What Pen did you clean out today?

[Scribblesoften]

I cleaned out a Pelikan 120 today when I switched over to the Faber Castell Castello 53VT.

[nm4]

MB 146 Calligraphy flex.  A recent acquisition.   Took some getting used to but loving it now!  Smoothest EF/XF pen I own! 

 

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[inkstainedruth]

Today it was the little "Shirley Temple" lever filler (I read someplace that it was made by a sub-company of Wearever, possibly by David Hahn, Inc.).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

I cleaned out my Sailor Rockhopper Penguin mini PGS. 

[jchch1950]

Hero 565. Terrible behaviour in a plane journey.

[jthole]

I cleaned out my Pelikan M400 white/tortoise. It had Pelikan Royal Blue in it.

 

In the rotation now my Visconti Hall of Music Edition “Folk”, filled with Waterman Purple.

[Nick T]

Today my Pelikan 400 with cursive italic nib. It was sorely abused this summer with KWZ Blue Black iron gall ink. The bottle has been opened for a handful of years and not a lot of writing was done during the hottest months. I put the nib into the ultrasonic cleaner and wasn’t surprised to see what came out. I had to change the water twice. After relubing the piston, flushing and drying the barrel section thoroughly I left both pieces to dry. Refilled with KWZ  Blue  Black iron gall #1 she is once again writing like a champ. One of my favorite pen systems. 
 

[AmandaW]

The Big Pen Cleanup has begun. I will admit there 's a bit of a backlog in the pen cup that holds empty pens going out of the rotation, but really it's cos summer has arrived and anything with a tendency to dry out has... Searching them all out to be cleaned and put away til autumn.

 

Its time to switch over to those that seal really well...

[jb500]

Cleaning Waterman's Serenity Blue out of my 1942 (?) Parker Vacumatic. 

--jb

[Penguincollector]

  There’s a wave of pens that are nearing the end of a fill. Today I cleaned out my Wahl-Eversharp Skyline, a Parker 88, a Chouxiongluwei, and prior to first use, a Sailor Profilt Light. Yesterday I cleaned out a teal Parker 45 Deluxe that is new to me, but came to me with a very old cartridge still inside. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Suddenly down to 8 pens inked.......decided it's time to do an Ink review. A goal set before thinking of 7 to use up more inks.............there had been no thought of doing an ink review or 6.  Nor the 4 or 5 pens needed to do one. So much for Plan A.

 

Having mostly piston pens....some inks are so vivid and beautiful when swished into a bathroom sink bowl of water. One wants to run back to the little plastic index box to re-ink the pen.

 

Geha 780 semi-flex...eyeballs to a M. Geha's because of their reserve tank always takes longer to clean.

Pelikan 200 EF...is = to other's F's I've read. Is = to my Mann 200's F. So I'm not going to dig for F's.

Pelikan Amathyst 200 B.

Pelikan 215 Lozenge, M....A picture an be found in Pelikan Perch.

 

And a Pelikan 605, stubbed down to 1.0/B from a fat and blobby BB by Francis...butter smooth. I had originally a nice M on it, but knew come the day I'd get it made a stub or a CI, so swapped the nib in for a a fat, blobby, baby bottom BB to have nib width to work with.

After they have drained over night into a paper towel, they will be inked in the morning.

Then comes dither time which of the two or is it three Pure Inks will get the call.

 

So tommow, hopefully I won't get too tired cleaning pens....with 4 other new inks...the three Pure inks and a Lamy Crystal ink...., F,M,&B and a semi-flex or two in each lot. So might go 4 pens per ink. That's 16 and it took me quite awahile to do the 5 I just cleaned.

Clairefontaine Triomphe will be used to show the shading of the shading inks.

 

Lately due to the lack of sizing, lately many of the 90g copy papers have been no better than the common 80g, and I want to show the shading, so will use a paper that will show it.

[Penguincollector]

20 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Having mostly piston pens....some inks are so vivid and beautiful when swished into a bathroom sink bowl of water. One wants to run back to the little plastic index box to re-ink the pen.

  I’m always amazed at how much ink is left in a pen that has been “written dry.” Sometimes, if it’s a really saturated ink, I will try to add some water (to the pen, not the inky sink water) and write with it as an experiment. Sometimes it works, sometimes not and I keep rinsing. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

True. I've said that a couple of times but after the first beatutiful swirrl, it's too late to re-hydrate the pen.

Got to get a rehydrate cup.

[ParramattaPaul]

17 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  I’m always amazed at how much ink is left in a pen that has been “written dry.” Sometimes, if it’s a really saturated ink, I will try to add some water (to the pen, not the inky sink water) and write with it as an experiment. Sometimes it works, sometimes not and I keep rinsing. 

Same here.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

This mystery Laban.

 

I was changing ink to preserve my stock of Montblanc Modena Red and so I could try out the mystery black.

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Same ones I cleaned out yesterday, being piston pens, there was a few twists of very deluted ink still in them. Almost had to look hard in one or two of the pens, but there was still a blush of ink in them. Once I'd thought the cleaning I did on my first day was enough...but not for an Ink review.

[A Smug Dill]

• My Diplomat Excellence A² Evergreen gold with steel EF nib. I haven't seen that pen for a long time, as I must've asked my wife to “use up the ink in it for me”. She brought it out this morning for me to clean without requiring a refill, but told me, ”it'd be nice to have it back after”! LOL … Anyway, the label on the converter inside said it was a fill of Montblanc Irish Green from March 2023; and, good Lord, the number of soaks and flushes and ultrasonic cleaning cycles it took to ride the pen of all the ink! I swear wisps of dark green was still seeping out of the nib slit, and also around the rim of the feed where it disappears into the grip section, after even the tenth treatment.
• A Hero 187 with an ‘art’ (or ‘fude’) nib. There was no label on the converter to tell me what was in it, and so my guess is I last filled the pen back before I made it my habit to label the converters after filling them. All the ink had dried out, of course; but, whatever that was, it was/is the most staining reddish ink I've ever encountered. I flushed the insides of the pen's squeeze converter with a syringe, and not only was the blowback full of black soot suspended in the brick-red liquid spewed out, the latter also stained my syringe as well as the porcelain hand basin immediately! The basin eventually got cleaned up with the use of bleach, but the plastic body of the syringe now has a permanent pinkish tinge that even bleach can't remove.

[inkstainedruth]

When we got home from the New Year's Day party, I checked and finished up flushing the recently acquired F nibbed sterling Ciselé Parker 75.  I felt sort of weird flushing a nearly full fill of an expensive ink -- the MB Beatles homage ink -- down the drain, but didn't feel safe dumping it back into the bottle either.  And with the tipping bad on one of the tines on the nib?  It just wasn't writing well....

I need to check and see if any of the purple ink is still leaching into the paper toweling in one of the votive candle holders I use for flushing and drying pens.

I expect that the next pen in the "to be cleaned" queue will be the Noodler's Charlie that sat too long unused with Noodler's Kung Te Cheng in it.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

In I want to do an Ink Review of Lamy Crystal Peridot, I needed B, M&F, in springy regular flex nibs, in if it shades, springy regular flex shows it more than semi-flex which is too wet a nib.

 

I have too many semi-flex, and too many F's....so had to go to the Dirty Pen Cup(s).

Piston pens tend to take two days of cleaning. In the second day after draining into the paper towel, it still has a blush of ink.

I will show pictures of these pens later. A medium-small Pelikan 151, made in Italy. Same size as the 150's. The green is the same tone as the old 120.

 

An English made, therefore a springy regular flex M nibbed black P-45, with a rolled gold cap. A pen that has very good balance for a large pen. The slopped barrel has removed enough weight to give it good balance.

A blue Lamy Studio, with a springy Z55 B nib.

 

Mostly, it seems, CC pens clean out fully with a rubber ball syringe. I don't expect to need to ...finish cleaning those two pens tomorrow.

[Penguincollector]

  I have cleaned out quite a few pens in the last few days: Pelikan M605 F, now filled with Edelstein Moonstone, Waterman 52 1/2 V red ripple stub, Wing Sung 3008 F, Nonami Chinese IBB, and Staedtler IF.