Home Repairs With Almost No Tools

[mitto]

A midnight blue aero 51 barrel broken into two pieces and glued together by the previous owner using some book binding glue.

 

 

Opend the joint carefully, cleaned both the pieces from outside as well inside and, using my primitive non-professional method, repaired the two pieces of the barrel again into one. Here is how it turned out after good polishing.

 

Edited December 31, 2016 by mitto

[mitto]

A Slimfold nib with both tines bent that came with a pen that I bought cheap. Here is a night time photo.

 

 

 

 

Straightened both the tines and poliished the nib.

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy watching.

Edited December 31, 2016 by mitto

[Orpilorp]

Specifics, we need specifics. Particularly regarding your outstanding nib straightening.

[mitto]

Another ongoing project. A badly bent and twisted 18k Sonnet nib.

 

The nib when it came to me with the pen:

 

 

 

 

 

Halfway through. It still needs narrowing the gap between the tines and polishing:

 

 

[pen lady]

Happy New Year to everyone. Mitto, please, what did you use for the barrel repair, MEK or some other solvent?

[Lam1]

Amazing work.

But do give us details of how you perform the magic, please.

[Slimfish]

Hi mitto

 

I too would like to know what type of glue you used and what you applied it with and how.

What you removed the excess with after it hardened.

 

Did you take any photographs of this repair as you did it.

 

Regards

[mitto]

Happy new year to all.

 

Patience. Patience.

 

I will update later. And thank you all.

[gammada]

Me too, interested in crack repair and plastic polishing. Will keep glued to this post!

 

Thank you Mitto!

[mitto]

I used locally produced super glue sold under brand names such as ELFY and GMSA. I first used a tiny amount of the glue on the ends of both broken pieces and then kept them pressed for 3 to 5 minutes. After testing the joint was firmly holding I started shaving the ends of the two joined pieces first with a razer blade and then with a sharp knife so as to fill the so shaved area around the joint with the glue in order for it to form a thick layer overlaping ends of both the joined pieces.

 

After waiting for 24 hours it was now time to polish away the excess glue from the joined area. I again used razer blade first and then sanding paper. After evening the surface I polished the barrel as a whole with very fine polishing paper used by Car Spray Panters in car body paint/repair.

 

 

BTW, the glue was used with the nozzle supplied with the container of the glue.

Edited January 2, 2017 by mitto

[mitto]

I mainly use a car ignition key beside some other worthless objects for straightening of bent nibs.

Edited January 2, 2017 by mitto

[Slimfish]

Hi mitto

 

I read your write up on the barrel repair with great interest.

 

It is most evident you have supreme sanding and polishing skills.

[Mangrove Jack]

Mitto the magician. The incredible Khan.

[mitto]

Hi mitto

 

I read your write up on the barrel repair with great interest.

 

It is most evident you have supreme sanding and polishing skills.

Thank you, slimfish.

[mitto]

Mitto the magician. The incredible Khan.

Thanks, Mangrove Jack.

[pajaro]

Superb job on that Sonnet nib.

[mitto]

Superb job on that Sonnet nib.

Thank you, pajaro. I further worked on the nib narrowing the gap between the tines and polishing it and it is now the best nib among several dozens of my Sonnets.

[Kelly G]

Good work on your repairs. There is a lot of advice and information around on the "proper" repair methods and most all of it is good. But, there is no substitute for hands-on experience, often with the need to improvise with the materials at hand. I've found some of my methods work out fine, others not so much. In my opinion, the best tools are knowledge and patience.

Good luck with your continued repairs!