I'm A Dead Man :(

[katerchen]

Was fiddling around on my ink shelf when one of these took a nose dive on the hardwood floor

 

 

 

Naturally, the cap broke apart and all the ink came out.

 

A few mitigating factors:

• At least the glass didn't shatter. Would have been fun to clean up inky glass splinters
• This ink has s**ty water resistance. I was able to get it off the surface, but of course the seams between the boards are darkened.
• It's in the corner of our home office, so people won't see it.
• The splash was fairly contained between the cheap IKEA rug and the cabinet ... none got on the wall. The downside is that there's probably still some under the cabinet and of course the corner of the rug is now blue
• Some got on the back of my leather lounging chair as well ... OTOH : that chair was banished from the living room already for being old and ratty and I had to fight to keep it in the first place.

I'm cautiously optimistic that it'll be a while before she looks back there. But then again : she has a sixth and a seventh sense for these things

 

-k

 

 

 

[silverlifter]

Clicked through fully expecting a BSB apocalypse. Turns out it is only a sprain

[katerchen]

Clicked through fully expecting a BSB apocalypse. Turns out it is only a sprain

 

Yeah I really got lucky with the ink. I have two Noodlers on that same shelf : if Nathan knows one thing : it's to make his inks stick to any organic surface.

 

I was literally blue to the elbows and after a shower none is visible. Usually I have ink on my skin for days after a minor spill cleanup.

 

-k

[Maurizio]

Cracked me up.

 

My wife has a similar nose for such mishaps.

 

I once spilled a bottle of Noodlers Borealis Black and did splash the wall. Was no way around that one. Had to repaint the whole wall after the ink dried.

Edited August 21, 2019 by Maurizio

[Dmact]

Clicked through fully expecting a BSB apocalypse. Turns out it is only a sprain

I always scratch my heads over these comments... I have yet to have BSB permastain anything other than my clothing. I droped my pen yesterday (fell butt first THANK GLOB) and it shot a lovely stream of BSB across the hardwood... cleaned right up with a bit of palmolive and water like it never happened. My favorite jeans however have a lovely streak of the stuff that hasnt come out after 10 washes.

 

Now ya wanna talk stain power Organic Studios Nitrogen is just satan in liquid form. I cant even open that accursed sample vial without staining my writing table, hands, stainless steel kitchen sink, any pen open to the same air, and the neighbors cat. Gorgeous color but the stuff seems to atomize into the air and onto every surface within a 5 block radius and not come off... And it literally climbs out of pens even when i store them nib up so i open the cap to an inksplosion. I only ever admire that ink through the sealed plastic vial and I'm temlted to seal the lid onto it with silicone grease "just" in case.

 

Eta: Lol it "bleeped" me cuz i fatfingered and spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why FPN took umbrage with ink being "shot" from my pen LOL

Edited August 21, 2019 by Dmact

[JulieParadise]

Maybe there is a rescue in sight: If it is a normal, standard Royal Blue (Königsblau) which usually can be erased with an "ink killer" (German: Tintenkiller, school children here use this all the time) you can try to get one of these. The ink eraser pens are usually equipped with a tip on each end, one for erasing (mostly a chisel tip) and one to write over the surface again.

 

I mean s.th. like this https://www.amazon.com/BIC-Ink-Eater-Eraser-Pens/dp/B008RTZT7A/ref=sr_1_17?keywords=ink+eraser&qid=1566368808&s=gateway&sr=8-17

[Flaxmoore]

I always scratch my heads over these comments... I have yet to have BSB permastain anything other than my clothing. I droped my pen yesterday (fell butt first THANK GLOB) and it shot a lovely stream of BSB across the hardwood... cleaned right up with a bit of palmolive and water like it never happened. My favorite jeans however have a lovely streak of the stuff that hasnt come out after 10 washes.

 

Now ya wanna talk stain power Organic Studios Nitrogen is just satan in liquid form. I cant even open that accursed sample vial without staining my writing table, hands, stainless steel kitchen sink, any pen open to the same air, and the neighbors cat. Gorgeous color but the stuff seems to atomize into the air and onto every surface within a 5 block radius and not come off... And it literally climbs out of pens even when i store them nib up so i open the cap to an inksplosion. I only ever admire that ink through the sealed plastic vial and I'm temlted to seal the lid onto it with silicone grease "just" in case.

 

Eta: Lol it "bleeped" me cuz i fatfingered and spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why FPN took umbrage with ink being "shot" from my pen LOL

My "OMG this ink is Satan" is HOD. Love the stuff for ultra-black, impossible to kill, but when I used it daily I always had ink spots on my hands.

[inkstainedruth]

It could have been worse, katerchan. The bottle COULD have broken (and glass shards go EVERYWHERE ). And the ink COULD have been an almost full 4-1/2 oz. bottle of Noodler's Kung Te Cheng, which is pretty much EVERYTHING-proof.... I still have stains in the grout on my bathroom floor. And on the front of the vanity (wood or woodgrain particle board) and on the front of the bathtub (white porcelain). And that was maybe five YEARS ago....

BSB? After a while the UV rays would have gotten to it; KTC? It will survive the Zombie Apocalypse. And, most likely, the REAL Apocalypse... (I bet that *both* Crowley and Aziraphaele use it, but for different reasons... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[noddle]

You could make an episode of CSI with that story.

Hope you're still alive next week!

[katerchen]

Maybe there is a rescue in sight: If it is a normal, standard Royal Blue (Königsblau) which usually can be erased with an "ink killer" (German: Tintenkiller, school children here use this all the time) you can try to get one of these. The ink eraser pens are usually equipped with a tip on each end, one for erasing (mostly a chisel tip) and one to write over the surface again.

 

I mean s.th. like this https://www.amazon.com/BIC-Ink-Eater-Eraser-Pens/dp/B008RTZT7A/ref=sr_1_17?keywords=ink+eraser&qid=1566368808&s=gateway&sr=8-17

 

 

Yes, that was the silver lining. The ink mostly came off clean with water. I wonder if the various Royal Blue formulations of different manufacturers share not only the tone but the washable property as well.

 

This was Diamine, but I usually use Pelikan 4001 ... which I have a 1L bottle of. Yeah, don't want to be clumsy with that one.

 

I'll try to get some of that eraser and see if it takes the rest off from the back of the leather chair. Thanks for the tip!

 

-k

[DrDebG]

Oh no! So sorry to hear about that.

 

My husband laughs at me whenever I fill my pens. He thinks I am incredibly obsessive about spilling ink.

 

I used to fill my pens in the kitchen with layers of paper towels between the countertop and the pen and pen bottle. One time I was filling a pen with J. Herbin Rose Cyclamen (super pink!) and I spilled a tiny drop on the grout between tiles on my kitchen counter. It seeped through the caulk into the grout. It is still there. I haven't taken the grout out as a reminder. But I did reseal the tiles and grout. Now, I fill my pens on a solid surface counter in my bathroom still using layers of paper towels. And I never, never, never open a bottle or vial of ink where there is carpet within sight!

 

Yeah, I guess I am a bit obsessive!

[Dmact]

It could have been worse, katerchan. The bottle COULD have broken (and glass shards go EVERYWHERE ). And the ink COULD have been an almost full 4-1/2 oz. bottle of Noodler's Kung Te Cheng, which is pretty much EVERYTHING-proof.... I still have stains in the grout on my bathroom floor. And on the front of the vanity (wood or woodgrain particle board) and on the front of the bathtub (white porcelain). And that was maybe five YEARS ago....

BSB? After a while the UV rays would have gotten to it; KTC? It will survive the Zombie Apocalypse. And, most likely, the REAL Apocalypse... (I bet that *both* Crowley and Aziraphaele use it, but for different reasons... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Uggg i forgot about that sample of Kung Te Cheng... Not as explosively volatile as the Nitrogen (i'm not even being hyperbolic about how bad that stuff is... I still have no clue how it got on all the places it's been found. I found it on my palm yesterday and havent touched that ink or anything i've written on WITH it in over a week but LO my palm was blue last night) but i still have a ktc stain on my counter where EVENTUALLY the Nitrogen comes off... I used up the KTC in april so the stain is from a pen flush before that... Meaning the KTC was dilute when it made that stain. we're marketing the stain as a "design element" and sticking to that story.

[pen2paper]

"katerchen" ... the silver lining. ...

you survived (grins)

+ humorous "it could've been worse" one ups

[miwishi63]

I always scratch my heads over these comments... I have yet to have BSB permastain anything other than my clothing. I droped my pen yesterday (fell butt first THANK GLOB) and it shot a lovely stream of BSB across the hardwood... cleaned right up with a bit of palmolive and water like it never happened. My favorite jeans however have a lovely streak of the stuff that hasnt come out after 10 washes.

 

Now ya wanna talk stain power Organic Studios Nitrogen is just satan in liquid form. I cant even open that accursed sample vial without staining my writing table, hands, stainless steel kitchen sink, any pen open to the same air, and the neighbors cat. Gorgeous color but the stuff seems to atomize into the air and onto every surface within a 5 block radius and not come off... And it literally climbs out of pens even when i store them nib up so i open the cap to an inksplosion. I only ever admire that ink through the sealed plastic vial and I'm temlted to seal the lid onto it with silicone grease "just" in case.

 

Eta: Lol it "bleeped" me cuz i fatfingered and spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why FPN took umbrage with ink being "shot" from my pen LOL

 

Dmact, if you're not a writer, you should be; I chuckled for several minutes after reading this. Thanks for brightening my day!

 

Mike

[Dmact]

Lol! Thanks Mike, you arent the first to say that

[azbobcat]

Me?!? I ALWAYS fill my pens in the bathroom or kitchen. The probability that I'll have an ink spill is at least 50% -- nothing like having a Parkinson's tremor *and* trying to fill a f.p. from a bottle. I came close to spilling a whole bottle of new ink once, but caught it before the bottle tipped over. My hands and a portion of my leg got the worse damage, and the linoleum on the vanity got some ink which I quickly wiped up.

 

I still looking for a HEAVY block of wood or something into which I can but the ink bottle into to prevent a repeat experience.

[Bibliophage]

Me?!? I ALWAYS fill my pens in the bathroom or kitchen. The probability that I'll have an ink spill is at least 50% -- nothing like having a Parkinson's tremor *and* trying to fill a f.p. from a bottle. I came close to spilling a whole bottle of new ink once, but caught it before the bottle tipped over. My hands and a portion of my leg got the worse damage, and the linoleum on the vanity got some ink which I quickly wiped up.

 

I still looking for a HEAVY block of wood or something into which I can but the ink bottle into to prevent a repeat experience.

 

Check for a local hardwoods lumber company. They usually have oddball shapes and sizes of woods, including very dense ones; they might even have a drill press with a forstner bit to put a nice hole into the center.