I have a Sheaffer touchdown pen which needs repairs to the ink filling system (most likely just sac replacement) and cleaning. The nib is in a very good condition and writes fine. Will someone please guide me to a right place to get this repair done? Elsewhere on this forum, I have read articles encouraging people like me to try and do such repairs by myself but I don't want to take any chances with this pen. Attached are some snaps of the pen. Though the snaps are not so good, I hope they give atleast a general idea of the pen.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Sujeet Deshpande
Houston, TX

You can resac this yourself, but the O-ring should be probably be replaced too.
$30-35 plus shipping for it to be fully restored and ready to write, it is a fairly straightforward repair. The only problem area might be cracks under the inlaid nib that seep ink, but it's rather rare for that to occur.
Aaron at pentiques.com
Ron at mainstreetpens.com
Richard at richardspens.com
and several others I am forgetting at the moment.

In no preferred order:

http://www.richardspens.com/?page=repair.htm
http://www.martinspens51.com/index.html
http://www.thewritepen.net/
http://www.mainstreetpens.com/
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=45456 - this is "Dillo, a member of FPN with no website

Nice looking pen,

Ron