What Pen did you clean out today?

[PAKMAN]

Finally cleaned out the Asvine 169 Skelton, and couldn't put it away so ended up refilling it with another ink Kon Peki!

 

Cleaned out (old ink) from all of these newly acquired vintage pens. No cleaning needed on the two advertising pencils.

 

[Peter_H]

I cleaned out my navy blue Waterman Emblème, to change inks ready for my new Sailor Shikiori Tsukuyo-no-Minamo Shimoyo.  This has now been inked in Diamine Turquoise; the Waterman contains that manufacturer’s Mysterious Blue.

 

Waterman on the left; Sailor to its right.  Rhodia dot-pad.

[JosephKing]

Stainless Steel Gravitas Sentry w/ Edison Broad

Platinum Procyon Medium

Pilot 743 FA

Desiderata Cocobolo Soubriquet w/ Conklin Jowo Medium

Franklin Christoph 65 stabilis with Faber Castell Medium

Noodler's Triple Tail w/ FPR Ultra flex

Sailor brush pen

[PAKMAN]

Cleaned out:

 

Parker Duofold Senior flattop Lapis blue

Sheaffer OS Balance black lever fil

Parker Vacumatic  with Arial Kulock body and matching cap in pearly brown.

[inkstainedruth]

The new-to-me Senator piston filler (scrolling around the Internet suggests that it's a "Windsor" model.  But I'm not sure I've gotten all the ink out.  I'm seeing some sort of discoloration on the sides of the piston head, and may not want to use the pen until I have a pro check it out.  I may need to get an o-ring for it, and am not sure whether the nib and feed are a screw-in unit or not.  

So if it needs some sort of repairs, well, okay -- after all, the pen cost me a buck.  Not bad for a piston filler with what appears to be a [mostly] working piston. 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bristol24]

I just flushed and put away my dark blue, pre-World War II Newark Pen Co. Secretary with a nice writing semiflex gold nib.  I've had it inked with KZW Iron Gall Blue #1 which goes well with this vintage pen.

 

Cliff

[DvdRiet]

Normally, I only have one pen, if at all, and very rarely two pens run out of ink on any given day. Makes it easy to flush them out the same or next day to stay on top of things. Some of you are probably going to laugh, but yesterday and finishing up today, I've had a record (for me) of seven pens to clean!

 

Because I rotate my inks over all sorts of pens and write in random amounts each day, there can be a little or a lot of time in between my pen for the day running out of ink. And flushing one, maybe two pens is not much of a chore, so keeping up is usually easy. But I've been busy. And once I let one go for a couple of days, it seemed like they all decided to gang up on me and run out of ink one after the other. They kept piling up and at a certain point, I even lost the will to fill a new one and just started grabbing pens that were partially inked just for testing and other purposes. My ink rotation system turned into complete shambles!  

 

This weekend, I finally got around to cleaning the pile-up from just this past week: 

Laban Skeleton

Diplomat 20

Diplomat Bijou

Pelikan 400

Haskoson celluloid

Diplomat Master

Parker Sonnet

 

And now I finally understand why so many people talk about 'pen cleaning day'! 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was the Mabie Todd Swan, which had diluted Waterman's Mysterious Blue in it.  

Before that, I've been spending a good chunk of this week trying to flush out the Parker 45 I bought for $5 last weekend at an estate sale company's warehouse sale.    It had the old style squeeze bar converter already installed, but I had to flush it a bunch of times because I kept getting color leaching into the paper toweling (blue with some reddish/brownish undertones...).  Think I've FINALLY gotten whatever it was flushed out completely.  Once the Mabie Todd is done and draining into the paper toweling, I suspect next in the queue will be the Pelikan 120 I bought yesterday at an antiques shop.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[kestrel]

Brown marble Onward combo pen (PR Burgundy Mist) and a green hardened rubber Harris flat top (Blackstone Green Cashmere).

[ruby.monkey]

A clear Noodler's Nib Creaper and a blue (Hudson Bay?) Charlie, that were languishing at the back of my pen drawer. I needed new mounts for a couple of spare Parker standard Duofold nibs, and these turned out to fit the bill perfectly.

 

Both now cleaned, inked, and back in business.

[chromantic]

Since I have MV Olivine in my green resin Optima, I flushed it from my Optima Giallo last week and replaced it with KWZ Lux Grey (which I also have in a Hastil but that's an EF as opposed to the Optima's F).

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was flushing any residual manufacturing stuff from the NOS Parker Vector I got on eBay last week.  Yesterday it was the Mabie Todd Swan ringtop, and also the Pelikan 120 I got on Saturday (although that pen seemed to be amazingly clean -- as opposed to the red Parker 45 I picked up the weekend before, and which had to be flushed repeatedly because of all the residual ink draining onto the paper toweling).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[A Smug Dill]

My Montblanc Meisterstück LeGrand Calligraphy pen. The piston motion was reluctant and uncomfortable from Day One like… uh, never mind. Several months holding a fill of Montblanc Irish Green ink, with which I wrote sporadically, certainly hasn't improved things in that regard. I was hesitant to try to unscrew either the nib unit or the piston mechanism, without a ‘proper’ tool on hand. Nevertheless, as the pen's first fill of ink has finally been reduced to the last few drops; I decided something needed to be done, but I don't have any Noodler's Ink Eel series of inks here — not that I think it's sane to put any Noodler's ink in this pen. Disappointingly, the geometry of the HongDian piston disassembly tool was just off by a fraction of a millimetre and wouldn't fit. In the end, it was the paper clip that saved the day again.

 

All better now.

 

I can't quite decide with which ink to fill that pen next, though. Montblanc Beatles? Diamine Night Shade? Maybe one of the Colorverse Project inks in the constellations series that I have yet to try?

[Nick T]

I am also cleaning out my Montblanc 149 Calligraphy of MB Permanent Blue; perhaps the best performing ink I have used in this pen over the past year. I think I will give the pen a rest as I am breaking in a 146 Calligraphy and am preferring it to the bigger nibbled pen at the moment.

@A Smug DillI purchased theMB piston removal tool from PenTools and its geometry is perfect on both pens in case you are wanting another. I’d look there.

‘Hope you all enjoy your weekends.  

[inkstainedruth]

Yesterday I made a first pass at flushing out the Dusty Rose Laidtone vac filler.  Apparently I'm going to have to make another pass at it, given how much ink (vintage Quink Microfilm Black) was leaching onto the paper toweling....   And I may have to flush more ink out of the cap as well....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[PAKMAN]

Montblanc 144 Vermeil Solitaire

Parker Vac Emerald Pearl double jewel lock down filler

Stipula 22 Titano - then refilled it to try another ink

[PAKMAN]

Parker Premium Turquois, love the pen, just time for others to come out and play.

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Currently soaking is the Parker 45 with a B nib I got at the Commonwealth Pen Show in September.  Swapping out the slide converter for an aerometric-style converter I don't remember getting  which says both Parker and Eversharp on it (it's definitely NOT from the 45/Eversharp hybrid pen I got at an estate sale a while back -- that pen already had one of the old style squeeze converters on it).

Ruth Morrisson inkstainedruth

[jmccarty3]

Parker 51 Aerometric in Dark Blue. It had been filled with Waterman Serenity Blue and cleaned out very easily.

[jchch1950]

Platinum Prefounte red pen that had been used with yellow cartridge and had an irregular ink flow. The pen performed without problems for more than one year but it was  only used  as a highlighter. A regular water flush maybe necessary from now on.