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What's The Name Of That Very Large Opn Nibbed Pen?


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Hello peeps what's the name of that very large (about 5 inches) Chinese pen, open nibbed, screw top, ball clip, squeeze filler, flat top, band at the end of the barrel? They go on eBay for about £8, and I'd like to bid on one before I sober up! HURRY!

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Ohhh...you just made me bought one!

 

:rolleyes:

 

Yeah :/

 

I need to stay away from this group.

 

It's much harder to impulse buy an M800 than a $15 pen

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Drunken pen-buying sprees - it's 9:09 am here and I'm entirely sober and hungry for my breakfast, so what's my excuse????'

 

thinks

 

thinks harder

 

Got it! Weakness induced by hunger and early morning low blood-sugar. That's my story...

 

well, and also I found it for 3.99 USD shipped, so I got two...

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Well, I hope you'll have better luck with yours. The one I got was badly tarnished all over, smelled of mold and was gushing ink like crazy :/

 

"New Old Stock" ... well 2 out of 3 ain't bad (except that in this case it kinda is :P )

 

Threw it out and wrote it off to experience.

 

-k

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Mine are waiting in the main postoffice. They have been there two days, I am getting impatient - I could have walked there, got them, and walked back multiple times by now...

 

What do you mean by wonky pen in the picture? How did it look different to you from the pens in the other pictures - I didn't notice a difference, but I may not have been looking as closely.

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Hi scriverly! The pen in the $4 listing has a section pretty eccentric from the barrel. I do realise that photos will probably not be taken for each and every Chinese pen, I just feel they still reflect the seller's stock in a general way. I bought mine from seller cdqiangsheng.

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Hey, Flounder! I'll look carefully at mine when they get here, then, so far they've spent about 58 hours sitting around the post office less than 15 miles away growing moss or whatever you do when you are a pen, probably wrapped in bubble wrap, sitting in a post office in your new country.

 

I generally go for the lowest price on the Chinese pens because I assume to begin with that I am only possibly getting what I think I'm getting, anyway. Usually it is more or less as described, sometimes there are big deviations, but having taught ESL, I can see where the confusion occurred... like the pens which were supposed to be acrylic, but were - not. At less than ten dollars each, not worth worrying about, so I didn't.

 

These 590's look more or less the same shape as the Kaigelu 316, right? I am interested to see how they differ, and how they are similar. I keep checking the tracking number, but so far, no good. Maybe tomorrow...

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Mine has yet to arrive, fingers crossed it's okay! I don't mind giving it a wash and polish though. Had the sac perished or something, katerchen?

 

Heh, the sac was the only thing that didn't have problems. My guess is that this pen spent years in a wet cellar. The metal was all corroded, and there was that musty smell. I'd spend time saving a real vintage pen, but this just wasn't worth it.

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Ohhh...you just made me bought one!

 

:rolleyes:

 

 

 

I've receive the pen this morning, I have 2 impression so far:

 

It's huge!!! And smell bad! Probably the sac is guilty and the fact they left somewhere in bad condition/damp in a warehouse...

 

So far I have washed the whole pen to see if I can get the bad smell out, also I've notice you can pull the nib, feed and breath tube out. I read somewhere that you can remove the breath tube to fill to the maximum? Is that right? Or just to cut 2/3 from tube is better?

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With a sacked pen & breather tube, then the longer the breather tube the more the fill, but also the more likely it is to gurk in an aeroplane. That is of course, if there is no tiny hole in the breather tube near the bottom of the sac, which is the 'Aero' bit of Aerometric.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

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Thank you Richard!

There is no hole there, should I attempt to do one with a safety pin? The breath tube is very thin, can't think on something else.

 

Regards,

Nick

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Thank you Richard!

There is no hole there, should I attempt to do one with a safety pin? The breath tube is very thin, can't think on something else.

 

Regards,

Nick

My recommendation would be 'If it's not there, don't bother with it.' And make sure the pen is emptied before going flying with it.

I did one for a new breather tube in my first P51 when the silver tube corroded away. Did it in a drill press with a 0.7mm diameter drill held in a pin chuck held in the drill. Not ideal as there was about 0.1mm eccentricity on the drill. These days I'd use and ER11 collet in an MT2 collet chuck in my current drill press.

 

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Richard

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I didn't made any hole, it's tricky to do that. But I clean the pen, put everything back, fill with Parker Quink black and is fairly smooth fine nib, a bit dry, but good flow and very stiff nib.

 

I took some pics:

 

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Here is along with Sheaffer NoNonsense, Jinhao X750 and Pilot MR/Metropolitan:

 

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