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Just look for a cheap used No Nonsense and hack the nib apart! The feeds aren't something you can purchase separately.

 

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TERI

 

Thanks a lot.

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Not much help, I know :) I can give you one, but it sounds like you need more.

 

It's OK Teri, I found a vintage set with 5 Sheaffer No Nonsense pens and 11 nib unit for $36 on eBay. Should have it by next weekend.

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Thanks Teri, I'm inspired by your post showing how the NN metal feed tube can be inserted into the Ranga ED to use the Sheaffer converter. I'll try it on one of my Indian ebonite pens and buy some Sheaffer converters from PSP soon.

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Thanks Teri, I'm inspired by your post showing how the NN metal feed tube can be inserted into the Ranga ED to use the Sheaffer converter. I'll try it on one of my Indian ebonite pens and buy some Sheaffer converters from PSP soon.

Be warned that those were only marginally successful .... A few worked, but most had a tendency to have ink flow stoppage. It's hard to get the feed to pull ink thu the system.....

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Great! The units won't come apart willingly, we had to basically hack them out of the housing.

 

 

I used a plier to pull the nib out first. That rendered the nib unusable but then I was able to pull out the feed effortlessly by hand.

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Great! The units won't come apart willingly, we had to basically hack them out of the housing.

 

So I gather that you don't have a bunch of intact NoNonsense nibs lying around after this operation?

 

What are you doing with the Indian ebonite feeds you've replaced?

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So I gather that you don't have a bunch of intact NoNonsense nibs lying around after this operation?

 

What are you doing with the Indian ebonite feeds you've replaced?

 

 

I did not get the feed from a NoNonsense but from a calligraphy set that I got for $6 (3 nib units). I'm not into stubs anyway so the nibs were not of much use to me.

 

I'm not sure what I want to do with the spare ebonite feeds. Thoughts....? Some are good but some were just too wet and gushing way too much ink for comfortable everyday writing.

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So I gather that you don't have a bunch of intact NoNonsense nibs lying around after this operation?

 

What are you doing with the Indian ebonite feeds you've replaced?

I think the nibs were sacrificed. The feeds are around here somewhere, every now and then we use one for a vintage repair.

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Just got my Sheaffer No Nonsense haul (See image below). They were pretty dirty, so I soaked them overnight and sonically cleaned them at work. I'm excited to replace my Indian feeds with these and maybe even figure out a way to transfer the feed connecter also so that I can use a converter like Teri did .

 

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