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Hi, I've got an old Kaweco V12 which writes well enough and have decided to take a look at the Piston Unit. There's a very good article on servicing this pen in FPN; but before I break anything...does the Piston Unit screw out of the Barrel Counter-Clockwise, as one might consider normal ? The note on servicing a Kaweco V16 (also FPN) says 'The piston unscrews clockwise by turning the brass bit at the end of the piston'

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The piston on the V12 unscrews counter-clockwise. Just grasp it above the brass ring and turn, and it will unscrew.

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"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original." - Franz Joseph Haydn 1732 - 1809
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Thanks Wastelanded, I finally got around to it yesterday with the aid of Mafia Geek's 101 on the Koweco V12; the piston does indeed unscrew counter-clockwise. It was a bit gunged-up so it needed some gentle heat from a hair drier, and use of spark-plug pliers. I decided to take the nib and feed out (because it was there) and it needed Whych's suggestion (Koweco V16) to use a blunt piece of wood (in my case a small artist's brush shaft) to push the feed out of the section from the piston end of the barrel - it was very tight.

Everything back together, and piston works smoother now with some silicon grease; It's all very nicely made and I doubt that the inside has seen the light of day in over 50 yrs.

Very satisying, as ever, to see how it all goes together.

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