Stop Spilling Ink

[randumbum]

I'm a noob, and I've not yet come across any suggestions like the one I came up with for alleviating ink spills during refilling: I've devised using kneaded erasers to tack the bottles down to my work space, but I imagine sticky-tack would work just as well.

Edited November 22, 2017 by randumbum

[macaddicted]

I like Museum Gel, though it's more expensive than your suggestion, probably because it's clear. The opaque tac/gel is about a third less.

[Jan2016]

Visconti has a nice solution...

 

[praxim]

With that bottle, they need it.

[dcwaites]

Visconti has a nice solution...

 

 

I use blu-tak to attach the stalk to the blue base. That way, all you have to do is take the plastic cover off, and you have easy access to unscrew the lid.

 

Otherwise blu-tak to anchor Noodler's bottles and sample vials to the nearest flat surface.

Edited November 22, 2017 by dcwaites

[Chrissy]

With that bottle, they need it.

 

Indeed they do. And it's not actually impossible to still knock that over

[inkstainedruth]

For sample vials, I use a cheap copper pipe fitting that is partly straight tubing and partly a hex nut with threading. Cost me around $5-6 US at my local hardware store, and I brought a vial along with me to check sizing (someone a few years ago had welded a couple of heavy duty hex nuts together and I thought that was a good idea. But I like mine better, because I didn't have to construct anything -- it just came that way already. The entire connector is less than 2" high and the hex bolt part is heavy enough to make the piece stable.

Someone here constructed a frame out of Legos, and I suppose you could build one for any size or shape bottle. Of course someone else just puts the bottle into a plastic dishpan so at least if it spills you're not having to explain the very large stain on the counter....

I would not have considered using a kneaded eraser, because well, I use them for erasing.... I suppose if you're ONLY using one to stabilize a bottle or sample vial (and so it's not filled with particles of graphite, which probably is not something you want risk contaminating your ink with) it could work.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Studio97]

I keep my ink bottles nearly crammed together in the bottom of a plano tacklebox. They are virtually locked in place. Lift one a little and loosen the top. Set it down and remove the top. I use an ink syringe. No spills yet (unless I've just jinxed myself).

[ac12]

I use Lego to build a frame for my ink vials, and a larger frame on a base for the tall Noodler's bottle.

[bongo47]

I bought my kids a 3D printer, and frankly have been itching to try it out myself. You just gave me my project idea!

[Jan2016]

Filling up Noodler's Baystate Blue

 

[inkstainedruth]

Filling up Noodler's Baystate Blue

 

 

Of course, the one that photo REALLY should be for is Noodler's Kung Te Cheng -- at least BSB is not UV resistant, so while it stains everything and its cousin it will (probably) eventually fade away.

As opposed to KTC -- that ink will outlive nuclear annihilation and The End of the Universe ™, with nothing left surviving but cockroaches (and it). I still have some stains in my bathroom from when I knocked over a nearly full bottle in my bathroom (only one fill!) and I had glass -- and ink -- EVERYWHERE.... And that was from about 4 years ago; the glass was long since cleaned up. The ink? Not so much....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

At least *my* BSB is only in a 3 oz. bottle....

[Jan2016]

 

and BTW we complain about ink... but life could be worse... printer toner....

 

[inkstainedruth]

 

and BTW we complain about ink... but life could be worse... printer toner....

 

 

Now I'm really glad I don't have to replace the cartridges on the laser printer very often....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DrDebG]

When I was in grad school, I had to learn to hold one of the vials (yes, just like the ones we use for ink samples) with my right hand, unscrew the lid with the fingers on the right hand and then use the left hand to insert a syringe into the vial and extract the contents, then screw the lid back on with the fingers of the right hand (I am left handed - for the right handed, it would be the opposite). I had to practice for a while using water, but am very proficient now.

 

I now do the same thing with my ink samples or ink bottles with a small amount of ink in them, using the syringe, particularly for filling a converter or cartridge. I have not mastered a similar technique with my piston fillers yet. But I will!

[dcwaites]

Filling up Noodler's Baystate Blue

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not too sure what's going on here. The vial has a septum cap (rubber sheet, held on by metal ring) for use with a syringe and needle (push needle in through septum, suck up contents with syringe, withdraw). I can't understand what the operator is trying to do with his left hand (waldo).

Edited November 24, 2017 by dcwaites

[Jan2016]

https://johnjochimsen.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/award-winning-photography/

[lectraplayer]

Nice find, Jan2016.

 

Although the type of cap shown is incorrect, the point is well taken. Handle Baystate Blue (or any other ink) with care.

[Runnin_Ute]

I have a shot glass that works well for vials. Although I think something made with Lego's would be better.

[amberleadavis]

 

Of course, the one that photo REALLY should be for is Noodler's Kung Te Cheng -- at least BSB is not UV resistant, so while it stains everything and its cousin it will (probably) eventually fade away.

As opposed to KTC -- that ink will outlive nuclear annihilation and The End of the Universe ™, with nothing left surviving but cockroaches (and it). I still have some stains in my bathroom from when I knocked over a nearly full bottle in my bathroom (only one fill!) and I had glass -- and ink -- EVERYWHERE.... And that was from about 4 years ago; the glass was long since cleaned up. The ink? Not so much....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

At least *my* BSB is only in a 3 oz. bottle....

 

 

Based on our experiences, I call KTC my Armageddon Proof ink.