Vacumatic Barrel Leak?

[Tojusi]

I recently purchased a restored Parker Vacumatic Oversize, date stamp 1936 2nd quarter. I just inked it up ... And now my finger is very very inky!

 

On closer inspection, I believe that there is a very fine crack on the barrel, a millimeter or 2 from the cap threads towards the nib, on the nib facing up side.

 

I have wiped the pen carefully after filling. Yet when I hold a tissue to that spot, it wicks ink. And judging from my finger, a finger works just fine in drawing out ink.

 

Any thoughts? Can this be repaired? Or to get in touch with the seller to get a refund or similar pen? I did pay a pretty penny for this...

[FarmBoy]

My first thought would be to contact the seller.

[Ron Z]

You do sometimes find a pin hole between layers of the celluloid. It's fixable in many cases, but I agree that you should contact the seller. In some cases it can be solvent welded closed and the repair blended. In the worst case I had, I simply could not locate the crack to fix it beyond knowing that it was in the thread area. I ended up boring out the threads inside the barrel, and then solvent welding a piece with the internal threads from a scrap barrel. No more leaks.

[Tojusi]

I found the crack in better light.

 

But better yet, I contacted the seller who promised to sort this out one way or another. That is what makes the pen world great: the level of integrity and civility.