Any Leads For Celluloid Tibaldi Repair?

[SJX]

Anyone have leads on where to repair a nineties Tibaldi celluloid? It needs a new clip and fixing of the piston. Thank you.

 

- SJX

[youstruckgold]

Have you tried Paolo (Sanpei)?

[Michael R.]

Tom Westerich of www.penboard.de

 

Also Richard Binder posted an article on Modello 60 piston repair on his site.

 

Good luck

 

Michael

[SJX]

Thanks guys. I will contact them.

[mejdrich]

Curious what you find... I have a Trasparente that needs a touch of fixin'.

 

Thanks!

[dcpritch]

Ron Zorn at Main Street Pens did a super job fixing the piston on my 1995 Modello 60 - the same "fatal flaw" repair described in Richard Binder's article. Now the piston works perfectly.

[eric47]

Might help if you specified the pen. Pens are long out of production, and spare parts have dried up. Some I believe might be easier to repair than others. They do not have identical filling systems, e.g. the system in the piston Trasparente isn't the same as that in the Modello 60.

[SJX]

Mine is a Tibaldi Iride. Thanks for the comments so far all.

[eric47]

Mine is a Tibaldi Iride. Thanks for the comments so far all.

 

Whoa, that's actually a spring loaded plunger rather than a piston. I don't know anyone offhand who could fix it.

 

Is your clip broken? Or has the plating come off? If the latter, might actually be easier to get it replated.

[RMN]

Mine is a Tibaldi Iride. Thanks for the comments so far all.

 

Whoa, that's actually a spring loaded plunger rather than a piston. I don't know anyone offhand who could fix it.

 

Is your clip broken? Or has the plating come off? If the latter, might actually be easier to get it replated.

In that case I would PM Fountainbel. The mechanical things he comes up with...

 

D.ick

[penboard.de]

Hello there,

 

Tibaldi pens - Modello 60 and Trasparente - made by Stipula - and they just reconfirmed - no spare parts left.

Both pistons are rather poor, the inner lining from acrylics is very thin walled and tends to crumble. I have no solution so far for that.

 

Tibaldi Iride - made in Italy by an unknown smaller maker - I regarded them so far as being of superior make - but now, I have two pens with rotten insides.

 

the black plastic simply melted away, see what was left from one.

I have now remade this part from ebonite - that should last!

Still have to redo the holder for the O-Ring seal - as well from ebonite, so it may swim in ink forever.

 

Lucky enough, the Iride was made in a correct manner, you can perfectly disassemble all parts, fix it, and put back.

 

Best regards

Tom

 

PS - a bigger danger for these pens, be it Trasparente or Iride - especially the transparent parts of the celluloid barrel tend to decompose - in the end cristallize and fall apart.

As in the process there is nitric acid getting out, this may be the reason for the inner plastic parts crumbling.

Check your celluloid pens - if you find them humid and with trims partly corroded - give them a rapid cure in a neutralizing bath of lye / base.

and keep them separated from other pens - they might get "infected" - if not, at least the metal parts would corrode.

 

 

Edited August 23, 2013 by penboard.de