Tea Dipping When Pen Is Dry

[Karmachanic]

. Denture cleaning tablets work well to remove the tea stains, no scrubbing required.

To remove the ink on your teeth?

[sansenri]

I have a spray bottle of bleach and water (about 10% bleach). I spray that into my tea cups (as well as using it for other cleaning up). Do widzenia, tea stains!

 

thank you for the tip...

I still do believe Lie de thé is better for FPs than Earl Grey...

[Intensity]

Unless it's Diamine Earl Grey

[Bibliophage]

Unless it's Diamine Earl Grey

I can just see someone keeping a bottle of ink around to wet the dried nibs of different ink...

 

That would end up being a REALLY interesting colour.

[dapprman]

Tea, coffee, used both, though I do drink them black and without sugar 9ecept builders tea which i would not dip in to).

[Noihvo]

I have a spray bottle of bleach and water (about 10% bleach). I spray that into my tea cups (as well as using it for other cleaning up). Do widzenia, tea stains!

 

[KaB]

my solution. This used to contain MB Winter Glow. Now it's the cutest and safest dipping well for dried out pens

 

[ethernautrix]

 

Oo! Nice tip, thank you! I do have baking soda on hand. I will try it tonight, after my last giant cuppa herbata (I think I drink between 1.5 and 2 liters of tea per day lately -- cos I've been adding honey, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon. Smaczna herbata!). Edited December 15, 2019 by ethernautrix

[silverlifter]

After reading this thread over the last couple of days...

 

One of my desk pens at work, a Wing Sung 3008 inked with Robert Oster Fire Engine Red which hasn't seen much use lately, refused to start. I had a nice, hot, cup of tea freshly brewed so, yes, I dunked it.

 

Worked like a charm: a nice, wet, bright red line! Tea tastes the same as well

[Tas]

After reading this thread over the last couple of days...

 

One of my desk pens at work, a Wing Sung 3008 inked with Robert Oster Fire Engine Red which hasn't seen much use lately, refused to start. I had a nice, hot, cup of tea freshly brewed so, yes, I dunked it.

 

Worked like a charm: a nice, wet, bright red line! Tea tastes the same as well

 

Welcome . . .

[sansenri]

Unless it's Diamine Earl Grey

Oops!

Edited December 16, 2019 by sansenri

[sansenri]

 

Ah thanks! I like this tip even better.

I use bicarbonate for various cleaning tasks already...

 

Im not so much of a tea drinker really, but bicarbonate cleans my moka coffee machines very thoroughly when needed.

Edited December 16, 2019 by sansenri

[como]

+1, my preferred method as well. The local stationery shop has exactly that :-)

my solution. This used to contain MB Winter Glow. Now it's the cutest and safest dipping well for dried out pens

[chromantic]

Quelle horreur! I would never dip a nib into anything other than water.

 

I will usually try a dry tissue/paper towel pressed against the top side of the nib to draw ink from the slit; I may try wetting the towel a little from the water dispenser. If that doesn't get it going I'll run it under the faucet a couple seconds.

[GEJ]

To be avoided. Tea stains.

How do you clean your tea cups? Have you noticed they do not come clean unless you scrub them vigorously?

I tend not to clean my tea mug at work except on the weekend so it does tend to stain, more from the tea than any ink . Usually I just scrub with dish soap unless I've been drinking a lot of tea, or letting my tea sit for too long, in which case I might soak in 10% bleach water. Either way my tea laced with a miniscule amount of Diamine Bilberry doesn't seem to affect the taste of my Pu-erh, although it does provide a short lived swirl in my tea which is pleasant to contemplate .

Edited December 19, 2019 by GEJ

[Intensity]

Quelle horreur! I would never dip a nib into anything other than water.

 

I will usually try a dry tissue/paper towel pressed against the top side of the nib to draw ink from the slit; I may try wetting the towel a little from the water dispenser. If that doesn't get it going I'll run it under the faucet a couple seconds.

Yes! Precisely what I do. I have a very small stack of paper towels on my desk with various ink stains on them from various blotting. If those dont help, I walk to a water tap. Edited December 20, 2019 by Intensity

[inkstainedruth]

To be avoided. Tea stains.

How do you clean your tea cups? Have you noticed they do not come clean unless you scrub them vigorously?

 

Oh yeah. My mother tried all sorts of wacky things to try and get tea stains out of cups. And a woman I used to work with spilled tea on a pair of wool pants, and the drycleaners told her "This pair of pants is toast...."

Not only that. Tea is fairly acidic (that's the tannin part) and when I started reading this thread my initial thought was "eww, gross -- I don't want ink (since I don't know what the chemical components are and what possible noxious/toxic ones are involved)". But then it occurred to me that if you've got a highly alkaline ink in your pen, what OTHER types of less than happy chemical interactions are going to be involved. Especially after seeing someone's photo review of mixing Noodler's Black and Noodler's Bay State Blue together, and just sticking the results in a pen without seeing how the inks would react first. And the results? They weren't pretty.... (I was waffling between going "oh you poor thing" to the poster and going "Okay, just sticking the mix in a pen without seeing out the inks reacted was just DUMB...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth