Repair tools - let's see them!

[Harry R]

This is my go to tool for sorting out any pen that isn't behaving itself: http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/sto...970_47787_47787

 

Works everytime

[algabatz]

This is my go to tool for sorting out any pen that isn't behaving itself: http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/sto...970_47787_47787

 

Works everytime

 

 

He he, missed this one.

 

/Tony

[someonesdad]

Some folks might not know of a way of getting cheap file handles. The idea sounds pretty hokey, but they're surprisingly comfortable:

 

http://www.gdssw.com/fpn/file_handle.jpg

 

Measure the tang's width about 1/3 from the bottom and drill a hole with that diameter in the cob. Pound the handle on the file and you're done.

 

I've made wooden handles and even had a friend turn me a file handle that was ergonomically-sized to my hand. The corn cob handles work fine and are a lot less work.

[ZeissIkon]

Some folks might not know of a way of getting cheap file handles. The idea sounds pretty hokey, but they're surprisingly comfortable:

 

http://www.gdssw.com/fpn/file_handle.jpg

 

Measure the tang's width about 1/3 from the bottom and drill a hole with that diameter in the cob. Pound the handle on the file and you're done.

 

I've made wooden handles and even had a friend turn me a file handle that was ergonomically-sized to my hand. The corn cob handles work fine and are a lot less work.

 

And that file's for reshaping tipping, right?

[algabatz]

Some folks might not know of a way of getting cheap file handles. The idea sounds pretty hokey, but they're surprisingly comfortable:

 

http://www.gdssw.com/fpn/file_handle.jpg

 

Measure the tang's width about 1/3 from the bottom and drill a hole with that diameter in the cob. Pound the handle on the file and you're done.

 

I've made wooden handles and even had a friend turn me a file handle that was ergonomically-sized to my hand. The corn cob handles work fine and are a lot less work.

 

 

I think it looks very cool!

 

/Tony

[pathobby]

If you think the corn-cob file handle is hokey check out my hot air-blast directionater device!

 

Pat Hobby

[Buzz J]

Time to add one. The lever on standard vac wrench isn't very comfortable on my soft hands. So after bitching to myself for a couple years, I finally sandwiched it between two scraps of oak. It's now a pleasure to use. :clap1:

 

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/BuzzJ/vacwrench.jpg

[fountainbel]

Hi all,

Attached a Photobucket link showing my "Fountainbel" tools, being:

1-Cork cutting tool

2- Hollow drill to cut Sheaffer vac-fill rod packing out (now absolete, see 13)

3-Sheaffer Vac-fill blind cap enclosure screw removal tool

4-Twin punches for making 3 sizes of Sheaffer vac-fill piston seals

5-Nib block made from PEEK

6-Nib & feed mounting tool.

7-Parker 51 cap clutch extractor

8-Vintage Pelikan nib removal tool

9-Cap dents removal tooling

10-Vintage Montblanc filler unit removal tool

11-Modern Montblanc filler unit removal tool

12-Modern or Vintage Montblanc nib removal tools

13-Optimized "pushing & pulling"Sheaffer Vac-fill rod seal extractor

14- Sheaffer Triumph nib removal tool set

15-Sheaffer Triumph nib thread bushing removal tool

 

Hope you enjoy !

Francis

 

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/fountainbel/Homemadetools004.jpg

[gmberg]

Here is the late Arthur Twydle's nib vise. Aside from being a beautifully machined bit of eye candy on the workbench, it's great advantage is that it allows BOTH hands free to fit/push the section onto a very stable nib and feed that remains clamped in the vise's soft-mouthed jaws.

Gerry

 

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a152/gmberg/vice2.jpg

 

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a152/gmberg/vice1.jpg

[fountainbel]

Here is the late Arthur Twydle's nib vise. Aside from being a beautifully machined bit of eye candy on the workbench, it's great advantage is that it allows BOTH hands free to fit/push the section onto a very stable nib and feed that remains clamped in the vise's soft-mouthed jaws.

Gerry

 

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a152/gmberg/vice2.jpg

 

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a152/gmberg/vice1.jpg

 

Very nice Gerry,

FYI, my shown nib vise is simply clamped in the workbench vise

Francis

[gmberg]

 

Very nice Gerry,

FYI, my shown nib vise is simply clamped in the workbench vise

Francis

 

Thanks, Francis. I admire your vintage tools for Pelikan and MB. Of course the ones I appreciate the most are your self-designed Sheaffer tools because I know very well(!) the problems they aim to solve.

Gerry

[777]

This is my go to tool for sorting out any pen that isn't behaving itself: http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/sto...970_47787_47787

 

Works everytime

 

+1

[viclip]

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Mods, this amounts to pen tool porn !!!!!!

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He he, keep 'em coming!

 

/T

I happen to be reading the Parker Service Manual from about 1935/36. It devotes a whole page to just describing this wonderment. It states in part that the "Vacumatic Fitting Block is a new precision instrument...It is made of fine tool steel: the great amount of machine tooling necessary in its manufacture makes it a costly instrument. We are offering it at only part of our own cost to enable each dealer to acquire it." The price to dealers was a whopping $1.50 net. To give this some context, the wooden cabinet for the Parker repair kit cost the same; Standard Vacumatic 14K gold nibs were $3.50; the Standard barrel was $1.20; the all-metal lock-down filler unit complete with diaphragm was 90 cents; 4 oz. of Quink went for 25 cents etc. Clearly Parker subsidized their new-fangled tool. The service manual includes instructions througout for the Vacumatic Fitting Block's various uses. Just thought FPN members might find this interesting, noting the attention that this tool has evoked.