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So I come home after work to check on my soaking nib unit from what I now know is an M2 Aeromatic Estie. After soaking for 8 hours the nib still will not come out of the bottom section of the pen. So I pull out the hair dryer, heat it up a bit and wala, the filler and metal nib section start to rotate. One problem, it's on those two moving, the collar is not coming out. Come to find out the color as well is dried out and broke into a million pieces as I started to rotate more.

 

So now I'm left with a 9550 nib (the whole reason I bought the pen!) and the plastic filler piece underneat it. Can I transplant that nib into a unit that has a collar still or am I pretty much out of luck.

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By collar do you mean the gripping section - the ergonomically-shaped piece about 1" long that screws into the barrel and is attached to the filler?

 

Or do you mean the collar around the nib and feed - the smaller threaded tube that screws into the section and holds the nib and feed?

 

If it's the latter, you could theoretically transplant the nib into a different nib unit, but you might be better off just spending $10 on a new 9550. It's pretty difficult to get the nib unit pieces apart and back together.

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It's hard to tell exactly how easily this could be done without seeing a picture, but by your wording it sounds like the feed and nib have come out as mmoncur has suggested. If this is a later renew-point with a full comb feed, the collar surrounding the nib and feed is press fitted together, meaning you could knock out the feed and nib from the collar just as you would a regular nib and feed from a section. Of course, you'd need a special device to do so as the width of the nib exceeds the width of the colar, so the renew-point won't fit into a standard knockout block. I use a wood block which has slits cut in the middle for the nib to sit in, yet still allowing the collar to sit on top of the block.

 

If for whatever reason the collar is not press fitted and is a holdover from the previous generation which had a metal pin holding the feed and collar together (I doubt this is the case, but am throwing in for due diligence), you'd have to knock the pin out first, or you'd risk breaking the feed and collar altogether.

 

Hope that helps-

Brian

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I might be able to help you out, I think I have some of them at home, but am not sure, will check tonight. I also have some spare collars you can try too. Problem with the way they are put together is sometimes knocking them out means breaking off a small portion of the collar, which might lead to leakage.

 

email me backchannel and we'll sort out the details.

 

Best-

Brian

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