What Pen did you clean out today?

[Fo0zle]

A few!

 

TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR. Cleaned out so I could switch from my Stub nib back to the Fine it came with. My Eco stub is fulfilling my stubby needs at the moment.

 

Kaweco Sport. I kept some J Herbin Ambre De Birmanie in it for the last month or so and it started to dry out. I think I’m just going to put this one in storage for now.

 

Jinhao 9019. Finished a converter full of Colorverse Coffee Break and wanted to switch to something else. I’ve been obsessing over the posterity of my journals recently so I’m trying to write my long-form journals with waterproof and lightfast inks. I can save the pretty colors for my bullet journal and random doodles.

 

 

[Doug C]

Bexley California. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Four Octopus  inks came into day. so I had to clean out four pens out of my two filled dirty pen cups. I wanted M or better and in regular flex nibs that normally show shading more than the wetter semi-flex nibs.

 

P-75 Thuya OB, a so-so sheen ink, Unicorn, the blue color is ok. Shades a bit....almost enough to use as a shading ink.

Pelikan 805 OBB, a no shade, no sheen ink, Medusa  is vapid purple too...a don't buy ink.

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Pelikan 215 M,Karamell, a bit redder than Pelikan 4001 Brown. Shades well....I'd buy that again.

Pelikan 915 Hunter Toledo, B....someone else's picture in mine is a B.

Bronze, looks somewhat like R&K Alt Grungold, so wouldn't be used much. Shades well.

[RedPie]

My Jinhao 999, going into the showcase now for a while.

[Penguincollector]

Sheaffer Slim Targa B, just arrived on Friday. It needs tuning and maybe an italic grind.

[chromantic]

Spring green and orange Waterman JIF with "Indian princess" design. Been sitting in a box, ran water through feed and refilled the cart, working fine. Fuyu-gaki perfectly matches clip/section.

[AmandaW]

Today I cleaned three Pilot Kakuno - Violet & White, Orange & Grey and a Papa Blue. Plus a red Greenfield school pen and a Levenger True Writer Pinkly.

 

All of them were written empty and will now take a rest in their felt-lined drawers cos I have too many other pens inked to be refilling any. 

[Mercian]

I am currently in the process of cleaning out a Parker 45 in which I had been using Waterman ‘Havana’ (which was renamed to ‘Absolute Brown’ more than a decade ago, and has recently been discontinued).

 

As ever, I find myself struck by the capability of the 45 feed system to retain a seemingly non-finite amount of unusable ink.
Ink which, despite being inaccessible to the nib, still keeps on coming out of the pen every time one ‘wicks’ water, or cleaning solution, through its nib and into kitchen paper.

Which phenomenon continues to occur, despite my having completely dismantled the pen, flushed its grip/feed section with tap water, and then soaked the pen’s nib, feed, nib-collar, and grip/feed section in a glass of water. Overnight. Twice.

And then wicking a fill of water through its nib into paper. And then a fill of ammonia solution. And then another fill of ammonia solution.

 

HOW can there still be any ink inside this pen? 🤷‍♂️

[Bo Bo Olson]

I ended up with a couple P-45 flighters as gifts to the rolled gold and black I had. I am either lucky, that I'm not persnickety with them, or I've been using up my Parker blue black cartridges.

I will find out ....they are all in my dirty pen cups.

[Mercian]

16 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I am either lucky, that I'm not persnickety with them

😁

 

I, alas, am very finicky/persnickety with my pens...

It’s because I have a short attention span, and I switch between my pens and my inks often.

As I own several types of ink, some of which don’t ‘play nice’ with each other, I have to make sure that I clean out any pen very thoroughly - because I know that, by the time I come to use it again, I simply won’t remember what ink I previously had in it 🤦‍♂️

 

Every man needs to be aware of his own limitations 😁

[inkstainedruth]

45 minutes ago, Mercian said:

I am currently in the process of cleaning out a Parker 45 in which I had been using Waterman ‘Havana’ (which was renamed to ‘Absolute Brown’ more than a decade ago, and has recently been discontinued).

Absolute Brown has been discontinued?!  Bummer.  I have that ink in the recently restored BHR (well, it was black at some point in its history... ) Waterman Ideal ringtop at the moment.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

[Bo Bo Olson]

I did clean, wrap in a paper towel....like normal, but then did it again and a drop or two of ink was still in the 200.

I filled it with R&K Sepia, an ink where one has to be super careful the pen is super clean, in it don't play well with other inks.

There are times when I only let the pen sit in the paper towel for 2-3 hours instead of over night.....and get away with it.

[Lithium466]

7 hours ago, Mercian said:

I am currently in the process of cleaning out a Parker 45 in which I had been using Waterman ‘Havana’ (which was renamed to ‘Absolute Brown’ more than a decade ago, and has recently been discontinued).

 

As ever, I find myself struck by the capability of the 45 feed system to retain a seemingly non-finite amount of unusable ink.
Ink which, despite being inaccessible to the nib, still keeps on coming out of the pen every time one ‘wicks’ water, or cleaning solution, through its nib and into kitchen paper.

Which phenomenon continues to occur, despite my having completely dismantled the pen, flushed its grip/feed section with tap water, and then soaked the pen’s nib, feed, nib-collar, and grip/feed section in a glass of water. Overnight. Twice.

And then wicking a fill of water through its nib into paper. And then a fill of ammonia solution. And then another fill of ammonia solution.

 

HOW can there still be any ink inside this pen? 🤷‍♂️

Oh yes, the 45 are awful for that...if you don't manage to unscrew the collector inside the section, it takes days.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I just had luck, my P-45 cleaned out real easy, but I use a baby ear syringe for all my CC pens.

The old classic squeeze rubber 'converter' was clean...and I've no idea how many years it has sat in my pen repair, cleaning, & needle for filling box.

 

I did take the nib apart...easily enough and there was no ink drain stain on the paper towel. I had to have it super clean in I wanted to put in R&K Sepia which don't play well with otter inks.

[RedPie]

My Jinhao 159 orange. It was easier than I thought.

[MarcoA63]

Non ribbed maroon Hundred Year Pen

[Wil D]

Merlin 62

[chromantic]

Not really cleaning out, just went to refill cart in Sport. Cart wasn't as empty as I thought and got OS Nitrogen on several fingers. had set bottle on big paper towel so it doesn't appear any strayed  but little flecks will probably show up in the coming days.

[PAKMAN]

Reluctantly cleaning out my Grifos Gaudi pen.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I have just bout Asa-Gao andAjisai, so I needed dry pens.

 

 

Lamy Violet is for me in line for world championship points for being the hardest ink to clean out....it too forever to clean out  the cartridge and I would think longer than any other pen to clean out my Lamy 1990 Persona....half an hour for both at least...with big long needle syringe and rubber baby ear syringe bulb. 

And both were let sit to see if more ink would come out, and it did...and did, and did! Even for the cartridge.

Pens cleaned

Lamy 1990 Persona 18 k nail B, CI.

MB Noblesse semi-nail OM...eyeball, 18k. Very pretty marbled burgundy&brown with a silver plated cap. First time used....had old ink in it. Just wrote a card for it.

Geha 725 semi-flex F, my driest semi-flex.

P-51 OM eyeballed.

P-45 Flghter eyeball M.

ST Dupont classique china lacquer fountain pen 18K eyeballed M nib.

 

Now to let them all dry out wrapped in paper towels and pull out the index cards.

It may well be I'll load a couple pens with Kon-piki, so I can get a clear look at them on my Five, now six sheets of testing papers. That will be  two, the wider nib and the narrowest...with Kon-piki getting perhaps just one, of what ever is left over.

At my B&M I just picked up half a ream of Mondi Color Copy 120g, lazer/inkjet.

The 100g at first struck me as a better paper ...too soon I rated it as just better than normal copy paper...and that 100g.

So now I have the 120g, i can put that Mondi 100g into my laser printer.

I'm waiting for the postman to bring me some of the discontinued  80g Neuisider Japan Post paper... So that will be seven sheets of paper to test inks with.

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I go to my B&M and forget to get Lamy converters. For the 25th time.

It is not going well for him, his business has not rebounded well from Convid. Two years of new students that really don't know his shop in spite of them riding both ways on their bikes on the one way Plock street. A major Uni street.

So I'll not be ordering them online.