Parker VS restoration

[antonio ilmonaco]

Hi,

 

I've just finished restoring this french-made VS which belonged to my grandfather. It is well worn and did suffer from a filling problem and a broken cap clip.

 

The color is brown, darker than the red-brown color lister on Richard Binder's web page on the VS. I also have a red-brown USA-made VS and it's definitely not the same color.

The pen has been used daily since it was made and the sac was not ossified but the rubber was sticky and the sac would not expand after the compression stroke anymore so it was time to replace the sac. I used a silicone sac and converted the filler to true aerometric operation. As a result the sac fills almost entirely and the pen can expel 22 droplets of ink after filling.

 

here's a close-up of the additional tubing inserted in the original tubing and the little aerometric hole drilled through:

 

To replace the broken clip i have turned a brass tassie and have gold-plated it

 

This pen would probably not fetch ten bucks on ebay but has a high sentimental value to me. Tomorrow it'll resume writing and history's moving on...

 

All the best,

Antonio

[SquelchB]

Very interesting solutions.

 

Wonderful work there.