The hood/barrel of my Parker Falcon Flighter has become detached from the feed. It looks to me like it was originally spot glued at the factory. Should I just glue it back? Is Super Glue a good choice, or is there something else that would be preferable. This pen sat in a box for 30 years doing nothing (it was NOS). I come along and ink it a couple of times and it falls apart. The nerve.

Moved post from Parker to Repair Q&A figuring it would get a better response here.

jonro - the nerve indeed - this is poor manners on the pen's part.
Ok, now to the question.
This model has a rubber ring in a groove pretty close to the joint (place where the front and rear covers meet), I would use "elmer's stix all" which is a sovent based glue of thick consistency - dries to form a rubber like material that sticks. Use around the joint area - where the rubber ring is placed.
The best part about that is while it seals and sticks it does not form a permenant bond, not does it solvent weld.
for a pen made of plastic and metal - where solvent should not be an issue this should do the trick.
Good luck

I bought the Parker Service Manuals from that era and on the subject of the 50 Falcon FP it has this to offer...



I realise that it provides little help but that's what is in the Parker documentation, it may be worth trying to contact Parker before going down the gluing route, but as a back-up plan it would be worth looking at something less damaging than super-glue.

Thanks. I had an OfficeMax glue stick handy and if it holds, that did the trick.

Jon

It didn't hold and it isn't feeding ink correctly. Hmmm.