Iroshizuku Bottle Tight Caps

[myyrkezaan]

Some times the bottles of Iroshizuku are really, really hard to open. Tonight I had to use a tool I use for unscrewing my backflow to open a bottle, it has a handle with a looped rubber band.

 

Have you ever had this problem with these or any other bottles? Could I be tightening it too much when closing it?

[jgrasty]

The Iroshizuku bottles can get a little hard to open sometime, but Waterman bottles are the worst. I've had to use excessive force on those.

[matveik]

I've experienced this as well--not sure what to attribute it to though.

[watch_art]

it can be attributed to ink on the lip of the bottle drying out with the lid on and sort of gluing itself shut.

[geoduc]

it can be attributed to ink on the lip of the bottle drying out with the lid on and sort of gluing itself shut.

 

 

+1

 

Try wiping off the lip of the bottle and the cap seal before you put the cap back on.

[ilvecchio]

it can be attributed to ink on the lip of the bottle drying out with the lid on and sort of gluing itself shut.

 

I have had the same problem and now always wipe the lip and inside of the cap with a tissue. It does pain me to waste even a little of the expensive ink but it seems to make it much easier to open the bottle.

[Lorna Reed]

If the cap is a little tight, I just put on a pair of rubber gloves. With a better grip it's easier to open the bottle. This works for many household bottles and jars as well.

[tanalasta]

New bottles are almost never impossible to open.

 

However, if you allow ink to cake around the rim, it makes opening the bottom very difficult if you then put the lid straight on. I always dab the top of the bottle with tissue to blot the ink on the rim prior to closing and it works just fine. No more stuck caps - try it and see if it helps!

[rockspyder]

I've seen Iro bottles so tight, the cap had a circumferential crack around the top, and just broke apart when I finally got it open. So I have 2 Iro inks in Quink bottles now...

The empty bottles have some remarkable properties - my wife think they are charmed in some way, because plant cuttings take root in them so easily. I don't know if this is just coincidence, but it really happens. Slow root development in other bottles, florid proliferation in Iroshizuku bottles!

[Ada]

it can be attributed to ink on the lip of the bottle drying out with the lid on and sort of gluing itself shut.

 

 

+1

 

Try wiping off the lip of the bottle and the cap seal before you put the cap back on.

 

+1. I usually forget to do that. So when I try to open the bottle and can't, I hold the cap under warm water from the tap and then wipe the water and ink from the edges of the cap. After 2 or 3 times the bottle opens.

[Pen2009]

With Iroshizuku ink bottles, sometimes, the white colored under cap cover stick to the bottle opening. So, I re-tighten the cap and slosh the bottle up to lube up the cap section so that the cap and its under cap section will stay together. I don't want to touch that white undercap section as I don't want to dirty up my hands with ink.

[voop]

The Iroshizuku bottles can get a little hard to open sometime, but Waterman bottles are the worst. I've had to use excessive force on those.

 

Oh my....my partner had to open a Waterman bottle. Turned out that the cap was so stuck that the necessary force broke off the bottle-neck.....

 

Never had it that stuck on an Iroshizuku, alas they can be quite stubborn.

[myyrkezaan]

Maybe thats what Lady Macbeth was really talking about .

[JefferyS]

My Yama Budo bottle refused to open, and I eventually managed to create the circumferential crack mentioned above (while cutting my index finger on the cracked lid). This is my second issue with Yama Budo. It also appears to have unglued the sac from my Gate City Postal Senior. After 1 week, the sac sprung a leak. After 3 weeks, the sac slid off like it had never been glued.So, my $$$ Yama Budo has been replaced by $ Binder Burgundy.It seems that the lavish bottles harbor the least satisfying inks.

[humblescribbler]

I've seen Iro bottles so tight, the cap had a circumferential crack around the top, and just broke apart when I finally got it open. So I have 2 Iro inks in Quink bottles now...

 

+1 (or I should say +2) exactly. But I'm still using the caps, as the cracks didn't go more than 1/2 way on each, and I just tighten until I feel the pressure on the white lining.

 

These bottles stay home, upright.

[Pen2009]

My Yama Budo bottle refused to open, and I eventually managed to create the circumferential crack mentioned above (while cutting my index finger on the cracked lid). This is my second issue with Yama Budo. It also appears to have unglued the sac from my Gate City Postal Senior. After 1 week, the sac sprung a leak. After 3 weeks, the sac slid off like it had never been glued.So, my $$$ Yama Budo has been replaced by $ Binder Burgundy.It seems that the lavish bottles harbor the least satisfying inks.

It happened to me as well. The cap cracked in the similar way and I cut my finger with it. Very dangerous cap.

[Painterspal]

Amazing, I came on FPN today to see if there was a thread on this issue and it's the top one!

 

I've just had a very narrow escape at work. I needed to refill ahead of an important business meeting, struggled to get the cap off so resorted to a rubber band to provide additional leverage. The band trick worked but the cap gave way suddenly and violently. Result? Yama Budo all over my desk, my pen and me. Frantic clean up ensued and disaster was averted but it was a bad moment - it missed my expensive white shirt by a whisker!

 

Thinking back, I've had this trouble before, just never so badly. I think the design of the cap is seriously flawed. It's a shame when the ink and it's bottle are otherwise works of art.

 

And yes, before you ask, I do use Yama Budo in the office - it's amazing what you can get away with when you work in marketing!