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Rain water that falls on the south facing roof slope between 6am and 8:14 am on Thursdays only.

Psh... mine is off the West slope, and i get MUCH better results.. South water is terrible for you,.... and has some sort of acid.. unlike the West water... get on board! :)

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Just out of curiosity, has any of the restorers on the Network ever seen clear traces of mineral deposits in a vintage pen? I haven't handled enough pens to have a good sample, but I've seen lots of horrid things that are clearly from the ink, yet nothing that I would associate with minerals or particulates in the water.

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Just out of curiosity, has any of the restorers on the Network ever seen clear traces of mineral deposits in a vintage pen? I haven't handled enough pens to have a good sample, but I've seen lots of horrid things that are clearly from the ink, yet nothing that I would associate with minerals or particulates in the water.

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In general, no. On occasion, especially in a 51, I see a white deposit on the feed. But that could be related to the Superchrome ink. Nothing that says to me "this pen was regularly flushed with hard water, nothing that I can conclusively say is related to the water. I've been flushing pens with tap water for 40 years or so, restoring pens for over 20 - plain tap water is find. I think that distilled water is rather a bit of over kill. Better to worry about the ink you're using in the pen.

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I use tap water and have never had any problems.

Don't understand the debate really.

What's worse, rinsing you pen with tap water or just leave it to dry out with ink still in it?

I'll take tap water.

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If it's good enough to drink, then it's good enough for my pens.

Having said that, inner city Sydney in the early '70s, the water definitely wasn't good enough to drink...

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