What Pen did you clean out today?

[jchch1950]

Faber-Castell Hexo had a blue cartridge for several months the pen was forgotten. It is cleaned quite easily and is back to the vase of writing pens. 

[Runnin_Ute]

Sure you want to know? 18 in total.

Two Parker 45's- one a Flighter 

3 Parker 51's (Demi Vacumatic, Special and one other)

4 Pelikans (M600 old style, M100, M205 DUO, 120 Merz and Krell)

Soennecken Schulfuller 

Sheaffer Craftsman touchdown 

Guider Capsule 

Newton Elizabethan 

True Writer Silver Anniversary 

Jinhao 599

Lamy Al Star Pacific and a Safari 

Waterman Phileas 

 

 

 

[kazoolaw]

Do you make house calls?

[inkstainedruth]

16 hours ago, Runnin_Ute said:

Sure you want to know? 18 in total.

Two Parker 45's- one a Flighter 

3 Parker 51's (Demi Vacumatic, Special and one other)

4 Pelikans (M600 old style, M100, M205 DUO, 120 Merz and Krell)

Soennecken Schulfuller 

Sheaffer Craftsman touchdown 

Guider Capsule 

Newton Elizabethan 

True Writer Silver Anniversary 

Jinhao 599

Lamy Al Star Pacific and a Safari 

Waterman Phileas 

 

 

 

Whew!  You make me tired just reading your list!

Were these all done in succession, or over the course of a number of days?  

When I have too many pens in rotation -- such as after the Ohio Pen Show in the fall where I had seven pens repaired) I make a point of not inking up anything else until I get at least two pens flushed before inking anything else.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[thx1138]

Caught up on a bit of cleaning today.

[kazoolaw]

Now you guys are just showing off!

[PAKMAN]

Platinum 3776 filled with J Herbin Stormy Gray cleaned out today.

[Penguincollector]

Nonami Chinese piston filler. 

[inkstainedruth]

9 hours ago, kazoolaw said:

Now you guys are just showing off!

Yeah -- I'm betting that they're going "Nyah nyah, we've got ultrasonic cleaners!"

I'm lucky if I get TWO pens flushed out on the same day....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[thx1138]

The ultrasonic cleaner will move dried on ink that doesn't respond to soaking or flushing. Three minutes in the us is probably worth an hour of flushing.

I had more than 20 pens inked so I'm trying to get that down to a sensible number. Also cleaned were a safari demonstrator and a diplomat fp.

[AmandaW]

And for Australians: there are ultrasonic cleaners at Aldi this week.

[inkstainedruth]

47 minutes ago, thx1138 said:

The ultrasonic cleaner will move dried on ink that doesn't respond to soaking or flushing. Three minutes in the us is probably worth an hour of flushing.

I had more than 20 pens inked so I'm trying to get that down to a sensible number. Also cleaned were a safari demonstrator and a diplomat fp.

Well, the advantage to flushing without having an ultrasonic, is that I can go do other things around the house, or run out shopping, or the like, while the pen is soaking, just in distilled water or in vinegar solution or ammonia solution, nib down, and then check on the pen every now and then (and maybe dump that liquid and refill as needed), and then flush more distilled water through the pen.  I have a votive candle holder with straight sides, and use a plastic clothes pin to hold the pen upright.

Admittedly, after draining the pen into paper toweling in another votive candle holder, I may have to go back and flush the pen some more, if I haven't gotten all the ink out....  But again, I go do other stuff in the meantime.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[AmandaW]

Ultrasonic doesn't need any attention while it runs either. It has a timer and can sit and soak for a bit when it's done. Then get another little buzz if needed.

[Runnin_Ute]

On 1/17/2024 at 5:24 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Whew!  You make me tired just reading your list!

Were these all done in succession, or over the course of a number of days?  

When I have too many pens in rotation -- such as after the Ohio Pen Show in the fall where I had seven pens repaired) I make a point of not inking up anything else until I get at least two pens flushed before inking anything else.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

In this case, I just hadn't done any in a while. The plan was to do about half one day, then the rest another day. But nope, this was one session.  About 45 minutes plus or minus.

 

I already have two that need to be done. Or refilled. And one is a non Esterbrook lever filler, so it isn't unscrew the nib....but the other is a c/c and I will probably just refill it. But I have 10 inked currently. Need to knock it down some before I fill any.

 

No ultrasonic cleaner. This was all standing at the sink, an Sherwin Williams cup that looks like it has paint on it and a bulb and blunt needle syringe.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Yesterday I cleaned out a Geha 790 marked OEF. But actually an EF but a maxi-semi-flex. Had it not been a Maxi, I'd sent it back for being a EF and not an OEF semi-flex.

With later thought, I probably wouldn't have been able to see the oblique of a narrow vintage EF. Was inked with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown.

 

Having inked it with Pelikan Edelstein Apatite, a green turquoise...on some papers I had out...half destined to the printer, and they were 100-120 g papers I had great hopes for, that if I edited I could get nice shading or they would be put in the too good for the printer papers.

 The top pen is a Diplomat Burl said by those who know here, made in Japan. Due to the size of the converter I believe them.... It is an M, *but now I wonder if that is |a Japanese M(F) or not...a bit late.... so I can test that Pelikan Apatite again in a normal sized nib for shading. Is a Japanese M which is an F, so is too narrow to see if the ink shades at M the nib read.

I had Krishna Sea at Night in it...supposedly a sheen and shading monster....little shading, very little sheen; so won't buy that ink again....but I never sat there for 20 minutes with a rubber bulb to clean out a nib section before. Normal is 5 minutes and done.Top pen of this live auction lot I won is that diplomat. Monotone 18K normal flex nib.

[Paul-in-SF]

Yesterday, actually. My Pelikan P1, a slim black pen with a hooded EF nib, a rolled gold cap and a piston filler. It was filled with Noodlers Black Swan in English Roses. I bought it in April of last year, filled it right away, and have been writing with it ever since. Twenty-three A4 size pages over the course of those 9 months. And it was so easy to clean out! This is my desert island pen because of how stingy but smooth it is with ink. Also, I love the design, with the cap threads way down on the hood, which I think also helped keep the nib from drying out, because the closed area around the nib is so small. 

 

One other thing, the ink window is way up the barrel, just below the bottom of the piston seal when it is in the highest position. I'm not sure why, but that seems to work really well. 

[AmandaW]

Sunday morning pen cleaning is a habit for me. This week it was a Jinhao 1001 desk pen which was filled with Tramol Candy Coke and a Pilot Kakuno with Pilot Black. Both were written empty and now put away to give some other pens and inks a go in the rotation.

[Checklist]

Got the Parker 61 capillary filler cleaned out.  My wife wondered why the pan she had soaking suddenly turned blue.

[inkstainedruth]

Ooh.  Doing pen flushing in the kitchen sink sounds like a bad plan....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Checklist]

I just discharge into the sink.  I have a measuring cup that the spout broke off of that I use to soak the pen or pull water from.  I don't live that dangerously.