My personal do/do not is that I fill pens from a vial, not the bottle. The only thing I place in the bottle is a clean pipette, to refill the vial. Overkill? Possibly, but it's what I do 99% of the time. 😏
I like it! It's like you're decanting the ink. You're right, it does make it safer and prevents any foreign materials or ink from getting into the bottle.
For about 15 days during July my inks and pens where stored in a place that had 40°C degrees, in Fahrenheit that's 104°F No direct sunlight but temperature was very high. I can't afford an air conditioner for that room or find a better place to store them. During winter the temperature in the place that are stored drops below 0°C or in Fahrenheit below 32°F
Hot air rises, so I store in similar circumstances on or near the floor away from light or sun. Also, refrigeration might work??? Not sure about that because of what happens when they r removed. I would talk with customer service departments of ink manufacturers or art stores that would know further ideas to protect your art supply materials.
@@denkerdunsmuir3370 Oh, thank you very much! If you have an answer from the experts please let me know! Yes, you are right about hot air. Unfortunately because of limited space i had them stored on the top shelve of a cabinet near the ceiling. There is where i measured 40°C degrees, lower in that room the temperature was below 35°C degrees. Probably i should move them lower during summer and put them higher again for the winter.
As for cross contamination and general cleaning of pen parts. Is a small ultrasonic cleaner a good thing for fountain pen collectors to own and use? I bought a job lot of various pens. There was a little Parker Vector ballpoint in there which was, kind of, gummed up inside from an old refill leak. It gave me another use for the cheap ultrasonic cleaner I'd recently bought, so I could get it going again to give away to a friend with a nice new refill inside. Is an ultrasonic cleaner a good thing to have in the fountain pen afficianado world, too? For, like, when you want to change the ink you are using with a nib or an ink reservoir, cartridge converter, etc? Or do you just steep your parts in water, a cleaner, isopropyl alcohol, or something like that?
I think an ultrasonic cleaner is definitely a good tool to have if you own a lot of fountain pens. It makes thorough cleaning so much easier. We have one at the Goldspot office we use all the time.
Ultrasonic cleaner is a useful tool, but i don't think every pen is ultrasonic friendly. I tried to clean a very old gold plated nib and all the gold plating wear out. So i would say it's ok for modern pens, but you better be careful with very old pens and nibs. That's a question that a nibmeister can answer better.
It sounds like common sense but i am sure there are those who have cross contaminated ink by refilling a pen before cleaningcthe nib and feed. Also, if you have a receptacle to hold you bottle of ink (perfect for Noodler's and Robert Oster bottles), close the bottle. While you may have less of a chance of slilling ink, evaporation of the ink will thicken the ink amd it will clog the nib and feed.
@@GoldspotPens I don't like her. She has some totally click bait videos with misleading thumbnails. Also she shadow bans you, so you can't dislike her video. I don't support her practice, that's a nasty thing from her. If she can't accept criticism, then i don't want to support totalitarian people.
My personal do/do not is that I fill pens from a vial, not the bottle. The only thing I place in the bottle is a clean pipette, to refill the vial.
Overkill? Possibly, but it's what I do 99% of the time. 😏
I like it! It's like you're decanting the ink. You're right, it does make it safer and prevents any foreign materials or ink from getting into the bottle.
Really good idea to prevent cross contamination. Thx.
Tom you're the Best!
I use a blunt syringe to refill catridges instead of dipping the pen. It makes it even more cost effective and less cleaning.
“Some inks have a reputation” is referring to Monteverde 😂
For about 15 days during July my inks and pens where stored in a place that had 40°C degrees, in Fahrenheit that's 104°F
No direct sunlight but temperature was very high.
I can't afford an air conditioner for that room or find a better place to store them.
During winter the temperature in the place that are stored drops below 0°C or in Fahrenheit below 32°F
Hot air rises, so I store in similar circumstances on or near the floor away from light or sun. Also, refrigeration might work??? Not sure about that because of what happens when they r removed. I would talk with customer service departments of ink manufacturers or art stores that would know further ideas to protect your art supply materials.
@@denkerdunsmuir3370 Oh, thank you very much! If you have an answer from the experts please let me know!
Yes, you are right about hot air. Unfortunately because of limited space i had them stored on the top shelve of a cabinet near the ceiling. There is where i measured 40°C degrees, lower in that room the temperature was below 35°C degrees.
Probably i should move them lower during summer and put them higher again for the winter.
As for cross contamination and general cleaning of pen parts. Is a small ultrasonic cleaner a good thing for fountain pen collectors to own and use?
I bought a job lot of various pens. There was a little Parker Vector ballpoint in there which was, kind of, gummed up inside from an old refill leak. It gave me another use for the cheap ultrasonic cleaner I'd recently bought, so I could get it going again to give away to a friend with a nice new refill inside.
Is an ultrasonic cleaner a good thing to have in the fountain pen afficianado world, too? For, like, when you want to change the ink you are using with a nib or an ink reservoir, cartridge converter, etc? Or do you just steep your parts in water, a cleaner, isopropyl alcohol, or something like that?
I think an ultrasonic cleaner is definitely a good tool to have if you own a lot of fountain pens. It makes thorough cleaning so much easier. We have one at the Goldspot office we use all the time.
Ultrasonic cleaner is a useful tool, but i don't think every pen is ultrasonic friendly.
I tried to clean a very old gold plated nib and all the gold plating wear out. So i would say it's ok for modern pens, but you better be careful with very old pens and nibs.
That's a question that a nibmeister can answer better.
Yeah. Don't introduce weird brews of coffee into your fountain pen ink zone.😅 Especially not decaf.
True words!
It sounds like common sense but i am sure there are those who have cross contaminated ink by refilling a pen before cleaningcthe nib and feed.
Also, if you have a receptacle to hold you bottle of ink (perfect for Noodler's and Robert Oster bottles), close the bottle. While you may have less of a chance of slilling ink, evaporation of the ink will thicken the ink amd it will clog the nib and feed.
I always see people storing bottles out of boxes right where sin will hit it each day and it makes me 😬
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An ink collector. Never heard of someone who collects ink. He must be some sort of calligrapher or something.
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@GoldspotPens Thank you for the video link. I subscribed to inkypen.
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I don't like her.
She has some totally click bait videos with misleading thumbnails. Also she shadow bans you, so you can't dislike her video. I don't support her practice, that's a nasty thing from her.
If she can't accept criticism, then i don't want to support totalitarian people.