Clogged Nibs?

[inkstainedruth]

I know that this is a resurrected old thread, but GoldenNibs is right -- it could have had paint or India ink or something in the pen.

Don't know if the OP is still around 6 years later, but my advice would be to use Rapid-o-Eze. Apparently that will work when nothing else does. I used to use it all the time to clean out my Rapidographs, back in the day.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Estycollector]

Use an E mandolin string.

[pajaro]

I had a clogged Esterbrook nib back when ths was originally posted. I eventually thought it wAsn't worth whatI wass spending trying to fix it. It is a challenge. Nobody likes to give up.

[ac12]

I just got through with a different pens nib. BTW it was cemented so I could not disassemble the nib assembly.

It was CLOGGED.

MANY cycles in an USC did not do anything,

Nor did soaking for two weeks.

 

Finally I got my guitar string probe, and sharpened the end like a chisel. So rather than a flat end, it was a wedge.

I put the guitar string into the back of the nib, then started rotating the nib around the string, so that the wedge would scrape the clog. vs. a flat end that would just push the dried ink further into the ink channel, and into a harder to clear clog.

This finally opened up the ink channel so that water could be forced through the nib.

[pajaro]

I had a totally plugged nib once. A cleaning solution didn't work, and a wire probe didn't clear it. I threw it away and got another nib out of the box, reasoning. It wasn't expensive.