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My first response is; OK. So?

The Owner must be pretty obsessive to be bothered by the "corrosion" on the aluminum tube on the filler unit.

Aluminum oxidizes very quickly, so the improvements will be fleeting at best.

 

But, hey! It's their pen and their obsession so go for it.
I just wouldn't expect a ticker-tape parade for inventing the "secret formula".

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The pitted filler shrouds have nickel plating over aluminum that have corroded and pitted are typically the ones that can not be revived. The coated aluminum ones can do with a little polish to clean them up.

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After getting over my shock at the first one of these that I saw, I replaced the shrouds on anything scarcer, like a forest green or plum pen if it were corroded.

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Woof. Best idea is to leave it be. I would at least try a bit of sunshine cloth, but that filler shroud is GONE. Plated metals are plated for a reason, once they wear away, the underlying metal will immediately oxidise.

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Woof. Best idea is to leave it be. I would at least try a bit of sunshine cloth, but that filler shroud is GONE. Plated metals are plated for a reason, once they wear away, the underlying metal will immediately oxidise.

Um, No. Someone with a facebook account allowed me to view the pictures. The filler shown is not a nickel plated filler shroud but a coated aluminum one. The coating is some sort of lacquer or clear coat. Polishing that off always makes it look better.

Just because the coating or plating comes off does not mean the underlying metal will immediately oxidize, also, once most metals get an oxide layer a few monolayers thick the rate of oxidation quickly drops to near nothing as the oxide layer acts to passivate the surface.

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Um, No. Someone with a facebook account allowed me to view the pictures. The filler shown is not a nickel plated filler shroud but a coated aluminum one. The coating is some sort of lacquer or clear coat. Polishing that off always makes it look better.

Just because the coating or plating comes off does not mean the underlying metal will immediately oxidize, also, once most metals get an oxide layer a few monolayers thick the rate of oxidation quickly drops to near nothing as the oxide layer acts to passivate the surface.

 

This is true. I have a 1949 pen with the plating just slightly flaked off. That's a seventy year old pen. The filler shroud has been just like this as long as I have had it. I have had these in much worse shape, I sold a forest green set with this flaking off on the filler case for $89 years ago, so I guess it doesn't always kill the value of the pen.

 

Somehow I never got another forest green 51 pen. An oversight on my part. Midnight blue was my passion.

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The pitted filler shrouds have nickel plating over aluminum that have corroded and pitted are typically the ones that can not be revived. The coated aluminum ones can do with a little polish to clean them up.

Thank you, Todd.

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Um, No. Someone with a facebook account allowed me to view the pictures. The filler shown is not a nickel plated filler shroud but a coated aluminum one. The coating is some sort of lacquer or clear coat. Polishing that off always makes it look better.

 

Just because the coating or plating comes off does not mean the underlying metal will immediately oxidize, also, once most metals get an oxide layer a few monolayers thick the rate of oxidation quickly drops to near nothing as the oxide layer acts to passivate the surface.

 

True. Most of mine are the quoted aluminium ones. Just a few were the pitted ones that I replaced with better looking ones that I bought from eBay (and reached me courtesy Ken).

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Woof. Best idea is to leave it be. I would at least try a bit of sunshine cloth, but that filler shroud is GONE. Plated metals are plated for a reason, once they wear away, the underlying metal will immediately oxidise.

Thank you.

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