Best Flowing Inks?

[Pswaggle]

Hey all, I bought a 1960s Montblanc 32 this summer and have been using it everyday for the past 3 weeks of school as my everyday pen. I love the pen to death but the only issue I have with it is that the feed often runs dry after a couple of pages of writing. Then I either have to dip it in my ink jar if I'm at my desk or turn the piston if i'm in the classroom. This usually fixes the problem but also often makes the pen drip ink and ruin my page. I'm using Noodler's luxury eternal blue right now and think that my ink might be my problem as it seems pretty viscous. So here's my question: What is the best flowing ink that I can pick up? I'd need a blue or black because my teachers are pretty picky when it comes to fun colours.

 

Thanks a ton!

[Runnin_Ute]

Sounds like a dry ink and a dry pen. Waterman Serenity Blue is a good ink and fairly wet.

[amberleadavis]

Welcome aboard!

 

Lux Blue is a dry ink. Also, the MB does have a proclivity to have surface tension issues.

 

So, you have some solutions.

 

If you are anywhere where you can have the nib looked at, have an experienced nib meister look at the nib - make sure it is getting good flow.

 

The ink could be collecting in the feed and drying, but more likely it is getting stopped up by surface tension. Are you near a store that sells fountain pen ink? If so, what brands do they stock?

[napalm]

Ask Cyber6 about her recipe of Baystate Blue with Photoflo.

[ac12]

There is a possibility that surface tension might be trapping the ink in the back of the pen. If so the only ink available to the nib is the ink in the feed. An air bubble is between the feed and the rest of the ink.

Try looking through the view window for ink, then tap the pen to see if the ink will fall from the back of the pen to the front.

[amberleadavis]

There is a possibility that surface tension might be trapping the ink in the back of the pen. If so the only ink available to the nib is the ink in the feed. An air bubble is between the feed and the rest of the ink.

Try looking through the view window for ink, then tap the pen to see if the ink will fall from the back of the pen to the front.

 

Yes, test first for Surface Tension. Sorry, I should have said that.

[cbaytan]

Any ink flow well if you add them manual dish washing detergent drop by drop by experiment.. Like 1 drop to every 20 ml is looks enough to me.
All Noodler's I had flow well.
Noodler's Eel series meant to flow even more.
Noodler's La Reine Mauve is a gushy ink, causes nib creep in some pens.

[SujiCorp12345]

Both Aurora Blue and Black are very free flowing in my experience.

[JimCouch]

Both Aurora Blue and Black are very free flowing in my experience.

 

I would concur with Suji, Aurora inks flow well and are probably the smoothest writing inks I have ever used. Not a lot of color choices, in fact only two, Blue or Black, you are in luck!

[ink-syringe]

+1 on Aurora and Waterman.

[Jackson]

Fine Aurora flow, yes. And the Black is sweet. But the Blue is my smeariest ink, by far.

[arcadeflow]

Pilot inks fixed my flow problems in Pilot pens. Their blue is good ink for work. Works in bad paper and resists water.

[VivienR]

I find that Herbin inks generally have good flow, admittedly its not the cheapest ink around, from Diamine Oxblood and Asa Blue, especially Asa, is really wet. Caran d'Ache Carbon too, but its pricey and you need to have good luck to get one, but Platinum Carbon Black is also have really good ink flow, and not found it dangerous to my pens, but certainly more attention to them will not harm your pen.

[lmarine0510]

Even though the colors are pedestrian and uninspiring, Parker Quink is known to be wet and flow in almost any pen. Pilot Iroshizuku inks also are remarkably well-behaved.

[farmdogfan]

I prefer parkers blue quink in my MBs and also in my other pens, a beautiful blue colour and very smooth flow.

[Mishka5050]

Pilot Iroshizkuku. Period

[georgeb]

Ensure your technique when filling the pen is correct.

 

You can look at the filling systems section of the reference pages on http://richardspens.com

[georgeb]

You can also add a bit of distilled water to the ink.

[dneal]

Why not use a Montblanc ink? For me they are as "work in anything" as Waterman, Parker or other recommended brands. De Atramentis isn't commonplace, but are amazingly well behaved inks. Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite is free-flowing, and is a dark enough blue-black that it could be mistaken for black.

[dannystr78]

+1 for Iroshizuku. Nothing like them. They also have several blue blacks.