I'm Crying: I Flushed A Nib Down The Sink!

[Astronymus]

There is an edit-Button.

[mitto]

There is an edit-Button.

Over here that button went sailing away down the plug.

[Chrissy]

 

It was just a combo of persistence and luck while trawling Ebay.

 

David.

 

Well done you.

[EdwardSouthgate]

I flushed a WWi AEF Air Corps Pilot ring down the drain one day at work . Went straight to the sewer .. Never were many around and now thanks to me there is one less .

Stay out f the sink for cleaning . Congratulations on finding the new nib .

Edited January 1, 2019 by EdwardSouthgate

[inkstainedruth]

I flushed a WWi AEF Air Corps Pilot ring down the drain one day at work . Went straight to the sewer .. Never were many around and now thanks to me there is one less .

Stay out f the sink for cleaning . Congratulations on finding the new nib .

 

Did you check the trap? That's where part of the clutch ring ended up on my Parker 21 a few years ago (I didn't realize it was a two piece assembly). And amazingly enough, it ended up in the trap under the sink (the j-bend part of the piping) -- even though I had run water a fair amount in the days in between through the sink -- lightweight as that little ring was.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[EdwardSouthgate]

Yup ! It was headed to the Cumberland River while I was raking the plumbing apart .

[bass1193]

Though I was sure this would never happen to me, it did just a few weeks ago. Cocksure in my ability to be way more careful than anyone else, I disassembled an interesting vintage Indian pen from eBay. Frustrated by it being caked in dried red ink (the ultimate frustration in a vintage pen!!) I began scrubbing the various parts. While working on the nib, it slipped from my fingers. I immediately stopped the tap, dried my hands, and grabbed the trusty Channellock Bigazz® (seriously ) pliers and took out the trap. Sadly, the nib was gone forever. I like to think that a worker at the water treatment facility noticed a glint of gold and grabbed it as a curiosity....

[Honeybadgers]

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Y'all need to just use a cereal bowl.

[bass1193]

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Y'all need to just use a cereal bowl.

that was always my reaction hearing people talk about this! Hubris will out, though. I now use a cereal bowl, after I've killed the Cap'n Crunch, of course!

[Honeybadgers]

I actually use little 4oz beer tasting glasses for pen flushing, and if I need to remove a nib, I'm doing it over a countertop. I don't remove the nib until I've flushed the ink anyways, removing a nib from a pen full of ink is a quick way to get stained fingers (well, more stained than you could usually expect with this hobby)

[WirsPlm]

I actually use little 4oz beer tasting glasses for pen flushing, and if I need to remove a nib, I'm doing it over a countertop. I don't remove the nib until I've flushed the ink anyways, removing a nib from a pen full of ink is a quick way to get stained fingers (well, more stained than you could usually expect with this hobby)

 

After flushing one of my favorite nibs down the sink I started doing all pen cleaning over a wire strainer that's got little metal handles on the edges and is wide enough to rest sturdily on the edges of the sin. Works like a charm, cleaning is now much less stressful.

[Sozen-odyssey-of-hammer]

Damn that blows. I made that mistake with a cheap fountain pen I got in India a while back. I was very fortunate to have lost a cheap pen's nib that didn't work well at all anyway. But I learnt my lesson, because it hurt seeing the nib disappear.

Edited January 8, 2019 by Sozen-odyssey-of-hammer

[Tseg]

Why I only use an outhouse. Sorry for your loss.

[Tweel]

That makes it easy to retrieve dropped nibs?