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Hi folks,

 

I am thinking of plating my Oldwin clip and nib at home, one needs to keep busy during quarantine :D . Has anyone here tried removing the clip from an Oldwin before?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Best,

Ajay

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This looks like a clip that is held in through a hole at the inside end of the clip. Look inside the cap. There may be a screw, or the clip may be held in by a pin sticking up from the top of the inner cap that goes through the hole. If the later is the case, the inner cap could be press fit, or threaded. To add to the confusion it could be a right hand, or left hand thread, which is what Omas used on some of it's pens. That's the method used in the Aurea discussed in one of the posts in the Blue Fingers Blog.

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Hi folks,

 

I am thinking of plating my Oldwin clip and nib at home, one needs to keep busy during quarantine :D . Has anyone here tried removing the clip from an Oldwin before?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Best,

Ajay

Why "guess" what to do when you can easily enough e-mail Mr. Mora and ask him directly?

He is a great gentleman and I am sure he would be willing to provide you with the correct advice.

 

You can find his contact info on the Morastylos web site.

 

Let us know..............

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Thanks for the pointers Ron. If I am unable to figure this one out, the pen will make its way to you to have it rhodium plated :)

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Why "guess" what to do when you can easily enough e-mail Mr. Mora and ask him directly?

He is a great gentleman and I am sure he would be willing to provide you with the correct advice.

 

You can find his contact info on the Morastylos web site.

 

Let us know..............

Let me reach out to him as well.

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It has a threaded inner cap. It might be held in with a bit of glue, so could be really hard to get out.

If you shine a light in there you can see 2 little notches across from each other, so a special tool is needed to remove this without damaging it.

At least the Oldwin pens I've looked at were made this way. I'm no expert on these pens. :)


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It has a threaded inner cap. It might be held in with a bit of glue, so could be really hard to get out.

If you shine a light in there you can see 2 little notches across from each other, so a special tool is needed to remove this without damaging it.

At least the Oldwin pens I've looked at were made this way. I'm no expert on these pens. :)

Thanks Shawn. My crude tools weren't able to fit those notches well, were you able to fashion something when you looked at them?

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Just an update and info for posterity, I was able to remove the inner cap by first soaking the cap in some WD-40 and then using a 7/16 inch chisel

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Just an update and info for posterity, I was able to remove the inner cap by first soaking the cap in some WD-40 and then using a 7/16 inch chisel

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he used the chisel as a screw driver.

I should have clarified this in my post :-)

 

No caps/parts were hurt in the process :-D

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