Fixing Up An Aurora 88K

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And I didn't mean my O ring was tight and expanded out because of the piston shaft, it is actually too big and loose. I meant that when I tighten the plastic O ring retaining nut, the O ring expands out as it should to press against the cylinder and seal the ink in. My O ring works but I would prefer a larger cross section to form a more complete seal against the inner diameter.

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New info: So I was just searching the web about 14k gold markings and 585 is the marking used in jewelry to identify 14k gold so that's what the 585 refers to. As for the other bit, the mystery remains....

[superloaf]

Still working on getting this pen where I want it but it might have been as simple as increasing the ink flow. It seems that it was quite scratchy and the nib would shave off paper and then it would clog the tip. And I couldn't write very fast or it would skip. I thought maybe the nib was not aligned or bent but as I kept increasing the ink flow, it slowly got better and better. Do these pens like a lot of ink flow? Using Noodler's Le Coleur Royale ink, if that matters....

 

Oh, and have only been changing ink flow with the small plastic ink flow valve inside the pen section/feed.

 

 

And no leaks from my O ring or even from the section/barrel threads which I haven't resealed yet as I'm continually taking it apart to readjust the ink flow. But it seems the threads here are fairly tight and that along with what remains of the old shellac, has kept any ink from leaking out here.