What Pen did you clean out today?

[inkstainedruth]

Last night and today it's been the Reform c/c pen with the Westinghouse logo on it after running an old-ish Pelikan cartridge of reconstituted Edelstein Amethyst (swag from the first year of Pelikan Hubs).

Think I've FINALLY got all the ink flushed out of the feed....  Maybe, anyway... (I might do another round of ammonia solution, just to be on the safe side...).

Of course once the pen is dry and the nib and feed put back onto the barrel, that might get added to the "Pens to be worked on at OPS" the end of the month.  Not sure if the pen will take a Pelikan converter or I'd have to get a "universal" (I mean, International Standard, one...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Doug C]

Nahvalur Eclipse. 

[Penguincollector]

  More of a nib and feed cleaning, but I cleaned my FPR/Flexible Nib Factory EF Ultraflex today. 

[RedPie]

Cleaned out my Jinhao X450. I used it as a dip pen to try my Noodler's Walnut, which came yesterday. A good ink for my Pelikan Café Crème.

[torstar]

 

 

Bold nib

 

[Penguincollector]

  I cleaned out my blue Sheaffer Compact II B and my Osmiroid Copperplate nib last night. 

[inkstainedruth]

Well, STILL flushing the nib and feed on that Reform pen.... It's now soaking in ammonia solution -- AGAIN....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

I have a Lamy Vista soaking right now. 

[ParramattaPaul]

I cleaned the recently arrived FPUK pen of the syrup-thick black ink (it's at least 3 years old) that I originally loaded in and refilled it with Diamine Kensington blue.   The black ink flowed well enough, but the lines were too thin and took too long to dry.

 

I have to say that the Nahvalur broad nib of my pen writes more like a medium than a broad.  The line it leaves is certainly nowhere as wide and that of a CS or Onoto broad nib.

[MarcoA63]

An Orange (?) Sheaffer No Nonse and I verified that the short Kaweco convert fits properly on the cartridge breather tube. So next time I ink it I'll give it a go 🙂

[inkstainedruth]

Still (sadly) trying to flush out the dregs of Edelstein Amethyst (diluted at that!) from the Reform Westinghouse pen.  

I really need to get a converter for that pen....  OTOH, I did pay less than $12 US for it at an estate sale....  Mostly because I was amused by the Westinghouse imprint and logo on it (Westinghouse is still a big deal company in Western PA).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

Flushed for a third day, the 200 with the Parker Penman Ruby ink.

I don't know how many years that pen sat unused with Ruby ink in it.

 

I'm going to have to find out what one uses to remove red ink stain from an ink window....first  so stained ink window by me, but it wasn't my pen that sat there for. I had read early don't use red in ink window pens and don't let purple sit in them either, so those purple inked pens got cleaned out as soon as empty, not put in a dirty pen cup.

 

It's been over two weeks since customs are waiting for my ink bottles to explode or turn into fungus....got perhaps another 3 to 6 more weeks, before they send me a bill.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 10/7/2024 at 10:44 PM, Doug C said:

Bo Bo, I have that stand. Levenger,  right?

Parker.

Perhaps Levenger could order some through Parker... Or the Parker supplier supplied Levenger also. Is your bottle round like the Penman Ruby?

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 10/8/2024 at 6:00 PM, Penguincollector said:

Osmiroid Copperplate nib last night. 

I didn't know they made a Copperplate nib. I have a set of square italic nibs. From BB to EF. Have one on an Esterbrook copper DJ.

[Doug C]

15 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Parker.

Perhaps Levenger could order some through Parker... Or the Parker supplier supplied Levenger also. Is your bottle round like the Penman Ruby?

Yes. It looks like Levenger sourced them Parker.  Thanks. 

[Penguincollector]

21 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I'm going to have to find out what one uses to remove red ink stain from an ink window

  Do you have any of the old self-cleaning inks? Parker with Solv-x, MontBlanc with SC-25, Sailor Doyou, and I think there is a Noodler’s (Rattler Red, maybe?) that will help with stained ink windows.

 

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I didn't know they made a Copperplate nib

  It’s really nice. I’ve had mine since childhood, but it was bent in a move and I had it repaired after trying to replace it and finding out that they are now $$ rare and sought after. 

[inkstainedruth]

Sigh.  I'm now on *Day FOUR* of trying to flush the dregs of diluted Edelstein Amethyst out of the nib and feed of the Reform Westinghouse pen....  

Installing a converter borrowed from one of the Pelikan P22s is helping a LOT; the little bulb filler that was in the "freebie box" at this year's local Pelikan Hub fits the in back of the section and over the end of the feed better, but doesn't push nearly as much liquid through as the big ear bulb syringe does.  So using a converter is helping a LOT....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[thx1138]

Some cleaning over the last few days. Pens range from 1916 to 2020 and all function well . The Onoto only works as a dip pen as I'm not game enough to try taking it apart.

 

[Penguincollector]

   The Unic was not NOS, the feed has an ungodly amount of blue ink in it, so that one is soaking, as is my Jinhao 51a and an 18k Geha spade nib. 

[PAKMAN]

Cleaned out my Montblanc 220 today.