Repair portal

Repair portal arguments

When someone has to deal with vintage fountain pens, nothing is more common then haaving to do with malfunctions or damages suffered by an object whose age could easily exceed their own. In this page we collected a series of articles, references and resources that we believe may be useful for those who want to make their repairs, (materials, equipment, reports, notes, references to professionals).

Repair notes

This page collects resources and useful information for repair, and summarizes them in an index. Materials and equipment are instead here. An index of repair topics discussed on the forum is here. Being the result of personal experience of non-professional repairers, no responsibility is assumed for any short-term or long-term damage. However, they will still appreciate corrections and suggestions for which reference is made to the forum. Continue ...

Tools and parts

In order to make repairs, even the most simpler,some materials and a minimum of equipment are still needed, making it possible to operate adequately on an old fountain pen. Many of these can also be used for maintenance and repair of modern pens. We gathered in this page everything present on this site relating to materials and repair equipment, with a list and a summary classification of the same. Continue ...

Restorers

Although it is possible to make some repairs at hoe, sometime they are beyond an hobbist reach and in some cases it is virtually impossible to carry them out if you are not equipped with the appropriate tools. For these cases the following is a list of professional restorers, who you can contact. Il Pennaio Professional restorer, see section on restoration, with interesting information on the work methods. Richard Binder site, one of the most interesting on the net, contains detailed technical articles.

References

Article from the site of Glenn Marcus on how to customize a pen. Exceptional! Article Wim Geeraets on customizing nibs (the "Nib grinding") Section on repairs and spare parts on David Nishimura blog, a lot of information. Article from Richard Binder on how to replace a rubber sac. Article from Richard Binder on how to repair a Vacumatic. Article from Tom Westerich on how to replace the cork seal in a piston filler. Article from Tom Westerich on the restoration of Pelikan piston fillers. Fountain Pen Restoration Blog from a non-professional restorer, with beautiful photos, and a lot of information and articles. Video on the basis of pens repair. Article from Ron Zorn with useful tips for repairs and how to build tools without spending much. Article repair of a twist filler Oxford. Website a repairman Japanese, with many photos of the dismantled pens, unfortunately there is the language barrier.

Works photos
Il gruppo pennino di una Aurora 88 completamente smontato

Tools photos
Occhiali con lenti di ingrandimento per lavorare a mani libere

Books
"Da book" $ 20 VERY well spent. To be studied: only drawings, no pictures Marshall e Oldfield other £ 35 well spent. To be studied: a lot of photos

Editors
Who created and manages these pages: Ottorino (forum user ottorino) Nello (forum user nello56) Roberto (forum user AeRoberto) Simone (forum user piccardi) Andrea (forum user silente) Pietro (forum user gandalff)