Kyo No Oto turning purple?

[yazeh]

On 9/14/2024 at 11:21 AM, LizEF said:

So would I, before the extensive level of cleaning I did.  Also, that pen has never had a red ink in it - closest is a brown, and there were many blues after the brown, and Aonibi is the only ink that has changed color in the slightest.

 

I'm convinced that Aonibi is reacting with something in the pen (other than old, dried, ink).

It might be the curse of Viscount-E, haunting your pen  

[LizEF]

8 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

Actually Aonibi has a PH of around 4, surprisingly for Japanese inks the Kyo-no-oto are all (or for the most part) acidic.

Wow.  Well, thanks for ruining that theory.   I guess it has to be something else.

 

8 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

Do you have some titanium jawellery (or else) you could use to dip for some time in Aonibi?

I have a Bock titanium nib.  I suppose I could try the ink in that pen...

 

8 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

And maybe something in stainless steel too?

Aonibi has been in my now-eyedroppered Nemosine Singularity since 18 July (eyedroppered on 29 July).  Its nib is stainless.  No issues.

 

8 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

I wonder what else is in the Visconti that could cause such reaction!

The only possibilities are:

1. The nib unit - but I doubt there's anything more in that end than threads (in the plastic grip), the plastic housing, the plastic feed, and the palladium nib.
2. The titanium piston rod.
3. The white plastic piston head (?) and rubber o-ring at the nib-end of the piston rod.
4. The "stuff" found at the "tail" end where the piston rod comes out of the pen.

Here are the best photos I could get. Seeing is difficult because of the swirls of color at that end of the pen...

 

Just the piston head. (Self explanatory - rubber rings, titanium rod, white "head".)

 

Just the "tail end" stuff.  The green color is an exaggeration of reality.  It looks to me sort of like a brass washer, but when I fill the pen with ink, that area goes all dark, so whatever it is, it doesn't touch the inside of the ink chamber - either it's something permeable and ink soaks into it, or ink gets between it and the wall of the ink chamber.  The black is a rubber seal.

 

And then with the piston rod pulled out so the white piston head and its o-ring are down there too.  It's difficult because the water in the pen, and the resin itself sort of create optical distortion...

 

 

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, yazeh said:

It might be the curse of Viscount-E, haunting your pen  

For some reason, he hates Aonibi!

[LizEF]

2 minutes ago, LizEF said:

The nib unit - but I doubt there's anything more in that end than threads (in the plastic grip), the plastic housing, the plastic feed, and the palladium nib.

Oh, but I saw purple in the ink chamber before I saw it in the writing, so I really think the color change is happening in the ink chamber itself.

[yazeh]

1 minute ago, LizEF said:

For some reason, he hates Aonibi!

You must submit to the Guinness book of records. The ghost/skeleton that haunts the smallest space in the world

 

[LizEF]

1 minute ago, yazeh said:

You must submit to the Guinness book of records. The ghost/skeleton that haunts the smallest space in the world

 

Then the nice young men in their clean white coats will come to take me away, ha ha.

[yazeh]

14 hours ago, LizEF said:

Then the nice young men in their clean white coats will come to take me away, ha ha.

Never