What Pen did you clean out today?

[USG]

Cleaned a Parker Sonnet<F>

Had Parker Penman Mocha

Now: Monteverde Capri Blue

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[Bo Bo Olson]

11 pens. Said I was going to clean pens at 5, then with in minutes it was 7 and by the time I turned around, it was 11. And 14 inked, counting the 3, I took to the Hub.

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Singwitz-Fortshrit (progress) is a cheap DDR/ East German pen, it has an EEF...and needs a new gasket. It's one of those things where the repair is worth more than the pen. It's mine, and It should work. 

Lamy Studio M, the by far to clean from Lamy Violet in a cartridge. Was the third pen to start cleaning, and the last to be cleaned. My hand turned into prunes with just that pen.

Noodle Ahab with the Ahab/Pilot mod that changed if from a hard semi-flex to a fun Easy Full Flex - superflex. The second hardest to clean out, and I had to use silicon grease on it, just like I did when cleaning it out a few months ago.

I keep forgetting, it needs silicon grease all the time like a Twisbi.

 

Rick says a Pelikan can be greased every three years ... if needed. I have a number of Pelikans that get greased every decade plus-minus. 

 

400nn tortoise EF semi-flex.

 

0554 gold overlay Waterman Gothic, eyeball F, Wet Noodle. Win bid, get picture, the nib cleaned up easy and nice. Was more after the inkwell.

 

Pelikan 200 Amethyst B springy regular flex, teardrop tipped. 

 

.900 silver, Herletz Luxor eyeball EF semi-flex. (I don't feel like fiddling with it to get it from Flickr to here. I tried.) It was the pattern that is not barley corn, that none could ID. 

 

'91-97 400 Tortoise M.

 

Very late '60's in the 2000 came out in '66-67....or '70's regular flex rough bodied MB 224; MB's Lamy 2000 clone, with a golden cap. The other is a MB 14....nothing else. 

1927 Parker Sr. Doufold, Weak Kneeded Wet Noodle.(I don't feel like fiddling with it to get it from Flickr to here. I tried.)

 

MB 264 M, semi-flex. Medium-long like a 400nn. What it lacks for looks, it made up for being my best balanced and has a very lively semi-flex nib. It is not a maxi-semi-flex, but a real fine semi-flex nib.

Luckily they didn't show the étui is MB also, or I might not have bid a second time against someone without an MB étui.  At the Auction house I tested the pen, but had no idea it would beat my best balanced pen, a '52-54 only MB 234 1/2 Deluxe.

Bad photo, the MP does not have that gap you see.

I'm slowly getting a collection of MP's. I've a '36-8's Pelican Auch....Pelikan Also MP also. 

 

[Penguincollector]

I cleaned out 18 more Hub pens last night- so many more to go!

[inkstainedruth]

@Bo Bo Olson I picked up a Singwitz piston filler with an F nib at an estate sale for really cheap ($8 US) a while back.  Also another apparently East German brand pen, a Heiko (also a piston filler), also for $8.  

One of these days they'll get taken to some pen show or other to see what work they need on them, but they're both lower priority to the stash I'm taking to OPS this weekend to be checked out and repaired/find converters for...).  And of course the plumbing repairs on the house cost WAY more than we were expecting, and we're still paying off the replacement driveway from last spring (and the retaining wall that wasn't factored in during the initial estimate DOUBLED that price)....

Then sometime in the next week or two, the contents of most of the living room get put into storage so the wall between the living room and front hallway, and the wall in the entryway, (and some other holes created by the plumbers) can be replastered.  At least part of THAT will be covered by insurance, but the plumbing stuff?  Not so sure.... 

At least it turned out that the hotel room for my sister-in-law when we went to the family wedding a couple of weeks ago was part of the exorbitant bill, and she's paid us back for that....   (And my husband wonders why I don't stay at the site hotels for pen shows and try to find someplace cheaper -- and even if I have to drive back and forth, I'll be driving the Prius, which is a lot more fuel efficient).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

What a shock, I pick up one pen, and after two words it is empty...the same with the next pen out of the full pen cups.

 

A blue marbled '90's 200 and until a month or so ago, my top balanced pen a thicker girthed, standard sized MB 234 1/2 Deluxe (52-54 only) KOB semi-flex.  (Beaten out by an MB 264,Semi-flex M, a medium long @ 400nn size pen.)

The 234 1/2 Deluxe.

 

And for the second time, even using Pen Flush 2X, that Lamy Studio with the Lamy violet ink cartridge in it. I even flushed pen flush through it a couple of times. It will be cleaned a third time. I don't trust is to be fully cleaned. Yes, I use a rubber bulb squeegee. Both times.

I've never had so much trouble cleaning a pen before.

[inkstainedruth]

I've been having a somewhat similar problem with the grey Pilot Decimo recently -- I think I'm going to be shopping around for a replacement converter this weekend, as well as for one for the Sheaffer VFM someone just gave me -- and possibly for a replacement converter for the Pilot Falcon as well (wondering if Sailor Souboku isn't a good ink to use in that pen, which is annoying because it looks so good coming out of the SF nib...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ParramattaPaul]

10 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

What a shock, I pick up one pen, and after two words it is empty...the same with the next pen out of the full pen cups

I have yet to re-ink and/or clean the Magna and the Belliver.  They ran out of ink nearly (or more than) a fortnight ago.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I've got  @ 100 pens, two thrids ok, and I've got to start mailing pens off or repair.

But outside that MB 264 and the R&K that I inked it with 4 times in a row, I seldom unless dead lazy ink a pen with the same ink.

I do admit to weighting cleaning, vs opening up my little gray index card box to find out what ink was in the pen, occasionally. 

 

[MarcoA63]

I cleaned the Waterman 52 Ripple I've been using for the past three weeks

[Pendarion]

Cleaning biros, today. An eBay job lot of 3 vintage Parker Jotters - got because one is personalised with my son's initial. Cleaned with a disinfectant wipe and then changed out all the refills. The one that had a stuck click now works like new again - must have been something wrong with the refill's cam part. I didn't need to pull out any springs or innards but would have done if it hadn't been cured. Also in the job lot, a Made in the USA Jotter which is a really nice shade of blue - my first and only US made one, as most of the ones I have are UK and a couple of the newer ones are from France.

 

I got another nice vintage one (the earlier sort with the brass thread) cheap on eBay a couple weeks back because it was also personalised and happened to have my husband's surname on it - must've been the name of some long forgotten 1970s' company.

 

 

[Ted Nashe]

A TWSBI Eco, surely the easiest pen of them all to clean out 🖋️

[Runnin_Ute]

Last night I cleaned the P75 Cisele of the Edelstein Ink of the Year Apricot Achat and refilled with Diamine Ancient Copper then put the Apricot Achat in my Pelikan M200 Blue Marbled. 

 

Tonight I did a straight refill of the Pelikan 140 with Pelikan 4001 Blue Black.

 

Only one needs to be cleaned.  The M200 Cognac which had fill of Birmingham Basil Pesto which was looking way to reddish. I may just reclean and try again. 

[InkyProf]

Cleaned out a Leonardo Momento Zero in Pietramarina, with a medium stub nib ground by Damien Alomar, which had been filled with KWZ Brown Pink, a great combo.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Upstairs is a nice 18-year girl (half American), who visits with us sometime. She having mentioned an interest in calligraphy, I gave her italic pen set that I wasn't ever going to use having my Osmiroid set, and, a pretty dip pen, and a series of dip pen nibs numbered from 6-to9 that were more and more flexible the higher the number went (so she can work her way up with nibs that flex more and more easier), an ornamental nib and a real flexible one. Booklets came with the Italic pen set, and I had another. It was a start. She has a book on it packed away.

 

She, like many, holds a ball point in a crunched up fist, so I taught her the 'forefinger up' method. It will take much time to get her out of hammer hand. At least she now has an idea. I don't use the Death Grip, so won't teach her the classic tripod. Changing schools, her new teacher had wondered who taught her how to hold a BP so wrong. So she is open to learning. 

 

I copied info here on the Com, on Chinese pens for her to learn, then decided I'd not use this one (the only one I have), that someone told me not to sell cheap in a German Flea market, in it would sell for good money in China. It had the P-51 nib and ply-glass filler. F-EF. It is a heavy pen, and I did teach her where to let a heavy pen rest; not even thinking about this pen. General info.  

Sometimes when one wins a pen lot at a live auction, there are pens one don't want or need. The blue Lamy Safari, needs a new ring, she can send that to Lamy for a free repair. It is in M. She can buy other nibs for it come the day.

 

Some 15 years ago, a black and gold Pelikan 150 without the nib, was given to me, and I never got around to buying a spare nib. (€27 was then another Pen of the Week, in the Mail Club addition.) She can have it, if she wants to pay €47 for a new 200' nib, I suggested F. 

I recommended her buy an Online pen from €13-16, after looking at similar priced Chinese pens. 

 ..... Until that other reddish black topped LE 200 comes in, I'll keep it on that 150. The owner of my B&M misunderstood which pen I wanted, thinking I wanted the Apricot Achat translucid one, so has to re-order.

Right now my new Pelikan IB, done by Fritz's nib man, is on it. I swapped my B&M's great-grandfather's Mercedes hard rubber fountain pen for the nib. 

 

That IB nib writes similar to my Persona's Cursive Italic B. That Pendelton Brown changed from a 18K nail OB, that did absolutely No Line Variation. Just for those with left eye dominance who cant/rotate the nib to see the top of it out of their dominate left eye. It got cleaned out. The PB's handwriting is very, very much better than mine, but is similar to the new customized IB Pelikan 200 nib.

The Safari Joy 1.5 (Folks say it is more a CI being slightly rounded than a sharp cornered Italic. ... Which I'm glad of) writes close to both of them.

 

After years of needle loading Lamy cartridges, I finally bought two different converters for the Persona and Lamy. I kept forgetting I needed converters every time I went to my B&M.

Both of those had to be cleaned out. The 150 was clean.

 

Somehow my wife ended up with half an old jar of 2/3's filled, dehydrated cartridges of Pelikan Royal Blue.

Popped two open, needle emptied, part before, cutting the top off the cartridge to empty the rest of the ink; to get out the tiny plastic ball. Emptied the ink into my old style Pelikan Royal Blue ledge inkwell in my Pelikan pen holder set. I needed the tiny plastic balls from the Pelikan cartridges to put in my new converters. 

So now have three CI's, two a B, and one a BB, the 1.5 Safari. 

My dirty pen cup has four pens in it inside 3 days....sometime this week is the plan.

 

[Misfit]

I cleaned my True Writer Pinkly, so it will be ready for Fountain Pen Day. 

[inkstainedruth]

Nothing today, but tomorrow I'm going to probably be flushing out several pens I got new converters for when I was at OPS over the weekend, including the Sheaffer VFM someone gave me at this year's Pelikan Hub.  I was in a complete panic when I couldn't find it (or my nasal sprays -- one of which is a prescription!).  Then found them all (WHEW!  What a relief!) about an hour or so ago in a plastic bag on my desk in the bedroom, along with the inks I brought along to the show in case I needed to refill some of the pens I brought to write with over the weekend.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[jchch1950]

15 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Upstairs is a nice 18-year girl (half American), who visits with us sometime. She having mentioned an interest in calligraphy, I gave her italic pen set that I wasn't ever going to use having my Osmiroid set, and, a pretty dip pen, and a series of dip pen nibs numbered from 6-to9 that were more and more flexible the higher the number went (so she can work her way up with nibs that flex more and more easier), an ornamental nib and a real flexible one. Booklets came with the Italic pen set, and I had another. It was a start. She has a book on it packed away.

 

She, like many, holds a ball point in a crunched up fist, so I taught her the 'forefinger up' method. It will take much time to get her out of hammer hand. At least she now has an idea. I don't use the Death Grip, so won't teach her the classic tripod. Changing schools, her new teacher had wondered who taught her how to hold a BP so wrong. So she is open to learning. 

 

I copied info here on the Com, on Chinese pens for her to learn, then decided I'd not use this one (the only one I have), that someone told me not to sell cheap in a German Flea market, in it would sell for good money in China. It had the P-51 nib and ply-glass filler. F-EF. It is a heavy pen, and I did teach her where to let a heavy pen rest; not even thinking about this pen. General info.  

Sometimes when one wins a pen lot at a live auction, there are pens one don't want or need. The blue Lamy Safari, needs a new ring, she can send that to Lamy for a free repair. It is in M. She can buy other nibs for it come the day.

 

Some 15 years ago, a black and gold Pelikan 150 without the nib, was given to me, and I never got around to buying a spare nib. (€27 was then another Pen of the Week, in the Mail Club addition.) She can have it, if she wants to pay €47 for a new 200' nib, I suggested F. 

I recommended her buy an Online pen from €13-16, after looking at similar priced Chinese pens. 

 ..... Until that other reddish black topped LE 200 comes in, I'll keep it on that 150. The owner of my B&M misunderstood which pen I wanted, thinking I wanted the Apricot Achat translucid one, so has to re-order.

Right now my new Pelikan IB, done by Fritz's nib man, is on it. I swapped my B&M's great-grandfather's Mercedes hard rubber fountain pen for the nib. 

 

That IB nib writes similar to my Persona's Cursive Italic B. That Pendelton Brown changed from a 18K nail OB, that did absolutely No Line Variation. Just for those with left eye dominance who cant/rotate the nib to see the top of it out of their dominate left eye. It got cleaned out. The PB's handwriting is very, very much better than mine, but is similar to the new customized IB Pelikan 200 nib.

The Safari Joy 1.5 (Folks say it is more a CI being slightly rounded than a sharp cornered Italic. ... Which I'm glad of) writes close to both of them.

 

After years of needle loading Lamy cartridges, I finally bought two different converters for the Persona and Lamy. I kept forgetting I needed converters every time I went to my B&M.

Both of those had to be cleaned out. The 150 was clean.

 

Somehow my wife ended up with half an old jar of 2/3's filled, dehydrated cartridges of Pelikan Royal Blue.

Popped two open, needle emptied, part before, cutting the top off the cartridge to empty the rest of the ink; to get out the tiny plastic ball. Emptied the ink into my old style Pelikan Royal Blue ledge inkwell in my Pelikan pen holder set. I needed the tiny plastic balls from the Pelikan cartridges to put in my new converters. 

So now have three CI's, two a B, and one a BB, the 1.5 Safari. 

My dirty pen cup has four pens in it inside 3 days....sometime this week is the plan.

 

The description of your pen support for a new pen user is an excellent example of an initiative to introduce young people to the fascinating world of writing instruments.

[USG]

Pelikan M1000 <EF> ran out of First Love Dye ink

Cleaned it and loaded First Love Pigment ink

 

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[Bo Bo Olson]

Glitter inks will be for later.

First comes the good to better paper Oxford Optic 90g, Clairefontaine Veloute` 90g and Kyome 70g a real surprise, that has good seizing and shading inks.

Clairefontaine Triomphe 90g/Rhoda 80g, for learning what good slick paper does, that tad better than the three mentioned.

I gave her a couple sheets an assortment of my better papers; hammered, laid, and linen effect. To scribble different inks on. I've passed them around before.

I put Diamine China Blue in an old empty Waterman bottle. First to show what affordable Diamine inks look like; and the 30ml bottles problems, and she should save her eventually empty Pelikan 4001 ink bottles for later use. 

The cleaning tools will be explained.

I've not talked philosophy in 40 years, I gave her Desmond Morris's, The Naked Ape, The Human Zoo. The Games People Play. Those books, I had managed to get a second copy to give away. I gave her the first copy, no longe having a giveaway copy, and at my age I don't need them anymore.

The notes from The Games People Play, that I'm using when writing, are in my writing notes. 

[Misfit]

Today it’s been a Pilot Prera.