Please tell me a little superglue or epoxy will get me back in business.







(The story of how this happened is here.)

Unfortunately, super glue won't work. It will appear to hold, but it will likely flow into the ink fissure and block it. Suppose that doesn't happen, and you reassemble the pen and begin using. Bad things are in your future. Super glue sets up chemically, it doesn't dry. It sets by absorbing moisture from the air. The problem is that it keeps right on absorbing moisture -- now, once it's back in the pen. More moisture, lots more. Slurp, slurp... The repaired feed will suddenly fall apart.

There is really no satisfactory way to repair a feed that's been broken in half.

{Curses like a sailor}

Okay, so I now have a dip pen ....

Thank you.

(And I never knew that's now Superglue works, intersting.)

The tines are fine. It's the plastic bit that feeds ink to the tines that snapped clean off. No, this is not a part that's meant to dissassemble.

Taken from your other thread, if it's been assembled it should dissasemble. Remove section from barrel, knock out feed/nib and replace with new ???? I'm missing something here amn't I ?

Feeds tend to be BHR, which, to date there is no known adhesive for. The nib being fine and the feed breaknig is the real wonder of this though.

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I'd need to get a whole new feed section and insert the nib into that.

Considering that this is a Chinese Pen that the vendor I bought it from no longer stocks, I'm thinking that I'll be able to purchase replacement parts December 32.

GRRRRR. Because the nib itself is a 14k nib (not plated) and writes like a dream.

A donor feed shouldn't be too difficult to come by from an anywhichway pen..... Particularly if the pen was good enough in the first place, chinese or not, to use a 14k nib, it should be worth replacing.
The nib and feed insert into the section, BTW, but you knew that didn't you ? Or are these type of pens differant, I'm not familiar with cartridge or convertor types

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I'd contact the retailer. They might be able to help somehow, like give you some idea of compatible donor pens or something, and if they just can't help, you're not out anything.

You might also try posting here in the Marketplace, just "WTB: Feed for Haolilai 801" or something like that.