Thank you Emy, I'm going to try this with one of my older fountain pens. Its one out of a set of Cross, but I could never use the fountain pen. I hope I can improve it with this. Because it was a gift from a dear friend, I couldn't resend it to the store.
@@pen.venture hello Amy, I promised to let you know the results. I have to say I was sceptisch, but, I have to thank you! After the procedure the ink flowed between the nib and the feed. Now I can write with the Cross fountain pen as it should be! I'm very grateful for your help! Thank you again!
you probably dont give a shit but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account?? I was dumb forgot the login password. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
@Arjun Terrence i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and im trying it out atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
I have a silly question. I have a pen with an ebonite feed and ultraflex nib. Ive inked it(it's an eyedropper with 2.5 ml of ink). I was wondering if I could heat set the feed with ink in the pen or should I empty the ink and flush the pen before heat setting?
please empty the pen because its not going to work and its difficult to have normal temperature ink in the pen VS hot water for setting the feeder - better to have an empty washed pen
Very nice. A quick point. Make sure the tines of the nib are aligned before the heating. At the end of the video you show a close-up of the nib and it looks like the end of the tines are not perfectly aligned. Also, DON'T suck up boiling, or just off the boiled water into the filling system. It can expand plastics. How do I know? Because I did it and needed to fix my Tripletail. Cheers, Dave
Thank you Dave - you are right , under no circumstance to suck up any hot water in the pen - with the tines I’m also agreeing with you, not sure if my pen has the tines misaligned, maybe is the angle of the shot, I remember giving it a try and there was not scratchy or anything.
Hey Chad - nope , if those two are made from ebonite or celluloid better safe than sorry - let’s say at most dipping only the nib because the ebonite feed will conduct heat and it’s enough to make it more pliable and set its form. Ps - I’ll answer in the moring on the other stuff
I tried heating my ebonite feed with boiling water, but there was no change at all. I squeezed the heated ebonite feed tightly, but it was very hard. How did you feel when the ebonite feed was bent? Did it become so soft that you could feel it bending? Please understand that it is written using a translator.
No problem with the translation - i can understand. When i tried it, the ebonite feeder became soft - like very soft - almost to the point that while i was pressing my nail set up a imprint in the ebonite feeder, so in theory you should keep it more soaked in the hot water ? maybe?
are ebonite #6 feeds the same size as the other #6 feeds? im new to fountain pens and i wanna try these ebonite feeds on my jinhao 159 which has a stock #6 but idk if it'll be compatible.
This is a tricky question - usually they dont fit from one brand to the other and some have very different shapes or ways that they fit certain pens. I would recommend not to swap feeders from one brand to the other
Hey Oleg - Ive put the water to boil in the kettle , I think 90’ Celsius considering that 100’ is the boiling point but pouring it into a cold cup can take the temperature down a notch so let’s say 90’
Thank you for this video. I wasn't sure how to heat set a nib and feed. This helps a lot.
Thank you David - its quick and simple tutorial that will improve a lot in regards of flow issues
Thank you Emy, I'm going to try this with one of my older fountain pens. Its one out of a set of Cross, but I could never use the fountain pen. I hope I can improve it with this. Because it was a gift from a dear friend, I couldn't resend it to the store.
Give it a try and let me know if it worked out ok in the end
@@pen.venture hello Amy, I promised to let you know the results. I have to say I was sceptisch, but, I have to thank you! After the procedure the ink flowed between the nib and the feed. Now I can write with the Cross fountain pen as it should be! I'm very grateful for your help! Thank you again!
you probably dont give a shit but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account??
I was dumb forgot the login password. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
@Yousef Reyansh instablaster ;)
@Arjun Terrence i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and im trying it out atm.
Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
I have a silly question. I have a pen with an ebonite feed and ultraflex nib. Ive inked it(it's an eyedropper with 2.5 ml of ink). I was wondering if I could heat set the feed with ink in the pen or should I empty the ink and flush the pen before heat setting?
please empty the pen because its not going to work and its difficult to have normal temperature ink in the pen VS hot water for setting the feeder - better to have an empty washed pen
Ok I will. Thank you very much for your advice. It was very helpful.
Do you have to take out the ink cartridge/converter?
I dont think is needed - but just to be safe you can remove it :D
Very nice. A quick point. Make sure the tines of the nib are aligned before the heating. At the end of the video you show a close-up of the nib and it looks like the end of the tines are not perfectly aligned. Also, DON'T suck up boiling, or just off the boiled water into the filling system. It can expand plastics. How do I know? Because I did it and needed to fix my Tripletail. Cheers, Dave
Thank you Dave - you are right , under no circumstance to suck up any hot water in the pen - with the tines I’m also agreeing with you, not sure if my pen has the tines misaligned, maybe is the angle of the shot, I remember giving it a try and there was not scratchy or anything.
Very good tip Emy. Thank you.
Do you have any update from Leonardo? Are they releasing any pens?
As far as I know there is in work a few faceted models plus a Furore Grande
@@pen.venture awesome. Thanks for the update.
I love the mug. Where can one purchase it?
We are working to bring them in our inventory :D
Thanks, Emy. Would you also suggest immersing the section in the boiling water if it is made of celluloid or ebonite?
Hey Chad - nope , if those two are made from ebonite or celluloid better safe than sorry - let’s say at most dipping only the nib because the ebonite feed will conduct heat and it’s enough to make it more pliable and set its form.
Ps - I’ll answer in the moring on the other stuff
Great video.
Thank you - I’m happy that it turned up to be effective
I tried heating my ebonite feed with boiling water, but there was no change at all.
I squeezed the heated ebonite feed tightly, but it was very hard.
How did you feel when the ebonite feed was bent?
Did it become so soft that you could feel it bending?
Please understand that it is written using a translator.
No problem with the translation - i can understand.
When i tried it, the ebonite feeder became soft - like very soft - almost to the point that while i was pressing my nail set up a imprint in the ebonite feeder, so in theory you should keep it more soaked in the hot water ? maybe?
are ebonite #6 feeds the same size as the other #6 feeds? im new to fountain pens and i wanna try these ebonite feeds on my jinhao 159 which has a stock #6 but idk if it'll be compatible.
This is a tricky question - usually they dont fit from one brand to the other and some have very different shapes or ways that they fit certain pens. I would recommend not to swap feeders from one brand to the other
@@pen.venture okay, thanks kind sir!
What temperature should the water be?
Hey Oleg - Ive put the water to boil in the kettle , I think 90’ Celsius considering that 100’ is the boiling point but pouring it into a cold cup can take the temperature down a notch so let’s say 90’
@@pen.venture Hello Emy. Thank you!
@@pen.venture normal water has some dissolved minerals and impurities....so that would elevate the normal boiling point instead