I need HELP! with a bottom jewel-ectomy

[OcalaFlGuy]

I have a Copper J that Pendleton sent me that is missing it's screw in bottom jewel.

(I suspect the screw in jewels are even harder to find "around" than the regular ones

that aren't exactly prevalent.)

 

This is what the bottom of the pen looks like. (Thanks to Johnboz for the snarfated

and cropped pic of his from a prior post)

 

 

 

Now I do have coming in the mail from Brian a regular press in bottom jewel, trim ring

AND the compression fitting that appear in this snarfated Fleabay pci.

 

 

 

Obviously, I want to find a way to make the press in jewel work in the threaded bottom

pen.

 

The rank amatuer, easy way out me says super glue the jewel to the trim ring then super

glue the trim ring into it's grove but I also know that's probably not the way it SHOULD be

done.

 

A couple thoughts/observations on my part;

 

Brian originally thought that the compression fitting would work somehow. Just from the

pics here, I can't see the post on the jewel being long enough to make it past the threaded

area in the barrel and into the compression fitting AND I have no idea how I'd afix the

compression fitting into place inside the barrel.

 

Brian also thought that maybe I could build up the post on the jewel with shellac til it fit

snuggly in the threaded area. I don't have the parts in my hand yet, but from these pics

it looks to me like that would take ALOT of shellac building up. Maybe if one of you has

a bottom thread you can compare to these pics you can get a better idea of that for me.

 

I need All The Help I Can Get Here yall. I really don't want to mess this up, I'd REALLY

like to have this pen with a new bottom jewel nice and secure in it and "second try" jewels

aren't that easy to come by.

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

Edited January 12, 2009 by OcalaFlGuy

[johnboz]

I don't have any advice for you, but I was thinking, "Gee, that photo really looks like that one I took a while back...". Then I found out it was mine! Thanks for saying that, otherwise I would have thought I was crazy.

[OcalaFlGuy]

I don't have any advice for you, but I was thinking, "Gee, that photo really looks like that one I took a while back...". Then I found out it was mine! Thanks for saying that, otherwise I would have thought I was crazy.

 

I wouldn't think of "borrowing" a pic without giving due credit to the "borrowee".

 

Thanks John,

 

Bruce

[FarmBoy]

I could make a threaded jewel....

 

Todd

[OcalaFlGuy]

I could make a threaded jewel....

 

Todd

 

Why yes, yes you could I suspect...

 

And if you WERE do to such a thing, of course, I'd be VERY interested to hear how

that jewel could possibly find it's way to MY pen.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL