Jan

11

I just hate it when…

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…I get a really nice pen that needs restoration, and take it apart carefully — and when I go for the final disassembly step, removing the lever so that I can deal with the barrel bulge caused by the snap ring that holds the lever in, SNAP! the barrel turns into two half barrels, broken through right at the smap-ring groove.

Yeah, that happened this week. Fortunately, the pen was mine, not a client’s. And fortunately, I have the technology to deal with the problem. Within minutes of having broken it, I had the barrel fused. After the solvent had flashed off (several days after the “incident”), I finished the joint back down to the proper surface. If you look for the break, you can see where it was by observing slight discontinuities in the color; but you can’t see it on the surface…

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