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Dear forumites,

 

It's my 10th day on this forum and my first topic here. I really enjoy lurking through this site and my FP-mania grows with each passing minute :)

 

Now today I've found a tiny fountain pen in my granddads closet. All I know is that it's a Pilot, maybe from '70s (or '80s. or '60s...). The nib is 14k 585. It's folding. And it's very thin. Kinda reminds me my Pilot Birdie pencil (however not that thin of course). Pictures:

 

It's in excellent cosmetic condition. Folded.

 

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The color almost looks like surf green on my Precision Bass :)

 

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Disassembled with squeezer converter (or is it not?)

 

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Could someone please help me identify this pen: date of manufacturing, maintenance instructions (it looks like this squeeze module is not detachable. or am I wrong?) et ceterea.

 

Oh, and there are tiny letters on the lower part of its body: HS 26

 

Thank you all! :)

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Gottes Mühlen mahlen langsam, mahlen aber trefflich fein

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Thank you!
So now I understand it is a so-called "Pilot Short Pen". And now I know that this is cartridge converter filling system. Mainly because I've managed to detach the converter after serious soaking in clear water.

 

Now I need to detach the clear part from the section somehow...

 

After reading a bit on topic, I have another question: does this pen accept standard Pilot cartridges or does it need vintage "double-spare" cartridges?

 

Gottes Mühlen mahlen langsam, mahlen aber trefflich fein

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Cha-ching!

Used a good advice to try hair dryer.
From this topic: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/229263-identifying-a-pilot-pen/
And I've managed to disassemble the section.

The nib shows production date June 1967 (T667)

Tomorrow I'll get some Pilot blue cartridges and see how this little pen writes :)

Thanks, FPN!

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It looks I have a spare part :)

 

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What's it for?

 

 

 

 

Couldn't find it on this picture from a very informative article:

 

http://www.tomattarashinu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/04-HoodedPilotShortPen.jpg

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Gentlemen, I have both good and bad news.

 

The good: this pen accepts modern Pilot cartridges. And I really like the color of Pilot blue ink.

The bad: no ink flow. I had to squeeze the cartridge a bit to start writing. But soon the nib was completely dry.

 

I think I messed with that mysterious part. (Because other than that no reason comes to mind. the feed was absolutely clean and intact) I just put it on the feed before the nippel/connector. And I think it shouldn't be there and now it prevents the ink to flow free to the feed.

 

Any ideas?

 

Gottes Mühlen mahlen langsam, mahlen aber trefflich fein

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Okay, so I removed that thing from the section assembly and now the pen writes good so far. I'll wait overnight, then will carry it in my bag and in my shirt. And then I will shoot a short test.

 

 

Still can't figure what that part is for. Any thoughts?

 

Gottes Mühlen mahlen langsam, mahlen aber trefflich fein

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"that thing" was almost certainly the mouth of the converter, which must have pulled free from the shroud and sac when it finally came off the cartridge nipple.

 

This model of Pilot has a sliding barrel assembly, allowing the pen to collapse to a shorter length when capped and extend back again for better handling while writing.  The plastic part of the barrel gets scuffed up from use and they can get loose to the point where they slide in and out as you write with them... The long cap/section solution to the pocket pen design is much better IMO, but these are pretty cool pens as well and all of the ones I own are reliable writers.

David-

 

So many restoration projects...

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