First Ink In Parker Vac?

[xinglongneo]

So, I'm going to get my Parker Vacumatic back from restoration in the coming weeks, and I'd really like to ink it up with an amazing ink.

 

The inks I currently own bottles of are:

Parker Quink Blue-Black (the first bottle of ink I ever bought myself!)

Private Reserve Ebony Purple

Noodler's Army Green

J. Herbin Rouge Hematite (this one's basically out of the running already, even though I love it)

Diamine Asa Blue

Diamine Amethyst

 

Please keep in mind that I live in the deepest darkest depths of American Samoa. Though Goulet does ship here.

[usk15]

Vacumatic being a classic I'll choose a classic colour like blue, blue-black or black.

[JonSzanto]

There couldn't be anything more appropriate and fitting than the first ink you've already listed.

[Scrawler]

I avoid putting staining inks in vacs, to try to preserve the clarity as long as possible.

[SallyLyn]

I personally will not put anything in my vintage pens but Waterman, Sheaffer and perhaps a few Diamine. As mentioned above I also lean toward a blue/black or blue and not a saturated ink. I try to go with safe, well mannered inks similar to the history of the pen.

 

I do have one Parker "51", not a vac, that I use only with Noodlers Violet Vote (formerly called Iraqi Indigo). Even then it will get an infrequent partial fill with Waterman Purple. The sac is stained.

 

Enjoy your pen.