Repair Costs For Mb 100Yr Rollerball

[BobD777]

Hi, I'm new here, and I am posting to get any advice you can offer.

 

I have been the happy user of a MB retracting rollerball 100yr special edition from 2006. A weighty and slightly fat rollerball with the old Mont Blanc mountain text on the cap. (the bottom of the three in the attached pic)

 

I was using it daily at work, and noticed that the resin ring at the bottom of the cap was cracked.

 

I took it to the local MB shop here in Frankfurt and they initially quoted 74 Euro to replace the cap.

 

I just received a call from them saying it would be over 200 Euro as it was a 1 of 45000 special edition that requires to be repaired by hand.

 

Now I realise I was perhaps stupid to be using it as a daily pen, but I had no Idea that it would be damaged and if so, would costs so much to fix. Especially as it is just the 3-4 mm deep resin band at the end of the cap section.

 

I have asked to get to back, but can anyone suggest an alternative solution? It really is a seemingly small part that is broken. I don't think I need a whole new cap.

[jebib111]

I feel your pain.

[fountainpende]

Hi,

 

Montblanc has a monopoly on spare parts, i.e. they do not sell spare parts separately. They are thus the only one that could repair the pen.

 

Sorry, but if you would like to have your pen repaired, you have the only option to send the pen to MB. Alternatively, you could buy another rollerball. You should get such rollerball for 200 Euro at Ebay.

[meiers]

How did this damage happen?

I am an interested party because I own the fountain pen version and I like to post the cap.

[meiers]

Maybe there is a way of sealing the crack with an adhesive.

[SE1980]

Agreed on sending it back to MB as I felt they'll do a proper repair for you. Just like my 161 Le Grand ballpoint, I wanted to change the engraving on the barrel and the local service centre here has no parts for the barrel and hence sent it back to the MB factory in Germany to get it done, came back as good as new!

[meiers]

I damaged the cap on my heritage 1912 by posting it. The crack is similar to the one you're describing in your original post. Now I am thinking that I should probably stop posting the cap on my historical edition fountain pen.

[BobD777]

Thanks all for the comments.

 

The crack happened through the pen falling on the ground one too many times. As I said it was used daily, throughout the day as my 'work' pen. do'h!

 

The next step will depend on what I get back from MB, There was a small piece of the resin ring broken off. If I get that back, then I will try the adhesive route. If it is gone and I have only a partial 'ring' at the bottom of the cap, then I will just keep the pen safe until I have a 'spare' 200E that I can use for this. That might be never, but I will see.

 

Looking at Ebay, I see other pens for 300+E so that is not yet an option, but at least I would have 1.98 pens rather than the current 0.98.

 

Thanks

 

B

Edited October 1, 2014 by BobD777

[meiers]

Do you post the cap on your pen?

I find that the historical edition is really short unposted.

 

Good luck with your search.

[BobD777]

It was the extendable, fixed cap roller ball. There was no cap to 'post'

[meiers]

I didn't know that. Thanks.