Replacing A Watermans Ink-Vue Sac

[pen tom]

I have an Ink-vue deluxe. It has a beautiful art deco look to it. I'm not sure if it needs a new sac or not.

 

When I clean the pen, I repeatedly take in and expel water. It has the half lever design and if I move the lever with the nib in water, air bubbles come from the nib as one would expect. But as I keep this up several times, it keeps expelling air bubbles. With other lever fill pens after a few cranks of the lever, no more air comes out. But with mine, air keeps coming out of the pen. I have read that the ink-vue has a different sac design that other Watermans pens. Is this normal for this pen or not?

[Freddy]

I have an Ink-vue deluxe. It has a beautiful art deco look to it. I'm not sure if it needs a new sac or not.

 

When I clean the pen, I repeatedly take in and expel water. It has the half lever design and if I move the lever with the nib in water, air bubbles come from the nib as one would expect. But as I keep this up several times, it keeps expelling air bubbles. With other lever fill pens after a few cranks of the lever, no more air comes out. But with mine, air keeps coming out of the pen. I have read that the ink-vue has a different sac design that other Watermans pens. Is this normal for this pen or not?

 

How To Replace an Ink-Vue Sac Type 1

http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/repair/ink_vue_1.htm

 

Citation: Richard Binder

 

Filling Instruction and more Re Ink-Vue

http://www.vintagepens.com/Waterman_Ink-Vue.shtml

 

Citation: David Nishimura

 

Digest the above and you will understand your pen.

 

Fred

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[pen tom]

Thank you Freddy for the very useful links. It looks fairly difficult to replace the sac.

 

After playing with the ink-vue a while longer I think that the sac is good. The air bubbles that came out of the nib while filling stopped after about 7 or 9 swings of the lever. I'm not used to a pen taking that long to expel its air and take on ink, but the sac design is not as straight forward as a 52.

[gregamckinney]

The InkVue is much closer to a Parker Vacumatic than it is to a 52 mechanically. You are pumping the air out of the barrel of the pen, rather than filling the sac.

If the pen hasn't been restored, I wouldn't count on the sac being good (for long.)

It isn't as easy a restoration as a regular resac, that is true, but it is worth having done.

 

Best Regards, greg