Copic pens

[Catpaws]

Hi!

This is a question for all the people who use Copic multiliner SP pens. I have a few and one is an 0.03pen. It is not old and really dry. I know you can buy new inserts for them but I was impatient and tried to hack it instead. I put Carbon ink in the spongy insert. It seems to draw slightly better. But I am wondering if the fineness of the point is why it is so dry. I ordered a new regular Copic multiliner pen that I can pitch when it's done. I also dug out my technical pens to see if I could get them writing. I put their moving parts in the sonic cleaner and hope that makes them  more useable. They were always a pain to clean but look better since going through the sonic cleaner. That's whey I got the Copic pens to begin with. Anyway, has anyone ever put ink in the spongey inserts for the Copic pens? 

Thanks

[Anne-Sophie]

Are you talking about the old refillable Copic Multiliners or the non-refillable ones?

 

Here is the Copic page for Multiliners

 

https://copic.jp/en/product/multiliner-sp/

[Catpaws]

Yep. Those are what I am talking about. 

I got one of the Rapidographs working. 

[Anne-Sophie]

Since you can rejuvenate refillable technical pens, even used ones, with the ultrasonic cleaner, you will be able to experiment, with even the finest of points. How exiting!

 

Many years ago, they were sold with permanent ink bottles from their respective manufacturers.

 

Now, there are so many fountain pen inks of various lightfastness and dip pen only, inks of various viscosity, that you can experiment with them to fit every technical pen's point.

 

Ink/pen pairing experiments can be done on a budget using the various ink samples offered by vendors and exchanged by pen clubs members, all over the world and of course FPN participants, between themselves.