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FarmBoy Museum Piece

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No holding off, picked up a P51 vac with a gold filled cap [ with chevron pattern ] with a dent on cap.

Date code 8 on barrel and nib stamped 1946. Cost $26.90 Broke the filler unit pellet cup when cleaning, but that is not a problem I saw a post last year on how some one was repairing them.

I could buy a Duofold black ring top next week for under $20.

Some guy sells the pellet cups in bags of 10 at the LA pen show each year. I recall they were 51.00 a bag last year. No clue why the strange price.

 

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amberleadavis Pen Dust

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I know I'm showing my ignorance...

 

What is a pellet cup?

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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I would have thought pellets were pellets. Thank you, Algester.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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No pens or ink purchased last year (2014) and so far none this year. In fact I m in the process of selling one pen now!

 

I'm cured! I cured I tell you!

 

You believe me, don't you?

 

Hey folks, cmon, you believe me right? Folks? Hey is anybody in here?

 

:)

Jim Couch

Portland, OR

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Some guy sells the pellet cups in bags of 10 at the LA pen show each year. I recall they were 51.00 a bag last year. No clue why the strange price.

 

Farmboy

I see a couple of websites that sell newly made pellet cups for $8-9 each.

So I use the plastic from an electrical connector to repair them.

I did see a post on how someone was repairing them and it works well.

I use a little heat to shrink the plastic so it will fit better.

 

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f239/Jotteraddict62/100_4326_zps5090bbdc.jpg

 

I bought a bunch of parts last year and fixed 6-7 out of 10 broken filler units.

 

Ken

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I see a couple of websites that sell newly made pellet cups for $8-9 each.

So I use the plastic from an electrical connector to repair them.

I did see a post on how someone was repairing them and it works well.

I use a little heat to shrink the plastic so it will fit better.

 

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f239/Jotteraddict62/100_4326_zps5090bbdc.jpg

 

I bought a bunch of parts last year and fixed 6-7 out of 10 broken filler units.

 

Ken

 

Thank you!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No pens or ink purchased last year (2014) and so far none this year. In fact I m in the process of selling one pen now!

 

I'm cured! I cured I tell you!

 

You believe me, don't you?

 

Hey folks, cmon, you believe me right? Folks? Hey is anybody in here?

 

:)

Um, given that according to the time stamp you posted at around 3:15 AM (presumably that's EST), possibly no. Certainly *I* was asleep by then (or at least logged out). :rolleyes:

As for believing you're cured? Naaaah. I mean, you're posting to a thread called "How Many Pens Have You bought in 2015", when it's only three days into the year, aren't you? :lticaptd:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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None yet in 2015, but my WTB list is as follows:

 

- Omas 360 Magnum in HT trim (WTB ad already in the classifieds)

- Montblanc 126 G

- Montblanc 124 G

- Aurora Optima in blue auroloide with gold trim (old style with full Greek Key band)

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French Vintage

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No pens yet this year, im trying to downsize my collection a bit to just what I really enjoy using, the challenge is deciding which are the ones to go.

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FarmBoy Museum Piece

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I prefer these:

 

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BrandonA Antique

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One. This year's 2015 MB WE pen

My Collection: Montblanc Writers Edition: Hemingway, Christie, Wilde, Voltaire, Dumas, Dostoevsky, Poe, Proust, Schiller, Dickens, Fitzgerald (set), Verne, Kafka, Cervantes, Woolf, Faulkner, Shaw, Mann, Twain, Collodi, Swift, Balzac, Defoe, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Saint-Exupery, Homer & Kipling. Montblanc Einstein (3,000) FP. Montblanc Heritage 1912 Resin FP. Montblanc Starwalker Resin: FP/BP/MP. Montblanc Traveller FP.

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TeaHive Vintage

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The 2014 tally came out to be 71. This year I hope to keep away from such a high number. That said, I've already purchased 2 pens after the new year. :rolleyes: Cheap vintage finds, for the win!

 

One is a marbled "Cadet" lever filler.. The reason I bought this, is because I found a BCHR with a wet noodle flex "Cadet" nib (though research on a company called Cadet, or a Cadet model other than Sheaffer, has yielded no results). So I'm hoping the new pen might give me some more clues, and that it will also be a wet noodle.

 

The second pen I bought more for the nibs that came with it.. an Osmiroid with six nibs, which I plan to use in a very special Scriptorium pen I'm saving for.

 

But my plan for this year from here on out, is to buy only one pen or pen set per month. Ink, on the other hand, I plan to explore as wildly as I explored pens in 2014. Goulet ink samples will be collected as fervently as Pokemon.

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doggonecarl Vintage

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On Jan. 1st my new year resolution was no more pens for 2015.

 

Today I went to my local B&M pen shop and redeeming my store credits bought a TWSBI Mini, fine nib for $14.60. I'm going to justify it by saying it was something I've been wanting to do since I got my 580 a couple of months ago.

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bsenn Vintage

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One, a Sheaffer Touchdown desk pen.

 

I have used a few pellet cups printed with a 3D printer, but have also used Ken's electrical connector method. Both work.

 

Brian

One test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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william2001 Vintage

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Day three- 1.

First pen of the year: Montblanc Meisterstuck LeGrand F 90 Years Edition.

-William S. Park

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.” - Graham Greene

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