Dried Out Fountain Pen? How To Do A Full Restart
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2022
- Did you forget to use your fountain pen for a few months and now it's dried out and won't write? Or maybe your cartridge just ran dry and you want to clean and refill it. This is a super easy process that doesn't require any real skill at all, just some patience.
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Preppy nibs are completely removable, which reduces your overall cleaning, drying, & refilling time to literally minutes. Also, if your ink is totally dried out, fountain pen "flush" is way better at cleaning out old ink than plain water. It's safe, and very easy to make and use. 5 parts of DISTILLED (not tap or spring) water💧 ➕ 1 part Clear (not sudsy) Amonia, ➕ a few drops if dishwahing detergent, about 2 drops per 10ml. I find that Dawn works the best. I make my supply in a mason jar, but use smaller sized jelly jars to work out of. Always be sure to to rinse with water before cleaning with the "flush", but especially afterwards, and use copious amounts of water when rinsing afterwards. Since, I've been doing this for awhile, I can usually go from a dry & crusty pen to a clean, refilled, and functional pen in less then 15 minutes. Paper towels are great, but those tuff blue shop towels work better. I hope that this helps someone out there. Best wishes.
Thanks! Great notes for the next level fountain pen user
I'm looking for a video where someone actually takes apart these Preppies. Looks like this method would work, though.
This worked for me. Thanks! 🙏🏽
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You're welcome, glad I could help. God bless. 😊
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You're welcome. I'm glad it was helpful. God speed. 😊
I discovered an incredible way to flush out a cartridge... insert syringe into cartridge all the way and submerge the cartridge into warm water all the way. Pull and push water in and out. Keeping it submerged, as you pull and push water in and out, it's like 400x more efficient :)
Also, blow dry the cartridge with air from your empty syringe!
Great idea. Thanks
Checkout my recent posting in these comments, on this video. It's specifically about making fountain pen cleaning easier. Best regards.
I m pretty new to the fountain pen world and i learned to not insert the ink capsule in the pen if I dont intent to use it for a long time
With an inexpensive preppy cleaning under the tap is fine, but if you live in an area with hard water the mineral will build up inside the pen over the years, so if you bought an expensive pen and plan on using it decade later a good idea is to either use a distilled water based solution, or what I do: just remove the feed and wipe the insides after rinsing so the water has less of a chance of building up, depending on where you live it might actually be cheaper to wash it under the sink and the flush it with some ink rather than using distilled water
Thank you very , very much for the video. I wish too change the color of the cartridge AND the color of my Platinum Plaisir was using and your video has taken out all my doubts how to do this. In my case it came with black ink and I've wanted to use blue.First I've used "your" method on a Preppy and it worked just perfectly. There's out there on RUclips a lot of complex processes but yours is the best : simple and works. Thank you very , very much again !
Muito, muito obrigado pelo vídeo. Queria também mudar a cor do cartucho E a cor que a minha Platinum Plaisir estava usando e seu vídeo tirou todas as minhas dúvidas de como fazer isso. No meu caso ela veio com tinta preta e eu queria usar azul. Primeiro usei o "seu" método em uma Preppy e funcionou perfeitamente. Existem muitos outros processos muito complexos no RUclips, mas o seu é o melhor: simples e funciona. Muito, muito obrigado novamente!
Glad it helped!!
@@unsharpen Definetely !
Awesome video. I've tried to like fountain pens but have found that a solid gel or rollerball is the best daily and most reliable. I'm rocking a Lamy 2K rollerball with a Pilot G2 broad refill...😎
Fountain pen is not for everyone, maintaining fountain pen is it's charm
Taking the nib out makes it easier and quicker to clean also.
But my TWSBI nit dried up, and i haven't using like 6 months, and it writes well but skips little bit.
It has a nice twist cap with a great seal so it’ll stay ready to write for a long time
@@unsharpen Maybe in slip n seal fountain pen can dried out quickly
Checkout my recent posting in these comments on this video. It specifically deals with dried ink clean up. You'll probably want to flush the nib out, at least. Best regards.
There is ink dried (i think) and stuck in the feed of my Platinum Plaisir, please help
Give it a good soak!
Is this done with "non-permanent" ink?
What can you do if permanent ink dried in the pen???
Brilliant video BTW.
Thx.
Permanent or pigmented ink would be similar but you probably need some sort of solvent or ink cleaner solution to help break up the old ink.
@@unsharpen Thanks! I order some Kho-I-Noor cleaner, we shall see!