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I have two Conway Stewart 23 caps, one with the plug for the clip-screw and one whose plug is missing. I would like to remove the plug from the green cap and install it in the blue one.
Any ideas how to proceed?

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Hi John

 

I advise you not to try to knock out plug with force like showed on pic 1:/www/www.thepen.ch/pics/Pics/1.JPG

I tryed it out and destroyed cap.. luckily it was a color faded..useless Cap.

 

You could try to press plug out like showed on pic 2: /www/www.thepen.ch/pics/Pics/2.JPG ...

 

If you dont want to risk to destroy your No.23 Cap.. I offer you my Plug for free..Its from a 24 or 28 one and i suppose dimension is same as the 23. Your expense will be only te shippinngcost of about 7,30GBP from switzerland to you.

 

If my pics will not appear.. i will try to correct this deficiency.. just let me know...this is my first entry..

 

 

regards

 

Georgios

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Many thanks for the offer. I had to destroy the donor cap but managed to get the plug out in one piece and it is now successfully installed in the blue cap. Unfortunately I then discovered that the clip was cracked, so it's back in the parts basket!

Thanks again

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I was asking myself after my feedback if you will have some need for donor cap... :)

 

I have a CS 60 craked Ice with slacked plug wich i want to fix bud i dont know wich kind of glue i should use.

Do you have some recommendation?

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HI, I'm not sure what you mean by 'slacked' so I'll assume you mean the plug is loose in the cap? I know that some people use araldite (two-part epoxy) glues or cyanoacrylates but I would hesitate to recommend that you use them on such a valuable pen. It would be worth sending it off to a repairer I would think, some of them have lots of spare parts. A pen which has been glued won't be worth as much as one which has been repaired.

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