Books
Fountain Pens
The Complete Guide to Repair and Restoration - Frank Dubiel - [Da Book]
(Available from most pen supply stores)


Nib Adjustments - Flow Problems
Richard Binder's Post
John Mottishaw's web site
Arthur Twydle's web site

Nib Smoothing/Grinding:
John Mottishaw's site
Ludwig Tan's site
Wim Geeraet's (wimg) article

Nib Smoothing Threads:
Thread in Repair Forum
Thread in Writing Instruments

Nib Grinding Threads:
Thread in Repair Forum
Thread 2 in Repair Forum
Thread 3 in Repair Forum - Grit info too

On-Line Pen Reference Material
Richard Binder
John Mottishaw Nib Articles
Peter Twydle
Parker 75 Reference

Pen Maintenance:
John Mottishaw
Nathan Tardiff - Snorkel
Richard Binder

Pen Polishing Threads:
Repair Forum post 1
Repair Forum post 2
Repair Forum post 3
Repair Forum post 4
Repair Forum post 5

Pen Repair Don'ts
Repair Forum post
Pen Repair Don'ts - David Nishimura
Interesting FPN thread with a number of tips. Feel free to add to the thread itself...

Pen Sac Information
Pen Sac Company

Pen Sac Replacement
Richard Binder
Ernst Bitterman

Salad Spinner Centrifuge
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...st&p=116874

Supplies (General - Materials)
McMaster Carr

General Q&A's
FP FAQ's

Further links will be added as found/identified...

Gerry/Ron

Edit: Fixed links, added 'da book', removed duplicate link, added titles in Grinding and Smoothing references (hope that helps in remembering which one you want to refer to again...), added DVD's link, added poishing section.
Edit: Added Pen Repair Don'ts
Edit: Added Pen Sac Information / Pen Sac Replacement Info.
Edit: Added Nib Adjustments - Flow Problems, reordered topics and removed most http references.
Edit: Added Parker 75 Reference
Edit: Added McMaster-Carr link
Edit: Added Salad Spinner Centrifuge
Edit: Added FAQ thread
Edit: Added Ernst Bitterman

This is a great idea, and much appreciated. Unfortunately, the "smoothing" links both lead nowhere.

[ed: That's fixed now - Gerry]

da book by frank dubiel heads the pack in terms of utility, plus it is a classic.

I second the motion. No book is perfect, even Frank's, but Da Book is the one piece of literature anyone who wants to work on pens should absolutely have.

Richard - I bought Da Book after reading about it on your site - thanks for the steady flow of information & advice, it really is appreciated.

Gerry,

I would recommend listing the real name for Da Book, too:

Fountain Pens
The Complete Guide to Repair and Restoration

Ron

Is there a guide to repairing the old mechanical pencils?

Thanks,
Ron

Don't know of one - would appreciate anyone identifying info sources they know of. I did a search on FPN for Mechanical Pencils, and didn't find any specific repair related info other than identification of jammed leads as being the most frequent cause of problems (DWL I think).

Thanks,

Gerry

I am not aware of a comprehensive single volume on the repair of pencils, but many manufacturers published their own factory repair manuals for the use of their dealers or authorized repair stations back in the day. I can't attest to what other manufacturers put out, but Eversharp (Wahl-Eversharp) did make and send out repair manuals for their pens AND pencils. My library includes a good number of these, mostly from 1923 on the traditional eversharps and then again from the period 1937-8 through about 1948. I have to believe that this type of material exists from other manufacturers as well.

Syd the Wahlnut

Hello Everyone

The above is a terrific resource and much appreciated. Whilst it is useful to those in America, perhaps it would be nice to see a companion list for Europe. Any chance we could put one of those together?

WANTED: Specialists in...

Nib Repair / Smoothing / Adjusting - Sac / Piston Repair and Replacement, Etc.

Testimonials would be useful, too.

Just a thought.

Regards,

Nick

(Edited typo)

Thanks for the reminder Syd. I have a copy of the Pen Fanciers Club (PFC) compilation of repair manuals for Sheaffer Parker and Eversharp - and indeed, there is some info there about the pencils.

Thanks,

Gerry

Thank you Nick.

There are many reasons for some reluctance to offer a list of repairers complete with 'ratings'. Some of them were discussed elsewhere in this forum. I am willing to consider establishing one that lists known repairers in each country however. I would certainly prefer if the names were added as a recommendation from a satisfied customer, but that shouldn't be a necessary factor.

We need to start this topic in the regular forum, perhaps asking for testimonials, and if there is a good response, We'll consider adding it to the pinned list of topics here...

Regards,

Gerry

Hi Gerry

Thanks for your response. I'd offer to help, but I'm a bit new to all this - which, of course, is why I asked for the list in the first place!

Also, it should drum up some business for those who wish to be on the list, which can't be a bad thing.

Cheers,

Nick

Hi Nick,
There are over a dozen repair people/repair services in the U.K. in this handy list of links on Penhero.com:
http://www.penhero.com/PenBookmarks_PenRepair.htm

Hello Maja

Thanks very much for that. Whilst the Penhero site is, in itself, a terrific resource, I was rather hoping we could get a simplified list onto FPN (which is, after all, the best resource of all!). What I'm asking for is a sort of handy 'quick-reference', though comprehensive, affair that people over on this side of the Atlantic could use to help them find repair people.

Best regards,

Nick