Parker Duofold Hanging Pressure Bar

[surprise123]

I'm having some trouble fitting a new pressure bar (the two-piece hanging one) into a Parker Duofold Senior Streamline. Every time I insert in the button over it, the button gets stuck fast and refuses to budge. On Pentooling, it mentioned that I needed to be able to pass a no. 12 drill bit through, but I don't have a no. 12 drill bit, so I don't know if the hole is too small, or there's something wrong with another component. Just as a note, this pen came to me with a rusty old one-piece pressure bar that stays inside the barrel.

[hari317]

Button getting stuck indicates a tight hole. You will have to carefully enlarge it. The older pressure bar is now removed from the pen. no?

[FarmBoy]

Does the barrel have an internal metal band at the section end?

[surprise123]

Hari317, yes, the pressure bar was removed. I cleaned out the barrel with a water flosser and got most of the crud out.

 

Farmboy, the barrel has what appears to be an extremely rusted, cruddy band that stops the section. I tried scrubbing it and shooting some water with the flosser, but it stubbornly stays black and messy. This doesn't hook onto or prevent the pressure bar from moving.

[surprise123]

After some searching, I found a no. 12 drill bit and sanded the button hole a bit. It works fantastic now! N

 

Now I'm just waiting for my Simichrome and Sunshine cloth to come in so I can polish the nib up before I put everything together. The sac and shellac is curing on my desk right now. Just out of curiosity, hiw much shellac do you normally put on the sac nipple when you resac a pen? I only lightly painted it over with a thin layer so I could resac it easily again when I need to (either that, or my bad restoration job fails). I was a little messy and got shellac on my fingers too.

[redbike]

Just out of curiosity, hiw much shellac do you normally put on the sac nipple when you resac a pen? I only lightly painted it over with a thin layer so I could resac it easily again when I need to (either that, or my bad restoration job fails). I was a little messy and got shellac on my fingers too.

Assuming you applied the shellac with a brush, the thin layer should be sufficient. You can test with water to check.

[surprise123]

Assuming you applied the shellac with a brush, the thin layer should be sufficient. You can test with water to check.

 

I'll do that once it cures. Thanks!

[FarmBoy]

Hari317, yes, the pressure bar was removed. I cleaned out the barrel with a water flosser and got most of the crud out.

 

Farmboy, the barrel has what appears to be an extremely rusted, cruddy band that stops the section. I tried scrubbing it and shooting some water with the flosser, but it stubbornly stays black and messy. This doesn't hook onto or prevent the pressure bar from moving.

If there is a metal band inside the barrel just past where the section stops it is there to hold the pressure bar in place and the pen doesn’t use a hanging bar.

[surprise123]

The thing is that the band is so rusted and corroded, that there is no foothold the regular pressure bar can find. The hanging pressure bar is easier to use, anyways.