I have a parker latitude and I want to disassemble the nib to clean it out. Does anyone know whether it's glued in and I shouldn't try, or if it's screwed (which way should I twist?), or just held in place by friction like the other two pens I use and have disassembled?

Thanks!

I am wondering this as well. I would also like to know if there are any other nibs that will screw into this barrel?
I am a little dissapointed in the broadness of the medium nib on this pen.

I grabbed my Latitude and tried my other Parker nib/sections with the barrel. My Sonnet nib/section is too thin to fit the barrel and although my Parker Reflex nib/section does screw into the Latitude barrel perfectly, it is too long to fit with the cap closed. You can buy other Parker Latitude nib/section pieces, but the price is about 50% of the cost of the pen ($60 pen/ $30 replacement nib/section). The standard un-plated steel nibs are far less expensive than the gold plated. I don't know if you can change just the nib, as far as I know, you need to change the entire nib/feed/section piece.

I did a quick search on the internet for sites which talk about Parker replacement nibs, but I have not bought from either of these sites, so I do not know if they are any good.

http://www.penbox.co.uk/pen.nibs.htm
http://www.theofficecollection.co.uk/erol.html#1X0

Thanks for the reply.

I have sanded the nib down a little, making the the point closer to say a pilot/knight medium, but not quite. I know that this is a risky thing for a novice to do, but I figured I had nothing to lose as I didn't much like the way the pen was writing anyway.

As for the flow problem, I think that the converter was not tightly assembled, I havent tried to pull the pump section away from the tank section, (calling the actual ink storage section the tank) but I did push it together it seems. Maybe it was letting some air in, thus the excessive flow. After doing this the pen wrote nicely with no excessive ink release, and I did fill the converter as full as possible.

I picked up a Laban yesterday that is totally awesome in every way. It started and writes perfectly right out of the box. The converter (screw piston I think, thats what they call it) on it is much better made than the one on the Parker. I think the Parker could benefit from this type of converter, or the use of ink cartridges, and employing the home cartridge refill method. Speaking of which I now see why for many people that this is a very basic and reliable method of storing ink. However the converter method is somehow a seemingly more of a purists form of ink storage.

I think I may be slipping into the fountain pen obsessive, compulsive, abyss.............