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Is it normal for the Imperial VI touchdown to not have a sack protector? Everything I have read suggests that there should be a sack protector so I'm currious. I'd also like to know if replacing the sack protector, if it is in fact missing, is necessary.

 

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Hey, if it weren't necessary, Sheaffer wouldn't have used one. Without it, you risk sucking the sac right off the nipple when withdrawing the plunger.

 

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Hey, if it weren't necessary, Sheaffer wouldn't have used one. Without it, you risk sucking the sac right off the nipple when withdrawing the plunger.

 

--Daniel

 

Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ;)

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Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ;)

 

I don't even know what we're talking about anymore...

 

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I have already ordered the missing part but I think I'm going to try anyway.

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I have already ordered the missing part but I think I'm going to try anyway.

 

Going to try what? Reassembling the pen missing an essential part?

 

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Wait and buy a junker pen off of eBay. ALL of the touchdown pens, except the early fat TD pens, use the same TD tube and sac guard. (Snorkel and PFM pens are not classified as TD) That means that you can buy a beater pen or a pen with a dead nib and use the parts in a better pen. Imperials, Admirals, anything that has the thinner TD tube and sac guard can be used as a donor.

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I have already ordered the missing part but I think I'm going to try anyway.

 

without the sac protector two things can (will?) happen:

 

- When pulling the TD tube out the sac will be removed from the nipple (the sac expand during this operation, the sac protector avoir that)

- When pushing the TD tube back, you've got half chance that the sac will get stuck in between the TD tube and the barrel. The sac protector protect the sac from this, if present.

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@GG917

You just took out all the fun from ommitting the sac protector. I guess I won't be waisting a sac.

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@GG917

You just took out all the fun from ommitting the sac protector. I guess I won't be waisting a sac.

 

You've got a strange definition of "fun"...

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