Wing Sung 601 Better Nib Replacements

[Thy]

To make a longish story short, I recently bought several Jinhao 911’s and since I like thin pens and have come to like hooded nibs, they suit my needs. Hence:

 

@Thy - were you being facetious when you said the 911’s only last 4 or 5 months before they break or is that really what you have experienced?

 

@MuddyWaters - I have 6 911’s. None of the first three I inked up would write with Parker, Sheaffer or Lamy ink. Following suggestions found both here (FPN) and elsewhere on the ‘net I soaked the sections and converters for those three pens in tap water with a couple of drops of dish detergent. After a soak and rinse all three write just fine.

 

I’m enjoying the 911 more than the Hero 616 I also recently acquired. I think the Jinhao 51a’s are okay too!

I had a couple Jinhao 911s break on me. The plastic on the pen is very delicate, and they break really easily. I really love their style, but in terms of durability I'd rate it to be one of the worst. Don't get me wrong, I like how they made a flighter copy of the 51. The plastic they used however, is terrible. I babied mine since it was my first fountain pen, but even than it didn't last more than 6 months.

 

 

Funny, I don't find my WS 601s to be considered toothy. In fact, they are one of the smoothest nibs I own including the replacement EF ones.

That's lucky! All the Wing Sung 601s (I have 2 of them) were really scratchy and dry out of the box. Tuning would fix it, but at this point in time when I posted this, I didn't know how to tune.

[Honeybadgers]

I concur, both of my 601's were quite smooth.

 

The bent nib replacements I put in them were even better.

[WJM]

Could anyone explain how does one remove Jinhao 911 nib?

 

I found no way to separate the nib and feed from the hood, I could only unscrew the hood - together with the nib - from the hood/barrel metal thread (threads themselves are a separate part). I even tried to destroy the hood to harvest the nib but ended up breaking the nib as well...

[Honeybadgers]

I think that bugger is press fit in there and you aren't gonna get it out.

[Honeybadgers]

pointless post I had already addressed, ignore this!

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by Honeybadgers

[Honeybadgers]

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I think the best option for a replacement nib for most ( regarding typical cursive writing ) is to locate on retail one of those Delike / Hero 10K gold nib , yes they are available new retail in that de facto 18.5mm form factor, and despite that 10K nomenclature ; it actually cushion better than its 12K and 14K counterpart , the Chinese 10K gold nib had always been a sleeper ; a performer that belay its normally perceived image of being just 10K

 

Can you confirm that the hero 10k hooded nib fits a 601?

[Mech-for-i]

Yes cause I've done it myself

[Mech-for-i]

Forget this one the system just made a double post again

Edited October 1, 2019 by Mech-for-i

[WJM]

I think that bugger is press fit in there and you aren't gonna get it out.

 

I managed. The brutal way: pulled it out with pliers.

 

Put it in my 601. It's insanely wet. This supposed EF/F comes out as more of a juicy medium.