Spring Removal From Selectip Models

[Braxfield]

There has been discussion about the small spring that lives in the barrel of certain Selectip pens but I have not seen an answer to these specific questions.

 

Could I ask-

 

When removing the spring from the barrel, is it simply a question of hooking and extracting? Is the spring attached to the barrel by any means other than friction? Is a special extractor tool required, or is it a task best left to the elves of Rhode Island?

 

Any advice would be welcome.

 

 

[pajaro]

Most times when someone wants to do this, removing the support for a rollerball or other refill, it is to install a fountain pen section and converter, to make a fountain pen in a roundabout way. It can be done, but usually there is a difference in the cap of the pen like select tip and the fountain pen. Unless the cap is changed, you obviously have a Select Tip with a fountain pen section.

[Braxfield]

I'm not a purist, so I'm not bothered about a mismatching cap so long as it fits. No-one sees my pens but me. I just prefer a nib to a rollerbal tip. Easy enough with a Townsend, and it seems that the Sauvage and the Apogee have caps of identical dimensions across the range.

Edited September 25, 2018 by Braxfield

[Jerome Tarshis]

I write this under correction, and there is a fair chance that I'm mistaken, but: As I understand the considerations, the reason for using a fountain-pen cap with a fountain pen is that it will have an inner cap designed to meet the need for a good seal, whereas rollerball pens don't have the same need.

 

Which isn't to say that every user insists of a really good seal by the inner cap: many a cap originally supplied with a fountain pen leaves something to be desired, and it is up to each individual user to decide what is a good enough cap. Questions of whether the RB cap has enough space for the FP section and nib are something else, also to be settled by trial and error.

[pajaro]

Sometimes you make out all right, sometimes not if the cap bends the nib or doesn't seal. I could see where this was going from the start, and the reply was exactly the sort I expected.

[Braxfield]

Thank you, Jerome. That's a good point you make about the inner seal.