Could this Eversharp be fixed?

[MarioR81]

I'm eyeing this Eversharp from a local seller who is selling to approx. 57 USD. Is it worth it?

 

[Addertooth]

Repaired using the same parts?  No.  Finding a cheap Skyline with good body, but everything else toast? Yes.  Then you move everything over.  Personally, spending $57 bucks on that pen is way over it's value, considering condition.  

 

The only upside I notice is the length of tines on the Nib.  It has the "potential" to have good flex, but you won't know unless you dip it, and try it. 

[Dione]

To be fixed it needs another barrel and getting half of a complete pen for $57 is no bargain. It's a pen for someone who has a barrel that will fit that section and cap.

[MarioR81]

Thanks I think I'll pass. One thing I'm wondering, looking at the broken thread is why it broke that way. The skyline has that part glued?(image below, green to orange) 

[Dione]

Presumably it broke when someone decided to renew the sac

[MarioR81]

5 hours ago, Dione said:

Presumably it broke when someone decided to renew the sac

I see, thanks. I suspect this barrel could be glued with shellack and the threads could still be functional. Perhaps it could be a bargain around 40USD.

[Paul-in-SF]

I agree that this pen should only fetch what the parts are worth -- an apparently good clean cap, a probably salvageable section, a probably functioning feed and sac nipple, a possibly nice nib. Considering the fairly wide availability of this model in this color (I have one, for which I paid less than this for a whole one a couple of years ago) I think the price is too high. (edited to add: I don't think it is realistic to remove the broken-out piece of cap threads from the section and glue it to where it broke out of the barrel, in a way that would ever last. You might do as MarioR81 suggested, but you wouldn't be able to repair the sac again.)

 

5 hours ago, Dione said:

Presumably it broke when someone decided to renew the sac

 

And didn't exercise the required patience to soften the shellac holding the section to the barrel. Sadly, I've done that too. The threads are a weak point, the material is thinner where the grooves have been cut away. 

[MarioR81]

17 minutes ago, Paul-in-SF said:

(I have one, for which I paid less than this for a whole one a couple of years ago) I think the price is too high.

Thanks for your input, Paul.  One common thing I see when I do some research on a pen is that people talk about the price and then today is usually more expensive. For instance reviews of a Pilot Custom 74 a few years back talked about 80-90 USD for the pen, today is hard to find for less than 130. Same goes for the Falcon, 100-110 USD now almost 200. These days is a bit hard to find a decent Skyline below 100, at least for a non-manifold nib. 

[Paul-in-SF]

Oh, I recognize that my data point is out-dated, it was just in passing. The other reasons I think are still valid, however. 

 

I see you've already decided to pass. Sorry I didn't realize you the OP was the same poster as the one who suggested gluing the thing back together as is with shellac. It might be made to work for a while, I think, so that you could use the pen, fill it and write with it, but it's not a long-term solution. Maybe that would be good enough though for the price. 

[MarioR81]

I must admit this pen has my "fix-it" bug itching. If the thread is not missing parts, maybe e metacrylate glue could fix the thread and if the sac is alright it could last a long time. But I guess the price needed to be a little lower for the trouble and I could probably feel the seams on the thread when writing as well...

[FarmBoy]

Finding a replacement Skyline barrel is not difficult unless you need to dump out the gallon ziploc bags of them at a pen show to find the one you like.

[MarioR81]

On 7/19/2021 at 6:12 PM, FarmBoy said:

Finding a replacement Skyline barrel is not difficult unless you need to dump out the gallon ziploc bags of them at a pen show to find the one you like.

 

Probably if I lived close by a location that has pen shows it would a breeze . I guess a shipped barrel would put that pen approximately in the price of a non-broken Skyline or close to it.

[MarioR81]

Today I was watching a restoration video of a hard rubber waterman and noticed the restorer did NOT use shellac in that section where the barrel meet the "body" where the feed is. I wonder if shellac is really needed on a Eversharp Skyline? If I find a new barrel using shellac is really needed there?

video on time: