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Has anyone got a solution to my pet Vector hate?

I have used Vector FP's regularly for 3 years. Unfortunately it's been my main/only pen when I do this and the cap wears the plastic clutch ring just above the nib. After 6 months the cap won't stay on & I have to stop using the pen.

I've got 6 Vectors (2 black & 4 blue) and a Black/gold Rialto with this problem. Does anyone have a solution? I've considered turning up a brass clutch ring, but can't think of a way of attaching it to the section.

This June I realised how much I was spending on Vectors with this problem and revamped my P61 to avoid the expense. [Then having found the FPN in July, I've ended up spending heaps more on pens... but that's another story]

 

As for colours, in Darwin Airport (Australia) Duty free in 1996 I saw a beautiful metallic flecked rich blue Vector FP. I wanted to get it there & then, but reckoned it would eventually be sold in the UK. Never happened. Oh well.

 

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Richard

 

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I have found this rapid wear of the ring a big problem as well, especially on Frontiers. Its basically bad design, why the type of clutch ring on the 45 or 51 is not used I don't know as these take years of wear and especially in the case of the 45 very easy to repair anyway. The Profile may last longer as the ring is metal so most of the wear will be in the plastic cap rather than on the ring but we will see. I did wonder if you might be able to bend the plastic outwards with a specially shaped tool heated to the right temperature but this is a tricky and risky operation as the temperature must be just right.. Best thing I guess is to replace the nib section with the ring.

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Hi to everybody, I am starting my collection of Parker Vector Fountain Pen. Any advice you can give me? I already have like 10 pens, but I want them all. I saw already around 70 different models and I won't stop until I will get them. Greetings.

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I have one colorful one, of skateboards; it's my only medium and has KWZI Grapefruit in it. The wet medium gives that beautiful dark red/orange color. It's a British one, iirc.

Then I have 2 USA blacks and 1 Luxor in that gold-ish brushed metallic, all fines.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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