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Beautiful restored Sheaffer Balance that I got about 18 months ago; suddenly last night, I noticed the lever wasn't flush against the body. It was flopping about and jutting out at a good 30-degree angle.

 

Does that just mean the sac gave out? Or something more serious went wrong?

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I'd guess j-bar also. I have had one bar tear the sac and get stuck, giving the same symptom as yours. Either way you have to pull the section. Both repairs are straightforward so let us know exactly what it turns out to be.

 

Paul

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Note that Sheaffers did not use a J bar, which is a particular design for a pressure bar; they employed a more efficient pressure bar design. A J bar is so called because it is a single piece of metal shaped roughly like the letter 'J'; it is inexpensive and does not provide efficient evacuation of the sac, whereas the designs used by better makers such as Sheaffer have a rigid component that can flatten the sac almost completely. Some Sheaffer pressure bars are shaped somewhat like a J, though they have separate areas for compression and for spring action.

 

I agree that the pressure bar is likely damaged, or perhaps it is hanging up on a bunched-up sac or other impediment.

 

--Daniel

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If you can not get a system Sheaffer'S I think a J-Bar adapting it to the barrel end is not a bad solution. At least, better than nothing. Here the systems in question.

 

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