Inky T O D - Shipping Ink Samples Long Distances And Over Mountains

[A Smug Dill]

I'm glad I opened this thread and saw this neat trick!!!

 

 

Me too! It never occurred to me that there are plastic pipettes that are cheap and easy to acquire as Joe Consumer; the last time I handled (glass) pipettes was in a chemistry lab at school three decades ago, and I never came across them or looked for them on platforms such as eBay since.

 

I've now ordered a lot of one hundred of those from China. Buying or otherwise acquiring ink samples from specialist pen shops and niche stationery suppliers, either in bricks-and-mortar stores or online, is not really something I heard of Down Under; neither is trading, swapping or just giving away ink samples as pen enthusiasts – but then maybe it's only because I don't go out much. If a properly heat-sealed plastic pipette proves to be able to survive being sent as a regular small ‘letter’ through Australia Post, then perhaps I can get rid of some of my surplus Noodler's inks in a meaningful manner, at low cost and with a minimum amount of fuss.

 

Oh, and I finally got advised last night by YouStyle (a seller in the Rakuten global marketplace) that my three 50ml bottles of Sailor Nano sou-boku ink is being dispatched, and I don't imagine my fiancée and I have use for that amount ourselves. I only added so many bottles in order to make the transaction amount threshold that qualifies for application of a discount coupon. (Spend more money on things I don't need to ‘save’ money, that's smart, right?)

[GreenMountain]

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I wonder if one reason, aside from the nice seal obtained on a pipette, for the pipette's success is that proportionally there is a lot of air in a pipette that can expand and contract without bursting the pipette, as opposed to a vial which tend to be filled fairly full of ink.

 

[Naisirf]

14 hours ago, GreenMountain said:

I wonder if one reason, aside from the nice seal obtained on a pipette, for the pipette's success is that proportionally there is a lot of air in a pipette that can expand and contract without bursting the pipette, as opposed to a vial which tend to be filled fairly full of ink.

On the contrary: it is the air (gas) that expands and contracts a lot when air pressure changes. The volume of the ink (liquid) stays pretty much the same. So the less air is in the samples the better it is.

 

I think the pipettes work fine because they are capable of expanding without tearing at the same rate as the air does. IOW you stretch them significantly before they burst.

[Arkanabar]

On 7/25/2018 at 12:36 AM, WolvertonMountain said:

 

I wonder if Cyber6 uses the lighter to heat the pliers, then uses the heated pliers to crimp the pipettes. That's how I would crimp the pipettes but it would mean having a pair of needle nose pliers dedicated to sealing pipettes.

Hmmmm... Tomorrow I will visit Harbor Freight to acquire an inexpensive pair of needle nose pliers.

Clifton

Actually, I'd have thought it would be easier to use ordinary slip-joint or lineman's pliers.  I guess it would depend on whether one wanted to fold the tip over when crimping.