How To Realign The Tines? (On The Vp)

[Icywolfe]

A very, very long story ended up: having the tines bent upwards and spread apart pretty hard on the Pilot Vanishing Point.

 

And I learned my lesson of making sure when any part of the pen is drying after being washing, you need to keep that in a locked box. Because people loves shiny things.

 

So there some booklet I can read to find out how. (Apparently my dad he said he a pro at fixing nibs. He broke 3 Noodler's nibs. and he is the only person I know who has more knowledge of "fixing" nibs than me.)

[bardiir]

From my experience experimenting with nibs and grinding them to flexy behavior the spreading apart thing comes from the upward bend, basically the nib is sprung. What worked for me is just bending the nib down again, the tines come back together by itself. I've done this just by pushing upside down onto a table. But I'm only using very cheap nibs for my experiements and those were only slightly sprung. A photo might help to assess the situation.

[Lemur]

The nib on the Pilot VP is easy to remove.

 

It´s friction fit to the feed and is removed by a firm grip to the nib and by pulling.

First soak the pen so any dried ink is removed before disassembly.

 

Then the nib can be aligned by using your finger and a loupe/magnifier.

 

Take care so you don´t misalign the two "ears" on the nib during work.

These function as "grippers" to the feed and should´t be "changed".

As the nib is quite long it´s easy to get a good and secure grip while working on it.

 

Assembling the nib by pushing it back on the feed until it is "locked" in position.

 

Good Luck!