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Can anyone commiserate with me about this repair? Offer any tips about sac a reassembly?

 

I am in the process of restoring a Visofil VT for the first time. Frankly, restoration is my favorite part of the hobby. And I love new and different fillers. This is a great mechanism. No blind cap. Very cool once repaired.

 

All I can say is "Wow - what a pain in the butt!" I will be very happy when it is done, but I would certainly be happy to do another in the future. The section is removed in a standard fashion. There is a retaining ring to remove with a spanner. While a tubular spanner is much nicer... it is so easy to grind the end of a cheap screwdriver with a Dremel. Anyone with some tinkering ability and a dremel can custom make a spanner any time.

 

This is the most stubborn thing to restore. I spent about three hours tonight to finally remove the plug that holds in the filling mechanism. Much of that time was making a guide for the reamer out of a spare pen barrel, and a collar out of derlin to hold the guide in place. Then, I figured I would make a reamer out of (way too soft.... but all I had tonight...) aluminum. It will worked out in the end. I just had to shape the teeth in a way so they would not bend. Steel would be much better, but I am such a novice machinist .... Maybe for a future repair I can make a better tool that will last.

 

The plug is REALLY thick. Took forever to get through it. But finally, the filler was removed. That was enough for tonight. Sac and reassembly look easy. I hope that holds true.

 

I will follow up with some pictures, likely after the weekend.

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Read Laurence Oldfields instructions, then be prepared to break the pen , hopefully your own one. I have repaired/serviced numerous of these, but got really fed up with one last year and asked Laurence to sort it, which he did, thank you.

 

Some pen repairs/services are not an exact science (be boring if it was)

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge (Charles Darwin)

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