Up Or Flat: Storing Inked Pens?

[T4TEXAS]

I have been storing my inked pens as follows.

 

Piston Fillers and anything with a bladder: vertical, nib up

 

Converters: horizontal

 

Does this make sense, or does it really not matter?

 

Look forward to everyone's opinion and experiences.

[tragique]

I store all of mine flat and I haven't had any issues, but then again my inked pens rarely stay in storage more than a few days without use, else I just empty them.

[deepak23]

Horizontally. Irrespective of the type of filing system. No problems whatsoever so far. But I ink pens that are in rotation with the remaining flushed and dried.

[tamiya]

Does this make sense, or does it really not matter?

Tried using a pencup but didn't like inconsistency when next uncapped - both nib down & nib up. Either way seemed to dry out & not startup as reliably.

 

Now keep everything horizontal; pencup used for empties & drying washed pens only.

[jar]

Shouldn't matter.

[rwilsonedn]

In principle it shouldn't matter. But some pens, especially older vintage pens and large ED-fillers, seem to collect ink in the feed (or worse, in the cap) if left horizontal or nib-down through changes in temperature or air pressure. At least some of these incidents may be due to undetected cracks or pinholes somewhere, but sometimes it seems to be just the nature of the pen. One learns the quirks of one's vintage pens by experiment, I guess. At the extreme, if you are flying you want all pens either empty or nib-up at all times.

ron

[FOUR X FOUR]

East and west

[zuph]

Doesn't matter at all, unless you're using shimmering inks with small particles-- In that case, nib up.

[masterguns]

Shouldn't matter. I have a pen holder with 9 vertical and 3 horizontal slots and have experienced no ill effects based on how I store pens.

[inkstainedruth]

For pens where I've seen the original paperwork (vintage and modern), it generally says to store them nib up if they have ink in them. So that's what I do, for the most part. If I'm using a pen sporadically over the course of a day, I may keep it horizontal, especially if I'm concerned about flow issues (such as today, when I was using one of the new Charlie pens and Noodler's Blue Ghost -- but it's now back upright again).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Freddy]

Erect....Upright....Supine....Flat....face up..face down....

Makes no difference..........................................................

 

Fred

[Buzz_130]

Doesn't matter if empty. Enjoy the pens!

 

Buzz

[MadAmos]

I carry several with me every day shirt pocket, messenger bag, on my desk they end up being in multiple positions throughout the day. I just never give it a thought and somehow if all works out

[ac12]

I store most of my clip pens, nib UP.

 

All my desk desk pens in holders/bases are stored nib DOWN. Well, down as in about 45 degrees from straight down, the usual angle that my holder is at.

 

I had to store my Lamy joy horizontal, because the ink would get stuck in the back of the converter, when stored nib up. Storing horizontal prevented the ink from pooling in the back of the converter and getting stuck there. I fixed this problem by putting a stainless steel ball into the converter, so the ball falling through the ink would break the surface tension holding the ink to the back of the converter.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

I've been leaving them horizontal for years. So far, so good. HTH YMMV IFUCNRDTHSUR2CLOSE

[FOUR X FOUR]

At first I stored them horizontal. Some one said to store them nib up. So, i started doing it that way. I thought, better be safe than sorry. But when I stored them horizontally I never had any leakage. So, what I think is, if you lay them down its gonna help get the flow going sooner

[T4TEXAS]

Thanks to everyone for your comments.After reading through them I decided to store them horizontally when inked. We'll see how that goes.