Seriously? You can do that?
You can throw it in. But you never know what will come out
Seriously? You can do that?
And how did it go?I received a Mont Blanc 146 in 1979 as a graduation gift. I used Mont Blanc blue, black, and blue-black inks in it for years. In the early 2000s it sat a lot as I did the technology thing.
In 2011 I found pen and ink forums online and discovered that one should flush and clean one’s pen. So after 30+ years I did my first cleaning of that pen.
After the several years of non-use it was nearly frozen. Maybe 15 minutes of filling and ejecting warm water and it is back to working as well as always. It’s a piston filler and MBs aren’t made for consumers to open. Flushing was all that was available to me at that time with my knowledgeAnd how did it go?
I just watched this video on Jet Pens. Interesting:Along similar lines, how do you clean a FP?
+1I clean a pen when I change ink colors or empty it to store it away. My current pen has now been in use for about two years. Maybe when this cartridge is empty it will be time to clean and change.
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No, I highly doubt it. The frequent cleaning trend is totally a new thing driven by the fountain pen hobby becoming an internet and social media-based phenomenon. I suspect its an overreaction to apocryphal stories about either finding old fountain pens in Gramma's desk drawer gummed up with 30-year old dried ink or how the latest shimmer/sheening/pigmented/permanent/glow-in-dark/whatever ink ruined someone's pen.Has anyone seen guides or instruction, pre-1980s, from pen manufacturers, Parker, Sheaffer, Pelican, Mont Blanc, directions people to clean their pens as frequently as urged now? I didn’t ever get anything with the pens I got telling me to flush my pens
While some of the latest inks are definitely "out there" compared with those produced by mainstream pen manufacturers, some of the inks of yesteryear were hardly benign. Parker's Superchrome and Penman inks spring to mind, for different reasons.No, I highly doubt it. The frequent cleaning trend is totally a new thing driven by the fountain pen hobby becoming an internet and social media-based phenomenon. I suspect its an overreaction to apocryphal stories about either finding old fountain pens in Gramma's desk drawer gummed up with 30-year old dried ink or how the latest shimmer/sheening/pigmented/permanent/glow-in-dark/whatever ink ruined someone's pen.
No, I highly doubt it. The frequent cleaning trend is totally a new thing driven by the fountain pen hobby becoming an internet and social media-based phenomenon. I suspect its an overreaction to apocryphal stories about either finding old fountain pens in Gramma's desk drawer gummed up with 30-year old dried ink or how the latest shimmer/sheening/pigmented/permanent/glow-in-dark/whatever ink ruined someone's pen.
I think part of it was that pen-makers had warranty divisions that would sort misbehaving pens for the dissatisfied owner. Plus pens would get ink put through them, rather than sitting about as part of a rotation.
I don't yet know who quickly a FP goes through ink.
Along similar lines, how do you clean a FP?
Fast method (starts at 1:42): Fountain Pen 101: Fast Pen Flushing – Goulet Pens Blog
And to get the ink flowing again? Just write a few strokes to get it moving? Put the nib in water? What do you do?
Throw it in the dishwasher
Seriously? You can do that?
I have found that the great advantage of the Pelikan design is that the nib section easily unscrews and, best as I can tell, is actually designed to be unscrewed by users (unlike, say, disassembling a Pilot 823 which voids the warranty). So I pull the nib and flush it with the bulb syringe and then use the bulb syringe to flush out the ink reservoir. Easy peasy. Much faster than drawing in and expelling water with the piston knob, and I imagine less wear and tear on the moving parts. I sure hope I'm not courting disaster cleaning them that way.The bulb syringe method is generally best for all except the "closed filling system" pens like a Pelikan.
I do hope you know that I was being facetious. I was off my meds that day.Yes you can.
You can also get out of your car.