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I have been using bottled Sheaffer Skrip black ink from Slovenia. I am very pleased with the performance of my Craftsman, Snorkel, and Lifetime Triumph(1963) pens with this ink. Recently when I opened the bottle to fill one of the pens, there was a white scum or mold floating on top. I immediately lifted the stuff out with a Q-tip; in addition, the ink has a peculiar and unpleasant odor.

 

I called !-800-FINEPEN, but no one could help me. The store in San Antonio has not been available lately.

 

Has anyone heard of this with the Slovenian ink?

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You have the dreaded SITB. It happens, although rarely, across the board. While ink makers generally put some biocide in the ink to prevent this, maybe your batch didn't get enough, or you found a mould that is resistant. I have had bottles of Quink with Solv-X with the same problem, and Solv-X is supposed to be phenol, one of the all-time killers of things microbial.

 

Since the ink now smells, the whole bottle is contaminated. There are little bits of breeding mould (called hyphae) now all through your ink. It is not worth trying to rescue, as you will contaminate your pens. Junk it, clean out the bottle according to the advice in this thread, and go shopping for new ink.

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Sorry to hear that you had this problem. I had good experience, it is a well behaved ink with a nice flow. I think it is made by Vivapen in Slovenia. (They also make Private Reserve ink cartridges, Online fountain pens etc.)

Inked: Sailor King Pro Gear, Sailor Nagasawa Proske, Sailor 1911 Standard, Parker Sonnet Chiselled Carbon, Parker 51, Pilot Custom Heritage 92, Platinum Preppy

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Happens to ev rule ink maker, even Herbin. Bacteria, yeast, mold... They're everywhere.

Toss the bottle and have fun shopping for another black..

I ride a recumbent, I play go, I use Macintosh so of course I use a fountain pen.

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Throw away the ink, or buy a bottle of phenol from Natural Pigments and follow SamCapote's decontamination instructions (note the third bullet point in the "small print" part of this post, and post #39). You'll have enough phenol for many, many uses.

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