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Question On Snorkel Re-Sac Instructions From Binder


LargeSofa

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I am onto my second replacement of a sac on an older pen... With regards to the snokel sheaffer I read Richard binder's instructions and am confursed by one preliminary step.

 

I've read the

How to Restore the Snorkel/PFM Filling System

instructions several times over the past week and examined my pen...

I am confused by this step

"With the section out of the barrel, use the X-acto knife to make a small but visible mark on the back edge of the section directly in line with the top center of the nib. Make a corresponding mark on the surface of the sac protector. These two marks will assist you in aligning the parts during reassembly. Now slide the guts out of the section and set them aside."

 

my pen has one fat groove and 3 similar sized narrow grooves in the nib section and sac protector. These only go b ack together one way. I see that the snorkel tube is currently aligned with the way things go back together... I have to put the snorkel tub into the sac protector so it is facing up when screwed back into the section... Is this just it, I just have to eye this up after I make a notation of where it goes... I didn't see the need for a second marking since it goes back only one. way. is this correct with my model?

 

thx

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I think that's right. However, it may make more sense if you consider that some versions don't have the fat groove and can accept the sac protector in 4 different orientations, not all of which are equally smooth-functioning, and of course there's the snorkel tube to align as well, and sometimes it comes out in the process.

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thanks... I picked up on that after reading another statement made further down in the instructions

 

 

"As you insert the sac, orient the sac section to its original position, so that the top side of the Snorkel tube is aligned with the mark you made on the sac protector when you disassembled the pen. If your Snorkel has an open nib, the top side of the Snorkel tube, the side that will align with the nib, has a short longitudinal slit at the proximal end (see photo below).

http://www.richardspens.com/images/ref/repair/snorkel_filler/flat_tube.jpg

If you have an earlier pen, with a broad guide rail on the sac protector and a corresponding broad rail on the sac section, you can just match up the two broad rails."

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