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Pelikan 120 & 140 Nib Collar


Gerold

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Hello all,

 

This is my first post on FPN and I like to share small small repair work with you.

Pelikan 120 users might know about this problem:

 

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The nib collar has cracked and will son be gone completely.

When this happens, the pen will start leaking inevitably.

 

So I decided to make myself a replacement and first got all the measurements.

This is the resulting drawing:

 

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Next I got to turn the things themselves.

The final result you can see in the following pictures:

 

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Best of all: The things work just fine.

I hope some of you might find this information useful.

If you're unable to use an otherwise fine pen because of this problem:

There is a solution (and help too: just let me know).

 

 

 

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Thanks for the drawings especially. I have a bunch of 120s and 140s. Luckily none of them have had this problem yet but they might and I would hate to not be able to use them.

 

I have recently been rehabilitating my old (small) lathe and I will save the drawing for future use.

Kathleen

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Very nice work. Thanks for the drawings.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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First of all, welcome to the FPN. :W2FPN:

 

I congratulate you not only for your fine work but also for your kind offer to help those in need.

 

That orange collar is simply beautiful!!! :thumbup:

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They look great - well done! :)

I have just the same problem on my Pelikan 100. It is a different collar design but the same principle of clamping the nib and feed. It would be really useful to have a lathe even just for today. Perhaps there could be a business opportunity for someone making these for repairing the older Pelikans from 100, 100N, 400 and 400NN - all are plastic with no metal band.

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If anyone decides to make something like this I would definitely be interested in purchasing one. My first pelikan (a m120) came a dew days ago snapped in half below the ink viewing window and had a completely cracked nib collar. I managed to glue the body back together without impeding the movement of the piston too much, but the collar was completely beyond repair. Buying a new nib unit would cost as much as the pen itself, so something like this would save me and perhaps others a lot of trouble.

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I measured the collar for the Pelikan 100 and it is rather different in the features:

 

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The thread is 0.75mm pitch but it has a major diameter that is more like 6.75mm rather than the full M7 which would be 7.00mm.

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A couple of corrections to the above drawing:-

1. the M7 thread cut at the smaller diameter should really be written as M6.75x0.75

2. the bore should be 5.2mm to accommodate the thickness of the nib

 

I think that this collar drawing is also suitable for IBIS pens.

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Just wanted to revive this thread - has anyone been able to produce these, and has an extra one I can buy off of them? I need a collar for a 400Nn I just got that has the typical cracked plastic collar. Thx!

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Thanks. I have a good collar with a bad nib. I plan to liberate a modern steel nib from its home and place it in the M&K collar with the feed. I was curious about these collars in the event that mine breaks.

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Thank you for the drawing, I asked my friend to make a collor for me using your measurement, he used aluminum and it fits perfectly.

 

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Thank you for the drawing, I asked my friend to make a collor for me using your measurement, he used aluminum and it fits perfectly.

 

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That looks really great. I don't know how the aluminum will react to acidic inks, so be sure to update us in a while on how it holds up.

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That looks really great. I don't know how the aluminum will react to acidic inks, so be sure to update us in a while on how it holds up.

As the newer mX00 series have metal rings in their nib collars, I think current inks would not be so corrosive as they use to be, so I wouldn't be worried about it, but sure, I'll update the status with a relatively long time use.

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That looks very nice. However, if you remove the nib unit frequently, wouldn't the collar's metal threads wear down the section's celluloid inner threads?

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