Black Friday sale! Pen repairs

November 23, 2007

Hi,

$5 off sale on all. If you have a bunch of pens, repairs costs do stack up, so a $5 discount saves you $20 if you have 4 pens.

$45 for below:

Two-sided fine/italic

two-sided fine/stub

two-sided fine/ Arabic

$30 for below:

Nib size reduction

Standard Needle point (Specify line width)

Add flex

Vacumatic restoration

Snorkel (Includes PFM) restoration (Includes all seals (Fluorocarbon) and special thin wall sac) I use a special point seal O-ring that fits a bit more snugly, but not too snugly (When you take a cross-section, it is half moon shaped, not round.) IMO It works better than the original point holder.

Aurora 88 piston fill repair

Vacu-fil restoration using the fountainbel packing unit. We remove the old packing unit and put in this redesigned packing unit. These might take a little bit to come in since I have to buy a few more. I recommend this approach to vacu-fil restoration because it essentially improves the pen. The packing unit uses a set of Viton seals with a special filled chamber of silicone grease to allow for smooth functioning and long life of the filler. When anything needs to be replaced (e.g. The gaskets wear out) They may be replaced easily and simply by using a handful of special tools to take the packing unit apart. Any future overhauling can be done in less than five minutes.

$25 for below:

Obliques

Standard Italic (Specify standard or rounded edges, both are smooth, but the standard one has a smaller "sweet spot")

Standard stub (2:1 or 3:1 line variation)

Make a Kugel nib (Will write on both sides extremely smoothly and accepts movement in any direction without snagging)

Flow Increase or decrease (I may or may not grind the nib to optimise the nib for the flow)

Fix skipping/baby-bottom

Fix intermittent flow

Ink retreats into the slit

$10 for below

Nib Rhodination (e.g. making Pelikan two toned nibs completely rhodinated, repairing the missing nib plating--no nib work, adding plating in different places to the nib, or reverse-plating nibs-- all rhodium becomes gold and all gold become rhodium)

Make smoother

Grind down nub on capless nib for fitting into Decimo

Resac

$5 for below

Nib Rhodination (if the pen has come in for nib work and some of the plating is missing)

$5 or free with any of the above:

Internal cleaning (Always done on any pen that gets sent here) (Includes lubrication of filler parts like pistons on Pelikans, Omas pens, and Montblancs and section sealing on pens that need it.)

Mould removal

Nib rhodination is free if the nib has rhodium plating next to the tipping material and some of it had to be ground off during the grinding process.

On vintage pens especially, please pass the information that the nib has been replated to prospective buyers. Nothing irks me more than selling something as original when in fact it is not.

Please send description of how you hold your pen: Angle of attack, Left or right handed, over or under writer, and a little writing of yours.

All of the prices do not include shipping. Shipping costs depend on how the item is shipped.

The warranty on nibs is valid as long as I am around and as long as the nib I made has not be really tampered with. It extends to poor workmanship.

For pens that have rubber diaphragms, I warrant them for one year or 10 fillings for vacumatics or snorkels, whichever comes first.

For pens with silicone sacs, the work is warranted for 5 years.

Vacufils are warranted for 5 years against leakage and problems concerning the filling system

All work received during the week is finished on the weekends and sent off on Monday.

For those who want Pelikans, tell me what you want now, and I will have have it by next week.

When you send your pen here, you do not need to clean it out very well, just be sure to empty the reservoir and fill and empty with water a little. I will be giving it a thorough cleaning anyway, and I would also be filling it to test it then cleaning it again.

Shipping is at cost. Items will be shipped the Monday after the order is placed. Not insuring you package on it's return trip home is at your own risk.

I can send items via Fedex, UPS, and USPS.

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Dillon