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On Thursday at work I found my P51 on the floor.[ twice ] I was wrapping product for shipping and the wrap caught my pen and pulled it out of the pen case that was in my pocket.

No damage to the pen. I had 3 other Parkers in the case [ 2 P45 ballpoints and one mechanical pencil ] Only the P51 needed to fly for the day.

 

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They're tanks, I tell ya! (not that I would ever throw mine across the room :lol: )

It's only a $2 pen that I picked up about 4 years ago.

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This event does boost confidence in the P 51. Takes a beating and keeps on ticking, so to speak.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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I know that they can handle it, but the few times I have dropped mine, I have about had a stroke.

 

The only Parker pen I’ve ever damaged from dropping was a Vista blue 61.....

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This event does boost confidence in the P 51. Takes a beating and keeps on ticking, so to speak.

I am with Timex, may I use that quote? LOL!!

"Respect science, respect nature, respect all people (s),"

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and it wasn't even a flighter? :D

:lol:

Good one!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I am with Timex, may I use that quote? LOL!!

Yes, but please change "beating" to "licking," rhyming is cool.

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Recently I was cleaning a disassembled blue Custom Insignia when the nib section got out of might hands, after the panic I found out was un damaged, then I screwed the barrel on only to jump of my hands, this time with the additional weight I got a nose up nib. Auch. As a result I bought two more blue Custom Insignia fountain pens at bargain prices and I am practicing on the damaged nib.

I don’t know why but the blue Custom Insignia seems to cost 1/4 of the cost of green or black one! Red ones are in between.

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Beats me. The blue looks really nice (I just Googled it). Was it a more common color, the way Black and Burgundy are for the 51 Aerometrics, while Plum, Cocoa and Forest Green are apparently the three rarest colors?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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>> As a result [my emphasis] I bought two more blue Custom Insignia fountain pens at bargain prices ...

 

Cause and effect? Or an excuse to buy more of these wonderful pens? :D

 

Enjoy!

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The P51 flew for the last time today. It is gone, fell into the cardboard trash compactor today. :gaah:

The pen was a nice writer, med nib, nice wet line, I grew to like that pen as a daily user.

 

Tonight I am going to make a Franken Vac with scratch & dent parts. I'll see if I can find another $2 P51 this weekend at the flea market.

 

I will be taking a Century FP [ Made in Whitewater WI ] to the flea market and talk to a dealer who collects them and find out what I have.

 

If he makes me a good offer I may sell it to him. BTW I only paid $25 for that pen last Nov. at the auction.

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Oh no! What a tragic and ignominious end! :(

I feel your loss.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Today a P45 cap action BP [ black ] disappeared, I just had my hand on it and it's gone.

I went to the office table to get a calculator and there it was, my P51 in the pen cup :D.

 

I do not know who found it, but is back in my pocket now.

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Today a P45 cap action BP [ black ] disappeared, I just had my hand on it and it's gone.

 

I went to the office table to get a calculator and there it was, my P51 in the pen cup :D.

 

I do not know who found it, but is back in my pocket now.

 

This happens to me all the time. So glad you found the pens. Those wet medium P51s are so wonderful.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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Just found the P45 black BP, in a pen tray on the work bench. :wallbash:

 

All pens accounted for.........

 

Update 5PM.

Wrong black P45 Bp, found the one that was missing in my jacket pocket where my wallet is. :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash:

 

Now all pens are accounted for.

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