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I would like to buy eight or ten fairly small GLASS bottles to use in "adventures in mixing." Must have an opening large enough to get a ------- say, ---- a MB 146 nib in. The size---- around 15 or 25 ml. Any suggestion on where I could find such bottles? Thanks. C. S.

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Visit your pharmacie they have bottles with wide opening too. Good thing in Europe is that these bottles have brown coloured glass which protects the inks against light.

 

 

 

Usually pharmacists are friendly. I accompanied a patient of mine (I am a community psychiatrric nurse) to his pharmacist

 

Ee talked about Fountain Pens after the pharmacist saw me taking a note.

 

 

He uses Fountain Pens every day.. I spent him a bottele of Ink... he gave me 10 bottles with the messaga thst I could visit him when I run out

 

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Hi,

 

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To ensure the vessel's opening is sufficient, take your pen .

 

To ID the contents get some labels.

 

To enhance stability of the wee bottles, some BluTack to affixed to the bottom of the bottle does the trick.

 

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If you've got a local art supply store they often have small glass jars in 30ml and 60ml for about £1.

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Must the jar be glass? How about Nalgene?

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Like Gawain says, the small Nalgene bottles work perfectly for this if you're ok with plastic.

 

When I mix I use an eyedropper and mix tiny batches in contact lens cases. I either try them with a dip nib or draw them up into a syringe and squirt them into a converter.

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The bottles that Infant Advil comes in are perfect. 15ml, wide mouth, childproof cap. Of course, if you don't have a way to use the Advil they are VERY expensive. I developed a whole collection as my kids were teething.

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Not yet... but that is a GREAT IDEA!!!!! :D :D :D :D

 

 

 

 

Yes, but the cost of having enough small people in the household to empty the Nutella jars would outweigh the cost of buying directly.

I suppose you borrow a few for a couple of weeks, and then give them back when you have enough empty jars.

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Nalgene bottles. 15 ml = 1/2 oz, 30 ml = 1 oz. Necks are wide enough for any FP. This plastic is indestructable. The caps screw on tightly, Nothing better for inks. Any inks.

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Nalgene bottles. 15 ml = 1/2 oz, 30 ml = 1 oz. Necks are wide enough for any FP. This plastic is indestructable. The caps screw on tightly, Nothing better for inks. Any inks.

 

I like these too. I bought a lot from Karst Sports when they had a sale of the small ones :)

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Not yet... but that is a GREAT IDEA!!!!! :D :D :D :D

 

I steer clear of putting ink into bottles that have previously had organic contents in them. Besides the contamination possibilities there is also the issue of something starting to grow in the ink :sick: .If you could actually sterilize the bottles and lids that might not be an issue, but most lids can't be sterilized.

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I steer clear of putting ink into bottles that have previously had organic contents in them. Besides the contamination possibilities there is also the issue of something starting to grow in the ink :sick: .If you could actually sterilize the bottles and lids that might not be an issue, but most lids can't be sterilized.

good point, but Nutella has so much sugar/fat in it & negligible water, nothing can live in it ;)

 

Plus the mini jars are actually glass... I'd sterilise them like I do jam jars.

 

Haven't opened any yet to see what's under the lid... might be a cardboard pad for sealing, although these jars are really sold in catering trade for single-serve portions. Don't know if they'll seal watertight; if they did I'd sterilise them with peroxide.

 

I have put whole 2oz ink bottles into microwave to sterilise them before :D glass bottles with bake light lids, lids left loose on top. Heat them till near boiling, doesn't seem to affect colour.

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Nalgene bottles. 15 ml = 1/2 oz, 30 ml = 1 oz. Necks are wide enough for any FP. This plastic is indestructable. The caps screw on tightly, Nothing better for inks. Any inks.

 

Are Nalgene bottles leak proof? I mail-ordered a bottle of ink that came in one and it was a horrible mess when it got here. Or maybe they don't like airplanes?

 

I found mini jam jars - about 50ml size - at the $1 store to use with calligraphy inks and dip pen. I think they would work pretty well with fountain pens too. (For Australians maybe just WA? It was Red Dot)

 

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Will work for pens... :unsure:

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I used to go nuts hoarding up mini single-serve jars of Bonne Maman jam...

 

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They'd sell for about A$1ea *with* French jam inside :P which beats your buying empty $1 jars.

 

But after a few years the metal lids can rust.

 

Plastic nalgenes usually seal ok, but quality can vary.

 

Lately I've been storing ink in little rubbery plastic condiment bottles bought from Daiso. They seal great, will survive airplane pressures if I squeeze them in a little before capping them tight. But they only work for syringing, mouth is too small for section.

 

Am also looking quizzically at the little fish that squirts my soy sauce from the takeaway sushi joint... haven't yet tried them for ink :D

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