I'm just learning and gaining experience repairing old pens and have successfully done a few Eversharps with lever fill. But a couple of weeks ago I removed the section from one and the ink sac I found inside was largely intact, but twisted and no longer attached to the section. Inside the ink sac was a thin rod, approximately the length of the sac and made of plastic I think. This was about pen number 3 for me and I had never seen such a thing. Being unable to figure out why it was there I concluded that some previous owner may have stuck it in there trying to straighten out the ink sac. So I got rid of it, put a new sac in the pen and called it "good". It wrote very nicely.
Now to the present. I found the same thing again on a different pen yesterday. So it must be that the rod is original equipment and was meant to be there. Can anyone tell me what it is for? And how do I proceed now to restore the pen? I did notice a small hole in the back of the section into which this rod might fit before I put a new sac in.
Thanks for any possible wisdom!
Steve
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