Pelikan Drama.. Advice Needed

January 15, 2019

OK, it's more than likely ready then for a new gasket....if you are not going to oil & beeswax boiled re-cork it. It is possible to do such, instead of just replacing the Plastic 2.0 gasket.

Richard Binder has such plastic and a proper sized gasket cutter. Do contact him to find out the exact size of gasket cutter to order.

Plastic Gasket 1.0 is from @ 1939-55, Plastic Gasket 2.0 is from 1955 to now.

Do look up what sort of pine tar glue is needed. I do know that many don't use any when putting their MB back together......(could well be they are right)..hell, what ever you do don't use O rings, they can cause a pen to bludge...then have to be re-greased every year....so one ruins one's pen by saving a dollar or two in gasket cost.

Just be glad you don't have a pre-war MB....was reading to see how to glue back the nib&feed.

You have to soak your pen thoroughly and use heat to open the pine resin (mastica resin). Remove the rest of the resin from the barrel with a thread chaser.

No wonder I did send my 234 1/2 Deluxe off to Francis because he's the guy to go to for boiled in oil and beeswax cork....that and telescope piston mechanisms. (Before your pens time.)

Marshal and Oldfield recommend replacing the plastic gasket with the smoother boiled in oil and beeswax cork....Do buy their repair book. Or go to the library and copy pg 197.

OK....didn't say one had to put the pen back together with pine tar.

January 24, 2019

I must say that I would feel a little uncomfortable seeing B all the time on a nib that has been ground to an extra-fine. It's a bit like wearing odd socks - they do the job all right, but hey!

February 5, 2019

Im ok with it. It's still on its first inking and after the adjustment, it writes wonderfully. Im glad I did it.

February 6, 2019

Without all the gory details, I have an M1000 M that wrote like a B+ and I ground down to an F. Now I just bought a new B nib and have told myself I will learn to love it. In summary, if I had a collection of 1 pen I probably would make it what I think I want, but after accumulating pens of different nib sizes I am finally starting to appreciate the idea of using as the manufacture intended, short of some minor tine evening as a result of bumpy transport.