What Pen did you clean out today?

[Penguincollector]

  I cleaned out a Yiren school pen with what I think is a seaweed pattern in blue and brown on a white background, and my Schon Dsgn blue aluminum Pocket Six with a JoWo Omniflex nib that I stubbed. 

[AkitaMom]

Have to clean my vintage Parker, sigh.

[PAKMAN]

Parker 51 flighter cleaned out today.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Not cleaned out, but yesterday as my '27 Parker Sr. Doufold ran out of ink, I looked for the lever... ????..., ah ha, a button filler. Could be today. Have six to clean...supposed to clean now on five.

[InkyProf]

Platinum 3776 Century "Mountain Mist," cleaned out yesterday, reassembled and stored today.

 

My first fill of that pen, and I have not a single bad thing to say about it. The <B> nib is smooth but anchored to the page, just narrow enough to work well with my handwriting, but broad enough to show off its ink.

[ParramattaPaul]

It's early. Thus far I have only used the CS Belliver which was in reach.

 

I will be taking the ONOTO Heritage with me to this weekend's conference which began Friday evening. 

[jchch1950]

Parker 45 that had not been cleaned in a long time for lack of use, and a Lamy Ion that had a blue cartridge and is going to be filled up with converter, and Siena Ink.

[Penguincollector]

Parker 45 Happy blue that I switched a gold fine nib into. 

[inkstainedruth]

Still working on cleaning the red Parker 45 I picked up recently at a local estate sale company's showroom sale (amazingly, even though I left my house a little later than planned -- that company has a "following" and the line to get in is often QUITE long -- I was third in line before the doors opened at 7 AM).  

Now that my computer is back up and running (for the most part -- I still need to figure out how to NOT have it time out on me when I have to do something else, like deal with the next load of laundry, and make me log in the new password YET AGAIN ), I was able to rewatch the Tyler Dahl video someone tipped me off about when I got my first 45, a number of years ago.  But have been soaking the section for a couple of days now to get all the dunked up ink out of it.  And then once I'm done with that one, I'll take another stab at the blue 45 I got a few months ago at another estate sale, just to be on the safe side (that one had a press bar converter already installed in it; I have a spare converter which I think was packaged up with the sterling Ciselé 75 set I picked up for super cheap last March -- and if it doesn't fit, well, i've got a couple of unused piston converters...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[nm4]

Cleaned out a Duofold Big Red, a Visconti Opera Carousel demonstrator and a Nakaya long writer.  All were recalcitrant…
 

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[USG]

On 10/10/2025 at 9:50 AM, InkyProf said:

Platinum 3776 Century "Mountain Mist," cleaned out yesterday, reassembled and stored today.

 

My first fill of that pen, and I have not a single bad thing to say about it. The <B> nib is smooth but anchored to the page, just narrow enough to work well with my handwriting, but broad enough to show off its ink.

 

My exact feeling about the 3776<B> ....👍😀

 

Sorta cleaned out a Parker Sonnet that dried out by filling it with water to loosen things up.

 

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[InkyProf]

Getting ready for a trip and decided not to leave vintage pens inked at home while I’m away, so cleaned out an Aurora 88K (Aurora Blue-Black) and a Parker Duovac (Herbin Vert Empire), and the Pelikan 400 I had inked with R&K Scabiosa: I was expecting that one to be a beast to clean and even had a 1 percent ascorbic acid solution at the ready, but it was the fastest of the three to clear. Also cleaned out the Kaweco Dia 2 that dumped half its cartridge of Oxblood in the cap yesterday. (Seriously: the cart was half empty.) Not a pen for travel. Now down to 9. Will try to get it to 4 before I ink anything else, HA.

[Ted Nashe]

A Waterman Hemisphere that had had Diamine Red Dragon in it. I'll refill it tomorrow, probably, with Rohrer and Klingner Alt-Bordeaux. 

[RedPie]

Gullor Noble Crocodile 600, it was inked with Noodler's Fox.

[David0966]

Too many to list.  17 last evening.  Took me the actual clean just 90 minutes.  

 

But, since family is away, was able to use kitchen sink-and before starting had 15 minutes of prep work taping and covering all countertops, etc.  And, getting out all the equipment.

 

Total time 2 hours.  Needless to say, an organized approach is crucial.

 

Yes, I had way too many out, have bee super-lazy.

 

David

[PAKMAN]

Bexley Gastons Bears pen cleaned out today.

[PAKMAN]

Waterman 54 black hard rubber chased cleaned out today.

[nm4]

Visconti Homo Sapiens Color Acquamarine with a sub nib

Jinhao X750 with a Bobbynib stacked nib (just got this one and am blown away)

Franklin Christoph 27 with a cursive italic nib (such a funky pen and as usual Mike Masuyama's grind is fantastic)

Platinum 3776 Chartres blue with a music nib (the slip and seal cap kept it writing well for over 2 months).

 

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[Penguincollector]

  I’m cleaning some Hub test pens with fine and italic nibs, generic piston fillers and Jinhao 992s. They are all loud greens so we can tell they belong to the pen club. I also cleaned out my own Jinhao x750 with a stub I ground myself. 

[joebloggs13]

Cleaned out my GvFC Classic, which had Iroshizuku Take-sumi. Inked it with GvFC Olive Green to change things up. Liking it so far.