[Music] [Applause]
thank you previously on inquiring minds I just got this tool in the mail this is a tool for removing
the nib and the ink collector from the moonman ti-200 but I was also hoping this might work on
the moonman ti-500 and I was hoping that those two little Nubs there would fit into that and
unfortunately they don't so I think we're hooped until a new tool comes around for disassembling
the ti-500 and welcome back to inquiring minds my name is Doug and this is part two of the
disassembly video on the moonman ti 200 and TI 500 pens as you just saw I was unsuccessful at
getting the ti-200 disassembly tool to work on the ti-500 but I'm the kind of guy who doesn't
like to give up on something once I've started it in the last episode I had the section off
and that little brass nut inside the section was just daring me to try something anything
to get it Loose because the those little Nubs right there don't fit that brass nut
frustratingly so I just knew that if I could get that brass nut off that nib and feed color would
just slide out of there and I bought this Parker jotter specifically to see if the nib was the same
they look similar but I couldn't see enough of the ti 500 nib to make a judgment as to whether they
were the same or not until I got this one out I was successful at getting the ti 500 nib out and
the news here is that the moonman ti-500 titanium fountain pen and the Parker jotter Pen have the
exact same nib feed and collar assemblies they are identical Parts not clone Parts not copied Parts
but identical Parts the only conclusion we can reach here is that both pens are made in the same
Factory with the same tooling and parts moonman imagine is in my opinion the same company and
they are owned by Hero those of you who are pen historians will recall that Parker Gave Over the
tooling designs and permission to copy the Parker 45 to the hero Pen Company of China in 1979. so
it's way too late to cry foul now plus the fact that the Parker jotter is made in China probably
at the Hero Factory AKA moonman Factory there I said it so I'm going to show you the result here
because this took me quite a while and left the pen with a few scars not to mention my fingers
I donated some blood samples on this one this is all kind of loose right now but
I'll describe how I successfully removed the nib from the ti-500 and successfully
did a nib swap with the Parker jotter so let's take this TI 500 apart and show you
how I did it first I took out the silicone o-ring and I just teased that out of there
there we go then I used my needle nose tweezers to get into those slots on the brass nut and I
had to use a lot of force to unscrew it and those times of the needle nose tweezers fit
right into those brass slots and I was able to give it some torque and turn that brass nut and
it took quite a few turns to get it to unscrew it's loose now and then that brass nut came off
there it is there and you can see the slots on the side of it and with the nut gone I assumed
that the nib would just slide right out well it didn't and I tried pulling it I tried pushing
it and it really didn't work at all and so what I ended up doing was putting the pin from the ti-200
disassembly tool against the end of that feed and collar and pointed this section straight down
and gave it a big push now it's loose now but it took a lot of force to get it loose and then
when I got it out I could see why there are the remnants of the glue that was used to glue this
collar into the section and there were remnants of glue inside that titanium section as well and
the nib and the feed are friction fit inside that collar and there's very little to grasp onto here
to try to pull that so I just went ahead and took my tweezers and clamped down on the tip of the nib
right there like that and pulled now this took a lot of force as well and it's going to leave
a little divot in my nib so I don't recommend you do this at home because it does damage your
pen but then I was able to pull it out but it took so much force that when I pulled it out the
end of the feed shot back and hit me right in the thumb so the many ways that Doug takes one for the
inquiring minds team pull that out once the nib was out the feed sort of comes out fairly easily
there we go so there's that collar with all of its glue and there is the feed right there and here is
the nib so I went back to the jotter at this point below the jotter and did the same thing I took the
nail clippers and pulled on the nib again it was a little bit difficult not as difficult as the moon
man but it was a little bit more difficult to get off than just that and there's the nib and there's
the feed and what can you tell me folks when you look at this part let's get them close so you can
see them they have the same marks on them top and bottom look at those pin marks even they're
slightly different so they might be on different slightly different molds but they identical and
you can see Moon man's Mark and F and the Parker is marked as an M even though the nibs are not
marked let's look at the two nibs together and we can see that those nibs are pretty much identical
the stamping on them of course is different and the end hole there is different but the brackets
are exactly the same and both nibs fit on both feeds and both feeds fit in both collars and
they're completely interchangeable so and one of the reasons I got the jotter was because
the moon man ti-500 was a bit fine for me and with the jotter I have a medium nib this is
the feed from the jotter the Parker feed and I'm going to take the Parker nib and of course this
collar is from the Moon Man and I'm going to take this nib line it up and put it into the
there put it all the way in to the moon man so it's lined up and it's deep and we're going to
put the moon man back together again with the Parker knit so it's a lot easier now
that the glue is gone now I'm going to push that nib in there and it has Parker on there
and I'm going to put the brass nut back in and that is going to be with the slots up that and
I'm going to get some of those threads started I'm going to put my tweezers into those slots
and I'm going to continue to turn until I get it as tight as I can
get it and when you get down towards the end the nib wants to rotate rather than
thread that brass nut onto it that you have to hold on to the nib there I can't tighten
it anymore now we have to tease that O-ring back on like putting the tire back on a rim
there now we can put the section back on but just to make sure I'm going to put a little silicone
grease on those threads on the section just a little dab will do you because I don't want
this leaking and I don't want to have to go into it again there now that's as tight as it will go
and there's my Parker medium nib in my moonman ti 500 now let's ink it up and see if it works
and here we go with the ti 500 and it is a Moon Man
Jon
whatever you want to call it it now has a Parker
jotter
medium nib
ink is water mints serenity
blue [Music] well that's nicely wet now
this is very nice now very smooth very wet and much more of a medium line let's just get a quick
measurement on this with my Richard Bender chart yeah it's what I expected it's uh 0.5
millimeter maybe touch bigger which is a western fine we're a Japanese fine to medium
there we go a successful nib swap on my moonman ti 500 titanium fountain pen with a Parker
yeah it's uh not without its perils folks that was not easy I took a few blows and the pen
took a few blows as you can see there too and the nib has a few marks on it as well but very
successful all the way around I would not suggest that if you're a faint of heart that you try this
at home but it is another successful inquiring minds inquiry thanks for watching I made this