fermata; October 24th, 2021 at 10:12 AM.
I'm a bit more fortunate (younger)than Ron Zorn, when I started out Frank Dubiels "Da Book" was available, and extremely well read. Processes in repair are not an inexpensive expertise to learn, you'll break pens :-(
I was fortunate in the help I received from long term pen repair people in the UK, they sent me groups of pens to see what I could do with them. It was a few years before I took on any paid pen repair work. My life situation being at the time, I was spending very many hours on these pens sent to me, as well as those I purchased myself, in the knowledge that they would require work.
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Chrissy (October 25th, 2021), Jon Szanto (October 25th, 2021)
In the words of Paul Simon, you can call me Al.
All thank you for your support in my quest. I am more than very grateful to eckiethump for his work and I thank him from the bottom of my heart. It has been a good move to send him the pen.
The pen is now inked and working very well. His turnaround time has been great. It is a joy to use it. The nib has no hickups when writing and I can say that it is also has a bit of flex. The nib also has a bit of feedback which can be accentuated depending on the orientation of the tynes on the paper. I'm very happy about this Tibaldi, vintage of course. Ciao
Marco
eachan (October 26th, 2021), Fermata (October 26th, 2021), Jon Szanto (October 26th, 2021)
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