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I have been really happy with my discovery of Jinhao pens! --- Great writers! ---- BUT, BUT disaster struck this morning! When I tried to pull the cap off of my X750, the pen "came apart!" --- The nib section is caught in the cap and I can find no way to pull it out! Will that teach me a lesson concerning "cheap Chinese pens," or is this just a rare event?

 

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I've read reports of this happening to others. IIRC there is a collar glued into the section that occasionally does not have enough adhesive to hold it. I believe this is most common in X750 and 159 pens. In reports were they clean and re-glue I've never read of a reoccurrence. I do not know what adhesive is used to repair it, but most of these reports were on FPN.

 

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The same thing happened to me while I was removing the nib and feed to change to a different nib on my X450. The adhesive that they use to hold the collar and sleeve that holds the feed into the outer part of the section is quite inadequate and often times it fails. I used some shellac to put it back in and it has been holding fine for about a month and a half, now.

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Well, I'm sure glad I ordered a 750. :wallbash:

 

Oh well, I'm going to need some shellac on-hand for other pens anyway.

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I can't speak to the frequency of this failure, but I can say that out of five Jinhaos I never had this happen. I'm uncertain whether this was a QC issue that was fixed or possibly due to a single employee or batch/type of glue. IIRC this failure was limited to their pens using the #6 nib and plastic section. Possibly further limited to the two models I mentioned earlier - X750 and 159. I found this information in reviews and requests for repair advice mostly on FPN.

 

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