bjbear76
Member
I ran into an issue today at the craft show with replacing the kit refill with the upgrade Schmidt. It seems to fit just fine and it extends fine but it won't retract. It acts like the refill is catching somewhere. I tried another cigar pen with the same problem. Both pens operated great with the kit refill. The guy wants the pen and agreed to let me see if I could fix it. After getting home I filed the hole in the nib slightly to make sure it wasn't sticking there. No luck. I then took a rat tail file through the center portion of the lower blank and tried to smooth out any possible rough edges inside the blank. Still no luck. Filed the center a little more and it would retract about half way. I "think" I finally got it working good, but I'm wondering if anybody else has had this problem. I'd hate to have this guy buy it and have it mess up in the future. Any ideas or suggestions on solving this? Thanks.