Hi all

Hopefuĺly a quick question

With aĺl the Parker 51's I have seen the hood is set so that only the tipping of the nib is visible, and on most after stripling the hood, nib, feed goes back fine with only the tipping showing. But on a few I have at the moment, although the feed is fully inserted as is the nib, once the hood is fully seated there is far too much nib visible, so this got me wondering if the hood should be fully seated to the clutch ring or was the hood originally set to the nib position and fixed in place by the thread sealant.

These are ones that have the o-ring so doing that can leave a small gap between the base off the hood and clutch ring.

Other than that is there any other obvious reason why the nib should stick out more after reassembly than before. As said the nib and feed are fully inserted in the collector.

Thanks for any help with this and sorry it went on a bit more than I hoped.

Paul