What Pen did you clean out today?

[inkstainedruth]

Huh.  Just looked that ink up, and on one website the ink definitely looks red, but on another the swab looks more red orange (although the writing same did look more red). 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

  It’s very pen and paper dependent, and it got more orangey the longer it was in the pen. The last writing I did with it looks rusty. Other writing looks brick red.
 

[Penguincollector]

   I think my pens are conspiring together to give me more work. Both my Radius Settimo and my Pilot Slivern ran dry, so now they’re drying out after cleaning. 

[RedPie]

Cleaned out my Pelikan M250 and my Jiaxiang JD.

[mhguda]

My Asapens Athlete dried up intermittently, with a fill of PR Ebony purple (even if diluted with water) so I disassembled the section and scrubbed the inside of it, and the feed, and the nib, clean after an overnight soak. Cleaned and dried this morning, then reassembled, leaving the ink mix in the barrel. After priming it's its normal nicely wet self again...

[Penguincollector]

Currently cleaning my gold filigree Salz Peter Pan.

[ParramattaPaul]

I'm cleaning a thoroughly clogged, cheap school pen of unknown origin belonging to my grandson. 

[ParramattaPaul]

1 hour ago, ParramattaPaul said:

I'm cleaning a thoroughly clogged, cheap school pen of unknown origin belonging to my grandson. 

Now we know.

 

The reason my grandson's pen wouldn't write is because the cartridge he had in it was a Speedball India ink cartridge he found in the bottom of his school bag.

[inkstainedruth]

Owwy owwy owwy....

And now I'm thinking back to a guy who hung out at the campus coffee house at the university I went to (not a student) who couldn't understand why I didn't put India ink in my Rapidographs -- he kept insisting that it was "blacker" than the Koh-i-Noor ink, but I said that I mostly used mine for DRAWING -- not for drafting/ruling -- and for my purposes the Koh-i-Noor ink worked JUST FINE....

Of course I keep wondering about the Osmiroid "India Ink" pen I picked up a few years which came with a gadget in the case that is the "feed removing tool" (not sure where the case has gotten to, and I never had the guts to try it with ANY ink; OTOH, I only paid a buck for it at an estate sale a few blocks from my house...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ParramattaPaul]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Owwy owwy owwy....

36 hours of soaking with several solution changes later and the India ink is still leaching out.

[jchch1950]

Lamy Safari Yellow special ed with Lamy Mango Ink.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Still working on a Pelikan 200, that sat for a generation with Parker Penmann Ruby in it. Over the last month, I've used JB's pen flush, and filled (shake once or twice a day) and let it soak in the pen, a week at a time and still shows reddish when flushed. The ink window is still reddish...the discharge still reddish.

The ink window is much less red than before but still reddish.

 

[Mr. Pink]

Delta DV Original.  Ever since I got it last week, I can't put it down.  PLEASE, write me some letters so I can write back with this pen.

[RedPie]

On 11/30/2024 at 9:41 AM, Bo Bo Olson said:

Still working on a Pelikan 200, that sat for a generation with Parker Penmann Ruby in it. Over the last month, I've used JB's pen flush, and filled (shake once or twice a day) and let it soak in the pen, a week at a time and still shows reddish when flushed. The ink window is still reddish...the discharge still reddish.

The ink window is much less red than before but still reddish.

 

 

Sometimes you just have to be patient. It happened to me with my Pelikan M250. Not for a month, but for almost 2 weeks.

[Penguincollector]

On 11/30/2024 at 6:41 AM, Bo Bo Olson said:

Still working on a Pelikan 200, that sat for a generation with Parker Penmann Ruby in it. Over the last month, I've used JB's pen flush, and filled (shake once or twice a day) and let it soak in the pen, a week at a time and still shows reddish when flushed. The ink window is still reddish...the discharge still reddish.

The ink window is much less red than before but still reddish.

 

 

 Do you have any inks with cleaning properties available, like MontBlanc SC-25 or old Quink with Solv-x? They have been used to clean ink windows by folks here. Sailor Doyou and Noodler’s Rattler Red have also been reported to clean ink windows. Just fill and write. 

[missclimpson]

One of those $3.95 Chinese bamboo stub nib pens. I have a bunch of pens, mostly cheap ones but a couple of good ones, and this cheap Chinese pen is my favorite. It’s comfortable in my hand, it glides smoothly on the paper and my handwriting looks better than with any other pen. It gives nice line variation, too. I just wish it had a good converter that held a good amount of ink. I’ve been refilling little cartridges. 

[Penguincollector]

Just cleaned out my navy blue Pilot Lightive with a CM nib.

[Runnin_Ute]

The pens I cleaned Friday evening....

One set all German piston fillers

The other everything else

[inkstainedruth]

Wow.  You've certainly been busy!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Carrau]

As an experiment, over the weekend, I removed the nib units from three pens with convertors that I had recently cleaned by soaking overnight  in my usual cleaning solution (water, ammonia, and Dawn dish soap), followed by flushing with the same cleaning solution then water, with a bulb syringe.  None of these pens had ink that had been allowed to dry out, and I had been having no issues with any of the three in regards to writing.  I was satisfied that they were clean to my visual inspection of the effluent and drying on a paper towel.  
 

I then placed each of them in a small cup containing a dilute solution of Rapido-eze and allowed them to soak overnight.  I was frankly shocked at the amount of ink that leached out of each of them.  The inks that had been used were Waterman Serenity Blue, RO Grey Seas ( a medium blue-grey), and Birmingham Pens’ Ploughman’s Pebble ( a medium saturation sepia).  None of these inks or pens were ones I had ever experienced any cleaning issues.  I think I may be adding a few drops of Rapido-eze to my standard cleaning solution going forward.