Safely Cleaning Ink Stains In A Demonstrator - M200

[conib]

+1 Rapido-eze.

 

It isn't a good idea to use alcohol on acrylics, so I'd avoid its use in a Pelikan Demonstrator.

 

A Lamy Vista is ABS (like Legos). ABS is resistant to alcohol according to Wikipedia.

 

-- Constance

Edited July 8, 2014 by conib

[amberleadavis]

The ink maker recommended "grey" soaps. Any ideas?

[conib]

The ink maker recommended "grey" soaps. Any ideas?

 

No good ideas, unfortunately. The first idea that came to my mind was soap with pumice, which would be a very bad idea and certainly NOT what the ink maker has in mind. The second idea was a possible relationship to "graywater", that is, wash water that's reused for landscape irrigation -- also pretty unlikely.

 

Maybe visvamitra can help with obtaining product names or better yet something like an MSDS or whatever that contains an example chemical composition of a "grey soap".

 

-- Constance

[mAsTeRmInD-L]

I filled my Pilot Prera demonstrator with BSB.

 

After several flushes, it still looked like your M200 after the first flush.

 

I used RAPIDO-EZE (1:4 water) to flush and soak the nib and converter. After three days' intensively cleaning and soaking, the pen looks much better now.

 

RAPIDO-EZE is definitely safe for resin, I use it for all my resin pens when I do the monthly pen maintenance.

 

 

 

 

Hope this will help.

 

- L

[amberleadavis]

Thank you so much!

 

I forgot to post that I had some miraculous improvement by using Red Eel as my next fill.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Inked_Today/slides/20140711_143634.jpg

[amberleadavis]

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Inked_Today/slides/20140712_165723.jpg

[amberleadavis]

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[amberleadavis]

That result was just with the Red Rattler and then just flushing.

[GeekyGirl]

Isopropyl alcohol is supposed to be gentle on plastics (99.9% pure IPA).

 

I don't know the exact plastic Pelikan uses, but I have a somewhat beaten up Vista that I can use as a guinea pig.

Lemme know if you care, so I can dig it up.

 

I use isopropyl alcohol for other cleaning uses quite a lot. A few months ago I accidentally got some on the cap of my brand new Pelikan M205 Taupe pen, leaving it looking a bit bleached or chalky looking and devoid of all shine in that one spot. It extracted some of the oil from the resin--of course I had never thought about the oil content of the resin and the only way I fixed it was to rub a bit of 100% Phyto plant oil (it was actually a hair product) into the resin. Voila! No more chalky-looking flat shine less spot.

 

Now, however, I'm reading this thread because my blue M205 demonstrator is stained, with Kon-peki of all things. It's not bad and it's not in the barrel where the piston is, just in the section. I really don't want to degrease or degrease the piston so I'm hoping to find another solution in this thread. –Sorry, but I replied to the alcohol post before reading through the entire thread.

[Joe in Seattle]

I used straight bleach on a cotton swab to get Baystate Blue off of the yellow surface of au Lamy Safari. It took a great deal of rubbing, too.