I'm wondering about the best way to travel with a small amount of ink for a vacation. I don't want to end up with a mess, but I do figure I'll want to refill my pen while on the trip.

Are cartridges really the best way to go? I've now got all of this fantastic bottled ink and would rather use that.

Thanks!

Hi,

Sorry, but I am the person who sell the things. (advertisment??? )

How about a few peti-vials? I have them in a post in the ink forum at the top.

Dillon

If you want to pack a full bottle or two, you can try the method I've used to take ink successfully all over the world.

1. Remove bottle from teh box if you still have it.
2. Wrap bottle in a sock
3. Put package inside a ziploc bag
4. Put it inside a shoe
5. Pack out the shoes with more socks
6. Pack the shoe

Ray

There are also the Visconti Travelling Ink Pots/Wells. These tubes serve all FPs which fit into their opening, and contain several pen loads of ink.

Hi Jeff,

All of the above suggestions are good suggestions, and I would like to add a suggestion of mine here.

I have carried several bottles of ink successfully just in a carry-all. Put a boxed bottle of ink in a compartment, and stuff some buffeting material around it, like a plastig bag, or bubble plastic. That's all I have been doing for the last 3 years or so, and I carry at least 5 and up to about 10 bottles of ink with me that way, all together in a compartment, and accompanied by other stuff. Unless you start throwing your bag around in a really bad way, or dropping it from elevated levels, it shouldn't pose a problem. All ink bottles have sealing caps, and glass is sturdier than many people think, and even more so when there is some shock-absorbing material around it.

Don't forget: ink gets transported all over the world in bigger boxes containing the smaller ink bottle boxes, with a little bit of shock-absorbing material only.

So, that should work too .

if you're worried about a leak, just stuff the bottle and box in a jiffy bag first, maybe with some paper toweling in the jiffy bag to buffer the worst leaks.

HTH, warm regards, Wim

I have found that ink bottles are sturdy, it is the possibility of a rather large mess what is most worrisome. I don't carry cartridges, so I always lug a bottle around.

A good twist on the cap (be careful about Noodlers soft caps that can crack though) and a ziplock bag is all I have ever used. Some padding is of course also helpful. I always put it in my carry-on (all I ever take on business trips anyway).

1 oz nalgene bottle.

Nice, I find plastic bottles of various sizes all the time at Wal Mart, all under $1.00.

Question though, what's the beef between plastic bottles and ink? You almost never see ink sold in plastic bottles, yet cartridges and bottle caps are all plastic.

Evaporation is a weak point of plastic cartridges, so an ink bottle of plastic would dry out after several years, while old ink in tight glass bottles may still be used.

Thanks! But aren't plastic cartridges sealed? You have to break the plastic seal to get to the ink ... so the only way to evaporate or vaporize is through the plastic.

Exactly, the water part of the ink fluid evaporates through the plastic walls. If you keep full, unopened carts for long years, you can see the amount of liquid inside shrinks.

I now have 'saved' my last Parker Penman Sapphire carts from the '90s, which had only 2/3 liquid left, into my Sapphire bottles.