Any Guess of Repair Costs to MB 84?

[OCArt]

  The Montblanc 84 that I was so excited to receive arrived with a broken piston mechanism. The seller might be interested in a price adjustment if I can estimate the repair costs otherwise I'll sent the pen back.

  The piston knob turns but doesn't rise from the tail as it should and the piston doesn't suck water. Knocking out the piston is too dangerous for me to attempt, do you have any rough idea of what a repair might cost?  Thank you so much.

Dave

[OCArt]

Realized I should've put it in the Repair Column so that's where it is now

[Bo Bo Olson]

I must admit I'd never heard of a 84 before.

""""The 84 model is one of the most luxurious pens of all two digits Montblanc pens of the 60's. This line includes the models 12, 14, 22, 24, 32, 34 , 82, 84, 92 and 94 which were launched to replace the older 3xx and 2xx series.""""

I have a 14, a very nice semi-flex nib, and very well balanced. (I like the hell out of my nimble, semi-flex mdl 32 also.)  I don't have to look for a 144 or 142 like I was starting to do, when I ran across the 14 in a live auction, near that 144 size and piston filler.

 

I have the predicessor of the 84, a rolled gold 742, with a nib that right inbetween a semi-flex and a maxi-semi-flex. A very heavy, standard sized pen.

Some one else's picture..

There was also a 14k gold 742.

My picture.

The MB 742 is not smaller thanthe standard sized DJ Esterbrook, just the angle.

 

 

[OCArt]

wow, lovely pen @Bo Bo Olson

[Bo Bo Olson]

 

Thank you.

Back in the day of no computer or telephone bidding, I just had to beat a dealer...and I wasn't going to let a dealer have that nib.

It's not a pen I could have won today, with the whole world bidding.....it was won at my then and now max, for a single pen.

 

I've a BB Osmiroid Italic nib on that Estie, from my 6 nib Osmiroid italic Pen set.

Looks like I'll have to move those two pens up on my to use list.........that is a problem when one has over 120 pens.

 

OCart, I'm sure you will find your pen as lovely.

Would like to see a pictrue to see how the 742 differs from the 84.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I would recommend Francis in Belgium, out side the robbery costs of US Mail. Which are even worst than when mailing overseas prevented me from buying any US Shaffers. Buy a good pen back in the good old days 10-15 years ago for $25, and spend near that in mailing costs.

He was forced to rebuild at least three of my pens....and it was reasonable. One I knew fromt he start, he would have to do so.

A nice balanced medium-small no name with a very nice semi-flex golden looking nib. The plastic back end cracked off. Is probably plated, in if it had been brass I'd had to polish it. '30-40-early '50's.

I wasn't very happy with that MB Orange ink.....tested again 7-8 years later...still not happy with it.

 

My very first BCHR pen, and the first time I broke €35 for a pen, paying  a whole €70. When I buy a pen, I get the picture also.

It sat for ages.....It needed a complete piston rebuild...........and I sent it off as a semi-flex, but Francis fiddled around with the debth of the feed and nib and it came back a Weak Noodle....same with the Waterman Gothic...1918-30's. It too came back at what it once was. 

Mauricio, a superflex expert, said getting a superflex nib to do it's best takes lots fiddling....so do take your time...ham fisted previous owners made two my Wet Noodles only semi-flex.

I wouldn't expect such  miracles often.

 

With permision of Penboard.de....in they take professional pictures......

There is a woman at an auction house, that I will never play poker against. I opened the top and !@#$%^^%$ the fools had not only stolen the gold nib but the feed too...Then the lady told me to twist the bottom.  It was the first Safety Pen I'd ever seen. A Fendomatic, (Fend was a German company) made in Milan in the mid '30's. Someone had tried to superglue the spindel together and failed. So Francis machined me a new spindel. 

Mine has a different chasing pattern. It is 'just' semi-flex.

 

[OCArt]

Success!  Northwest Fine Jewelry in Skokie IL can repair my pen!  Steve, steve@nwfinejewelers.com, responded to my email and gave me an estimate.  He looks to be a good source of repair.