What Is This Thing Floating Inside My Bottle Of Platinum Carbon Ink ?

[HartGummi]

I opened my newly bought bottle of Platinum Carbon Ink and this cylindrical thing was found floating inside.

 

Edited October 10, 2020 by HartGummi

[aurore]

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/304541-ink-bottlesinkwells-with-inserts-a-la-levenger/

[HartGummi]

I never knew bottles came with such things.

[A Smug Dill]

[inkstainedruth]

I think the old style (round) Sailor bottles may have had similar inserts. And possibly other ink brands as well (but Sailor comes to mind because I have a bottle of original formula Sky High -- which is not quite the same to my eye as Souten was).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[aurore]

I think the old style (round) Sailor bottles may have had similar inserts. And possibly other ink brands as well (but Sailor comes to mind because I have a bottle of original formula Sky High -- which is not quite the same to my eye as Souten was).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Indeed. Older Sailor (for the current cube bottles it is sold separately), current Kobe Nagasawa, current Pilot 60/70ml, 70ml TWSBI, discontinued Parker Penman, some Chinese inks etc. etc.

[pennonia]

AFAIK R&K sells these inserts separately. I guess they are useful to gather the last drops so you can still fill your FP (but I have never finished a bottle since I started out in 2012 so I don't know how good they are)

[inkstainedruth]

The only bottles I've finished have been smaller capacity ones (a bottle of De Atramentis, which is only 35 ml) and I think the first bottle of Waterman Mysterious Blue. Well, and the 4-1/2 bottle of Noodler's Kung Te Cheng I knocked off the bathroom counter after only one fill, of course -- but that wasn't "finishing" so much as "breaking"....
I have one of the Noodler's versions of the R&K inserts, but have never used it (although it might be one of the stand-up tulip style ones that you pour the ink into -- I forget now which I bought).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[aurore]

AFAIK R&K sells these inserts separately. I guess they are useful to gather the last drops so you can still fill your FP (but I have never finished a bottle since I started out in 2012 so I don't know how good they are)

 

Ah, yes, indeed! I didn't buy them but have one in my cleaning solution bottle.

[mulrich]

These can help fill a pen when a bottle is running low on ink but in my experience the inserts are just a nuisance. Many of my pens require completely submerging the nib, which is very difficult with the Sailor inserts and larger nibs so I end up throwing the insert away.

[Maurizio]

I find it annoying and remove it with tweezers.

[Tasmith]

These can help fill a pen when a bottle is running low on ink but in my experience the inserts are just a nuisance. Many of my pens require completely submerging the nib, which is very difficult with the Sailor inserts and larger nibs so I end up throwing the insert away.

Same eperience for me too.