What Pen did you clean out today?

[Aysedasi]

11 hours ago, 51ISH said:

 

I'm sorry to hear of your experience with your MB149's. I'm pretty sure they were probably your 'grail pen' or at least one of them.  I'm sorry to say some of my 'best writers' have cost less than £20...and the one's I have inked the most...🙁

I'm pretty sure if you 'throw some more money at them' you could get them so you can enjoy them. Rather than they be a constant annoyance and torment.

 

'A Ship in Harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for''  John A Shedd.

 

Hope you enjoy your trip to Le Mans...always watch it on TV when it's on....It must be amazing to be there live.

 

“The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing”

Robert Kiyosaki

 

Yes, it was one of those pens that I was determined to have.  One of them (I forget which) I swapped for another which (from memory) had a BB nib which was a bit too wide, even for me.  But it wrote better than either of the pens I currently have.  I'll probably put one up for sale at some point and keep the other...  I have many pens that cost far less than the 149s (both of which were acquired second hand) that write far better.  Every pen into which I've put a Knox nib writes better..... 

 

90 days until I leave for France.  With it being the Centenary and finally a top class field competing it should be awesome.  It's a complete sellout, there are a lot of people still trying to get tickets.  There's nothing like the atmosphere there.  This will be my 36th..... 

[51ISH]

3 hours ago, Aysedasi said:

 

Yes, it was one of those pens that I was determined to have.  One of them (I forget which) I swapped for another which (from memory) had a BB nib which was a bit too wide, even for me.  But it wrote better than either of the pens I currently have.  I'll probably put one up for sale at some point and keep the other...  I have many pens that cost far less than the 149s (both of which were acquired second hand) that write far better.  Every pen into which I've put a Knox nib writes better..... 

 

90 days until I leave for France.  With it being the Centenary and finally a top class field competing it should be awesome.  It's a complete sellout, there are a lot of people still trying to get tickets.  There's nothing like the atmosphere there.  This will be my 36th..... 

 

My apologies, I have only just seen your replies, I was over on another thread. Wow, 36th visit! Bet you can't wait, especially as it's the Centenary.  Have a great time.

Thanks for the info on the Ranga's and the X159's.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was the White and Red Safari and the P22 "MOOVIE" pens.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jmccarty3]

I cleaned out a Sailor 1911L Simply Black pretty thoroughly because I wanted to try it with KWZ IG Blue #3. The color looks good, but I'll have to see what the flow is like. I don't use non-Sailor inks in my Sailors very often.

[Armo]

I have just been working on a Mentmore 46 and was surprised to find that the nib and feed are the same as the on Mentmore Diploma, so that strange plastic nib looking section is the result of someone's aesthetic judgement rather than practicality. I find this odd as it is a real ugly duckling of a pen.

(photo stolen from Worthpoint)

[Ceilidh]

3 hours ago, jmccarty3 said:

I cleaned out a Sailor 1911L Simply Black pretty thoroughly because I wanted to try it with KWZ IG Blue #3. The color looks good, but I'll have to see what the flow is like. I don't use non-Sailor inks in my Sailors very often.

Hopefully, it will go well. I find KWZ inks to run well in all pens I've put them in; they have become favorite inks.

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Parker Vector Shrek "Puss in Boots" pen; and I've got the Hudson Bay Fathom Noodler's Konrad's nib soaking in ammonia solution.  Trying to get a bunch of pens flushed out before going to the Baltimore show this weekend, where I will likely have a bunch of pens repaired -- and then of course inked up.... 

May try for flushing one more pen tonight, depending on time -- or possibly tomorrow if I get up early enough -- which might happen since my husband is leaving for MS and the sideline business at some ungodly hour (he has to pick several people up before getting on the road).  I do need to have a few pens inked up for the trip, for stuff like signing the hotel register and credit card receipts, and for the morning pages journal entries over the weekend.  And of course at the show itself for making notes -- keeping track of what pen I saw at which table, and where specific repair people are set up....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[irrigger]

Just flushed out my Emerald Parker Vac. 

[TrueBlue719]

Cleaning out my Lamy Dialog 3, Sailor Pro Gear and Montblanc 144 to ink up my Parker 51 and Sheaffer Snorkel. Probably going to use Monteverde Midnight Black in both

[Doug C]

Cleaned out my Leonardos and Conids. 

[Penguincollector]

Yesterday I cleaned out my latest buy, the teal Parker 45. The day before it was the Hongdian Forest and Sailor Bad Badtz-Maru Clear Candy. I’m hoping to finish the ink in a couple of other pens today. 

[51ISH]

I'm not cleaning anything .... 😈  I did half a dozen before I saw this thread 😁

 

I've recently inked 4.... Parker 25 with Pelikan Blu/Blk, my Chinese Dolce-Vita Naranja with Aurora Black, Beijing Jin  Xing with Diamine Sherwood Green and my No Nonsense Italic with Sheaffer Black.   I'll probably add my Rotring when I recieve the carts that I ordered. 🙂

[Misfit]

I actually cleaned two pens today, both TWSBI Diamond Mini pens. Though I do plan to put ink in them. I still have a large number waiting to be cleaned. 

[Paul-in-SF]

Last night I started and set to soak, and this morning finished cleaning out an Osmia 664 so that I could repair the piston gasket. Which I did this afternoon, and then re-inked the pen to test the repair. So far so good, but it will take a while to be sure it is not leaking and everything else remains fine. 

[PAKMAN]

I cleaned out two pens I bought last weekend at the Arkansas pen show.  A Parker emerald green double jewel vac and a GvFC Chevron Guilloche black pen. They both had ink in them from previous owners.

[Penguincollector]

Sheaffer Fashion II model 264, Nonami charcoal Lamy clone, Geha 722, Kaweco Kalligrafie.

[dipper]

Duke 209 "bent nib" (Fude).

 

My mistake! The pen had been filled recently with DeAtrementis Document Ink - Black, until I discovered that ink, when dried on a hard surface, is near impossible to re-dissolve in any solvents. (Tried every household chemical I could lay my hand on.)

 

Flushed out the DeAtrementis. But since then, filled with other inks, the pen has been a dry draggy writer. Far from its usual wet smooth action.

 

Reluctant to dismantle it, as the feed appears to be glued into the metal grip section. But it had to be done....

 

Result - the nib and feed core pulled out fairly easily (with gentle heat) from inside a feed housing. It turns out it is the housing that is glued in.

The feed core is a friction-fit, with a flat on feed core and inside the feed housing - so a straight pull is needed, no twisting.

 

Ran a brass shim through the two ink fissures, scrubbed all parts, and reassembled.

 

Excellent. This Duke 209 is wet and smooth again, drinking Sailor Black.

 

[jchch1950]

A Lamy Strawberry with a 1.9 nib and a mango ink cartridge. It took a 12 hour soak and a lot of water push in and out by a converter.

[51ISH]

14 hours ago, jchch1950 said:

A Lamy Strawberry with a 1.9 nib and a mango ink cartridge. It took a 12 hour soak and a lot of water push in and out by a converter.

 

A Parker 25 with a M nib, the Parker converter was filled with Pelikan 4001 Blue/Black.... Yes, I realize 'boring' by comparison... but it took about 2 minutes 😜 🤣🤣 

[A Smug Dill]

Eight Platinum Plaisir pens last cleaned and filled no more recently than a year ago (and some were probably filled two or more years ago)

 

A Pilot Kakuno

 

A Jinhao 51A that was completely clogged up with Noodler's Ink Kung Te-Cheng — nasty stuff!