Spilled Ink!

[Charles Skinner]

I have a fairly large pan, --- about the size you would use to cook corn bread in ---- on my desk. I call it my "Marriage Saver!" Why? Because if I opened and spilled a bottle of ink on the floor, --- it would be "off to the divorce court for me!" I never open a bottle of ink unless it is directly over the pan!

 

This morning I was doing a little "ink mixing," and in the process, dropped a tiny, tiny drop of blue ink on the carpet! "OH NO!" My first thought was , "Well, I guess I will have to sign up AGAIN on E-HARMONY!

 

LONG LIVE CORN BREAD COOKING PANS!

 

Long live inks, ---- Long live pens, ------ and long live BREAD PANS!

 

Charles Skinner

 

 

 

 

 

[lapis]

I do that all the time -- but only when I'm having to open unruly bottles like Stipulas (Calamos), Viscontis or Noodler's.

[PAKMAN]

My method is a bath cloth under the ink bottle whenever I'm filling a pen. It helps that I have a floor protector under my office chair. In my first months of using fountain pens I dumped a half bottle of Quink across my desk, the floor protector, my pants and my income tax receipts box. The side of the box saved the carpet! After many years, I'm still using that box and remembered the incident last night when I was both working on taxes and filling a pen with ink. No disasters this time! Whew!

[MKeith]

Spelled Amodex!

[inkstainedruth]

A pan would have not helped the time I broke my first bottle of KTC -- I knocked the bottle off the bathroom counter and the bottom sheared off the bottle when it hit the bathroom tile.

Nearly four and a half ounces (it was only my first fill out of the bottle) of an ink that will survive the Apocalypse.... All over a mostly white bathroom. Plus glass -- there was glass everywhere, even though most of the bottle remained intact....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

Feel free to burst in tears. Your spouse will be so shocked you may be able to run.

[Tseg]

You know what they say, “Don’t cry over spilt ink.”

[Bibliophage]

I fill my pens, and do mixing, over a white porcelain bathroom sink. Even if I miss, or when I'm flushing, a little bleach and the sink is clean again.

 

That includes the two bottles of 'photo' ink I'm currently letting evaporate down. They're not saturated enough.

[DrDebG]

I only open bottles of ink in either my bathroom or kitchen with plenty of paper towels underneath. I haven't spilled a bottle of ink . . . yet. . . but I have splattered a bit. But since I am nuts about only opening and loading pens in the bathroom or kitchen, a little splatter will only end up in the sink or on the tile, which can easily be cleaned up.

[Misfit]

Spelled Amodex!

+1. That’s what I used for ink drop on carpet. And to get a nickel sized spot of Rouge Hematite off a fabric placement. It worked too, but washing with Era also helped that.

[Studio97]

My ink bottles are stored in the bottom of a large fishing tackle box. I open them in the bottom of the box, fill my pens and close the bottle. Spilled a little ink inside the box once. No worries.

[migla9]

A few weeks ago, I got a couple of drops on the corner of a white bedspread. A few days later, my wife said "what is this?" I looked over and said "Montblanc Toffee Brown". She said "Oh". We get along.

[Brandywine]

A few weeks ago, I got a couple of drops on the corner of a white bedspread. A few days later, my wife said "what is this?" I looked over and said "Montblanc Toffee Brown". She said "Oh". We get along.

 

She was probably relieved (or surprised) that the stains turned out to be just INK ...

[lapis]

 

She was probably relieved (or surprised) that the stains turned out to be just INK ...

... and not toffee....

[Restored]

I keep the ink in its box when I fill a pen. It's on a paper towel over a notebook on a brown Formica bar. Floor is linoleum.