WARNING WARNING WARNING DANGER WILL ROBINSON

[Lloyd]

If you read Richard's site, he refers to highly saturated (Noodlers, Private Reserve, some Diamine) and iron gall inks (one or two by MB, RK, Lamy, Diamine) as higher maintanence but NOT to be avoided. With proper pen hygiene, these inks are safe in most fountain pens (that Nettuno and a short run of Safaris that Lamy has stated as faulty excluded).

[spotted and speckled]

Moral: Put FP ink in your FPs, use water to clean them out, and you'll be OK.

 

 

Good response.

 

 

+1

 

Having used bunches of crazy inks (superchrome, penman, third-tier vintage inks, etc), and nothing like that ever happening to any of my pens, I would suspect something above and beyond inks causing that sort of damage. Like bad/inferior parts, or being used in a high school chemistry experiment.

 

Good pen hygiene is still your friend though.

[spotted and speckled]

Though I do not have many decades of fountain pen use and maintenance behind me( only a decade!) I would be more than willing to test out different plastics that feeds are made of to see how they react with BSB, I would need a bottle of BSB though if anyone could spare one, or at least a few mls of the ink to do the tests. This would be fun, as I can really get back into the research part of science that I love so much, even if it is more chemical than biological!! haha Let me know if anyone is interested!

 

 

PM me your address and I'll send you some BSB.

[dizzypen]

Exactly! It appears that Richard is not interested in providing details, so one has to ask why he even posted this. Was it just for the shock and horror factor?

Thank you for your kind assessment of my intentions.

 

Because the pen's owner had not yet responded to my query, I did not know, when I posted the picture, what the ink in question was. I do now. It was Bay State Blue. The client notes that this same ink has been used in others of the client's pens without apparent ill effect. My surmise at this point is that the feed was not a Bock part but rather a knock-off made of inferior plastic.

 

Hmm... upon rereading my post it does come off a bit rude. I read your "It doesn't matter" response to Ethernautrix's query for more information as an unwillingness to provide more detail than the picture. Hasty perhaps? My apologies.

 

I'm glad you have been able to name the alleged ink. This kind of documented information is really important so that we all remain informed about potential problems both with the ink and with "suspect" feeds.

[Margana]

... This kind of documented information is really important so that we all remain informed about potential problems both with the ink and with "suspect" feeds.

It's unfortunate the original post can't be edited to include correct information, specifically the name of the ink and the fact that the feed was most likely of inferior quality and not made by Bock. That data is too far down the thread at post #53 to be seen without some effort. Perhaps a moderator will make this situation right as it appears inaccurate to connect the Bock name to the damaged feed.

[Ru4scuba]

Wow...thats ugly!

[Paddler]

Richard,

You are probably going to remove that damaged feed and replace it with a new one, right? Would it be possible to put the old, damaged feed into a container of BSB and see if the damage continues? Maybe file a flat place in it first to calibrate the deterioration.

 

Paddler

[Possum Hill]

Richard,

You are probably going to remove that damaged feed and replace it with a new one, right? Would it be possible to put the old, damaged feed into a container of BSB and see if the damage continues? Maybe file a flat place in it first to calibrate the deterioration.

 

Paddler

 

Hmm... reasonable, logical, useful. Who let this guy in?

[Ann Finley]

Hi All,

 

This topic has some good info and comments. Why am I closing it? When a topic has "warning" 3 times in all caps it will attract the attention of all who haven't seen it from now on. This is fine, in and of itself...Newbies will discover it, read it, and learn from it. However, members get tired of the same threads always popping up to the top of the forum--which will happen if it is left open for continued replies. The topic has been well covered by the discussion and I don't think continuing discussion will add to the relevance of the topic.

 

Best, Ann