Sunday morning resaccing.
I am not a handygirl, but I can resac a simple lever-filling pen, assuming there is nothing wrong with the lever. This gives me a wonderful feeling of empowerment akin to being taught how to fish, no matter that I don’t think I’ll ever like fishing or wading into water in wellies.
The pen I chose to resac was the Swan self-filling pen that I put up for sale several months ago. It never did sell, and stayed in my cabinet all that time; so this morning, it was a good candidate. I twisted the section out of the barrel and was faced with the removal of sticky, icky melted rubber sac remnants. It was not a job for the fainthearted or those of nanosecond attention spans.
Still, I accomplished the resaccing with the aid of a Tweezerman pair of tweezers (the best in the business for eyebrows, who knew they would be good for sac removal?) and a bent crochet hook. And the Swan writes again.
Swan Self-Filling Pen
June 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I’m glad that pen is now whole and ready to drink ink again. I applaud your creative use of items around the house to accomplish it. A whole pen is a happy pen. Will you keep it as a token of saccing victory or still sell it? It certainly writes beautifully.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:01 am
I’ve been meaning to get started on a few pens I have lying around. Maybe I’ll use this as an example and inspiration to finally get to it. Valiant effort and excellent results.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Sotto – yes, get to it! TAO is a good enabler, nudge nudge.