Help With Vintage Pilot

[shawnee]

Any Pilot fans want to help this newbie out and ID this pen? Ive found other images of it online, but cant find a name. Also, is there a way to take it apart to clean it? Ive soaked it several times now in the ammonia/water solution and Im still getting starts and stops (see writing sample). It was seriously filthy.

 

If I cant clean it myself, who are our Pilot specialists in the US? It doesnt need a grind so it doesnt seem to make sense to send it off to Mike Masuyama.

 

I actually like it a lot when it wants to write. Super flexy.

 

Thoughts?

 

Shawnee

[shawnee]

I meant to post these as well...

[liubrian]

A picture of the rear of the section would help, but with this design you generally need to approach the nib from behind. The part where the cartridge attaches should unscrew - on some pens you can do this with your fingers (and a bit of heating/soaking), but on others the part is deeply set within the section and you need to make a tool to unscrew. See if this link gives you an idea of what has to be done: http://www.tomattarashinu.com/2013/01/disassemble-a-pilot-short-pen-ii/

[shawnee]

Yeah, sorry about that. I took the pics at 10pm last night in the dark. Here are some better ones and low and behold, I found a number that quite honestly I did not know existed on the pen until now.

[rutherfordr]

Here's a good resource for decoding the date codes on Pilot pens:

 

https://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2013/09/datation-of-japanese-pens-iii-pilots.html

 

According to this, the code "JP 22" means that the pen was made on April 22, 1969 at Pilot's Tokyo plant.

[shawnee]

A picture of the rear of the section would help, but with this design you generally need to approach the nib from behind. The part where the cartridge attaches should unscrew - on some pens you can do this with your fingers (and a bit of heating/soaking), but on others the part is deeply set within the section and you need to make a tool to unscrew. See if this link gives you an idea of what has to be done: http://www.tomattarashinu.com/2013/01/disassemble-a-pilot-short-pen-ii/

 

Having read that article, I feel like this may not be a pen that I will be disassembling myself. Yikes. Maybe I'll send it off to Mike after all. I hadn't see the tine spread up close until I used the macro lens. I'm sort of tired of these vintage pens which I then have to send off to Mike, but that's on me for buying them in the first place.

Edited March 11, 2019 by shawnee

[rutherfordr]

I'm sort of tired of these vintage pens which I then have to send off to Mike, but that's on me for buying them in the first place.

 

I hear you -- I dipped my toes in to the vintage pen waters a few years ago, and discovered that I didn't really like all the work that needs to go into them. Haven't gone back since then.

[kpong11]

If it's cartridge pen, you may try to unscrew feed retainer. Then push feed and nib out from section end.