How To Repair A Commando Fountain Pen

Bones Pen Care
How To Make clean Your Fountain Pen
How To Send Your Fountain Pen
Preserving Your Pens: Do'due south and Don'ts
Neb Tuning for Beginners

Reference
Basic Grinds Explained
Linda's Full Flex Nib Reviewed
Richard's Stroke Width Nautical chart
Creating a Personal Writing Experience
Fountain Pen Sac Size Guide
Pelikan Neb Interchangeability Chart
Changing Spiral-in Nib Units
Inks: The good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Inks: Report on the pH of More than 60 Inks
Flex, a Disaster in the Making
Sheaffer Snorkel Identification Guide

Musings From The Demote
September 2020
Linda debunks the "brown newspaper sack" smoothing method.
Mike repairs Ink-Vue retaining ring.
Tip: Cleaning imprints and bullheaded cap flutes.
Mailbag: How oft to clean your fountain pen.
August 2022
Linda straightens out writer with as well much feedback.
Mike explains why paper shims are not a practiced thought.
Tip: Not all vitrify sticks are the same.

Pen Comparisons
Fountain Pen Vital Statistics
Bexley Pen Comparing
Edison Pen Comarison
Gate City Pen Comparing
Pelikan Pen Comparison
Pilot/Namiki Pen Comparison

Pen Reviews
Linda's Total Flex Nib Review
New Postal Reservoir

Restoration Tips & Tricks
Vac-fill Testing
Fixing Clogged Sheaffer Balance Feeds
Flossing A Sheaffer Snorkel Tube
Aurora 88 Piston Repair
Preserving Your Pens: Do's and Don'ts
Bill Tuning for Beginners

Assorted Articles
What is Fountain Pen Friendly Ink?
Guide to Buying Restored Fountain Pens on eBay
Are Modern Pens Equally Adept As Onetime Ones?

Articles From Richard Binder
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Pen Model Profiles

"Large Box" Brands
The Camel Pen
The Chilton Golden Quill
The Chilton Fly-period
The Conklin Glider
The Conklin Nozac
The Dunn-Pen
The Esterbrook Dollar Pen
The Esterbrook Model J Family unit
The Wahl-Eversharp Bantam
The Wahl-Eversharp Coronet
The Wahl-Eversharp Doric
The Eversharp Fifth Avenue
Kimberly, the Pen That Saved Eversharp
The Eversharp Skyline Family
The Eversharp Symphony Family unit
The Graphomatic Inkmaker and Colonel
The Ingersoll Dollar Pen
The John Hancock Cartridge Pen
The Moore Finger tip
Moore's Non-Leakable Safety Pen
Morrison's Patriot
The Parker "21"
The Parker 45
The Parker "51"
The Parker 61
The Parker 180
The Parker Duofold
The Parker Duofold Geometric ("Toothbrush")
The Parker Striped Duofold
The Parker Pastels
The Parker Vacumatic
The Parker VP
The Parker VS
The Postal Reservoir Pen
The J. G. Rider Fountain Pen
The Security Pen
Sheaffer's Balance
Sheaffer'southward Connaisseur
Sheaffer's Craftsman
Sheaffer'south PFM
Sheaffer's Snorkel
Targa by Sheaffer
Sheaffer's Touchdown TM
Sheaffer's "TRIUMPH"
Sheaffer's Tuckaway
The WASP Addipoint
The WASP Clipper
Waterman'south C/F
Waterman's Commando
Waterman's Hundred Year Pen
Waterman's Platonic No 7
Waterman'due south Ideal No 52
Waterman'southward Ink-Vue
Waterman'south Patrician
Waterman's Taperite
Waterman's X-Pen

Repairer'south Corner

How to Replace a Pen Sac
How to Restore the Touchdown Filling System
How to Restore the Snorkel/PFM Filling System
How to Supercede a Vacumatic Diaphragm
How to Resac a Wringer-Type Twist Filler
How to Supercede an Ink-Vue Sac (Type one)
How to Supervene upon an Ink-Vue Sac (Type 2)
How to Restore the Eversharp Skyline
How to Restore the Filler in a Morrison Patriot
How to Restore an Onoto Plunger Filler
How to Restore the Wahl-Oxford Twist Filler
How to Remove and Install Levers in Lever-Filling Pens
How to Replace a Cleaved Sac Nipple
How to Sleeve Cracked Butt Threads
How to Repair and Supplant a Waterman Lever Box Associates
How to Repair a Broken Z-Clip
How to Repair the Seal in a Waterman Glass-Cartridge Pen
How to Convert a Fifth Avenue or Skyline Eversharp CA to Utilize Modern Refills
How to Convert a Cap-Actuated Retractable Eversharp CA to Use Modern Refills
How to Repair the Piston in a Tibaldi Modello sixty
How to Remove the Prune from a Pilot Vanishing Signal
How to Build a Nib Grinding Station

The Technical Stuff
Return Policy
Shipping Policy

Recommended Reading

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NEW! Fountain Pen Profiles: L. E. & A. A. Waterman

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Lewis Edson Waterman was a life insurance salesman. When his new fountain pen threw a blot and ruined a contract, he was moved to invent a fountain pen that would non throw blots, and that was the beginning of the L. E. Waterman Company. True? Or not? (It'south not.) Arthur Allan Waterman worked as a traveling salesman for the L. Due east. Waterman Company for 12 years and then left to get-go his own pen visitor. Subsequently that, Lewis Waterman and his son Frank both hated Arthur. (That's true.) In this generously illustrated book are profiles of nine pivotal L. East. Waterman fountain pen models from 1917 to 1957, together with a long look at A. A. Waterman's history and pens. Alloy in a nuance of litigation and some shady (actually?) dealings by partners, and y'all cease up with lots of great information and a lively view of business organization back in the olden days.

NEW! Fountain Pen Profiles: Wahl-Eversharp

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The world of fountain pens is a big place, with room for everyone who wants to collect or use them, or both. This book is a look at a small part of that world, a "country," so to speak, where once upon a fourth dimension there were created many beautiful and functional pens. That country, the Wahl Company, came into the pen world through violence, in a way, by applying economical pressure to a smaller, weaker country whose resource, the Eversharp pencil, information technology wanted for its ain—and took, in 1916. In this generously illustrated book are profiles of eleven Wahl-Eversharp fountain pen models, from the beginning to the stop in 1957, when that covetous country passed into history every bit information technology was in turn taken over past a still bigger, more than powerful neighbor.

The RichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens, Book 1: Glossopedia
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The Glossopedia is a compact glossary/mini-encyclopedia of definitions and descriptions for more than 1,200 pen-related words, phrases, and names, with extensive cross-references, most 800 illustrations, and more than 130 patent citations that are linked to their respective patent documents at the Google/Patents website. Information technology'south an indispensable reference.

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The RichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens, Book 2: Restoration
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This book is an adjunct to the ii first-class existing repair manuals, Marshall/Oldfield and Da Book. Information technology contains material that is often very specific to a detail pen or type of pen, only much of its data can also exist practical more often than not to other pens. Learn what is here, extrapolate from it, and apply your new knowledge to the needs of the pen in your hands at any given moment.

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The RichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens, Volume three: Filling Systems
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In this companion book to hisRichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens, Volume 2: Restoration, Richard catalogs virtually every filling system he has encountered, encompassing well-nigh fountain pens from the tardily 1800s to the present. This volume non merely outlines the history of fountain pen filling systems from the early days to the 21st century, it besides also gives in-depth directions on how to fill these classic pens yourself. Like a friendly neighbour downwards the street, he gives you lot a step-by-step for all of them. It's like having a veteran fountain pen skillful at your side. Illustrated with patent drawings and never-before-seen pictures that explain the backside-the-scenes story of filling arrangement development, this definitive text will serve generations to come.

The RichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens, Volume 4: Learning About Pens

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In his years of collecting and restoring fountain pens, Richard Folder has become ane of the earth's foremost authorities on fountain pen history and repair techniques. In this book, he dishes upwards a goodly serving of information most diverse aspects of understanding, collecting, and enjoying pens. Beginning collectors and veterans akin will learn something new and exciting about their hobby.

366 Days of Earth War Ii
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For one year, from 6 June 2022 to v June 2022, Richard Binder posted daily "diary"
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The Curmudgeon's Dictionary
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From the Foreword: "This dictionary owes its existence to the inspiration provided by the rapier wit and insightful commentary of Ambrose Bierce. The author hopes, in placing this opus before the public, to afford its discriminating readers a healthy chuckle at the expense of those others at whose obvious foibles and frailties these barbs are directed."