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Any idea of how to open an Aurora 88 piston to apply some silicone grease? After recently managing this with an M800, I want to know how to do this with the less well known Aurora 88..

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Vintage or modern? If its vintage, there is a site where the pen is disassembled. If the stacked piston needs replacing Fountainbel makes a wonderful replacement piston.

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Any idea of how to open an Aurora 88 piston to apply some silicone grease? After recently managing this with an M800, I want to know how to do this with the less well known Aurora 88..

yes...

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/196415-modern-aurora-88-piston-exploded-view/

 

this is for the modern 88.

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Couldn't one just unscrew the nib unit and use something like a bamboo skewer or small paint brush (#0 or #2) to spread a tiny amount of grease around the leading edge of the piston (this worked fine on my Pelikans) or is there some reason why this is ill advised for 88s? I really would like to know, as one of my favorite pens is an 88, which will probably need lubrication eventually.

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Couldn't one just unscrew the nib unit and use something like a bamboo skewer or small paint brush (#0 or #2) to spread a tiny amount of grease around the leading edge of the piston (this worked fine on my Pelikans) or is there some reason why this is ill advised for 88s? I really would like to know, as one of my favorite pens is an 88, which will probably need lubrication eventually.

 

In short, there are two reasons:

Very narrow opening when the nib unit is removed.

The piston has a peculiar shape due to the reserva magica feature making the access to piston lip complicated, grease will get applied at all the wrong places.

 

If you have taken the nib unit out of your 88, you must have noticed the narrow tube at its end. Unlike a Pelikan, that has a wider opening to the barrel, allowing the devices you mention to transfer grease to the seal lips, the aurora has only a thin orifice into which the nib unit's tube enters, so it cannot be done as easily as in the pelikan.

 

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Thanks. It's been a while since the last time I removed the nib unit and I didn't bother checking the size of the orifice.

 

BTW, I've found unscrewing the nib unit makes clean outs for ink changes a lot faster. (I cut off the end of an ear syringe to make it big enough for flushing out the nib unit.)

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