What Pen did you clean out today?

[MarcoA63]

Parker 75 Sterling Silver Cisele, flushed, cleaned and managed to rotate nib 180 degrees as it should have been

 

Vintage Aurora 2cart, flushed and cleaned

[Arkanabar]

Just cleaned out the first fill (Diamine Sherwood) of my recently acquired FPR Indus F.  This is my third Indus, and they all dry out overnight.  Which is a shame, because the form factor is a fairly good match for my beloved M20x pens.

[PAKMAN]

I cleaned out my Vannes edition blue, The Good Blue pen with Ti flex nib and my OM1 Only Made Once stainless steel pen today.

 

[Mark from Yorkshire]

My Parker 51 after the umpteenth non start and effort to get it writing. Washed through with hot water and flushed. The amount of ink flushed out was ridiculous. To say it would not write despite re-priming and generally running on blotting paper. So in the end got a proper wash and a cartridge put in instead of converter. If it stops writing again or hard starts again nib will be bent and pen will end up in bin along with box

[inkstainedruth]

Is this a vintage 51 or one of the reissued ones?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mark from Yorkshire]

16 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Is this a vintage 51 or one of the reissued ones?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Sh*t issue sorry reissue it’s a complete pita

[inkstainedruth]

That's what I was guessing, but wanted to make sure.  At the price they're charging for those, I'll DEFINITELY stick to vintage 51s found in the wild....  

After the Urban from Hell, the ONLY "modern" (as in post-1980) Parkers I tend to want to buy are Vectors.  And I've had very little trouble with those.  Would not want to try and write the Great American Novel™ with a pen that skinny, but for being effectively "school" pens?  Mine are little workhorses.  And they're inexpensive enough that if there's a problem?  Ehhh.  Not out a lot of money.  Although I HAVE paid less for at least one of the vintage 51s (not counting the cost of nib work) than a couple of the Vectors if you factor in the cost of a twist converter on some of those....  (two bucks US for the Forest Green Aero plus another $20 for a bit of nib work).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Doug C]

3 Mr Cypress.  Filled up 3 Dani Trios.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

16 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

That's what I was guessing, but wanted to make sure.  At the price they're charging for those, I'll DEFINITELY stick to vintage 51s found in the wild....  

After the Urban from Hell, the ONLY "modern" (as in post-1980) Parkers I tend to want to buy are Vectors.  And I've had very little trouble with those.  Would not want to try and write the Great American Novel™ with a pen that skinny, but for being effectively "school" pens?  Mine are little workhorses.  And they're inexpensive enough that if there's a problem?  Ehhh.  Not out a lot of money.  Although I HAVE paid less for at least one of the vintage 51s (not counting the cost of nib work) than a couple of the Vectors if you factor in the cost of a twist converter on some of those....  (two bucks US for the Forest Green Aero plus another $20 for a bit of nib work).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Vectors were my pen of choice through school and recently got one for nostalgias sake. 

[MarcoA63]

Finished the ink in my two Kaweco, Dia 85A steel nib

Sport #12 from the 50s

 

flushed and flushed and now nib down in a jar on kitchen roll to dry out

[Horseflesh]

I cleaned the remnants of a Yu-Yake sample out of my TWSBI 580 after finally concluding that the ink had no properties that I liked better than my other orange-ish inks. (Kin-Mokusei, FPR Tangerine Dream, Mont. Fire Opal, Diamine Autumn Oak.)

 

With good progress made towards finding my ultimate orange I am switching gears to green. 

 

[AlexLeGrande]

TWSBI Mini, white and Rose Gold.

[Arkanabar]

My utterly prosaic blue Jinhao 51A XF.  I'm still soaking it, because it ran my bête noire of ink, Noodler's Bad Black Moccasin, for so many years, and it's still coming out .  But that ink is now all gone (I did wind up pouring out some 30-40% of the bottle).  Next up is a blue FPR Jaipur, which was writing far too wet and got emptied into my emerald Himalaya that is MUCH better behaved.

[richdirector]

My sailor slim ....still debating which ink to put back in ... Just had Sailor Shikiori Hodaki in ... A lovely deepish red

[Penguincollector]

Blue and black striped Pelikan old style M400 OM. It was very popular at the pen club meeting. I sat down to write in my journal with it last Sunday and evry drop was gone.  😊 

[Penguincollector]

TodCo BCHR 14k eydropper, Staedtler Broad Calligraphy.

[antares1966]

The CON-70 in my metal Falcon keeps having an ink film adhering to the sides even when otherwise empty.  Going to agitate with a dilute dishwashing soap solution and follow up with some pen flush and see what happens.  It’s the oldest pen by far in my ver modest collection and may just be time to go ahead and buy a new converter for it.

[Penguincollector]

Sailor Slim Candy

[PAKMAN]

Rinsed out my new 1948 Plum 51 Demi.

[Scrawler]

1 minute ago, PAKMAN said:

Rinsed out my new 1948 Plum 51 Demi.

Ohhh! That is a particularly lovely shade.