What Pen did you clean out today?

[Doug C]

An Atelier Lusso Carena.

[AmandaW]

Pilot Prera Yama-guri F italic, Wing Sung 3003 M italic (from a Plumix), Pilot Metropolitan CM and a Lamy Safari Brown Bear F.

 

 

[TrueBlue719]

Today I cleaned out my Lamy 2000, my Parker 51, and my Shaeffer Snorkel in exchange for my Pelikan M800 and Pilot e95s.

[Penguincollector]

I just cleaned out my tiny little jade ring top. 

[AmandaW]

Prompted by the thread about one's first fountain pen I dug out these three for a look. I have no idea who gave them to me, only that they've been in a drawer here for over a decade. When I originally found them I knew nothing about fountain pens. OK, so I still don't know nearly enough, but enough to know it was time to dig them out, give them a clean and see what I have. Maybe I have three new pens...

 

They all have (to me) an unusual nib - is it a folded nib? Two 'Genius Germany' and one 'Manuscript England'. One of the Genius Germany has Forum Hotel Warszawa on the cap. The Manuscript wrote a couple of pages in my journal today.

 

 

[51ISH]

1 hour ago, AmandaW said:

Prompted by the thread about one's first fountain pen I dug out these three for a look. I have no idea who gave them to me, only that they've been in a drawer here for over a decade. When I originally found them I knew nothing about fountain pens. OK, so I still don't know nearly enough, but enough to know it was time to dig them out, give them a clean and see what I have. Maybe I have three new pens...

 

They all have (to me) an unusual nib - is it a folded nib? Two 'Genius Germany' and one 'Manuscript England'. One of the Genius Germany has Forum Hotel Warszawa on the cap. The Manuscript wrote a couple of pages in my journal today.

 

 

 

This looks like the Forum Hotel  https://www.inyourpocket.com/krakow/forum-hotel_72160v

[AmandaW]

Thankyou! According to that article the hotel didn't open til 1989 and then closed in 2002. Definitely narrows the date of the pen to a decade, but sheds no light on how I got it. Or why it and the other pens have the same style of nib.

[51ISH]

12 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

Thankyou! According to that article the hotel didn't open til 1989 and then closed in 2002. Definitely narrows the date of the pen to a decade, but sheds no light on how I got it. Or why it and the other pens have the same style of nib.

 

One things for sure, all those pens are a long way from 'Home'.... maybe they all travelled together, with the same custodian?

Any well travelled European ancestors. Forum Hotel pen could have been made for the 'Grand Opening' maybe? Or, it could have been made by Manuscript Pens maybe, as a promotional pen?

[51ISH]

Parker 45 with a stub.

[51ISH]

Jinaho? Dolce-Vita Narjanja. What a pain the (beep) those Chinese slider small converters are to get clean. Thank goodness it was a well behaved ink. 

 

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[Penguincollector]

Chren P2/ Lamy Z57. The golden beryl shimmer wasn’t so bad. 

[irrigger]

Just a Lamy Al-Star. It was more due to me not liking the ink I put in it. I think it would have been better with a wider nib.

[Linger]

Nakaya 17mm PC in hoki tamenuri. From MB Purdey orange-brown to MB toffee brown. 

[inkstainedruth]

Still attempting to flush out the Parker 61 Flighter.  

I want it to be really clean on the inside because I don't know what the ink was in it.  After spending several months of reconstituting the ink just enough that it would flow, I finally got tired of it, and have spent the past week or so alternating between letting the capillary filler soak up ammonia solution and distilled water, then flushing with more distilled water from behind with a bulb syringe, then letting it drain into paper toweling (rinse, repeat).  

I'm no longer getting black/grey ink coming out, but still getting this odd sort of orangey brown color liquid seeping into the paper toweling.

Eventually I will get it to the point of the liquid running clear, but it's been a long slow process.  And have no idea what the ink was (or how long it's been in the pen) -- the seller said he'd gotten it at an estate sale.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Doug C]

Bexley Owners Club.

[antares1966]

Flushed and stored my flagship pen, Aurora Optima Blue Auroloide, she’s a super sweet writer, never goes to bed for long.

[Linger]

8 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Still attempting to flush out the Parker 61 Flighter.  

I want it to be really clean on the inside because I don't know what the ink was in it.  After spending several months of reconstituting the ink just enough that it would flow, I finally got tired of it, and have spent the past week or so alternating between letting the capillary filler soak up ammonia solution and distilled water, then flushing with more distilled water from behind with a bulb syringe, then letting it drain into paper toweling (rinse, repeat).  

I'm no longer getting black/grey ink coming out, but still getting this odd sort of orangey brown color liquid seeping into the paper toweling.

Eventually I will get it to the point of the liquid running clear, but it's been a long slow process.  And have no idea what the ink was (or how long it's been in the pen) -- the seller said he'd gotten it at an estate sale.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Did you try using an ultrasonic cleaner?

[inkstainedruth]

I don't have one.  In the past, I haven't really needed one (even for capillary fillers) -- but the ink in this pen was a *very* saturated black.  Since last fall, I'd flush the pen with distilled water *just* enough to get the ink flowing (and could get at most about half a page of A5 paper written on before having to re-flush it to get it started again).  More recently, when I've tried to flush it out for good, the diluted ink is now coming out of the nib into paper toweling as being a brown ink, rather than a black one....

Ruth Morrissona aka inkstainedruth

[AmandaW]

My ultrasonic cleaner came from Aldi. It works well. And is actually better than the stainless steel one we have that was very expensive when we bought it about 30 years ago... it was the only option back then, a pro thing meant for jewelers, I think. We needed it for cleaning plotter pens. My eyes were on stalks when I saw our new one at Aldi on the shark table. (You know how people circle that table looking everything... Like sharks around the prey. Someone had to explain it to me too. )

 

 

 

 

[PAKMAN]

Finally ran out of ink in my Nakaya Portable Writer Aka-tamenuri red lacquer ebonite pen. I hate to put away, I love writing with it so much!  But I have too many pens inked right now!