Pelikan 800 nib unit thread spec's

[fountainbel]

The taps listed in my previous posting finally arrived.

I've just made me a Delrin test nut and the taps are just perfect !

[Hohn]

Fountainbel-- can you confirm the correct tapping size for all three sizes you listed above?

 

These are definitely not standard taps-- even on the BSW (British Standard Whitworth) schedule. 36TPI is much finer than a standard "fine".

 

H

[Bo Bo Olson]

The Pelikan will fit the Esterbrook, but not the Esterbrook the Pelikan.

It is a fit though were the metal band of the Pelikan is sitting in the open. On the 400 the nib is a tad long I think....in one would have to take great care in closing the Pelikan/Esterbrook.

 

Perhaps Pelikan used inches so that other German companies who made a screw in nib could not screw into their pens. I've never tired to screw the nib of a Geha 790 one of their top of the line pens into a Pelikan....

 

Well they don't fit, one reason is the difference of the feed unit, one has a longer ...call it a pipe or perhaps breathing tube or such, the other has that reserve tank so it is flat.

And the threads do not fit, even though they are 'close' there is not match.

 

Inch to metric....

Even so the form of the feed is matched to it's barrel the Geha has a wall at the end of the section, the Pelikan don't. I'm sure the wall has something to do with the Geha 'reserve' tank function....in the ink that is held in the small slot of the green reserve tank button, is not enough to do more than a couple of sentences not up to two pages.

 

 

I tired another screw out feed from an Eno??? type feed, that fit that and a 'no name' Clipper that might have been made by them and the screw feed won't catch even if they are similar.

The Reserve 1745 fits none either.

 

So those German screw out nib pens I have all are just that bit different so that none work in the other as nib and feed section.

 

I had not expected them to be so, but that the Pelikan and Esterbrook will screw in to each other there was that possibility.

Edited July 16, 2011 by Bo Bo Olson