Diamine Eclipse / Noodler's Black Eel 50/50

[KBeezie]

In a wet nib (like the Sheaffer Student Pen I have is really wet, as is my Snorkel with a Medium Nib), Black eel tends to take forever to dry on Rhodia, or just long on some notebook paper (20 to 25 seconds on Mead notebook, can take up to a minute on rhodia from my wet snorkel), where as Diamine Eclipse dries pretty fast but it's also dry flowing I noticed and it's not as water resistant as I like.

 

So I put 2ml of Black Eel in with 2ml of Eclipse into a sample vial, gave it a good shake, waited an hour, shooked it up again, let it sit for a few hours to see if it would settle or clump. Shook it up again and let it sit for a couple hours.

 

A little q-tip swab test on Rhodia between the drops on the side of the vial and shaking it up before putting it into a pen.

 

 

Mead 5-star Notebook paper, with a drip and wipe test on the grid.

The 'patches' of Eclipse and Eel were done by an Ero with a "1" Nib and Sheaffer Snorkel with a Medium Nib.

 

 

Same on Rhodia (with the napkin wiping against the words across the top of the patch a little bit during the drip+wipe)

 

 

 

And a 5 minute soak-then-rinse on the sheet of Rhodia above.

 

 

In the soak most of the Eclipse washes away, eel stays on and the mix I guess removes most of the eclipse portion of it, but still quite solid where it was in terms of legibility just not as strong a hold as straight black eel, but not discolored so much like eclipse does, still holds sort of a black/grey. Seems like it washed away most of the eclipse from the drip+wipe earlier.

 

Will see how the remaining in in the vial holds overnight to see if there's anything that changes chemically or physically. (The rest of it is in the cartridge I refilled in the sheaffer student pen).

Edited May 18, 2014 by KBeezie

[mhguda]

Thanks for that idea. Made a note; am going to try it at some point.

[KBeezie]

To follow up about 2 days later, the mixture in the vial is still mixed, no chunks or particulates, the side of the vial is still stained on the side where it's been sitting (seems to be the eclipse on initial mixture since it thins down to purple if I leave it upside down long enough).

 

The ink left in the Student pen is still liquid, and writing is still smooth and wet.

 

When I rubbed a q-tip around the inside of the vial then swabbed it on some sketch paper it's still a same consistency with no visible particulates.