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Just wanted to post the response from Ron Zorn....

 

Hi Justin

 

I don't think that I can help you. I haven't found any solvent that works with the Montblanc resins, and the area is too thin for any adhesive to work.

 

Regards,

Ron

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I will post updates. He said that the turn around should just be a couple weeks. I'm having him do a full service of the piston also while he has it.

He sent me a few photos of a 139 he built. It is absolutely amazing!

Can we see the 139 photos....even if it's off topic?

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Phil - here is one photo Brad sent me of a 139 made of the vintage Platinum celluloid. and before you ask, no it is not for sale and no he does not have enough material left to make another pen.

 

 

 

Here are three on my Torelli MB inspired pens. The blue one is a 139.

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Montblanc uses a resin that is cross-linked in such a way that you can not successfully solvent weld the materials and expect it to hold. I don't consider epoxy or superglue to be viable repair techniques for cap lip repair.

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Phil - here is one photo Brad sent me of a 139 made of the vintage Platinum celluloid. and before you ask, no it is not for sale and no he does not have enough material left to make another pen.

 

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Here are three on my Torelli MB inspired pens. The blue one is a 139.

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Stunning and many thanks...now tell me about the nib on the blue 138!

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Got the call from Brad and my pen is done. He stated that the repair went very well and that the cracks should not be visible.

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Got the call from Brad and my pen is done. He stated that the repair went very well and that the cracks should not be visible.

 

Great news. Please post some after photos so we can see the difference (if it is not too difficult).

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Stunning and many thanks...now tell me about the nib on the blue 138!

 

Sorry for the delayed reply. The blue 139 clone has an OM or OB (I think more OM). The green faceted pen has a BB or 3B and the black faceted pen has an EF.

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Got the call from Brad and my pen is done. He stated that the repair went very well and that the cracks should not be visible.

What technique did he use? (Apologies if I've overlooked your answer elsewhere in this thread).

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What technique did he use? (Apologies if I've overlooked your answer elsewhere in this thread).

Solvent weld. The cracks were so small and tight, there wasn't any other way to do it properly.

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Like I wrote below. You need to shine a really bright light to see where the cracks were. Brad also said that this cap was much tighter than other Hemingways he has handled. He re-profiled the cap lips to be "more to spec". I also discussed with Brad that if you look through the cap with a bright light, all of the cracks were in an area where the grain of the resin made a "V." Clearly a flaw in their process.

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well, that's very good news, that these hairlines are repairable after all. i have a hairline on the cap lip of one of my two hemingways, but i think i'll let it be, because it seems pretty stable (and i don't post) and its presence somehow makes me feel that i should just use the pen like any other rather than try to preserve it in some pristine state. if it does get any worse, then off to brad it goes.

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its presence somehow makes me feel that i should just use the pen like any other rather than try to preserve it in some pristine state.

All of my pens are users, some just don't leave the house!

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