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EDIT: I ended up getting the section in using some careful beating from the back end of a screwdriver. Don't see any way to delete posts here... Still very unsettling pounding the feed into that little brittle plastic section. Being newer to fountain pens I finally just bought my first vintage pen which is a Waterman's Crusader with an open stub nib. The pen was advertised as working but I wanted to make sure since the seller didn't mention the condition of the ink sack only that the pen worked. So I took my time and took the section off by twisting a bit and carefully pulling a bit and twisting a bit more for quite some time. Sure enough the pen "worked" but the ink sack was torn: http://i.imgur.com/g8BHY8ml.jpg So I ordered 2 #16 sacs after doing some research (an extra "just in case") and some pure talc and went out and bought some Zinsser Amber shellac. And I took the pen completely apart and started assesing the job in front of me. I punched the feed out very carefully and cleaned everything up. I also took the cage out of the cap as the cap wiggled on the pen a good bit so I figured maybe I could bend the sections of it that grip the pen back in some to get a tighter grip. http://i.imgur.com/R7VJ5AYl.jpg I'm ready to start putting it back together but I noticed that the feed is extremely tight going into the section even though its clean. There is no way I will be able to get it in by hand, even without the nib on the feed I wouldn't be able to get just the feed alone in all the way by hand.. How should I go about putting the feed and nib back in? Should I heat set the feed first? I have a heat gun that I could use to heat the feed up. I assume this feed would be Ebonite correct? I don't know how to tell, it feels a little more grippy than the plastic feeds on my cheap Jinhao pens and it is a vintage pen so I would assume its ebonite and can be heat set. If it is ebonite should I heat set it so it fits better in the section and the nib fits better on the feed? http://i.imgur.com/if4TREml.jpg Thanks! And I can't wait to get to use this pen after I get it fixed up. This will be my first time using a vintage pen like this.