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Aurora 88 Nib Advice Please


Aysedasi

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I wrote a while ago about my recent Aurora 88 experience - here:-

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/261844-will-i-ever-find-a-good-88/

 

Well, I persevered and have just taken delivery of an 88 Nikargenta from Penkalapens. I got it for a very decent price and was pretty pleased on opening it and inspecting it. Perfectly decent condition with a rather nice vintage 'used' air about it. I tried it with some water - the piston is quite stiff (as the seller mentioned), but it filled fine and no sign of any leaks. Then I inked it up....

 

I'd bought it as I've been searching for an 88 with a nib with little or no flex. So when I saw this one described as 'normal' on this scale -

 

hard | normal | medium flexible | flexible | very flexible

 

I hoped I was onto a winner. But it flexes like mad.... Or it does to me as someone who just can't get on with flex.

 

The pen is worth what I paid for it for sure, but I can't use it with this nib. How easy is it likely to be to get hold of a rigid medium nib and swap it in? Is there likely to be anyone out there with such a nib they'd be inclined to swap with mine? I know there are sellers - Zona has loads for sale it seems for €45 - but is the nib swap a relatively easy thing to do?

 

The pen is an original 88 with the serial 769154 (if anyone is able to date it).

 

Thanks

 

Ayse

http://www.aysedasi.co.uk

 

 

 

 

She turned me into a newt.......

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Why don't you ask Miro (penkalapens) if he can help by swapping with another 88 which does not have flex. He has always been responsive (no affiliation…)

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As for any pen with hoded nib, before to remove the nib you have to unscrew the end of the pen, covering the nib.

It is the same as for parker 51 just to give you an example.

So, you have the same risks when you have to unscrew parts with plastic (or celluloid, or whatever) 50 years old: very easly ypu can broke the plastic while disassembling the pen.

 

So, changing nib is relatively easy if you have a minimum of skill and practice in that kind of manteinance.

 

Personally, 30 years ago i dammaged the first parker 51 i tryied to disassemble, and after having broken the first, I well learned how to do that !

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Well, I've gone back to Miro to see if he can assist me with some kind of swap. Paulo (Zona.it) tells me there is no such thing as a broad nib (or bigger) with no flex but can do me a medium with very little flex for €55 including shipping......

http://www.aysedasi.co.uk

 

 

 

 

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Yes, the nib on my previous 88P was stiff too. What Paulo told me was '...vintage 88 rigid nibs are not "nails" but semiflex, that means you have to push a lot to separate tines, but with normal pressure are quite firm'. That would do for me.

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Miro has kindly agreed to supply me with another nib, so I have my fingers crossed. I've already got the pen prepared to receive it.

 

On a separate note - the Nikargenta cap, although almost ding-free, has some discolouration (which I assume to be natural). Is there any safe way of cleaning it? I've attached pics from Miro's sale advert.....

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I've run it through my ultrasonic a couple of times and it looks a lot better :)

In that case it was not a discoloration.

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Hi,

 

The original Aurora 88 pens had a nib with squarish tabs. They are fairly springy, but quite different from the hard nibs with the 88P and other pens that use that nib. The 88P nib has rounded off edges on the tabs so they aren't as noticeable when the nib is installed in the pen. The corresponding feeds aren't the same either,

 

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Thanks very much. I have another nib for the 88 now which is much better - almost rigid - very little flex which suits me far better.

http://www.aysedasi.co.uk

 

 

 

 

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