Hi all I have recently joined and haven't yet had the time to read all of the forum, but if you check with Walter et al you will find I have been posting elsewhere.
Now I make a fair quantity of pens as part of my woodworking business and I am reasonably successful insofar as it allows me to augment my tool and wine addictions.
One of my problems is that live in a part of France which is well populated by manual labourers of one form or another and, contrary to most opinions, they are in the main quite well educated and appreciate a good bit of hand workmanship. :smile: Sadly however they are also very strong 
so not knowing that fountain pens and other things with postable caps are screw fit, they have the habit of trying to pull them apart which tends to destroy the threads!! Also once the pen has been sold (before the Hercules get to it) they some how think that it will thread anyhow and forget it needs a slightly delicate touch.
Now I have observed that much of this is down to the fact that most pens have a metal thread on the nib and end sections and a plastic thread on the inside of the cap and it is this latter that I have recently had to repair most
Is there somewhere a decent basic (good looking) fountain pen kit (not too expensive my clients are mainly jobless with kids at school) with a thread that can stand up to brutal ignorance? After all I was once a brutal ignorant many years ago and I never once broke either of my Parker or Watermans in the same manner.
Hopefully
PG
PS I don't like those that have grommits to overcome a slack metal to metal thread they feel tacky and they don't sell.
