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Any Safe And Water Resistant Blue Ink Or Blue Black For A Parker 51 Aerometric?

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My concern is that these residues accumulate inside a pen that is difficult to clean like parker 51 and that obstructs the fountain pen.

Thanks for sharing your opinion :D

I share your concerns. In my Vacumatic I use only Quink and Aurora black. Both are no-fuss inks and rinse out easily.

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New Parker Quink used to have a permanent blue. Also, Pelikan black is pretty god and washes out easier than many other blacks.

The new Sheaffer blue/black is also pretty good.

 

Don't worry, the P51 is pretty robust and will and up to almost any modern ink.

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It exists indeed, the only thing wrong with it: it isn't actually permanent.

This ink is not erasable with eradicators like the "washable", but it isn't water resistant if that is what are you searching for...

Hooded nibs are the best

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nsalvut NOS (New Old Stock)

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Try:

 

- Vintage permanent Sheaffer Skrip Blue (or Blue-Black), in the blue-yellow box.

 

- Vintage permanent Quink Blue (or Blue-Black) "with Solv-X". A Parker 51 wants vintage Quink.

 

Both are as water-resistant as anyone needs.

 

Incidentally, don't take the 51 apart. A specialist might disassemble a 51 when restoring it, but the pen was designed to run forever -- or counted as forever 70 years ago. In the early '50s, Parker suggested that owners flush their P-51 every few months, but nothing more "invasive".

 

I can confirm vintage Sheaffer Skrip Blue Black (With RC-35!) is highly water-resistant. I did a water test last night with a NOS bottle I found here in Maryland (Seller had about 20 bottles in mint condition, all full, I only bought 2.) and I soaked part of the page in water and left it soaking wet. I came back the next day and the page was still readable with very little bleed. To be fair, the bottle does say waterproof, and it was designed for vintage pens.

 

 

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surprise123 Vintage

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Aerometric Parker 51's are bulletproof. If you take care of it, it'll take ink and put it on the paper politely. If you don't, one day it'll punish you for your mistakes. One day.

 

I would stay with the inks that aren't iron gall, seeing as that the collector can get stained or clogged by iron gall inks. Noodler's is ok, but don't use Baystate, and don't leave it lying with the ink for months.

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It exists indeed, the only thing wrong with it: it isn't actually permanent.

This ink is not erasable with eradicators like the "washable", but it isn't water resistant if that is what are you searching for...

 

It also doesn't appear to be available in the US any more.... :( And I tried to order a bottle of it from an eBay seller in the UK a couple of years ago, only to be told they weren't allowed to ship it overseas!

Fortunately, I've been able to stock up on vintage Quink in various colors.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I can confirm vintage Sheaffer Skrip Blue Black (With RC-35!) is highly water-resistant. I did a water test last night with a NOS bottle I found here in Maryland (Seller had about 20 bottles in mint condition, all full, I only bought 2.) and I soaked part of the page in water and left it soaking wet. I came back the next day and the page was still readable with very little bleed. To be fair, the bottle does say waterproof, and it was designed for vintage pens.

 

 

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Good to know. I have some vintage Skrip (I really miss the red box brown/sepia someone gave me -- the bottle leaked all over the place at one point, but fortunately was contained in a ziplock bag). I wasn't overly enamored of the color of the V-Black (my bottle's contents are, well, grey-is...) but some of the other colors are okay. And Skrip Peacock is MORE than okay :wub: (although it took several days and repeated liberal application of Ink Nix to get it off my hands... :blush:).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I have used the vintage Sheaffer Blue-Black Permanent (Blue/yellow box) in my vintage Sheaffer Sentinel Deluxe for the past 6 months and I love it. I, too, needed a permanent ink because I tend to spill water on my notes. I have a quart of it so I will be using it for quite awhile.

 

Since you have a vintage pen, use a vintage ink :)

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