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Mine is an Omas 360 Vision with poor flow.

It's off to see the wizard, Mr. Richard Binder.

What pen(s) do you have out or are planning to send out and why?

 

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Jeen

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Jeen, I try to repair all of my pens (vintage ones). The last effort which worked out well in the end was to replace a boxed lever filler on a Waterman.

If it's a piston filler etc I would send it to a friend in Auckland who I must say is a wizard when it comes to anything pens. Plus of course he has spares for most types.

I once asked him how many pens he has in his collection. 'What brand ?" was the reply. Now he has a lot of pens and I don't think he has counted all of them. Anyway I suggested 'how many Conway Stewarts ?" the reply was well over 400.

I actually purchased a 1927 Sheaffer Lifetime Flat top from him, what a great pen and even better, what a great nib.

Gary

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This question is something I had not really thought about - until it was asked, of course. I have three pens out right now:

 

1. A Shaeffer Crest with a B italic nib that was too thoothy for me, I needed it smoothed to enhance the writing experience with it.

 

2. I had received an Etruria ("Seas") with a 1.1 mm nib that turned out to be a stub. It was an accident I am sure. Instead of shipping it back for a replacement nib, I decided to let Richard Binder work on it to make one of his italics out of it.

 

3. I got a Pelikan Cities "Berlin" at a super great price, but it had no nib. I sent it to Richard also for one of his gold M italics, and to have the piston filler lubed and checked.

 

My next pen project: my MB 149 has a wet B nib that is too wet and too big. It shall go to Richard as well for reworking to B italic.

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Hi,

 

I have Ellen, one of my Parker 45s out for repairs.

 

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As of yesterday, I had 2 1/2 pens out. I'm down to 1 1/2 out.

 

Out for repair:

Parker Sonnet - Off to Richard B. to become a stub

Parker 51 Lustraloy cap - Off to Richard B. to become beautiful again.

 

Back from the shop:

Sheaffer Legacy Heritage - Had a successful brain transplant, and is now a medium nib. (Heart transplant? Face transplant?)

 

TMann

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I have 2 pens with the Pen Doctor - Mr. Richard Binder. A Sheaffer Balance has a medium nib that's being tweaked to fix a problem with starting and a Parker 100 with a fine nib that's really rough and very dry.

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Mine is an Omas 360 Vision with poor flow.

It's off to see the wizard, Mr. Richard Binder.

What pen(s) do you have out or are planning to send out and why?

 

Regards,

Jeen

Right now I have Baltor the ursurper of Trontheim, a Lamy 2000, out for a nib exchange and I am deciding whether Lord Malcom Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable Arthur Norman Mihael Featherstone Smith Northgot Edwards Harris Mason Frampton Jones fruitbat Gilbert Williams Jenkins Tiger Draws Pratt Thompson Darcy Carter Barton Mannering Smith, a Duofold, needs to go for an exchange from medium to fine as well. It is just a little too wet for my writing enjoyment.

 

 

Kurt H :lol:

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I have a nib for my Pentrace LE with Master Binder for an Italifine.

 

I also have a nibless Pelikan Chicago waiting for a Mottishaw gold stub (I'm all too young and feeble-willed to give this pen up for a 12 month stay with Mr. Binder - so I went with the m620 nib purchase/grind).

 

Also waiting on a new nib for my Signum Orione - no real work involved though. I'm really excited about having this pen back in working shape.....I just love the way it fits my hand.

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Right now I have Baltor the ursurper of Trontheim, a Lamy 2000, out for a nib exchange and I am deciding whether Lord Malcom Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable Arthur Norman Mihael Featherstone Smith Northgot Edwards Harris Mason Frampton Jones fruitbat Gilbert Williams Jenkins Tiger Draws Pratt Thompson Darcy Carter Barton Mannering Smith, a Duofold, needs to go for an exchange from medium to fine as well.  It is just a little too wet for my writing enjoyment.

 

 

Kurt H :lol:

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Cut and paste from the Chatter section...thanks again for all the support on this :)

 

:sick:

 

Okay, I wasn't even sure where to place this subject - Chatter, FP general, or Repair. I wish there was a Full On Crisis section because that's what I'm having right now!!!

 

I've only had my beloved Taccia Imperial Portuguese in the succulent Forest Marble for less than 2 months(!) and I've already destroyed it!!! I knew I was going to have an accident with it, just not this soon or this bad.

 

My best friend has been in surgery for 4 hours, and I was waiting to hear from her husband that she was in recovery. As I'm writing with my Taccia, my cell phone, located at the other end of the house, rings. I make a mad dash for it, thinking all the while I should have left my Taccia on the pen rest - but nooooooooo. I grab the phone just in time and then proceed to juggle the pen cap and notepad in order to write down her hospital room number. The pen cap slipped from my hand and shatters - shatters, people! on the tile floor. I was afraid to look down after hanging up the phone. The head of the cap has seperated from the body and not in a normal way - the clip and ring looked so lonely have way across the room. It was a penwreck.

 

I'll contact Taccia now but there's no way they could repair this and have it be as strong. I hope I can get a new cap but it'll never be the same as before.

 

I realize in the grand scheme of life, this is ueber-minor and normally not even worth mentioning. I mean, my friend is recouping from abdominal surgery (she's fine, thank you) and I'm moaning about a fountain pen - so please excuse the whining but it was a sad moment in my fountain pen infancy.

 

In the meantime, I pulled myself together and called Taccia. I spoke to Shu-Jen and she was very nice and felt my pain. However, she also confirmed my worst fear i.e. they would more than likely not be able to replace the cap. Not as in, "We won't send you one because you dropped it" but "we can't send you one because we don't have any". They don't have spare parts lying around because they make the pen as a whole, making sure the pen body and cap body match. She said to send the whole pen in and they'll see if it's something they can repair. If not, they'll replace it for $19.95, that includes shipping. I think that's a heck of a deal. They also said that since I got the pen from Richard they'll try to keep my nib. Even though it's not a Binderized nib, they know he tests them out and I told them it wrote really well. They're also located in California so they should get the pen by Tuesday/Wednesday. Hopefully, it will all work out . My hope is that they can somehow repair it. It's my first fountain pen and I've already grown so attached to its colorings and such. It was just perfect and beautiful. There I go again getting sentimental. I'm sure it will work out fine. I'll keep you updated.

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Back from the shop

Waterman Hemisphere - for exchange to EF nib. This was my first real fountain pen purchase.

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Kurt & tburkeO: :lol: :lol:

(but I like the names people have for their pens.... :) )

 

As for me, I have my Laban Mento in for stubbing with Viv ("einv") and my Parker Sonnet is undergoing a nib swap for a Medium italic (was M round nib before).

 

Can't wait to get 'em back! :)

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