What Pen did you clean out today?

[Baka1969]

20 minutes ago, SLinkster said:

I had to read this a couple of times. First time through I thought "wow, that must be a hella big converter!" 🤦‍♀️

[SLinkster]

39 minutes ago, Baka1969 said:

*snerk*

[RedPie]

45 minutes ago, Baka1969 said:

🤣😂 ROFL ...

[thx1138]

I received a Parker 45 in a lot of pens yesterday. The nib was so covered by grunge that I initially dropped it back in the box. As I was doing a spot of pen cleaning I gave it a bit of a bath.

To my surprise it was actually a perfect condition "D" nib, stamped 14k made in England.

Writes very well. 

So I have, without intending to, bought a "D" and a "Y" nib in the last couple of months.

[RedPie]

Amazing how that did clean up @thx1138. Lucky you! 👍✒️

[SLinkster]

5 hours ago, thx1138 said:

a perfect condition "D" nib, stamped 14k made in England

Nice find! 

[SLinkster]

Just cleaned out a skinny unbranded (presumed) aluminum fountain pen somebody at work offered me. The nib is super-shiny stainless, maybe a fine or extra fine. Takes standard international cartridges. 

[Penguincollector]

6 hours ago, thx1138 said:

I received a Parker 45 in a lot of pens yesterday. The nib was so covered by grunge that I initially dropped it back in the box. As I was doing a spot of pen cleaning I gave it a bit of a bath.

To my surprise it was actually a perfect condition "D" nib, stamped 14k made in England.

Writes very well. 

So I have, without intending to, bought a "D" and a "Y" nib in the last couple of months.

  A diamond in the rough! Very cool.

 

  I cleaned a Cross for Franklin Covey Lexington M nib. 

[inkstainedruth]

@thx1138 -- The "before" and "after" photos of that 45 are ASTOUNDING!  I probably would have passed on that pen as being complete unsalvageable....  

As for me, today's flushed pens are a tiny little Do-Write ring-top lever filler, and the black Parker Vector from the calligraphy set.  And of course yesterday flushed any residual manufacturing gunk out of the two pens that arrived in the mail in the afternoon -- the Monteverde Strata with the Omniflex nib, and the Pelikan M200 Café Crème, B nib (hopefully the 3rd time's a charm and I don't lose this one like I did the first two....).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[antares1966]

13 hours ago, thx1138 said:

I received a Parker 45 in a lot of pens yesterday. The nib was so covered by grunge that I initially dropped it back in the box. As I was doing a spot of pen cleaning I gave it a bit of a bath.

To my surprise it was actually a perfect condition "D" nib, stamped 14k made in England.

Writes very well. 

So I have, without intending to, bought a "D" and a "Y" nib in the last couple of months.

Really nice restoration!

[peroride]

On 3/27/2022 at 11:26 AM, PAKMAN said:

What pen did you finish using and clean out today, either to store or to refill with another ink?

 

Last one cleaned out was a Sailor KOP, which is now permainked with standard Sailor Blue Black.

 

Life FP lesson: use safe inks with somewhat water resistance

Having tried different inks in more precious pens and the attendant hassle from my own weeks/month negligence, I now lean toward more permalinked pens with safe inks [1] and leave the stubborn inks to eyedroppers, safeties or cheaper pens that can handle them. Often now I will just use the same ink after a rinse off x3 or x5 until clear flow.

 

[1] Safer inks that will last the rest of my life: Pilot Blue Black 350 ml, J Herbin Perle Noir 350 ml 

[Penguincollector]

  Today I cleaned out my Wing Sung Lucky 698 SF demonstrator, and my little MB 144 IB. I ground 2 stubs and had to ink them to make sure they worked, so I still have 18 pens inked.

[SLinkster]

52 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  Today I cleaned out my Wing Sung Lucky 698 SF demonstrator, and my little MB 144 IB. I ground 2 stubs and had to ink them to make sure they worked, so I still have 18 pens inked.

I'm down to 13. Hoping to write one out today but I have plans to ink up an Estie so... 

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, SLinkster said:

I'm down to 13. Hoping to write one out today but I have plans to ink up an Estie so... 

 

  I have a couple more that I think are close. 

[welch]

I soaked a Lamy 2000 overnight. I write with a Parker 51 aerometric, P-51 Special, a couple of P-51 vacumatics, a P-61 or two, a P-65, and a P-75. Many other 51s and 61s either in a ready-at-hand coffee cup or stored. Thought I might try the Lamy 2000 again because it writes nicely, even though the slick metal grip irritates me. 

[brindle]

Esterbrook SJ (gray) and an Esterbrook LJ (black).

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was the recently restored Sheaffer Touchdown I picked up in an antiques mall in NW PA a few weeks ago.  It wasn't writing well, and I have a bad feeling that I may have refilled it with a different ink from what I originally had in it.  Tried to refill with distilled water last night, but that didn't help.  So I just said "Screw it!" and flushed it out entirely.  

I think if I get one or two more pens flushed out over the next few days, I won't feel so overwhelmed when I ink up some others (including the pens I got in the mail a couple of days ago), and have so many in rotation that I can't keep up....  Because besides the two new pens, I want to put the red Sheaffer school pen back in rotation so I can FINALLY finish up my testing of Monteverde Ocean Noir; and test the Pelikan P1 Twist that I got as swag at this year's Pelikan hub.  And inked up the blue Snorkel yesterday so my husband could try some of the Namiki Blue samples I got in the mail recently (he liked the ink so I grabbed a chance to get a couple of bottles of it when Goulet Pens had their Black Friday sale -- along with a few ink samples for me... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Runnin_Ute]

Cleaned the KWZI El Dorado out of my Pelikan M400 White Tortoise (B) and refilled in with KWZI Pine Green. Need to have a good green ready for Christmas cards.... I also refilled my Safari (also a with Diamine Classic Red. Cards arriving any day.

[SLinkster]

Today I cleaned out

 

• My other Pelikan 120, which I had inked with Osterman Australis Tea. Putting that one in the drawer, as I still have the dinky BCHR vest pen inked with something green.
• A Kaweco Sport. This is an orange pen, which I had inked with KWZ Missourah Crawdad. I plan to let the pen dry until tomorrow after work (which will hopefully be before 10am in my local TZ), then re-ink it with some other orange - maybe Birmingham Pens Monarch, or one of the Iroshizuku oranges.

 

So, at the moment, I'm down to 11 inked (plus a variety of cheap disposables that I don't count since they're... disposable). but plan to re-ink the Kaweco, and still plan to ink an Estie. Possibly I can write out one more pen before bedtime (soon, overnight worker here). So net reduction = zero, or maybe one. We'll see.

[SLinkster]

Finally wrote dry a Charlie fountain pen, so have cleaned it and left it to dry. I'm down to 10 inked plus the disposables. Hope to write out and clean three more pens over the weekend.