Pour-Out Bottle

[grainweevil]

As said, I don't have such a bottle either but I have sometimes raised the thought that if I find an ink disgusting enough, I could always send it back to the manufacturer (yes, happily paying the postage myself) and tell them to please get rid of it.

 

Rather wish I'd done that with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Red. A most objectionable fluid, and sadly, for the purposes of this thread, inclined to react poorly to being mixed.

[tamiya]

Rather wish I'd done that with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Red. A most objectionable fluid, and sadly, for the purposes of this thread, inclined to react poorly to being mixed.

 

Think I once tinted that with some Turquoise or Mysterious blue... not a bad result.

[grainweevil]

Think I once tinted that with some Turquoise or Mysterious blue... not a bad result.

 

Just had a look back through my swabs of Pelikan mixes and yep, tried Turquoise with it - not bad, but I dunno, something about that green sheen that always creeps in from the Red puts me off. But for clarification, the only mix I found that I put warnings all over was with 4001 Blue-Black - staining and particulates formed, it tells me. Well, Bl-Blk is an iron gall, so perhaps it's unfair to point the finger at Brilliant Red - if it wasn't for Bl-Blk not causing trouble with any of the other 4001s at all.

 

Anyway, this thread moved me to empty my "bored now, change pens and inks" casualties into a jar instead of down the sink. Trouble is I tested it halfway and liked it, then added another ink, and liked that mix too, and... well, where do you stop?!

[DrDebG]

If you must save it, do color chromatography to see what the color breaks up into. If it is mostly composed of one color, dilute then add something in the same color family that you do like.

 

Truthfully, I would just pitch it, especially if you don't know specifically what it is composed of. Others have mentioned that some inks just don't play well together. I would not want to put something unknown into one of my fountain pens and have it cause problems that could be difficult to fix.

[amberleadavis]

I put mine in the window and let it dry out and then I paint with it. I have a great time.

[A Smug Dill]

You could always take a bit of that ink mixture, and top up the hand soap bottles in a shared/public men's room if it has those soap spouts sticking out from the hand basins but the bottles are normally hidden from plain view.

[amberleadavis]

Oh yeah, and if you do it in public place then the CDC will come down and the FBI will come visit. Let's not do that.

[A Smug Dill]

Would they really, before actually determining in a lab whether the contaminants are hazardous?

 

I cannot imagine any government department taking such a prank so seriously and offer a disproportionate response.

 

Edit: grammar

Edited November 17, 2018 by A Smug Dill

[amberleadavis]

This is Las Vegas, we take some things very seriously.

 

We have an overhead zipline and arrested the teenager for incontinence on the ride.

 

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/05/05/Las-Vegas-tourists-soaked-in-zip-lining-teenagers-urine/1181462455834/

[Corona688]

I cannot imagine any government department taking such a prank so seriously and offer a disproportionate response.

US city police once arrested a child for carrying an extra-large foil-wrapped burrito, suspecting it was a bomb.

 

That one funny November the Canada Mint painted red poppies on new quarters? The US analyzed them looking for nanotech spying devices.

 

Sometimes that kind of paranoia is warranted. Terrorists are quite willing to hide bombs in their underwear. And there was that horrible thing with Chinese spying devices.

 

But there is only so much one can reasonably prepare for, and the 24-hour news cycle has destroyed all sense of perspective.

Edited November 18, 2018 by Corona688

[AreBeeBee]

I have to say that if I have an ink I discover I don't like, I'll let the bottle sit closed for — well, months and months — before I pour it down the drain. (I'm not close to anyone or any organization of scribophiles, so there's no place to give it away.)

 

I regret the wasted money on the ink, but the online comparisons and scanned swabsheets tell you only so much about what it looks like on your paper. I had never heard of using a "spit bucket" ink bottle for rejects, but I don't think that's the way I would go.

 

Frankly, at this point I'm down to using Parker Quink entirely, and most of it is vintage. I also have a homebrew blue-black Quink I concocted because the greeny look of the current formulation is beyond awful in my eyes. That homebrew is 5 parts washable blue Quink to 1 part black Quink.

[ErrantSmudge]

I have a pour-out vial for greens, and I wound up with a lovely green-black I have loaded in one of my pens. I chose to mix only like colors, and not to wait for too many inks to get mixed before sampling the ink. I did this previously with blues and blacks and got a nice blue-black out of it as well.

[Fuzzy_Bear]

How about the inks you do not like and are going to pour out, give them away on our pen "Pay It Forward" page.

[amberleadavis]

YES please share. If in doubt, you can send it to me. I usually make samples and share them here on FPN.

[Charles Skinner]

Someone here suggested that I mix some of my "pour out ink" with water. Well, what do you know? I mixed ink from my "pour out bottle" with water, --- half and half ----- and the ink that resulted is good enough to keep and write in my journal. My wife, "She Who Must Be Obeyed," named the "mixture" ----- "ARMY GREEN!" ---- I believe it seems to be a very good name for the ink that resulted.

 

From the size of my "pour out bottle," and the amount of "free" water supplied by our city, ---- My guess is that the new ARMY GREEN ink will last until I "go to that great ink store in the sky!" C. S.

[MyLifeInACommonplaceBook]

Someone here suggested that I mix some of my "pour out ink" with water. Well, what do you know? I mixed ink from my "pour out bottle" with water, --- half and half ----- and the ink that resulted is good enough to keep and write in my journal. My wife, "She Who Must Be Obeyed," named the "mixture" ----- "ARMY GREEN!" ---- I believe it seems to be a very good name for the ink that resulted.

 

From the size of my "pour out bottle," and the amount of "free" water supplied by our city, ---- My guess is that the new ARMY GREEN ink will last until I "go to that great ink store in the sky!" C. S.

 

Thank you for the laugh

[sansenri]

I just answered the same question raised in another thread...

 

discarding unused ink (for example because you are bored of using that colour that is in your pen) into a jar and repeating this with different ink that ends up in the same jar, is not an advisable practice

for two reasons

1) because -as mentioned - the mixing of many colours eventually ends up in an ugly murky mix that you would never want to use anyway...

(unless you know what you are doing... see some interesting examples above in this thread... )

2) because mixing different inks together can cause deterioration such as precipitation in the ink, due to incompatibility of some ingredients, which would then also make it risky to use that ink in a pen,

so either dispose of unwanted ink (in the sink) or give it away,

or collect the leftover in individual separate small capped jars/vials and reuse by filling (cartidge/converter) by means of a syringe.

(I do the latter, it's surprising how much you can still write with a quarter full converter rediluted by just one drop of water...)