Hurricane Anyone?

[Techi]

Hi all,

I have recently found a local seller selling a syringe filling fountain pen by the name of 'Hurricane'. I have never heard of this maker (or model?) before, and a search on google only revealed these pictures - which are very similar to the sellers.

 

 

 

 

 

I wondered if anyone else had heard of such a pen, and whether you could enlighten me as to its history.

 

Thanks for any help,

 

Techi.

[Ernst Bitterman]

I looks like one of the uncountable legions of Parker "51" clones that surged out of Italy. And by uncountable legions, I mean brand names, not individual pens, although they appear to have all come from the same factory.

[h.farmawi]

might be a Spaceman...
not sure

[Techi]

Ah yes, thank you both for the info and quick replies.

Its syringe filling caught my eye, and for £5 i thought it would be worth it - possibly just to test my nib altering skills

 

Techi.

Edited April 20, 2014 by Techi

[mhguda]

It looks like the one I found twenty or so years ago, in the parking lot outside my office. Nobody ever claimed it and I still have it. Last year I bought a dozen or so, mostly in parts, from a fellow member on here; I've managed to put almost all of them together into a working pen, and have given several away. They have the same syringe filling mechanism, but are smaller than my original pen (and smaller, I would guess, than yours). The syringe screws out on both sides and you can then thoroughly clean the whole pen. Some silicone grease helped most of the mechanisms to take up ink again. They are all nice writers.

[Techi]

Thank you Mhguda, i will give it a full clean when it arrives and post some pictures here for comparison to yours. Thanks for the info about the syringe, i imagined it to have been glued in from the look of it - so it good news to hear the contrary, from a restoration point of view.

 

Techi.

[mhguda]

You're welcome, but I suggest you be careful with trying to unscrew - while the ones I've had experience with all unscrewed, you never know! However, once you've cleaned it and it doesn't unscrew, try immersing it in a little warm water, with maybe some dish detergent added for lubrication. The one pen I was not able to match anything with was the one I put into too hot water - the hood shrunk dramatically, and the nib&feed assembly no longer enters! Anyway, good luck with your project. I had lots of fun getting mine into some sort of working condition, and the filling mechanism is neat, I find.

[theverdictis]

Looks really nice. Where did you get it?

 

Ben

[Techi]

Looks really nice. Where did you get it?

 

Ben

It was just from a small local seller on eBay, only 5 miles away - and not a bad price either now will just have to wait to give it a good service and some nib adjustment presumably

 

Techi.