Easiest/hardest Pen In Your Collection To Clean For Ink Changing?

[chromantic]

Easiest, my Pelikan Ms.

 

Hardest, my P45s; it's like there's a secret chamber in the section that holds an infinite amount of ink, plus the tiny little feed is like a sponge that also holds a similarly infinite amount. How can something so small hold so much?!

[Arkanabar]

Easiest: Noodler's "Nikita" eyedropper. I can pull the nib and feed from the section barehanded, and them scrub with a toothbrush in under a minute. Rinsing the barrel is likewise simple. It came with a bottle of Borealis Black which, incidentally, is an ink I regret buying, given how featherocious it is. I now wish I'd gone for Heart of Darkness, instead.

Hardest: Probably my Sheaffer Pen for Men, the last of Sheaffer's Snorkels, and their first inlaid nib. The only way to rinse the feed is to either soak the point, or else to fill with water and then either shake it out (like shaking down a thermometer) or put the point on a tissue or paper towel. I suppose that if I had one of those salad spinner pen centrifuges, I could use that too. For whatever reason, it runs dry after only a couple pages, and I'm really not willing to fool with it any more. I didn't buy this pen; my brother-in-law gave it to me.

Alternate possibility: My Dad's Parker "51". I didn't buy this pen either. I asked my mom for it a few years after my Dad died, and she gave it to me. It gets inks with phenol in them. I have old bottles of MontBlanc-Simplo Black with SuperCleaner SC21 and Parker Permanent Black Quink with Solv-X to use with it; odds are that after those are gone, its go-to ink will be Pilot Blue-Black.