Kaweco Sport Thread

[nanahcub]

After carrying my Kaweco Sport around in my pocket day-in, day-out for 20 years, give or take, without problem, I felt something damp on my leg.. Looking down, I saw a nice wet brown patch on my jeans - the cap had come off of my pen and the ink had spread out through the pocket.

 

 

Initially I thought I maybe hadn't tightened the cap properly last time I used it, but when I put the cap on and tried to tighten it, I found the cap just turned on the barrel without getting any tighter. If I turn it very slowly, I can at one spot, feel a slight 'click' as it turns past where the thread is broken. I can't see anything on the barrel of the pen, so I am assuming the thread has gone on the inside of the cap.

 

 

Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing it? I thought about smearing some sort of rubber glue, or similar over the threads, in the hope that once dry, it might give the threads on the pen something to grip into so it holds in place but the threads are really deep inside the cap and are difficult to get to.

 

 

Should I just accept that I’ve had my money’s worth out of the pen, and I should buy a new one – after all, they are not so expensive and it would do no harm to have a new nib.

 

 

It would be sad though – I have had it a long time and am very fond of it. It is part of me.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on fixing it?