Filling A Mb 149 From A Sample Vial

[bemon]

Ok.. so do you folks do it? I can fit the nib inside a sample vial but it’s a tight squeeze and I know I’m forcing the shoulders of the nib more than I should be. Any special hacks that I anyone’s used?

[A Smug Dill]

I don't have a Montblanc (and I expect never to want one myself), but surely if a model 149 can be filled from internal reservoirs found in certain ink bottles, or an 'ink miser' or some such apparatus? If so, then just fish the internal reservoir out of a bottle and clean it, then fill it with ink from the sample vial, and fill the pen from the detached reservoir.

[Karmachanic]

Pineider Ink Filler might do the trick? It'll accept up to a 13.5mm section. Could be worth the expenditure if the 149 is going to make friends with many sample vials in the future.

[Barry Gabay]

It may not be a good idea to force a fountain pen nib into a space which is too narrow for it. To fill a 149 from narrow vials, I use a syringe. These can be purchased from any pharmacy. Turn the piston cone to the empty position. Draw ink into the syringe, and then saturate the space between the collar and the section lip. Then reverse the piston, and ink will enter the ink chamber. Repeat this until you have filled your 149, or have enough ink to write with. It's a good idea to dampen the feed and collar first with cool water. The capillary attraction of liquids will occur more easily if there is water on the feed prior to your drawing ink from the space you have filled from the vial. I posted these same photos last Summer. Good luck.

Edited September 20, 2020 by Barry Gabay

[GOTO10]

I think you can also just saturate the feed with the syringe and back the piston to draw the ink into the barrel. This will take a long time though.

[bemon]

It may not be a good idea to force a fountain pen nib into a space which is too narrow for it. To fill a 149 from narrow vials, I use a syringe. These can be purchased from any pharmacy. Turn the piston cone to the empty position. Draw ink into the syringe, and then saturate the space between the collar and the section lip. Then reverse the piston, and ink will enter the ink chamber. Repeat this until you have filled your 149, or have enough ink to write with. It's a good idea to dampen the feed and collar first with cool water. The capillary attraction of liquids will occur more easily if there is water on the feed prior to your drawing ink from the space you have filled from the vial. I posted these same photos last Summer. Good luck.

There it is, I’ll do this. I’ve got some ink syringes. I hated the idea of forcing the nib into a vial. Not the kind of thing one can get away with more than a few times.

[bemon]

Pineider Ink Filler might do the trick? It'll accept up to a 13.5mm section. Could be worth the expenditure if the 149 is going to make friends with many sample vials in the future.

Is that the same as their Snorkel? I do use that for drawing ink our of bottles into converters. But it only works with certain converters. I suppose it may work with certain piston fillers if I were to remove the nib, but I don’t have the tool to pull a MB nib.

Edited September 21, 2020 by bemon

[bemon]

I don't have a Montblanc (and I expect never to want one myself), but surely if a model 149 can be filled from internal reservoirs found in certain ink bottles, or an 'ink miser' or some such apparatus? If so, then just fish the internal reservoir out of a bottle and clean it, then fill it with ink from the sample vial, and fill the pen from the detached reservoir.

Also a good idea. I had a TWSBI ink well with an ink miser sort of attachment a few years ago, but I sold it. I’m just going to try dousing the feed with a syringe and drawing the ink back that way as someone below mentioned. Which I suppose I should have just clued into myself.

[Karmachanic]

Is that the same as their Snorkel? I do use that for drawing ink our of bottles into converters.

 

No. Here's a blog entry from Goulet: https://blog.gouletpens.com/2018/10/introducing-the-pineider-pen-filler/

[bemon]

 

No. Here's a blog entry from Goulet: https://blog.gouletpens.com/2018/10/introducing-the-pineider-pen-filler/

That's an interesting gadget. I'll have to measure the section of the 149 to see if it's +/- 13 mm.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I like it, and may test this concept with a cheap pen today!

[Karmachanic]

That's an interesting gadget. I'll have to measure the section of the 149 to see if it's +/- 13 mm.

 

Don't have a 149, but I have read in several places that the section is 13mm, so it should work.

 

Here's another write-up: https://rupertarzeian.com/2018/12/30/some-early-thoughts-on-the-pineider-pen-filler-travelling-inkwell/

[AndyLogan]

Also a good idea. I had a TWSBI ink well with an ink miser sort of attachment a few years ago, but I sold it. I’m just going to try dousing the feed with a syringe and drawing the ink back that way as someone below mentioned. Which I suppose I should have just clued into myself.

You can purchase these cheap medicine measuring cups for a dollar or less at any chemist/pharmacy.

 

 

Edited September 21, 2020 by AndyLogan

[irrigger]

Here is a post I did a couple of years ago using the standard sample bottle with a MB149.

Yes, you can insert a pen into these. The MB 149 just fits, so you should be able to get smaller pens in with no issues. It can be a snug enough fit that if you are careful, it can be used like a mini Visconti Travelling ink well by turning it upside down

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[Sailor Kenshin]

I just tried the syringe technique, not even with a piston pen, but one that had a piston converter. It works! Nothing can stop me now in my evil scheme to fill piston pens.

 

😜

[Karmachanic]

You can purchase these cheap medicine measuring cups for a dollar or less at any chemist/pharmacy.

 

 

 

Thanks for reminding me! Ink Miser

[bemon]

 

Don't have a 149, but I have read in several places that the section is 13mm, so it should work.

 

Here's another write-up: https://rupertarzeian.com/2018/12/30/some-early-thoughts-on-the-pineider-pen-filler-travelling-inkwell/

Great- thanks. I'll put the Pineider inkwell on my list anyway. My favorite ink comes in a comically tiny bottle. Of the 20 mil it comes with only the first 10 are accessible by drawing from the bottle. For my C/C pens it's no big deal because I just use the Pineider Snorkel. But for my piston fillers it's a challenge.

[bemon]

Here is a post I did a couple of years ago using the standard sample bottle with a MB149.

Wonderpens likes to use smaller thinner sample vials. Seems to be about the same amount of ink per sample, but the vials are tiny. In this photo you can see where the nib stops on it's way into the vial.

 

I know I had empty Goulet vials and I was looking for one to decant the ink from the Wonderpens vial into, but we're moving soon and I must have thrown them away during "the big purge".

 

Edited September 21, 2020 by bemon

[bemon]

You can purchase these cheap medicine measuring cups for a dollar or less at any chemist/pharmacy.

 

 

That's probably a better idea for the short term. There's a pharmacy a 5 min walk up the road. I'm going to order the Pineider ink well, but I could get one of these today.

[AndyLogan]

 

Thanks for reminding me! Ink Miser

 

Yup, and with the price difference, you could get a couple more of those.