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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    I just get in the bath naked with all my pens and my bulb syringe.

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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    or, you know put the kids to work
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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

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    I do the same. The problem is I was flushing with a bulb syringe. Sheaffers don't seat very well on the tip of a bulb syringe. 🙁
    I have no problem bulb syringing mine. I just put the cartridge piercing nipple thinging right into the bulb and squeeze away. You might have to wiggle it to get it in there right with that collar ... but another tip is: Cut a catridge in half. Put the cartridge between the bulb syringe and the pen.

    Pro tip #2 The cartridge piercing nipple on a Sheaffer can sometimes fit right into the attachement on a blunt tip syringe.

    Not so protip: just mate the syringe tip up with the hole in the cartridge piercing nipple that is the ink intake.

    you can also bulb syringe the breather hole on the nib. Sort of.

    Sheaffers are my bag so I kind spend a lot of time cleaning them. heh.
    I like the cartridge idea. I actually have one for standard international pens. I just need an old Sheaffer cartrige.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    I use my ultrasonic cleaner with a rubber mat on the basket to protect the part being cleaned.
    I use my ultrasonic cleaner sparingly. I have made plated nibs with small plating loss worse after a dip in the ultrasonic bath. This being a NOS nib would probably have been okay to go in the ultrasonic. With the bend in the nib now, I can see a little plating damage now. I will not be dipping it for now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stub View Post
    or, you know put the kids to work
    That is too funny!
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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by KrazyIvan View Post
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    I do the same. The problem is I was flushing with a bulb syringe. Sheaffers don't seat very well on the tip of a bulb syringe. 🙁
    I have no problem bulb syringing mine. I just put the cartridge piercing nipple thinging right into the bulb and squeeze away. You might have to wiggle it to get it in there right with that collar ... but another tip is: Cut a catridge in half. Put the cartridge between the bulb syringe and the pen.

    Pro tip #2 The cartridge piercing nipple on a Sheaffer can sometimes fit right into the attachement on a blunt tip syringe.

    Not so protip: just mate the syringe tip up with the hole in the cartridge piercing nipple that is the ink intake.

    you can also bulb syringe the breather hole on the nib. Sort of.

    Sheaffers are my bag so I kind spend a lot of time cleaning them. heh.
    I like the cartridge idea. I actually have one for standard international pens. I just need an old Sheaffer cartrige.
    Do you have one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy View Post
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    I do the same. The problem is I was flushing with a bulb syringe. Sheaffers don't seat very well on the tip of a bulb syringe. 🙁
    I have no problem bulb syringing mine. I just put the cartridge piercing nipple thinging right into the bulb and squeeze away. You might have to wiggle it to get it in there right with that collar ... but another tip is: Cut a catridge in half. Put the cartridge between the bulb syringe and the pen.

    Pro tip #2 The cartridge piercing nipple on a Sheaffer can sometimes fit right into the attachement on a blunt tip syringe.

    Not so protip: just mate the syringe tip up with the hole in the cartridge piercing nipple that is the ink intake.

    you can also bulb syringe the breather hole on the nib. Sort of.

    Sheaffers are my bag so I kind spend a lot of time cleaning them. heh.
    I like the cartridge idea. I actually have one for standard international pens. I just need an old Sheaffer cartrige.
    Do you have one?
    Eventually, I will. I purchased some Sheaffer Brown in cartridge format.
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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    I did the same with a Prelude medium nib, and the section cracked to boot. I then found on ebay a 3-nib set of italics including an italicy EF nib for about $23 shipped. That EF nib is a great improvement over the medium, and I have two wide italics as well. Some accidents are providential.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    I did the same with a Prelude medium nib, and the section cracked to boot. I then found on ebay a 3-nib set of italics including an italicy EF nib for about $23 shipped. That EF nib is a great improvement over the medium, and I have two wide italics as well. Some accidents are providential.
    Nice. I found a replacement nib unit. I have not installed it because my fixed unit is working fine. I have the spare if I need it, so all is good. I'll have to look into those italics.
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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    It's always good to hear there is a happy ending to what started out as a sad story

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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    Two big pieces of advice:

    * put the plug in the sink! never lose a nib down the plughole again!

    * Always have a plate, pan, or tray to use to stop your pens rolling off the work surface, as if they can... they will!

    I'm impressed with the nib work. I recently repaired a couple of vintage (1940s/50s) Waterman nibs that had obviously had the same treatment, and there's that moment before you do the first tweak when the words "You really, really don't want to do this" go through your head... both of them are now happy and good writers, though there's a little bump that shows where the bend used to be (and despite burnishing on my home made nib block, it won't go away).

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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by KrazyIvan View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Farmboy View Post
    You have exceptional discipline flushing after one fill.
    It's actually called IADD or Ink Attention Deficit Disorder. I rarely use the same ink twice in a row. I was going to switch from a brown ink to a blue ink.
    That is terrible. You should do as I do, which is to use a different pen for each colour.

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    You have exceptional discipline flushing after one fill.
    It's actually called IADD or Ink Attention Deficit Disorder. I rarely use the same ink twice in a row. I was going to switch from a brown ink to a blue ink.
    That is terrible. You should do as I do, which is to use a different pen for each colour.
    That would affect the other disorder where you use a pen constantly with different inks.
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    This reminds me of a Legacy I had back in the day. I loved it, then someone at my work place (I worked in a Electronic manufacturing plant) dropped it on the floor and the nib looked like your nib. Another colleague straightened out the nib and surprisingly it wrote better than before! Alas, during the time when I was in college I lost that green legacy :-(

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    Default Re: When pen flushing goes wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by KrazyIvan View Post
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    You have exceptional discipline flushing after one fill.
    It's actually called IADD or Ink Attention Deficit Disorder. I rarely use the same ink twice in a row. I was going to switch from a brown ink to a blue ink.
    I have the same disorder. I love to switch colors. I am glad this all (eventually) worked out for you. I have never touched a nib with needle nose pliers, so I also admire your skill.
    I need to add that the nib was protected by rubber shelf liner. You don't want to do that without some barrier between the pliers and nib. In a past life I was a dispensing optician. I really wished I had a set of frame adjustment pliers. The have rubber caps to protect metal frames.
    Sorry about that nib. Those soft plastic nib pliers are apparently handy. Been meaning to pick up a m pair.

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