Help Identify This Pen

[starlegohunter]

I recently bought a Stratford Button Filler, and I want to repair it so it can draw up ink. But I don't even know what model it is!

For more details about the pen click here

Here are some pictures of the pen.

http://i.imgur.com/mpjLIFJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5Ss7Hyk.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/smlxIVG.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/Tj8D53n.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mhLWKiX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fZyzcKO.jpg

I would greatly appreciate any and all knowledge and info about this pen. Thanks!

[Bo Bo Olson]

can't help you....is a dead sac.

Go to Repair section, once some one tells you what sort of button filler it is.

[Ernst Bitterman]

I shouldn't hold out a lot of hope for discovering a model name. Stratford is one of those lesser companies that vanished without leaving a lot of records. As far as repairs go; one button filler is much like any other.

[Uncle Red]

Nib looks like it's in good shape. It should write well. It probably just needs a sack.

[KBeezie]

I had a Stratford Button Filler, they're incredibly cheap to get ahold of (usually no more than 10-15$ for me, sometimes lower, but usually those arent' the ones with an ink window).

 

If everything else is good (nib, feed, etc) and just needs a new sac, then some places like fountainpensacs.com would be inexpensive to get a replacement sac for it and just cut it down to the correct length before putting it on all shellac'd.

 

Unfortunately I don't know what size sacs those are supposed to take.

Edited September 4, 2014 by KBeezie

[starlegohunter]

I had some progress with this pen. I was able to loosen up the hardened sac and got all of the pieces out, and the button now fully moves the pressure bar. But I still can't get the button out of this pen.

 

Any ideas?

[peterg]

Is there any reason why you would want to remove the button? Is the section a screw fit?

[PDW]

One way of overhauling this pen involves taking the button and the long spring (the pressure bar) out, fitting a new sac on the section (the part that holds the nib and feed), reassembling the section into the main part (the barrel) and then carefully inserting the pressure bar from the button hole and finally reinserting the button,.

 

If you can't get the button out it may be safer to leave it where it is, put the pressure bar in the open end of the barrel (make sure it's far enough up inside the barrel, then carefully pushing the section home trying not to catch the new sac on the pressure bar.

 

All removals/insertions of section and button should be done after careful heating of the relevant parts of the pen - plenty of advice on FPN on this.