True Writer Pen Collection - So Far

[Misfit]

My demo Amethyst had ink in the cap. It took a lot of soaking in the UC to get it to looking much better. I knew it was there when I bought it. Same with the Rose version, but at least I got the pen for much less. 

[mge01park]

It’s a shame that the plastic insert can’t really be removed on them in order to really clean it for my demonstrators, which are about three of them each in fountain pen, and rollerball. And then I had the true teal disaster that was one that did not come with the ink,  the whole pen changed color sitting in the box that it came in, it completely faded out, which was mind-boggling. 

[Misfit]

Wow, changing color in the box. That is mind boggling. I agree about the cap liner. It does impede getting the cap completely clean. 

[mge01park]

2 hours ago, Misfit said:

Wow, changing color in the box. That is mind boggling. I agree about the cap liner. It does impede getting the cap completely clean. 

[mge01park]

True Teal Demonstrator discolored. 

[Misfit]

Wow, that’s worse discoloring than I expected. Hard to tell from the photo, do the colors go well together? 

[mge01park]

It’s horrible looking in person. I can post the True Teal demo rollerball which would show how bad it is. The Shiraz demo came out at that time also but they’re okay, I have the RB and FP. 

[Misfit]

If you’re willing to post the photo, I’d like to see it. I was watching a transparent teal True Writer on eBay, but once I read your post, I unfollowed it. 

[mge01park]

14 hours ago, Misfit said:

If you’re willing to post the photo, I’d like to see it. I was watching a transparent teal True Writer on eBay, but once I read your post, I unfollowed it. 

By the way, just in case anybody will start asking, there was never any ink put in this pen whatsoever or was it used. It’s a demonstrator. It was in the box. I went to open it a long time after I bought it and that’s what it looked like.

[Misfit]

@mge01park It’s such a bizarre color change. That must have been a shock to see the first time. 

[mge01park]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

@mge01park It’s such a bizarre color change. That must have been a shock to see the first time. 

Sought of. I had this type of thing happen on a Visconti and a Sailor. Visconti took care of it and I’ll never stop praising them. Sailor kicked me to the curb and was not nice to me and it was a KOP. 

[Misfit]

Well, it turns out you can leave a pen uncleaned for too long. The one I won on eBay started to break at the collar of the section that holds the nib and feed. I cannot get it out of the pen’s section. 
 

In other words, Help!

[mge01park]

4 hours ago, Misfit said:

Well, it turns out you can leave a pen uncleaned for too long. The one I won on eBay started to break at the collar of the section that holds the nib and feed. I cannot get it out of the pen’s section. 
 

In other words, Help!

Try: soaking or rinsing in hot water, or ultrasonic cleaner, or bit of WD-40, or pull the nib and try a pencil to twist it out and then perhaps glue it the crack. Do you have recourse? 
 

I wrecked a TW Select (notorious for this for me) section due to the nib and feed not twisting out, so I pulled the nib and and then started using other instruments to get the feed out which ultimately caused it to strip and disintegrate in the section. The pen can’t be used. The wonderful Levenger (Margaret is amazing) some months later replaced it after a desperate requests as the Select (had been long discontinued) with not only a new pen also an extra section. I guess the remnants of the beloved Select. 

[Misfit]

Thank you for the suggestions. The pen was sold as is, so no. I do have a spare housing to use one I get the bad one out.

[Misfit]

I’m still having issues getting the section out. 

[Misfit]

Thanks to an eBay message, I impulsively bought a True Writer Cafe au Lait fountain pen before falling asleep. It was only after I bought it that I saw it has a monogram of NEC. I used an acronym finder to see what that could mean besides the former owner’s name. 

 

And that darn Rose pen’s section and housing are still frustrating me. I swear I’ve thought about using a drill. 

[AmandaW]

4 hours ago, Misfit said:

And that darn Rose pen’s section and housing are still frustrating me. I swear I’ve thought about using a drill. 

Have you asked in the Repair section of the forum?

[Misfit]

@AmandaW no I haven’t. Thank you for letting me know of that area to ask. 

[Misfit]

I got one reply on the repair thread. It didn’t work because the only triangular file I have is too big. 
 

This is confounding. The pen is so pretty, but I can’t use it. I checked eBay because I’ve seen sections for sale, but no Rose section. 
 

It could be I’ll have to share the metal sections that come on some True Writers with it. I have one with a gold tone section from the French Impressionists pen. And the Cafe au Lait pen seems to have a gold tone section too. The trim on the Rose pen is silver tone tone, but if it’s what I have to do, then oh well. 

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

I got one reply on the repair thread. It didn’t work because the only triangular file I have is too big

Could you take the pen to a hardware store and ask which size file is needed to fit?