What Pen did you clean out today?

[PAKMAN]

Someone suggested this thread and I've been thinking it would be a fun one, so here it is!

 

As the title suggests, What pen did you finish using and clean out today, either to store or to refill with another ink?

 

For me it was my, New to me, Pelikan vintage 400 green stripe with a fine flexy nib. It came with a pretty green ink already in it and I decided to clean it out and grease the piston and refill it with my green ink. Montblanc White Forrest Pine scented ink.  Beautiful green.

 

So what did you clean out today?

[sirgilbert357]

Pelikan M800 Brown Black

Jinhao 100 Centennial Black with gold trim

 

Bonus: yesterday it was a Sailor 1911 L Stormy Sea.

 

My L-16 Legend by Ryan Krusac is VERY close to empty. I may just go ahead and clean it out today too. It probably has half a page left before its done...

[sansenri]

perfect question on a Sunday evening (at least it is here...)

5 pens were washed and are now standing uncapped nib up to dry in a pen holder

Kaweco Dia II

Corsani 90 (by Visconti) grey ringed celluloid

Stipula Etruria Alter Ego

Visconti Opera blue marble

Nettuno 1911 Skipper blue marble

[carlos.q]

Pelikan M800 with a 14c fine nib. 🥰

[amberleadavis]

I haven't started cleaning out my pens, but I will.

[Paul-in-SF]

This is a good idea for a topic.

 

Mine was a vintage Parker Duofold Senior Streamline, button-filler, black, with Fine nib. 

 

Button-fillers are often a nuisance to clean out, as this one was (I think I may need to visit the insides to see if the pressure bar is in good shape). So I got as much ink out as I could by filling and emptying many times with plain water. Then I filled it with pen wash and let it sit for a while, before finishing the cleaning out. Then back into the Parker Duofold tray, which is now too full and and I had to relegate a poor inoffensive Vacumatic Junior to an overflow drawer to make room.

[Runnin_Ute]

I have about ten or so that need to be cleaned. 

[Penguincollector]

Today, the new Slimfold. I have 2 pens that seem endless because it’s been months and they are still writing, even after pages of Spencerian alphabet drills. 

[AmandaW]

Just two today. A Sailor Nagasawa Original Profit Skeleton Proske with a Zoom nib and a brown Pilot Prera fine italic (the nib was swapped from a Pluminix). The inks were easy to clean out - R&K Sepia and Robert Oster Motor Oil - though I still use a bulb syringe from the pharmacy and a cheapy ultrasonic cleaner (picked up at Aldi) to make short work of it.

 

[A Smug Dill]

26 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

The inks were easy to clean out - R&K Sepia and Robert Oster Motor Oil - though I still use a bulb syringe from the pharmacy and a cheapy ultrasonic cleaner (picked up at Aldi) to make short work of it.

 

Even so, you might want to have a look at this thread here and keep that in the back of your mind.

[JosephKing]

Noodlers Triple Tail
Rotring Altro Stylograph

[AmandaW]

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Even so, you might want to have a look at this thread here and keep that in the back of your mind.

 

Yeah, I discovered that trick a while back. Accidentally. Was lucky and grateful I didn't lose the little gold 'o ring'.

 

Not fussed about the water. It should be dry by the time I want to fill it again.

[Pendarion]

TWSBI Eco - first time disassembling and reassembling one. I did not enjoy it. But I think I must have done it right as it's re-filled and working again.  I normally just rinse out quickly and refill but I'd had a sparkly ink in it... 

[A Smug Dill]

40 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

I discovered that trick a while back. Accidentally.

 

It was also by accident I learnt from that very pen that this is possible. About half of the Sailor pens I have (or had) in that form factor were secured with glue during production, and the other half weren’t.

 

[DvdRiet]

First rotation pen in a while that's run out of ink on me right at the start of the day, so I guess I'll be cleaning out my Ystudio white resin today. Oh well, plenty more pens to choose from. Already inked up a little vintage button-filler with a sweet Bock nib that I've been told is Marvel or Miro (Union) for today's note-taking. 

[Aysedasi]

Sheaffer Balance Oversize with an unusual broad left oblique nib.  One of my prize pens, but I realised that in my prep for a house move, the move itself and then getting things sorted in the new house, I'd really neglected it.  The sac was shot.  But it's now been replaced and I'm good to go with the beauty again!  

[Paul-in-SF]

Montblanc 22 with (left-foot) OB (or maybe OM) nib. 

 

Oddly, as it was running out, I found I could still write with it if I rotated it in what I think of as the wrong direction, i.e. to the right. This went on for the better part of an A4 page before that stopped working, and the ink stopped flowing. Then I dipped it for a few seconds in pen flush, daubed the pen flush off with a tissue, and was able to write for a few more lines (I just wanted to finish that entry). 

[miwishi63]

A no-name Chinese wooden pen because I wanted to fiddle some more with the nib which I'm in the process of grinding to a stub italic. It had Diamine Holly in it so now my hands look like I had a fight with a Christmas tree.

[sirgilbert357]

Well, the L-16 Legend wrote longer than I figured it would. It finally ran dry last night. It's clean and put away now, so I didn't technically clean it out TODAY, but yeah...

 

I think the Lamy Aion will be next...

[amberleadavis]

Okay, I'm on day three of cleaning pens. I couldn't take it.!