Managed to get a lead on supply of the Fenix lanyard that I wanted. Should be able to order next week. Will post back here with more details if anyone else wants to get one.
Thanks, it was made by my lovely girlfriend. It has a few issues to be ironed out for the next one which I’m hoping won’t be too far away, she has an insane amount of fabric/patterns to choose from. The inspiration for the pouch was the Nock fountain pen pouches as shown.
When time permits I’m hoping to refine the process and bang out a few. (more accurately, the GF will bang them out)
Very nice Jase :+1:
Oh and a suggestion…… :person_facepalming: I have a battery charging bag that has fire resistant liner in, considering the bag was like £3 ish the material (fibreglass maybe?) lining it must be quite cheap - might be worth considering lining it with something like that? you know some people burn themselves
I was just thinking if it was cheap enough, maybe an idea is all. something like this - you may be able to find cheaper, 1st one I found lol - just to give an idea :+1: link
Also I see you like your pens…… maybe you might be able to help me.
My Uncle who recently died bought me a Pelikan fountain pen when I was about 15, but over the years i have lost a little gold ring from it, and despite A LOT of looking, and enquiring I simply cannot find one…
It is a pelikan m150/481- after looking on the net, it seem MAYBE nothing is missing lol (i’m sure it had a ring, maybe i’m wrong), i can’t work out the piston bit, the tail cap will not screw right down is all - still stuck though!
Just an update, I called ‘niche pens’ and the lady was only too pleased to help me out, lovely lady. She said it should be repaired for free and to call a number she gave where it would be sent back to Germany and fixed, and the ring replaced, they might even replace the entire innards. Hopefully they will, we will see next week when I call them as they are shut now.
I hope you can see the below photos - I sadly can’t for some reason at the moment, troubles with imgbb - but there are 3 photos below lol
@G0OSE thanks for the lanyard! Unfortunately the paracord is too thick to fit through the lanyard loop on the end of this light but it’s still a nice gesture nonetheless. I’m sure I’ll find a use for it, thankyou.
Lovely pen you have there, I’m been using fountain pens since I learnt to write and collecting them for around 15 years. I’m relatively new to Pelikan though, having only purchased my first around 18 months ago.
Good news with Niche pens, I’ve purchased a few through them when I lived in New Zealand and found them reasonability helpful with warranty issues. I own only a few modern and vintage Pelikans.
A couple a good resources for Pelikan history and model identification -
Pic of my M1005, M805 and M815. The vintage Pelikans are hands down better with far higher quality nibs.
Re the Pelikan pen, thanks I’m keen to try it out - but I’m going to phone that number tomorrow when they open and see if they can repair it free or cheap as I was advised. I’ll let you know what happens.
Your M150 isn’t missing a gold ring according to the articles I linked, your particular pen has either a seized piston or the piston assembly has been pulled back out from the barrel by a few mm. If you get nowhere with Niche I can have a go at fixing it for you.
I’ve worked on current range Pelikans and those from my vintage collection which are all 1950s models. The principle for the pens construction and assembly hasn’t changed much in 70 years. Attached is a pic of a more rare model of early 1950s black striped 400, I removed the piston assembly in order to refinish the inside of the barrel and restore the clarity. I fitted a new piston gasket and now use the pen at the office.
Here it is restored with an early 1950s Pelikan Tortoise striped 400.
Yeah I was toying with there being no gold ring - but I seem to remember one, and couldn’t think why I thought there was one when there wasn’t.
Who knows lol, either way it isn’t going back flush and I have tried like 500 times to get it done, I can get it close, but there is always that little gap.
The lady in the shop said the piston probably needs replacing and they’d do it free (we’ll see about that) it is a bit stiff even after a good clean with warm water.
lets see what happens with the returning etc, and I’ll get back to you - I did see a video about pushing it back in, but I’m not sure that has happened here, by no means completely sure though.
Thank you for your offer to take a look too.
The piston assembly is friction fit into the barrel. It takes gentle heating to remove it.
Niche will just pull the piston assembly, attached a new piston gasket, use silicon lube to make sure the gasket moves freely inside the barrel making sure no silicon gets onto the piston friction fit area.
Be sure to post a pic of it and a sample of the writing when you get it working. Again, if you get stuck I can fix it gratis.