What Pen did you clean out today?

[PAKMAN]

Asvine P20

[Junebe]

Hongdian N2, love its EF nib and used its fill of Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris to the last drop.

[MarcoA63]

Pelikan 140

[Bo Bo Olson]

A very good then popular medium-small pen, it's longer cap allows it to match a 400 in size when both are posted....stubbed semi-flex of course.

What width?

[MarcoA63]

Bo Bo who is the question for?

[Bo Bo Olson]

You.

My very first semi-flex was a green stripped 140 OB.

I have a Black140 OF that runs a bit fat.

So I'm always interested in what width a nib has especially when it's semi-flex.

 

I set up an upstairs one pen man...a Parker nail.., with 4 pens of various widths and flexes.

A Reform 1745 EF, Regular flex.an F and M which, I don't remember right now, in it's been a couple of years**, and the fella needed a B/OB so i sold my green stripped 140 semi-flex OB at old day prices....in gent don't look for profit when one drinks his booze.

 

** One was a maxi-semi-flex F Geha, the other was a M regular flex 200.

He has bought a Pilot F=EFsince.

[PAKMAN]

Cleaned out all my inked pens so I could ink up my new Arkansas Pen Show finds.  Cleaned out my:
- Arkansas Vanness 75 anniversary Newton pen

- Asvine P20

 

[da vinci]

Looking to downsize my collection. So had to clean a few pens today 😢

 

MB149s, Parker Duofold International in Lapis solid blue, Pelikan m805. Couple of Sailors. 
 

A sad day!

[RonLyke]

PFM V

TWSBI Diamond 580

[Runnin_Ute]

Last night was three Parker 45's. One a Flighter, plus a burgundy and a Forest Green.  Still have a half dozen or so to do. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

As soon as i clean pens from my two full, dirty pen cups...they end up being inked.

The sad part is not with the inks that use to be in them, but with inks I've not used in a while.

I more than likely reported this....four pens to check out two green or turquoise mixes of MB Joyless. Dupont Classic (black), two Pelikan Celebries (one marbled green the other black)  and a marbled green Pelikan 381.

I have to clean 4 more pens to do a full Orange run.

[MarcoA63]

@Bo Bo Olson the 140 has an OM nib, it writes beautifully. Thank you for asking

[RedPie]

My Hero 103.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Medium-small Black&Gold Pelikan Pelikan 150, inked with Akkerman Oranje Boven. A light bright red-orange, no shading.

Nib is the normal Pelikan regular flex, like the 120, and 200. ('82-97 400/600 also.)

 

Caped it is a tad smaller than a 120/140. Posted it surprisingly is the same length as a 120/140. The 140 has the longer cap...which is why it posts to the same length as the 400.

The 140's body is a tad shorter than the 150. the 140's cap is longer. Even steven in useful length.

The 150 is a thinner pen, but 'shocked me' by being as long posted as a 120/140/400.

 

That pen lay around doing nothing for such a long time, but it's posed length has moved it up to use more often class.

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I'm testing orange inks, and I realized I'd not achieved perfection in the first place. Two of the four pens I have testing my 'home made' orange mixture are F's...not the M's or wider needed to test an ink...in my books..

So just cleaned out a Pelikan Silverx F, now loaded with pre-91 W.Germany re-hydrated Orange cartridge. The first orange I tried...almost back in the day, 12 years ago, and I liked it. Now...it don't shade.

The Dutch ink is red orange.

 

A Mut5chler made Reform flighter between a semi-nail and regular flex spread. The Kaweco Sunrise Orange, also needed a tad of rehydration, it being 5-6 years since I bought those cartridges.

It is darker on Clairefontaine Triomph and Oxford Opticm and it shades...

I might call it a tad pumpkin....

Will have to let the Pelikan orange set for a while more to get the feed wet....in the meanwhile.......MB Joyless has to be inked to compared to that old Pelikan Orange.

I cleaned out a 'clean' pen. glad I checked. an Italian made Pelikan 151, the same green as on a 120, in a 150 form...F.

Will come back with the MB Joyless report. MB Joy is a red orange ink...a slight tad more than the Akkerman ink.

 

What was interesting, is similar nibs making a difference in the same ink sample.

The F's of my black pens, a Pelikan Celebry and a Dupont Classic both regular flex.one darker, the other more orange. Those were with MB Joy and PE Apatite, a turquoise.

 

I tried to put just one drop in each sample, but ended up with 2-3. So could be off a lot, from the advice given to me.

MB Joy and Pelikan Aventurine, The green marbled pens, a Celebry F were considerable darker. and a Pelikan 381 OB...regular flex. The OB had/has lighter orangey shading parts than the F nib.

I could expect a difference between F and OB but not the real two toned shading.

Unfortunately....only half of the very same sample showed 'extreme' shading.

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Akkerman Oranje Boven. is a good ink for those who don't want to spend a fortune on the LE MB Joy.

In my pen Kaweco shaded but was a bit too dark...perhaps the pen was not squeaky clean...orange late pumpkin.

Antique re-hydrated Pelikan orange, is orange, but don't dance nor shade.

MB Joy and PE Apatite, a turquoise. Was the better mix, and the feeds and F nibs of the Dupont and the Pelikan are different enough to give markably different shades.

 

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Having so many dirty pens, and 22 filled ones, has forced me into using pens that I seldom if ever use.

 

 

[RedPie]

TWSBI Eco, was inked with Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin. Pen looks like new now.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Cross Bailey, The Diamine onyx black was just playing nicely with this pen so washed out and put Cross blue black Cartridge in instead. Just letting ink drain into feed.

ironically it is also not playing nicely with the Monteverde Ritma either but I suspect a fault with that pen, one can see daylight through the slit. I will give that one time as it wrote ok once I re-primed it. 

[BamaAl]

Three pilot metropolitans with noodlers black in them.

[Penguincollector]

13 Jinhao 992 pens. 

[KingsCountyWriter]

I just finished cleaning out some Elites (crosshatch <F> and a 1977 <M> nib), a Volex with an <F> nib and a Myu-25 with a similar nib. All of the pens had cartridges in them of unknown vintage, but with a few rounds in the ultrasonic, they flow nicely and look as good as new! 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was the Peter Pauper Press Jane Mosse "Falling Blossoms" pen.  It was pretty easy to clean since the ink in it had been diluted J Herbin Eclat de Saphir.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth