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 Is the diamine bottle plastic or glass? The cap may be air tight, but often water will evaporate right through the plastic walls.

Glass, very thick.

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Wow, looks like they are using the same type of filling connector as the Visconti Traveling Inkpot. See the Pen Addict's review of the Visconti here

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The Peneider inkwell is interesting. But at $25 a pop? Thanks, but I'll stick to sample vials in a ziplock bag for travel purposes -- they're WAY cheaper (especially if I'm using a vial previously purchased as an ink sample, which is already labeled :rolleyes:). Given the number of inks I have currently, I wouldn't be able to afford to buy pens if I bought too many of these!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Ruth, do you ever invert your pen when filling from the sample bottles the way the visconti (and I assume peneider) recommend with their product?

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Do you mean taking it out of the vial and turning it nib up? No, not really. I only tend to do that when I'm cleaning a pen out, and really want to make sure that I'm getting the flushing solution all the way in and getting to all the places ink could get trapped (that's a trick I learned from the pinned thread in the Parker Forum about finding your first 51 in the wild, and I find the flushing directions from that thread work pretty well with all my pens).

I don't have any Viscontis (mostly too rich for my blood -- and the only ones I really like the look of are the Van Gogh pens, which I found a bit heavy for their size). There was a discussion last week at the SCN meeting about Pineider pens, and how their fill system (at least for some models?) was similar to that "mosquito" fill system on some Viscontis (which I gather is a version of a vacufil system that you find on some models of TWSBIs and one some vintage Sheaffers).

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Im with Ruth. I see no need to buy a pneider when it costs ten times more and takes up three times more space in your bag compared to a nalgene vial. I bought a Visconti traveling ink well years back and after it eventually developed a leak I told myself Im not going to get burned again by over complicating the simple idea of an ink well.

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I think I bought my small Nalgene bottles from Karst Sports when they were selling them off at a ridiculously low price.

 

Thanks for that tip, Chrissy. Karst Sports still has these Nalgene bottles.

My order of these bottles just arrived.

 

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