What Pen did you clean out today?

[Bo Bo Olson]

A silver P-75.

[inkstainedruth]

Today's pen being cleaned out is the Parker 45 Arrow, which previously had fill of (diluted) Ackerman Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indigo in it.  

I'm back to having just a few too many pens inked up to be manageable, and I want to ink up the Parker Vector Electra I just got (and still haven't decided what to inaugurate the now restored hard rubber Waterman Ideal ringtop with).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[TheRobotCow]

Tonight, I cleaned out my metropolitan that had diamine green black and now has pilot iroshizuku tsuki-yo, and my preppy that had the same diamine but now has sailor souboku. 

[jchch1950]

Lamy Safaris yellow and blue,waiting for the new Lamy inks.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A Ruby Red Pelikan 200 with a springy regular flex M. When I ordered it, I'd not expected the glitter to be so subdued.

 

I was reading about Topaz (a very nice lively shading blue) and had only EF and F's; so I had to clean a pen, in often as Sandy1 showed us, nib width can make an ink look so different.

 

I've grown to like M, as odd as that seems.

When I came back to fountain pens I went wide, and F's were just to hold a place until I could get a wider nib on that pen....often didn't happen, so I was stuck with a lot of F's.

I now have 5-6 EF's that I'm glad to have for editing.

 

6 months ago, I was using only 7 pens inked, planned to use up more ink, instead of the 'normal' 17....now 14.....and 40-50 pens needing cleaning in two cups. Six months ago, those two cups were empty.

[inkstainedruth]

Still working on trying to get the last of the Edelstein Star Ruby out of the 1980s era P1 Twist (boy, is that ink stubborn -- especially in the converter.  And did a quick pass at flushing any residual manufacturing gunk out of the NOS Pilot Plumix that was swag for the talk at the Baltimore/Washington Show a few weeks ago (all the attendees got the choice of a Plumix or a box of Pilot cartridges (thanks to the Pilot USA table).  The Con-B converter I ordered it came yesterday (along with some bottles of Namiki Black for the husband, a bottle of Lamy Pink Cliff for me, and a sample of Diamine Green Edition One Last Sleep to round out the order to get free shipping.

"Mr. Cute & Fuzzy" gets ONE of the bottles of Namiki Black for now and the other two got put in the box of backup bottles of ink for safekeeping -- since he's already apparently *lost* one bottle of Namiki Black in his office AND the original bottle of Noodler's Dark Matter that he bought the year he went with me to the Commonwealth Pen Show as WELL ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[W Mitchell]

Just finished stripping and cleaning a Lamy Al Star. Bit of an epic getting the feed to go back into position but in the end it finally clicked in home.

 

Refilled with Lamy Topaz crystal ink and all's well. Writes like new.

[DLCJr]

Today I cleaned out a Plaisir and a Prefonte, both the .5 nibs.  These are my least favorite pens of the many that I have. And changing ink colors with them is the worst, as those fins in the grip section are a total PITA to clean out.

 

So, I cleaned them out and sent those two pens to dry dock. Done with them. I much prefer Pilots (Prera, Kakuno, and Metro) to Platinums (Preppy, Prefounte, Plaisir).

 

Those three Pilots are just a dream to work with and have a much nicer array of nib possibilities.

[Runnin_Ute]

I looked at my backlog a couple of days ago and it is up near 20 waiting to be cleaned. Including two P51's (both aerometric) I don't think the 51 Demi Vacumatic is there. I think it is mostly c/c pens this time.

[ParramattaPaul]

Cleaned none but inked two -- the CS Duro and the Onoto Evergreen Scholar.

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 3/20/2024 at 8:58 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Edelstein Star Ruby

I didn't buy that ink when I bought the pen...I don't buy reddish inks...or much. Here and there a burgundy. (or Brandy Dazzle)

 

In red inks are known to stain ink windows........so does purples but they can be cleaned after each filling.

 

In I filled it right after I cleaned it...a Lamy Studio  with a gold B nib, filled with my new ink, MB Cool Gray....as nice as the reviews made it out. What I said in MB Oyster Gray, and Edelstein Moonstone ink review threads.

I did break my €20 limit on that.

[Twotracker2]

Conklin Mark Twain commemorative crescent filler with a fresh sac and original nib to replace a stub. The Twain doesn't hold enough ink to feed a stub for extended writing.

[Misfit]

I cleaned the TWSBI Diamond Mini with black cap. I had decided on an ink for it before bedtime, but am not sure what I chose today. Maybe Diamine Eclipse, I think. But I wouldn’t swear to it. 

[W Mitchell]

No cleaning but my Parker 45 ran dry so gave it a refill of Black Parker Quink ink.

[Runnin_Ute]

Let's see. I did a batch tonight. 

Pelikan M100

Pelikan M150

Soennecken Schulfuller 

Montblanc Noblesse 

Ranga Monterey 

Lamy Al Star Petrol

Lamy Safari 

Newton Townsend 

Guider Capsule 

 

Then filled the Monterey with Ferris Wheel Press Writing Desk and the Monterey with Blackstone Sydney Harbour Blue. 

 

I have another batch of about 10 to clean. If I recall correctly there are a couple of P51's and 3 or 4 P45's plus a few others in it.

[mhguda]

Today my Asa Rainbow (the blue one) got a stint of TLC for its section, nib and feed. The feed turned out to have some solid ink particles clogging the channel...  Barrel was still full of the Waterman purple and black mix that I had in there, and I left it that way. It's going full steam ahead again...

[SLinkster]

Cleaned these yesterday, reassembled this morning after they spent the night drying atop the espresso machine.

 

Front to back

Platinum pocket with music stub

Monteverde Innova broad

Majohn p136 stub

Levenger fine

Parker 51, no idea the nib size; might ink it up today, with Quink, of course

 

 

[senzen]

Parker 75 Prince de Galles B, took the opportunity to swap to Verdigris; dries out quite quickly, now trying to keep it in a plastic sleeve, still has trouble with the first downstroke even after using a brass shim.

 

[Penguincollector]

Blue Parker 45 Arrow F octanium nib. Funny how long Parker cartridges last when you’re not writing all day. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Dupont Black Laque de Chine, 18k regular flex M.

Black Pelikan Celebry steel regular flex F.

Green Pelikan marbled Celebry  steel regular flex F.

Pelikan marbled Green 381 14k, regular flex, OB.

 

Paper used, 90g Clairefontaine Triomphe.

 

MB Joy, is to me a blaaa ink.

It was suggested to me by InesF, a drop or two of a turquoise/PE Apaitie, and or,  Aventurine/green..................did so.

 

I'll have to wait for the Pelikan Celebries to catch up...more ink in the feed.

But right now the shading and tone that comes out of the Dupont....so Joyless and Apaitie is what is going to happen with that bottle of orange ink.

,,,,,,,,,,

Going orange, unexpectedly. Have a sample of Akkerman Oranji Boven, have a cartridge pack of Kaweco Sunrise Orange, and found an old pre-91  West Germany half full pack of dehydrated Pelikan orange that I well liked. Will be hydrated.