What is the most lubricating ink?

[Bo Bo Olson]

What is the most lubricating ink?

 

I occasionally have a piston filler that is sticky...and I've not found a dive shop yet. 100% Silicon grease is not carried by any one. Not in the pluming section, cars, or cameras; all they have is spray, which I have been warned away from. I live in Geramny.

[Ondina]

If it does not work with Waterman Florida Blue, Violet or BB, it does not work. Anyhow, I can help with the silicon grease, please PM me your address and I'll mail some today.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Fantastic....I can fiddle with a few other piston filler's I got too.

I just got a Artus(part of Lamy in the '50's) Favorite with Orange ink that i'm soaking, but the piston only worked once.

Very friendly of you.

[wtlh]

What is the most lubricating ink?

 

I occasionally have a piston filler that is sticky...and I've not found a dive shop yet. 100% Silicon grease is not carried by any one. Not in the pluming section, cars, or cameras; all they have is spray, which I have been warned away from. I live in Geramny.

 

For silicon grease, I often use the airgun/pistol oils which are cheap and could be bought on the internet or any hobby shop easily (well at least in UK). These oils are for the plastic moving parts in an air gun—which in fact are not unlike the piston in a fountain pen, and they are made from 99.99% silicon. Note there are actually two kinds of air-gun oil, one for metal (avoid) and one for plastic parts.

Edited December 9, 2009 by wtlh

[Philosophy Student]

Noodlers Eel Ink is alright. I use the blue and I like it. It obviously wont work miracles but it is designed to maintain piston fillers.

[Possum Hill]

What is the most lubricating ink?

 

I occasionally have a piston filler that is sticky...and I've not found a dive shop yet. 100% Silicon grease is not carried by any one. Not in the pluming section, cars, or cameras; all they have is spray, which I have been warned away from. I live in Geramny.

 

Some posters have reported good luck with the Noodler's "eel" inks. Pendemonium has a list on their Ink Facts page.

[Ondina]

Fantastic....I can fiddle with a few other piston filler's I got too.

I just got a Artus(part of Lamy in the '50's) Favorite with Orange ink that i'm soaking, but the piston only worked once.

Very friendly of you.

 

Just returning some good karma ( and a lot of help from members) here. Off to the post.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thanks for the help and any other help that is to be had.

[tonybelding]

Noodlers Eel Ink is alright. I use the blue and I like it. It obviously wont work miracles but it is designed to maintain piston fillers.

 

I'll second that. Noodlers Blue Eel got the stiff piston-converter on my Reform Czar to move more freely and stop squeaking. It also writes smoother! Noodlers Black Eel doesn't seem as slick as the blue, but is still somewhat more lubricative than the regular Black.

[lapis]

Green isn't my favourite ink colour, but the 2 most lubricating inks I have are Amazon and White Forest.

 

Mike

[gmberg]

Green isn't my favourite ink colour, but the 2 most lubricating inks I have are Amazon and White Forest.

 

Mike

 

You can turn your favorite ink into a "lubricating" ink simply by adding 3 to 4 drops of pure glycerine (from your local drugstore) per fluid oz. of ink. Before he got into the ink business, Nathan Tardif told me this trick to use for Sheaffer plunger-fillers or for Pelikan piston fillers. I've used it for years, and it works well. The small amount of glycerine is not sufficient to change the writing characteristics of the ink in any way I could tell. Of course, I'm not an ink maven!

Cheers,

Gerry Berg

[gmberg]

What is the most lubricating ink?

 

I occasionally have a piston filler that is sticky...and I've not found a dive shop yet. 100% Silicon grease is not carried by any one. Not in the pluming section, cars, or cameras; all they have is spray, which I have been warned away from. I live in Geramny.

You can turn your favorite ink into a "lubricating" ink simply by adding 3 to 4 drops of pure glycerine (from your local drugstore) per fluid oz. of ink. Before he got into the ink business, Nathan Tardif told me this trick to use for Sheaffer plunger-fillers or for Pelikan piston fillers. I've used it for years, and it works well. The small amount of glycerine is not sufficient to change the writing characteristics of the ink in any way I could tell. Of course, I'm not an ink maven!

Cheers,

Gerry Berg

[Bo Bo Olson]

What is the most lubricating ink?

 

I occasionally have a piston filler that is sticky...and I've not found a dive shop yet. 100% Silicon grease is not carried by any one. Not in the pluming section, cars, or cameras; all they have is spray, which I have been warned away from. I live in Geramny.

You can turn your favorite ink into a "lubricating" ink simply by adding 3 to 4 drops of pure glycerine (from your local drugstore) per fluid oz. of ink. Before he got into the ink business, Nathan Tardif told me this trick to use for Sheaffer plunger-fillers or for Pelikan piston fillers. I've used it for years, and it works well. The small amount of glycerine is not sufficient to change the writing characteristics of the ink in any way I could tell. Of course, I'm not an ink maven!

Cheers,

Gerry Berg

 

Wonderful, in Germany I got more chance of glycerine than Noodler's ink around the corner.

Sounds cheaper too.

Well my local pharmacy knows I'm a bit odd, so I might as well prove it.

You guys have been very helpful.

I'll let you know glycerine works, as stop gap. Now to look up glycerine in German.

 

When the silicon comes, Mr. David Parisi who repairs pens was so kind as to give me a cork, when he was in Heidelberg at the Brick and Mortar. I will now whip out my Bowie and go to work....ok, dam...I got to stop buying pens, and buy tools....can you become addicted to buying tools, like pens?

 

Thanks a lot folks...

[Bo Bo Olson]

I went to the pharmacy and got a small bottle of glycerin for E-0.88 or @$1.15. I put some in water* and it was 100% better. But not real good... I can see how water and glycerin could help with a sticky piston though.

* Higher concentrations than what I'd put in ink.

 

That particular Artus (Lamy) Favorite the nib screws out, because the blind cap was fully attached, and there was no way to pull the piston out, that I could see to grease it.

The nib screws out in the Ballit, too.

I had not known that.

 

The other Artus barrel that I have is with out the a designator, like Ballit or Favorite, and appears not to want to unscrew. I will see after soaking it a bit.

I had 1 1/2 Artus pens now I have 2 1/2.....

[Possum Hill]

I went to the pharmacy and got a small bottle of glycerin for E-0.88 or @$1.15. I put some in water* and it was 100% better. But not real good... I can see how water and glycerin could help with a sticky piston though.

* Higher concentrations than what I'd put in ink.

 

That particular Artus (Lamy) Favorite the nib screws out, because the blind cap was fully attached, and there was no way to pull the piston out, that I could see to grease it.

The nib screws out in the Ballit, too.

I had not known that.

 

The other Artus barrel that I have is with out the a designator, like Ballit or Favorite, and appears not to want to unscrew. I will see after soaking it a bit.

I had 1 1/2 Artus pens now I have 2 1/2.....

When you get some silicone grease, here's one technique for applying it to the pens with removable nibs.

[offbase]

Aurora Black. Visconti Blue.

[Bo Bo Olson]

When you get some silicone grease, here's one technique for applying it to the pens with removable nibs.

 

I had read it before and perahps even copied it...but had not remembered exactly where to put the grease and not the ammount either...so that was a fantastic reminder. I'd more than likely just smeared way too much on the barrle and not on the gasket.

 

Well I'd not been going to buy Aurora Black or Visconti Blue. Well that blue was way down the road.

I had Pelikan Brilliant Black....but now have a reason for Aurora Black...

Edited December 10, 2009 by Bo Bo Olson