Will this work ok for mixing inks?

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Wanting to test mix some of my inks that are now in their stock 30-50ml bottles, I'm considering buying some small clear glass bottles, and I'm thinking the squat 15ml ones I found on Amazon should probably be about the right size? They come with either cork stoppers or metal lids, and so far I'm leaning towards the metal topped ones...

I've avoided using convertors in most of my pens, so I already have a number of ink syringes and empty (or soon to be empty) cartridges for the ones that aren't eyedroppers, so I'm probably ok as far as refilling bottles (and later, pens) goes.

All opinions, suggestions, and/or warnings would be greatly appreciated here...
Thanks,
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[carlos.q]

If you are looking for alternatives on Amazon take a look at nalgene 1oz (30ml) jars with screw on caps.

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Thanks, but I think I might prefer glass bottles here to Nalgene's plastic. ~Glass is what the ink companies all use, it's cheaper than most plastic jars, clearer sided, recyclable, and there's no worries something might be added to the ink from the container! ~These: Teensery empty clear glass 15ml bottles with screw-on aluminum caps. I just hope the caps have a lining in 'em and are air tight..


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OK, I didn't use Amazon after all... ~I found this stationary co called M.Lovewell onna web and they had good prices on a nice selection of original small empty ink bottles. So I used them and pretty much got what I wanted...

[Chrissy]

~Glass is what the ink companies all use

I don't know which ink companies ink you're using but this isn't necessarily true. Many inks now come in plastic bottles that are more lightweight than glass and safer to send around the world. Diamine Inks 30ml bottles, Robert Oster bottles and KWZ bottles are some that instantly spring to mind as some I have in stock.

My own preference is to keep my inks in their bottles and original boxes. It's too much effort to swap inks from one bottle to another then need to keep two bottles. Not to mention being sure to making nice labels, writing all of the inks on there, then making sure they can never come off. I'm far too fussy with my own inks and prefer to keep as many in pristine condition as I can. I may need to sell some one day.

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~Glass is what the ink companies all use

I don't know which ink companies ink you're using but this isn't necessarily true. Many inks now come in plastic bottles that are more lightweight than glass and safer to send around the world. Diamine Inks 30ml bottles, Robert Oster bottles and KWZ bottles are some that instantly spring to mind as some I have in stock.

My own preference is to keep my inks in their bottles and original boxes. It's too much effort to swap inks from one bottle to another then need to keep two bottles. Not to mention being sure to making nice labels, writing all of the inks on there, then making sure they can never come off. I'm far too fussy with my own inks and prefer to keep as many in pristine condition as I can. I may need to sell some one day.

OK, I guess there are some fountain pen ink companies using plastic ink bottles now. But I have 9 ink bottles (from 8 different well known companies) and all of them are glass, so that's what I'm sticking with when obtaining new empty bottles.
And I'm not switching pristine stock inks from bottle to bottle; ~why would I do that? In fact I'm buying empties to avoid doing that! What I'm planning on doing is creating new different colored inks by mixing some of my current stock ones, and I definitely don't want to test or change any of them in their original bottles as that would corrupt the source, right? ~So new empty bottles that I can use to experiment with by injecting them with inks transported (via clean syringes) from their original bottles should be one of the cleanest and safest ways to experiment with color mixing, I'm thinking...

Once my empties get here I'm going to eagerly find out if I can improve an orangey-red ink I thoroughly dislike by slowly adding a sepia colored ink to it that I do like. And I can foresee many such interesting experiments... ~But of course an experiment is just that; an experiment! Some may succeed, but others may not work out at all.. {S'all part of the fun, right?}

[Chrissy]

I didn't realise you were going to use 15ml glass bottles for mixing inks in. I think I must have missed "test mix" but spotted "refilling bottles". That said 15ml is quite a lot for an initial mix. I use small 5ml plastic ink vials unless I get a mix I really like then I might mix a bit more. I would try to avoid mixing Noodler's inks with other brands. Otherwise mixing dye based inks with other dye based inks might turn out OK. Anyway, I wish you luck with your plan.

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Thanks... And yeah, I may have to go smaller with my test mixing bottles as I just bought 4 empty stock bottles that I suspect may even be as large as 30ml? ~I dunno, we'll see how they work out when they get here... ~

I especially liked them because I could buy only these few instead of the unnecessary dozen or more as Amazon sells them. ~And they were only $2 each!

[Chrissy]

When I used to stay in Florida for 3 weeks or a month I used to take 15ml Nalgene bottles of ink with me. They are very small, neat and tidy. They can be thrown in a small box in my suitcase with no worries. When choosing my pens carefully, I could get my nibs in to refill their converters, and not one bottle ever leaked. They were the best things I ever bought for transporting ink in. I still have them and some have never been used.

I've just transferred all of my inks to an Ikea Alex chest of drawers and have consolidated a couple of duplicate ink sample vials into small Diamine Inkvent bottles but I prefer the Nalgene bottles for their round shape.