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Has Anyone Successfully Removed The Adjusting Bar From An Eversharp Adjustable Nib?

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Without breaking these tabs? From a first generation Doric.

 

If so, how? Does heating the tabs with a soldering iron help? I would think annealing them would, but would likely affect the flexibility of the nib itself. I would think.

 

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I have successfully removed one.

 

The answer to the question you don't want the answer to is, no.

 

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I have successfully removed one.

 

The answer to the question you don't want the answer to is, no.

 

Todd

 

Wait, Todd. Please don't do that to me.

 

If you did it successfully I presume that means you didn't break the tabs. How did you do it?

 

 

 

Are you going to make me get on my knees and beg? Pleaaaase....

 

 

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Wait, Todd. Please don't do that to me.

 

If you did it successfully I presume that means you didn't break the tabs. How did you do it?

 

 

 

Are you going to make me get on my knees and beg? Pleaaaase....

 

 

NIck

I got it off...tabs broke putting it back on.

 

Second time I got clever and found a nib with a crack in the backing plate...broke slider putting on a donor plate.

 

Asked all the nib guys and WE guys I knew...Never got an answer I wanted.

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Thanks Todd. Very helpful.

 

Hardy08, I saw and was inspired by your post. But I was hoping to not end up where you started in the first place.

 

Annealing the metal should prevent the fracture, but I can't figure out how to do it without affecting the whole nib during the removal procedure. But it might prevent the fracture of the tabs after re-insertion.

 

Todd, how did you remove the tabs without breaking them?

 

Thank you again.

 

Nick

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A solution for anealing the slider tabs without affecting the hardenning of the nib itself may be to put the nib in close contact with a large solid block of metal avoiding the temperature to rise within the nib...

Maybe this could be done by creating a groove matching the curvature of the nib within the metal block. A high heat conductive metal should be used (such as copper).

Heating with a soldering iron won't be sufficient a small gaz torch (the one used to melt sugar for cooking for example) would be advisable...

 

But I'm not sure this would lead to success.

 

Let us know what you would do !

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