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Hi,
I have seen images and videos of the Visconti Travelling Ink Pot but have never had the opportunity to see one in real life. The concept of always having some ink with you in a convenient container has always intrigue me and I have been thinking how to make something similar.
After doing the "getting the last drop" video,
I thought what if the tube were made longer and removable stoppers were placed at both ends? And so the hunt for suitable stoppers began ... something big enough to seal the holes and doesn't absorb ink. A waterproof cork.
After months of searching, I found silicon rubber test tube stoppers in Aliexpress. You can also use short lengths of solid silicon rods too.
Here's a short video how to make the portable ink container:
Instructions on how to use the "Fountain Pen's Friend" to fill the following pens are included:
1. Pilot Varsity/V pen
2. A piston filler pen
3. A vac filler pen
I used a tube whose internal diameter is 9mm as the section of most of my pens are slightly larger, if the section of your pen is less than 9mm, just use a thinner tube.
Enjoy!
kenneth
at leewm dot com
PS: A bonus is that because the tube is made of flexible vinyl, dropping it will not cause it to shatter. As a precaution, I would put it in a small resealable plastic bag just in case I forget and don't push down on the stoppers hard enough.
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This is a clever idea, but personally I wouldn't use this - it looks like an ink catastrophe waiting to happen. In all cases you're inverting the tube, so the ink will dump out enmasse if there's a problem where the vinyl tube meets the pen. (I very much like the way it fills the Varsity and could see using it for that, over a sink, and not while traveling where an ink disaster would be exceptionally problematic.)

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How's this for an ingenious idea... if needs be, CARRY A BOTTLE OF INK! :)

 

Back decades ago when I attended school my school bag always had a bottle of Quink, it lived in the bottom of the drink bottle pocket. Never spilled or broke across the years.

 

 

Recently discovered Moneteverde trying to market giant lab vials (like a 2ml ink sample, just 50ml big) as travel ink reserve. Good luck to them, I bought one just out if pure novelty.

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... In all cases you're inverting the tube, so the ink will dump out enmasse if there's a problem where the vinyl tube meets the pen.

 

This is very true but thus far in the months that I've been using it, I've found that the vinyl tube grips the pen extremely tightly. If not tight enough, just push it in further. Even with the Vac filler pen, I've not suffered a blow out.

 

What I like about this ink container is that the pen is able to drink the very last drop of precious ink from it and being the size of a pen, it fits very nicely in pen cases. But as a precaution, I would put it in a small resealable plastic bag.

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Recently discovered Moneteverde trying to market giant lab vials (like a 2ml ink sample, just 50ml big) as travel ink reserve. Good luck to them, I bought one just out if pure novelty.

 

This is most interesting! Could u pls share a link as I'm curious to see how it looks? Thx!

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