Timberbits video's

[Dalboy]

Is this video any use to those who want to change nibs.

 

[Penpal]

All Timberbits videos are valuable I believe he revolutionised the whole industry with his sharing and real down to earth approaches. David is high on acheivement his work sells freely in galleries all this raising his family of young children.

Peter.

 

[chas_41_uk]

Well that's one way of doing it. But if you want to save the old nib why not do the same as most fountain pen restorers and warm the section up with a hair dryer?

 

[TaylorsMirfield.co.uk]

Or just buy a new nib from Phil which comes complete so you can just screw it in"

 

[wm460]

Well that's one way of doing it. But if you want to save the old nib why not do the same as most fountain pen restorers and warm the section up with a hair dryer?

Or leave it out in the sun.

 

[Penpal]

Love the methods.

Peter.

 

[Phil Dart]

That's quite an agricultural approach to nib removal is it not?.

Personally, I have never yet come across a kit nib that cannot be removed from its housing with finger pressure alone, without even the need to warm it up first. I would also always remove the housing from the section first, to eliminate the possibility of damaging the section, which with the exception of the cheap Chinese Jr Gent, simply unscrews. (The Chinese seem to feel the need to glue the housing into the section on the cheap Jr Gent, but a good blast with a hairdryer first weakens the glue.)

But as Dan has said, if you've unscrewed the housing from the section, you can buy the new nib pre-assembled, so you don't need to remove the actual nib in any case. You just buy the nib in a "kit compatible" housing, screw the old one out and screw the new one in.

Now where can you buy those I wonder?

 

[Penpal]

Derek was this what you had in mind?

Peter.