Vintage Parker 45 cap replacement

To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure it's Parker 45. See the attached image just to be sure.

The model itself is nothing special. It's a cap. Friction fit to the pen. Shouldn't scratch anything. If you're worried, sand the inside of the cap a bit to make a tiny fillet.

Printing instruction (important)

1. Print in vase mode
2. 1 mm. wall thickness
3. Print with the small side down (tip of the cap down)

Story behind the pen

There is a reason I don't know the exact model of this pen. I got it for free. I went to a 2nd hand shop to rescue figurines, as you may have seen from my other models in Figurine Resurrection collection. Now, I also collect fountain pens and other tools that has a soul in them. You know, the kind of items that served its previous owner until the owner bailed and isekai, yet the tools live on. That kind of ultimate service is what I seek in what I buy and use.

This pen came to me for free. I bought a figurine, and this pen was just laid in the discard on the cashier. I asked how much it was. The cashier looked at me weirdly and say it's free, but they don't accept return. What kind of deal was that? Free and no return? Well, I took it. Once my stuffs are in the bag, the cashier told me about the pen.

According to her, last owner was someone called Takahashi. He was a factory owner in Japan. There was a decline in business, and he had to laid off people until it was only him and his son. One day as he was fulfilling an order, he had this pen clipped to his shirt as usual. There was an accident. The machine pulled a wrong thing, and his hand got snapped into the teeth. This particular pen, at that very moment, dropped from his shirt, and fell into the mechanism. Takahashi-san lost 2 fingers and the pen was chewed. The steel cap was all but destroyed. The grip section had a huge gouge into it. Had it not fell, he'd have lost all 5 fingers.

I couldn't verify about Takahashi-san, but I can tell that if it was true, this pen fell into the same teeth his hand went in. Why? Because when I cleaned it, there were dried blood inside the barrel, where the gouging was. It also clogged the nib from the inside. Maybe it was the other way around. Maybe the pen fell in, and he reached for it. I don't know. Now that I have taken the pen, I plan to give it a 2nd chance…and I will never wear it inside a workshop - ever!

In the photo above, you can see the wound. I plug it with CA glue, which is basically acrylic, and sand it to shape. Not the most handicraft ever, but it works. The cap is replaced with the model you're seeing. I haven't made a clip for it yet. Maybe one day I will. I'll have to design a good way to mount it first.

So if you have Parker 45, or comparable model, but have no cap. This model should help. Remember, print in vase mode with 1mm wall.