Help! I Cant Get This Pen Back Together!

[manderso]

I'm not a pen guy, so I've turned to you fine people. Long story short, I asked my gf if I could borrow her pen yesterday, and I noticed that it was nicer than her usual bic. It was a Mont Blanc, and I wanted to see if it was real, so I opened it to look at the in cartridge, which was also Mont Blanc. Since I don't know about pens, I don't know why I bothered. Now I cant put it back together. I'll attach a pic. Basically, the middle silver plastic bit won't grab when I put it back into the top portion of the pen. It remains loose. Turns out my gf just grabbed a pen from her fathers office, and didn't know she was grabbing a nicer pen. I don't know if it's a knock off, or a cheap one, but I don't want to be that guy. Any help would be great! Thanks!

 

Edited July 22, 2012 by manderso

[manderso]

I found out it's a cheap Hong Kong fake. The guy at the Mont Blanc dealer said that it's worth $5 tops. So now I'm going to try to find a replacement. So mystery solved, unless you can point me in the direction of a cheap fake.

[LisaN]

That's a relief, isn't it!

The pen might have been bought from a street vendor somewhere.

One would hope that a real Montblanc pen would not fall apart when you go to open it.

You might be able to epoxy that barrel connector in where it spins where it shouldn't

Good luck... most of us are tinkerers, too. Let us know how it turns out.

also, try the other direction...

or get a baoer 79 ballpoint

Edited July 22, 2012 by LisaN