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Hi all, can anyone tell me how to go about disassembling the cap of a first-series Parker Urban? Because I am a scapegrace klutz, I have bent the pen’s clip, and so I now need to get the cap apart in order to try to bend the clip back down towards the curved cap. I have several first-series Urbans, but the one that I have ruined is - of course! - the one in the pretty ‘Chiselled Ebony’ finish; a shaped/moulded lacquer finish that will, undoubtedly, just get ‘chewed off’ the pen by any metal tools with which I try to grip the pen. The bend in my pen’s clip is not in the ‘body’ of the clip, that is still the correct shape (a pleasant curve); the deformation has occurred in the ‘elbow’ of the clip. The part that comes out of the top of the cap, and is parallel to the top of the cap finial, is still at the correct angle. The problem is that the ‘body’ of the clip is now not bent at a right-angle with respect to the short length of metal that comes out of the top of the cap; that bend/‘join’ has now undergone a plastic deformation (as opposed to an elastic, or springy deformation). The result is analogous to having pressed down too hard on a nib in the hope of getting some ‘flex’, and having ‘sprung’ the nib. I estimate that I have deformed that ‘elbow’ in the clip by about twenty degrees 🤦‍♂️ Exerting pressure on the end of the clip doesn’t enable me to bend that ‘elbow’ back in to the correct shape - because the body of the cap prevents me form being able to bend the clip far enough to reverse the plastic deformation. I need to get the cap apart, so that I can try to bend the ‘elbow’ back to the correct angle. So, does anyone know how to get the cap finial off the top of the cap, so that I can then remove the clip and try to bend its ‘elbow’ back to the correct angle? Is the finial glued? Should I be attempting to un-screw the smooth and polished finial from the top of the pen? Should I be putting a wooden dowel in to the pen’s inner cap, and then trying to push/knock the finial off the top of the cap? My thanks to you in advance for any answers. Slàinte, M.