Bexley Mess

[roswell1965]

Note to self: always look at your Bexley Corona when unscrewing the cap. Here I was looking at my computer monitor, silly me.

 

Funny thing, this pen has already been shipped back to the factory once; there was some leakage at the end of the section and I wanted them to have a look.

 

Only ruined my "to do" list and the mousepad my wife got me for Christmas with pictures of our cats on it.

[Sasha Royale]

I don't see the nib or the section. I assume that they are still inside

the cap. Yuk ! Send them this photo.

 

Mention that members at FPN say Consider asking for a new pen, rather

than repair of the old pen. Please give them plenty of time to make

things right for you, before letting this photo go viral.

[ajcoleman]

So sorry! That is a shame! (one of those things that makes everyone else say something like "Why do you like fountain pens again?"). I don't quite understand what happened though. Did it unscrew some place it wasn't supposed to or did something actually break?

 

I'm curious because I had been eyeing a Corona, then the Twentieth Anniversary model came out and I really like those. It is a similar piston filler.

[roswell1965]

Hey Sasha, I got the nib out, everything's cool. Screwed the section in twice without satisfaction; the third time I cranked it down good, figuring it was lost anyway, and out it came.

 

Obviously the pen is built to be unscrewed there; I'll have to try and be more careful..

[Koyote]

Whoa! That is a major red flag!

[roswell1965]

So sorry! That is a shame! (one of those things that makes everyone else say something like "Why do you like fountain pens again?"). I don't quite understand what happened though. Did it unscrew some place it wasn't supposed to or did something actually break?

 

I'm curious because I had been eyeing a Corona, then the Twentieth Anniversary model came out and I really like those. It is a similar piston filler.

 

Nothing broken; the pen is threaded together at that spot (section screwed on to nib? I'm not sure of the proper terminology here).

 

The reason I sent the pen back to them was it was leaking right at that spot; had I known then it was simply screwed in I would've just tightened it myself and saved us both the hassle.

 

It's good to know how your pen is built!

[Koyote]

That seems a design problem, if the section unscrewed simply from uncapping the pen. I wonder if this has happened to anyone else?

[mhosea]

The threads probably should have just been sealed with shellac since this is not a joint that the user should need to unscrew. Not sure what happened in this case. Perhaps shellac was forgotten after the last service.

Edited January 31, 2013 by mhosea

[RLTodd]

The threads probably should have just been sealed with shellac since this is not a joint that the user should need to unscrew. Not sure what happened in this case. Perhaps shellac was forgotten after the last service.

 

Ditto.

 

Get some shellac or that special shellac w/rosin mixture someone around here was selling.

Edited January 31, 2013 by RLTodd

[roswell1965]

The threads probably should have just been sealed with shellac since this is not a joint that the user should need to unscrew. Not sure what happened in this case. Perhaps shellac was forgotten after the last service.

 

Ditto.

 

Get some shellac or that special shellac w/rosin mixture someone around here was selling.

 

That's what I'll be doing.

 

From here on out I'll consider this a "special needs" pen, requiring more care than usual to insure a mess free operation.

 

Perhaps I expected too much from a $138.00 pen.

[watch_art]

No - not expecting too much. I wouldn't consider it a special needs pen either. Clean it REALLY good - let it dry - shellac - and you should be as good as new. I wouldn't let this deter me AT ALL. Bexley make great pens and this one looks like it escaped before the shellac got it. Or maybe they use epoxy? dunno. Either way - easy to fix and it will be solid again.

[roswell1965]

Clean it REALLY good - let it dry - shellac - and you should be as good as new.

 

Will do, thanks

[dspeers58]

My Corona did the same thing as I waiting at the doctors office for my wife. As she was walking through the office, in a robe, to go to another part of the building for a test, we crossed paths and she looked at the front of my pants and saw the blue stain and shook her head. I am very careful about how I open the pen. Did not Shellac. Might be a good if a Bexley person would comment on this. My daughter just shook her head at me as I came out of the bathroom with wet pants with a blue stain.

[imahawki]

The threads fro the section/body should be the opposite direction from the cap threads. This is a bad design IMO.

[watch_art]

It's not a bad design - lots of companies do threads on the section like this - this one probably just didn't get the glue.

[pokermon]

I just did a quick search and noticed the Corona comes in either piston fill or c/c fill. Which model do you have Roswell? I'll assume its piston fill since it wouldn't make sense to shellac a c/c filler at the section...

[roswell1965]

I just did a quick search and noticed the Corona comes in either piston fill or c/c fill. Which model do you have Roswell? I'll assume its piston fill since it wouldn't make sense to shellac a c/c filler at the section...

 

It is a piston fill.

[StyloBug33]

I have a corona and had no idea the section unscrewed. I'll have to check it out.

[georges zaslavsky]

astonishing :hmm1: never heard such mishapps with bexleys

[mhosea]

I hesitate to mention this because it is almost certainly irrelevant, but it is important only to flush the pen with cool water, even a modern pen like this one. If any joints are shellac'd, hot water can soften the bond.