Hero 100 Disassembly

[fpn00b]

I have found out through my own personal misfortune the difficulty of taking a Hero 100 apart if you need to work on it. Thanks to gwidjin and his link to the graphics of the disassembly steps. If one could get this tool in the link taking the 100 apart would be much simpler. I'm still trying to find a way to get one.

 

The link below goes to a website in Chinese that shows the tools spelling out "Hero 100". If you scroll down the page you will get to some large resolution shots of the steps in taking apart the 100.

 

Hero 100 Disassembly

 

Hope this helps others and makes it easier to spare some disappointment.

[Nonsensical]

It IS possible to get/buy this tool, but being able to read chinese is probably...required. You buy the tool + whatever you want via another website, which will then pack the whole lot into one package, and send it to you. You pay an extra 10% or so on top of that.

I believe my mum has ordered from 淘宝网, the chinese ebay site in that way...saves a lot of trouble, considering we live in Australia.

http://www.86daigou.com/ (No affiliation) That's the website she's using right now...Not sure if you can somehow translate the whole thing though.

Here's the basic website, if you are interested. Exams are impending , so perhaps I'll post up a guide at a later date.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2835/daikou.png

All prices are in YUAN <-chinese currency. Make sure you convert to USD when calculating costs.

 

Oh...and just to avoid misunderstanding...the blanked out website is my University portal login.

Edited May 26, 2011 by Nonsensical

[fpn00b]

Thanks for any help you can offer. I have a friend that is fluent in spoken/written Chinese and might try to get her to buy it on her dime and then pay her when it arrives.

 

Are you saying this site ships to the US? I figured the price on the tool and in yuan to dollars it is only like $1.80. How much would I be looking at spending for the shipping and item price for US delivery?

 

Thanks again.

 

EDIT: Good luck on examinations!

Edited May 26, 2011 by fpn00b

[Nonsensical]

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5018/daikou2.png

 

Those are the AIRMAIL prices.

Thanks, and I need to start studying ...now. LOL

Edited May 26, 2011 by Nonsensical

[gwidjin]

The tool costs 12 RMB, or less than $2. And google translate can do a little help if you want to read a page written in Chinese. it does works! Some text won't automatically be translated and you just need to manually select it and let google do the job.

 

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fitem.taobao.com%2Fitem.htm%3Fid%3D9560525851

 

A retailer who sells Chinese pens in America may have the tool at stock，or you can ask him to buy some from China. Good luck!

[fncll]

Resurrecting this because I am messing around with disassembling the Hero 100, just as a learning exercise, and was wondering about the tool that is neeed to remove the collector on the Hero 100 is the same as that for the Parker 51?

[fpn00b]

Resurrecting this because I am messing around with disassembling the Hero 100, just as a learning exercise, and was wondering about the tool that is neeed to remove the collector on the Hero 100 is the same as that for the Parker 51?

 

Dunno if you have ever seen a vacumatic tool (I assume this is the tool you refer to as a 51 tool), but it is nothing like the tool for 100 take down. Did you click the link in the early post? That takes you to the Chinese site for the 100 tool. That also walks you through the steps to use it with pictures. The 100 is pretty much nothing like the 51 in it's dissassembly. Internally the workings are very much alike, but to get to them is a different matter entirely.

 

Hope this helps.

[Bill Nick]

A warning for intrepid Hero 100 buyers/owners.

 

I bought a couple of Hero pens out of curiosity, a '100' and a '007', paid next to nothing for them with the idea that if they were rubbish I could use them to practice my currently non-existent dismantling/renovating skills on.

 

Turns out the 100 is almost unusable due to the dryness and fineness of the nib, which is what a lot of others have experienced but the 007 (cost me nothing) writes as well as my Waterman Preface, for example. It never dries up when left for days whereas the Waterman will dry up in a few hours. It may even be a copy of a Hero as the cap is very clearly printed Mero 007, not a Hero anywhere on the pen. I mentioned this to the UK seller and immediately got a refund. As much as I don't want to like it, because it cost nothing after the refund, I'm afraid I do.

 

I tried opening the tines of the real Hero100 and that did improve the flow slightly but not enough so I thought about replacing the nib as a first exercise. eBay provided the nibs for the equivalent of a few cents but because I could not remove the hood (glued in these days apparently) I also ordered this hood removal tool...

 

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That arrived today but to fit the tool in the back of the section the sac protector needs to be removed and that won't budge either, so it's useless! I've tried unscrewing the parts to the left and to the right using pliers, soaked the pen in near boiling water for hours, nothing works. Now I've got to wait until someone comes up with a sac removal tool. Unless someone here knows different!

 

I'd love to hear how to dismantle this pen but I think it's not possible, just the downside of buying cheap.

 

[truthpil]

I'd like to know how to disassemble this pen as well!

 

I know it's possible because many people have trouble with these pens and end up taking them apart.

I saw the same image of disassembly you posted and it confused me haha.

 

Can anyone who has taken a Hero 100 apart tell us (preferably show us with video or pictures) how to do it??

 

Many thanks!

[truthpil]

Bump

[OCArt]

I have disassembled, successfully, a Hero 100 using the special tool shown in a previous post and these instructions. The last photo is a screenshot from FPN-- I wish I could credit the original poster but I didn't record the name.

 

 

 

 

[truthpil]

Thanks OCArt for bringing all the information together in this thread!

I guess there aren't a step-by-step illustrated instructions in English yet.

 

So I have the same problem someone in another thread had. The section hood just will not budge, no matter how hard I try to twist with gripping material as in picture 04-01 above.

 

Reading around on Chinese sites, it appears that some of the design changed in later models.

Some commented that models made from 2016 on have some slightly different part configurations than those prior.

Edited April 4, 2018 by TruthPil

[Yohaanrods]

Is there any way to open this without that tool? 

[hari317]

On 4/4/2018 at 3:25 AM, OCArt said:

I have disassembled, successfully, a Hero 100 using the special tool

Hi, can you pls post a pic of the business end of the tool? Thanks!