Removing Section On Sheaffer Commemorative Lever Filler

[3rdlakerobert]

 

I'm having trouble getting the section out of the barrel. Heat isn't helping. I'm guessing I'm bringing the barrel up to maybe 140 to 150 F, but my IFR thermometer won't read off the metal barrel. Anyone who's removed a plastic section from a metal barrel have a suggestion?

[mitto]

Soak well before using heat. Sometime the dried up ink works as adhessive stronger than even shallac.

[3rdlakerobert]

Soak well before using heat. Sometime the dried up ink works as adhessive stronger than even shallac.

 

Thanks. A week in the ultrasonic cleaner, cycling it every day, finally worked. The section looks like it was shellacked into the barrel.

 

Now that the section is out, I can see a red plastic cylindrical unit inside the barrel--remember this is a lever filler. So this plastic unit must house a sac. It seems to be pressed into the barrel and it isn't coming out. No place to grip it--it's down about 3/4" into the barrel and has a hole in the top that the section plugs into.

 

My reason for working on this thing is to improve the intake of ink somehow. It holds maybe the same amount as a Touchdown TM--in other words very little.

 

Has anyone here worked on one of these?