Your Waterman No. 5 Red in jet black is certainly usable and worth repairing!
You must drive out the feed to resolve this, and I get the impression you lack the tools. Watch this video for a method to get that feed out of the section:
https://youtu.be/68kbTPRkuVA
- If there are no more curved pieces like the one you called a "blade," I expect a former owner fashioned a shim to hold the feed in place, but that could enable air to pass by and lead to blobbing. If it was my pen, I would heat the hard rubber section and feed separately to return them to their original shape, then reassemble the section, feed and nib for a tight fit, install a fresh sac and see if all is well. Observe the maximum heat limit for hard rubber, crucial to avoid destroying those parts.
- If there are more pieces like the one you called a "blade" that fall out or stick inside the section and appear to be pieces of a cylinder, your pen has one of those odd hard rubber sleeves around the feed. If it was my pen, I would get either a replacement feed to fit that section without the sleeve, or a replacement section to fit that feed without the sleeve. It may be simpler to buy a matched pair. See: http://fivestarpens.com/waterman-pen-parts.html
A knockout block and a couple of drive punches are needed for basic disassembly of your pen projects. You can buy purpose-made tools from the likes of Dale Beebe (
https://pentooling.com) or make your own tools. See the advice of Ron Zorn in his sticky threads on FPN:
https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/f...-repair-qampa/ Then there's the need for a source of controlled dry heat. Fountain pen tools? Welcome to another rabbit hole.
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