What Pen did you clean out today?

[Penguincollector]

I cleaned out a nonami Chinese pen with a Preppy type feed that had a terrible orange ink that came with it. It was the first time that I had inked the pen, so I still don’t know if it’s a bust or not. I put the orange ink in another nonami and it wouldn’t even write. I tossed the ink and cleaned that pen as well. 

[inkstainedruth]

Yesterday it was the Parker Vector "Shrek" series Puss in Boots pen, which previously had had Birmingham Pens Muskrat (one of the inks I picked up at the Ohio Pen Show last month.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Ceilidh]

A Conway Stewart 100 in the Pearl Grey spaghetti material. It will probably be refilled with a different ink.

[A Smug Dill]

A Lamy cp1 and two Pilot Cocoon pens, in all of which the ink has completely dried out, quite possibly some months ago, while I'm rearranging what's taking up space in my display/storage case for ‘cheaper’ pens (but not so cheap and useless to either sit in a pen cup or packed like sardines inside an opaque cardboard box stored out of sight).

 

Edit: Oh, and my wife just handed me this pen to “clean out”, because it wouldn't write even though she could see lots of “ink” in the barrel…

[thx1138]

A few cleaned today.

[PAKMAN]

Wow, busy clean up day!

 

[Chimera01]

Blue Cross Peerless 125 M previously filled with Iroshizuku Ama-Iro and a grey Cross Peerless 125 M that had been filled with Diamine Writer's Blood (still don't understand how anyone could consider the latter pen 'grey', though). Preparing some instruments for Sailor Yurameku ink experiments.

[Penguincollector]

Last night I cleaned the last two pens that I filled, funny enough. My Sheaffer’s Compact II Cartridge (which takes the old squeeze converter with some Quink Black like a champ, it’s second hand from Alaska so I don’t know if the barrel has been altered internally somehow    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)  I didn’t fill the converter all the way as it was a test run, same with my other cleaning job- the Sailor Clear Candy which had CX Made pink shimmer ink.  I have 6 other pens that I use daily but sparingly that will take forever to empty out so my next post on this thread might be awhile.

[inkstainedruth]

Just cleaned out the Sailor Pro Gear Slim Purple Cosmos, zoom nib, after finishing a fill of diluted Sailor Jentle Sky High.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[VersoFolio]

 

Today I am cleaning out my two beautiful piston-filler, roller-balls; Rubidor and Orollo, (1950s or 1960s?), since testing them both with Pelikan 4001 Konigsblau.

Happy to store them confident that they are both in great working condition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.I.Tom

 

 

[chromantic]

I flushed the Levenger Forest out of my PG Slim Go USA (pretty easy, had only been in there a week or so) and inked it with Manyo Ume. So now two dark red Slim demos with similar dark red inks, the slightly darker Negroni has the slightly darker KWZ Maroon.

 

The bigger project is flushing my P51, it's taking forever. After flushing some vestiges of blue of black in it when I first got it, I filled it with Yomogi, judging from the color; I thought I'd used Yama-dori but probably changed my mind when I remembered I wasn't that thrilled with it when I first tried it and the ink coming out is a bright medium blue with no hint of green. When I'd filled it, it only lasted a couple hours at work before going dry and I set it aside and forgot about it.

 

Flushing is going slow and I'm down to drawing some clean water in, then letting it rest nib down in a little water just past the opening to draw the ink out, rinse and repeat. Maybe in a couple days it'll be good to go.

[miwishi63]

Two Platinum Preppies, a Nassau, and a Jinhao Classic - making room in the rotation for some new-to-me pens.

[ak47]

I have just cleaned my 146 black f nib 70s 

Best wishes 

[PAKMAN]

Finally time to clean these two out...

 

[chromantic]

I finally got the P51 to flush clear and have filled it with 1864. Nib is smooth as silk, looks to be an F. Teal Blue, rolled gold cap with milky white jewel, good shape overall.

 

^^ Pakman - That Urushi is lovely.

[Misfit]

Can all of you who clean your pens come to my house in the early new year, and help me clean my backlog of pens waiting to be cleaned?

 

Or give me incentive to get to cleaning mine once I get over my hurt hip?

[PAKMAN]

The long you wait the worse it will be to get them clean. I try to do 2-3 at a time to keep from getting too backlogged.  

 

Last pen inked was my Parker 51 Kullock and it cleaned it out yesterday.  Filled two pens for any holiday writing needs.

[A Smug Dill]

Three totally clogged-up Platinum Preppy pens dedicated to three Sailor STORiA inks.

 

Eight Jinhao 80 pens, most of which were ‘new’ to me, as these days Jinhao pens are more likely than not to arrive with some remnant of dried up blue ink deep in the feed from nib testing at the factory. That was just as well, as I'd forgotten that I used a couple of them a testing a while back, without cleaning up afterwards in spite of having removed the converter used for that session; they started spewing black ink instead of whiffs of blue once the ultrasonic cleaning cycle started.

 

Two new Jinhao 82 pens, too, as well as a new Jinhao 166.

 

My Pilot ‘Hannya Shingyo’ and Custom Kaede pens, after using them to do nib comparisons against my new Custom Enjyu pen.

 

[chromantic]

I'm cleaning Manggis out of my Parker 180. It's being stubborn, though; have got it down to faint pink-ish rinse water and, since I'm going to be filling it with 1864, I don't think think it should have any effect if it's not 100% clear.

[A Smug Dill]

This Jinhao 35.

 

And, another Platinum Preppy. Gee, the collector in the grip section is a pain to clean out and dry completely, even if it wasn't a pigment/particulate ink that has dried out inside.