What's Your Best Way Of Filling Ink

[dcwaites]

I love all this discussion of how to get ink where it is needed.

 

My experience with filling from the bottle is that, as the bottle empties and I must dip further in, my fingers touch the edge of the bottle and invariably come away matching my writing.

 

Short of wearing latex gloves, is there a method that keeps the fingers clean?

 

There is a gentleman who has turned himself blue by drinking colloidal silver every day. While I would not in any way suggest copying him, at least the ink wouldn't show up, so long as he stuck to blue inks...

[lapis]

 

There is a gentleman who has turned himself blue by drinking colloidal silver every day. While I would not in any way suggest copying him, at least the ink wouldn't show up, so long as he stuck to blue inks...

Awesome, literally. Is there a green out there so that I could alleviate my red?

 

Fred

[amberleadavis]

Best way to fill ink....I "con"vince my teenager to fill ink by uh enticing teenage boys over to the office to fill my pens while they flirt with my very cute teenage daughter. Uhh... yeah, I know it sounds "wrong" but hey it's controlled flirting.

[Opooh]

I don't use cartridges, preferring converters, piston-, bulk - and other fillers mainly for two reasons'

1. Refilling a cartridge is complicated and you need some tools to do so.

2. It would be ok when you have only one or two types of cartridges needed. I think I would need at least 10 sorts of different cartridges to do the job.

When you go to www.vulpennen.nl, they have in my point of view the ideal inkpot, it is a two reservoir example that make filling some pens really easy with less chance of harming the nib ( quit risky with some of the old Visconti's ). A second advantage of this system is the fact you can really use the last drop in the inkpot what can't be said for most of the other brands, especially when you go for fullsize and oversize models. When emptied I reuse them for other brands of ink.

[Sandy1]

Best way to fill ink....I "con"vince my teenager to fill ink by uh enticing teenage boys over to the office to fill my pens while they flirt with my very cute teenage daughter. Uhh... yeah, I know it sounds "wrong" but hey it's controlled flirting.

 

Oh my! I hope they use lots of MB Ink of Friendship!!

[Heliotrope]

The TWSBI 50ml ink bottle makes it possible to completely fill international converters simply and cleanly. It comes with plastic or metal tops. I presume that the plastic one would cause less erosion to the converter.

 

http://www.gouletpens.com/TWSBI_Diamond_50_Black_Ink_Bottle_p/tw-m7442980.htm

Edited June 18, 2013 by Heliotrope

[weemeng]

I just wonder what methods people use to fill ink. I assume most of you use bottled ink and some sort of converter, and here is going to be the big question: Do I have to dip my whole nib inside a bottle of ink to draw up like 2/3 of the converter's capacity?

I pour ink into a plastic eye dropper bottle and subsequently, use "the feed saturation method" (search youtube). Am able to fill to the very last drop.

 

Rgds

Weemeng

[amberleadavis]

 

Oh my! I hope they use lots of MB Ink of Friendship!!

 

Alas, they spilled half a bottle of Catalpa (which was expensive to get in the US), but managed the Ink of Love just fine. Hmm.... I don't think I'll let them near the Ink of Love again.

[spiv]

When refilling cartridges, I use the insulin syringes. They are easy to find, and I usually don't need much more than one ml. at a time. Also, I don't mind tossing them. They are plentiful and inexpensive. Some purple inks stain rather quickly so I try to keep a syringe per bottle... When I forget which one it goes with... time for a new one. When using a converter, I dip the nib, but might also syringe fill when the bottle gets low.

I use the larger syringes when filling an eyedropper pen... Or with my Nikita, Heart of Darkness or BSB, I use the eyedropper that came with the ink.

[fourseamer]

I like piston fillers and converters. I like pulling ink through the nib and feed to prime it and get a little extra ink on board. I have a vacuum filler (Pilot 823) I like for bigger ink capacity when the need arises. I don't bother with cartridges, because I work from home and all of my pens usually stay at my desk.

[torstar]

Come to think of it, not even BSB has stained my syringes through a handful of years of fillings.

[SeeksAdvice]

I usually draw ink up through the nib section to fill the converter.

 

However, my use of converter fill pens is slowing considerably. It's even to the point where I won't consider a pen that's C/C anymore.

 

Only C/C's I use with any regularity are a Lamy Al-Star 1.9mm (feed has issues keeping up), a slightly broken Invincia Inkball (terrible pen), and a Phileas EF.

[KateB_tps]

I use a syringe/needle now to fill my converters, although I used to dip the nib into the bottle and twist the converter, or just take the converter out and dip it into the bottle. I love the whole process of filling my pens! I like using the blunt needle because it's a lot less messy than any other way I've tried to fill my pens in the past, and just takes a couple of seconds to rinse out of the syringe, instead of getting messy fingers and ink all over tissues to clean the converter or f-pen nib!