hamag
December 4th, 2013, 09:33 PM
I'm but a newbie.
My very small collection amounts to only 14 pens.
I don't intend to have a big collection, all I want to have is those pens that I want, whatever that amounts to.
I feel I'm lacking now some pens: a certain Sheaffer, a certain Eversharp and perhaps some Waterman, but that's not the point.
I've got 6 Pelikan Souveräns (I love Souveräns), one M1000, one M800, one M600 and three M400 .
My M400 are black (EF nib + Quink Black ink), red stripes (F nib + Quink Red ink) and blue stripes (M nib + Quink Blue Black ink).
I kept them ready to use for a long while till I decided to give them a rest.
So I flushed them first with tap water.
Then I flushed them with distilled water till I couldn't see any color in the flushing water.
But the blue one was a rather reluctant one.
It seemed to always give away some traces of ink.
I don't have any flush solution, neither did I like to use one.
Just distilled water.
So I told myself "leave them a whole day in distilled water, filled with distilled water, trying to leave out air so water surrounds the nib in and out. Submerged in distilled water up to that part that you would call the section (that part where you grip it) and just a only few millimeters above it, not the entire pen"
Right?
Well, NO.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
The next day I emptied them, dried them with paper towers and TRIED to cap them.
Oh my god! I couldn't.
I mean, I had no problems with the black one but the barrel of the blue and the red just wouldn't get inside the cap.
They had swollen.
I forced the screwing and miserable me, got a slight albeit faintly visible scratching in the barrels.
That was two days ago.
Now all three go into their caps without problem.
I should have get them have some "rest".
I guess this comes from their being made out of celluloid and celluloid means cellulose which (I suppose) absorbs water.
Now I must face the problem of getting rid of those almost visible scratches in the barrel.
Invisible for any human soul except one like me (and all of you) a pen collector.
This is one of the miseries we must bear.
I'm writing this so no one goes through this agony.
Cheers everybody
Horacio from Buenos Aires
My very small collection amounts to only 14 pens.
I don't intend to have a big collection, all I want to have is those pens that I want, whatever that amounts to.
I feel I'm lacking now some pens: a certain Sheaffer, a certain Eversharp and perhaps some Waterman, but that's not the point.
I've got 6 Pelikan Souveräns (I love Souveräns), one M1000, one M800, one M600 and three M400 .
My M400 are black (EF nib + Quink Black ink), red stripes (F nib + Quink Red ink) and blue stripes (M nib + Quink Blue Black ink).
I kept them ready to use for a long while till I decided to give them a rest.
So I flushed them first with tap water.
Then I flushed them with distilled water till I couldn't see any color in the flushing water.
But the blue one was a rather reluctant one.
It seemed to always give away some traces of ink.
I don't have any flush solution, neither did I like to use one.
Just distilled water.
So I told myself "leave them a whole day in distilled water, filled with distilled water, trying to leave out air so water surrounds the nib in and out. Submerged in distilled water up to that part that you would call the section (that part where you grip it) and just a only few millimeters above it, not the entire pen"
Right?
Well, NO.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
The next day I emptied them, dried them with paper towers and TRIED to cap them.
Oh my god! I couldn't.
I mean, I had no problems with the black one but the barrel of the blue and the red just wouldn't get inside the cap.
They had swollen.
I forced the screwing and miserable me, got a slight albeit faintly visible scratching in the barrels.
That was two days ago.
Now all three go into their caps without problem.
I should have get them have some "rest".
I guess this comes from their being made out of celluloid and celluloid means cellulose which (I suppose) absorbs water.
Now I must face the problem of getting rid of those almost visible scratches in the barrel.
Invisible for any human soul except one like me (and all of you) a pen collector.
This is one of the miseries we must bear.
I'm writing this so no one goes through this agony.
Cheers everybody
Horacio from Buenos Aires