What Pen did you clean out today?

[mhguda]

So, I had a thought. Yes, I think my pen needs a new piston. But I figured out where and how it goes into the pen.

So, could I buy something like it? I'd need to know the name of our pen... and how would I go about finding such a piston assembly.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Cleaned out a Faber-Castell 66G with an EF nail nib.

It was so dry I had to fill it with Iroshizuku Kon-peki, and it is still dry but as before with PE Apatite.

It had an Osmia 'Diamond' topped finial, however it was a nail instead of a semi-flex.

When this pen is empty it will be cleaned out real and put in the don't use box....until I have enough pens for a live auction sale.

[Penguincollector]

  I am still emptying pale pink water from my Pilot Elite Lady, and now cleaning my MontBlanc Mozart Mini Solitaire Doué. 

[Claes]

Today, I excavated a $8.75 Jubilee Special Blue Diamond Vacumatic Desk Pen and Base.

That amount of USD at the beginning of the 1940s equals about USD 168 today.

 

 

The label at the bottom of the base promises a Life Service contract, since this is a Blue Diamond set.

 

 

Have fun!

Claes in Lund, Sweden

 

[ParramattaPaul]

37 minutes ago, Claes said:

Today, I excavated a $8.75 Jubilee Special Blue Diamond Vacumatic Desk Pen and Base.

That amount of USD at the beginning of the 1940s equals about USD 168 today.

 

 

The label at the bottom of the base promises a Life Service contract, since this is a Blue Diamond set.

 

 

Have fun!

Claes in Lund, Sweden

 

🤔 Can we say "inflation"? 🤔

[Bo Bo Olson]

I also like the inkwell on the black glass base in the back ground.

I have two.

[RedPie]

Cleaned out my Jinhao 159 gold. Very easy!

[Mark from Yorkshire]

I have the nib unit from my Sheaffer 100 sat in warm soapy water soaking Diamine Onyx black out. Even though when I changed ink and washed it till water ran clear this pen was still full of old ink that was interfering with current fill and causing skipping and missing. 
 

I suspect too many straight refills with black ink, that and a build up due to how easily bottled black inks dry out in the UK climate.

[ParramattaPaul]

8 hours ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

I have the nib unit from my Sheaffer 100 sat in warm soapy water soaking Diamine Onyx black out. Even though when I changed ink and washed it till water ran clear this pen was still full of old ink that was interfering with current fill and causing skipping and missing. 
 

I suspect too many straight refills with black ink, that and a build up due to how easily bottled black inks dry out in the UK climate.

I have to wonder if black inks clog more easily because they have far more pigment or whatever it is called that makes them deeply black.

[PenFan95]

My perpetually troubled Parker 51 and a Waterman Carene that basically feels cursed at this point, with how much trouble it’s given me over the years (skipping and hard starts, never using all the ink inside, rapidly disintegrating converters, list goes on).

[Misfit]

I’m cleaning a Monteverde Mountains of the World Everest with stub nib. I previously cleaned Vesuvio. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I have 6 un-reviewed shading inks coming in, and as Liz suggested,use a copy paper instead of CT which would show the ink better. (actually for 80g copy paper a nice one, where some shading happens) And have to use a F occasionally in some folks don't have extra wide nibs like an M.

Perhaps I'll do CT also.

I'm often cheap in the wrong places and wrong times.

I don't know how many years I didn't buy CT or Rhoda....and after finally buying, rented a size 23 boot to kick my self around the town square for being so cheap.

Good to better paper makes scribbling fun for shading inks, and good to better paper 'never ever' goes in a printer.

 

 

I will do M's and a few B's...depending on whim, and a small dip and go with F.

I have striven to clean only springy regular flex nibs (= Pilot 'soft') in semi-flex is often too wet for shading.

Pelikan 200 Amethyst... B.

Pelikan 150 Black... M.

Pelikan 151 Italian made, green body like a 120 ... F.

Artus Ballit (Lamy sub-brand)  with a steel 92 ... F  (have a gold 92 somewhere, but doubt if it would matter to swap them. As a noobie I foolishly believed in the gold nib myth, which is not true for that era. Being a gold nib snob, cost me some real nice steel nibbed pens....back when pens were affordable.

Pelikan 481 gold plating half worn off, ...M. I told that junk/antique store owner not to rub the nib clean with a rough paper towel. But for €15, I couldn't complain much. The steel half plated nib is just fine.

Pelikan 215 lozenges.....M

MB 14 (just 14, not 14x)...Eyeballed to EF...won't use, too narrow. And semi-flex. I had had thoughts of getting a used MB144, for the balance, but this one takes that later pen's place just fine for balance.

Pelikan 400 Tortoise..'91-97...M

Pelikan 605, stubbed .... B.

Pelikan Ruby Star...  B

Pelikan Petrol ... M.

11 down, 18 to go, or one very full pen cup.

In my three inked cups.

10 with normal inks and 8 in a special just for hunting for sheen cup.

[PAKMAN]

Cleaned out my Pelikan M1000 Rennaissance Brown today.

[Misfit]

Cleaned my Monteverde Mountains of the World Mt. Fuji pen.  

[Penguincollector]

Parker IM Monochrome Blue

[RedPie]

Huashilai which did not take the shimmering ink too well. It cleaned out easy.

[senzen]

Muji aluminium with ultrasonic cleaner, after getting a few blobs of Helianthus; now back to its reliable self.

 

Dunhill Gemline Dress with diluted Rapido Eze so it regains its smoothness with Yama Guri.

[Misfit]

A Retro 51 in a color called Peacock 🦚 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Pelikan 200 that came with a Parker Penman Ink bottle holder inkwell.

Penman Ruby took for ever to clean out ... pink and brown is what I saw in the bathroom sink. Ruby is more a burgundy and not a red.

Decided not to fill a wet pen Pelikan 200, with a wet ink....a dry Geha 725 got the call to be inked with Penman Ruby. It writes well....not as much shading as hoped, but some and though no sheen....even on 3 Japanese papers where it has a bit more shading.

 

I have learned how to tilt like a mad man under a low set desk lamp, looking for sheen..........a great improvement over a month or two ago; where I never found any at all.

[Doug C]

20 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Pelikan 200 that came with a Parker Penman Ink bottle holder inkwell.

Penman Ruby took for ever to clean out ... pink and brown is what I saw in the bathroom sink. Ruby is more a burgundy and not a red.

Decided not to fill a wet pen Pelikan 200, with a wet ink....a dry Geha 725 got the call to be inked with Penman Ruby. It writes well....not as much shading as hoped, but some and though no sheen....even on 3 Japanese papers where it has a bit more shading.

 

I have learned how to tilt like a mad man under a low set desk lamp, looking for sheen..........a great improvement over a month or two ago; where I never found any at all.

Bo Bo, I have that stand. Levenger,  right?