Got a few of these and I'm looking to get them up and running. I thought that they were just plain lever fillers until I saw the post at the end of my post with a symphpony demonstrator in it, and it looks like a piston filler, but Binder, on his website, says that the Symphony has the same internals as a Skyline, which is a lever filler (I think). So, what materials will I need to get them up and running (sacs, gaskets, ect) and what should I expect when I get the pens open? Thanks.

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...st&p=508773

In the thread linked, the demonstrator pen looks like a lever filler with a breather tube. I think all you need to repair these is sacs and shellac, and if some of them have the breather tube broken, some breather tube material. (Actually, later Skylines also had breather tubes. Mine is an older one, which only has a lucky curve-like thingy.)

Thanks. So the Skyline "full size" sacs will work-- 16 1/2, tapered?

Absolutely. I've got four Skylines and two Symphonies and all of them pretty much have the same guts, with the only variations being the design of the pressure bar and the length of the breather tube. They all use tapered number 16 sacs. I know plenty of people use straight sacs, but I don't believe they work nearly as well. The tapered sac fits the space properly and so uses it better, since the straight sac won't fit as far into the barrel without compressing (and thus gaining nothing anyway). Besides, when the right part costs the same as the wrong one, why use the wrong one?

Tim
(with a Symphony in my pocket right now)

Great, thanks alot. I'm looking forward to getting these up and running, they're nice looking pens, and I understand they've got some flex.

Of my six pens, four of them have some degree of flex, from a little to quite a bit. They're a whole sack of fun to write with.

Tim
(Giddy with Eversharp glee...)