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Forgive me if this is the wrong place or is a much-trodden subject but I have a Waterman 515 which creaks quite loudly when I fill it. It can't possibly be the lever, it's ridiculously loud, so I thought it must be the sac/bladder. None of my other pens do this.

The pen functions perfectly well. I'm just a bit worried I might be killing it softly.

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Hi Anniemac,

 

Oh yes it can be the lever, well a combination of lever, pressure bar, spring bar and body.

 

If the surface of the pressure bar where the lever moves is rough and the attachment of the moving bar and spring bar is a bit slack then you can get resonance caused by the vibration of lever's movement through the sac and body which make it sounds very loud for such a little thing.

 

A small dab of silicone grease on the pressure bar where the lever moves should cure it.

 

If it doesn't then pull the section out and carefully use a wooden skewer to make sure that the end of the spring bar is frimly located in the barrel end and that the lever ring clip is firmly seated in its groove, drop the pressure bar off the spring bar and clean it, add a dab of silicone grease to the running surface and reassemble, this has sorted out several of my old Waterman's that did this.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers, John

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Thanks Oxonian!

If this is indeed the problem I am so inexperienced I daren't go near it. Though I will go to my local pen man with your suggestion and ask him to show me what to do. I'd rather have a demo first before letting myself loose on it.

I have five pens and write a little each day with them all so it will be some time before I fill it again, therefore some time before the noise comes back, but I don't want to take an ostrich approach, so I might tackle it at the weekend. Once again, thanks!

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Many Watermans, all of mine, do not use a 'J-bar' for bag/sac pressure. They use a captive chanel that can be a 'lot of fun' to get back into proper position.

 

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Hi,

 

Relubrication of the bar assembly is done with a few special tools like grease injectors. If you don't have something to inject silicone grease into the proper places, you could use a toothpick, but carefully. I hope someone can make an illustration to show where to put the grease.

 

Waterman pens typically do not use a spring on the bar assembly.

 

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Hi Folks,

 

My apologies, just about all Watermans I accept do not use a spring bar I wasn't firing on all cylinders this morning due to a toothache and the apprehension of a visit to the dentist. :blush:

 

The grease on the running surface still stands as a help to get rid of the noise and as Dillo says a toothpick or cocktail stick through the lever box is a good a way as any to do the job.

 

Cheers, John

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