THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there! Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. I’m Doug, and I’m back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Last week, I restored this beautiful Sheaer Balance 350 and discovered it was completely rotten. This means it’s rotting with celluloid rot. So, I’ve decided to move on to something a bit more successful. If you’d like to see this particular rotten video, just click on the link. Since it has celluloid rot, we’ll keep it away from other cellul
THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there and welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I’m back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today’s pen, for resurrection, is this Parker 51 Aerometric from 1949. It has a gold-filled cap, a black body, and is, as I mentioned, an Aerometric filler. They started making these in 1948 when they retired the vacuumatic. And this one is from the 1948-4950 era. So, I'm excited to see how this one might write. THOUGHTS So, what are
THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Ink Acquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Before you are the disassembled parts of a 1936-1942 Sheaffer Balance 500, along with some repair tools. This is a vacuum filler, and they’re notoriously difficult to fix. In comparison, repairing a Parker Vacumatic is a breeze. I’ve fixed one of these before, but that particular pen’s rear seal didn’t need fixing, and it still worked
