How to Use Up Ink Samples

[Retiredgene]

This might be an easy question for folks here but I'm a noob at The Nib:

I have many ink samples of various inks I have been trying out to see what I would like to buy a bottle of later, at least 20 different samples.

I have filled my pens that have the squeeze converter system in pens like Pilot Metropolitan, Parker 51 etc as well as lever pens. Now I have quite a few sample containers with a enough ink left over to write more but the pen can't dip far enough in enough to get at it.

I know it must be a "easy solution" but short of using a syringe to put into the feed area, how does one get to use every drop of some nice Diamine, Waterman and Noodler ink samples?

Thanks / Gene

 

[Rockminer]

Syringe is about the only way to get every last drop. If your pen fits into the sample container, you can just use it like a dip pen.

 

[rockviper]

Get a cat.

 

[Retiredgene]

Get a cat.

If you think I am going to be the "new go to joke" on a multi-colored coated Joseph cat you are crazy

But you know, my wife raises chickens so I could try writing messages on the eggs with a good dipping flex pen

Gene

 

[rockviper]

Chickens! There ya go, quill pens at your fingertips!

 

[Retiredgene]

I can see the look on her face as the Rhode Island Red hens start laying Diamine Bilberry & Waterman Audacious Red colored eggs

I might be able to leave the couch after about a month's sentence

Gene

 

[Teppanyaki]

I highly recommend a $5 ink syringe kit. I use mine all of the time, along with the bulb syringe.

 

[Bob L.]

I really like the cat idea. "Sassy, get your furry face over here...."

 

[Retiredgene]

I highly recommend a $5 ink syringe kit. I use mine all of the time, along with the bulb syringe.

Problem solved : I do have a syringe and I just saw where the Pilot Metropolitan (new pens for me) have the converter as removable to put in a cartridge. I can load the syringe and put into the converter or an empty Pilot cartridge.

Gene

 

[Nightshade18]

I've poured into an eyedropper before.

 

[Doc4]

I've poured into an eyedropper before.

This.

And of course, he means a pen which is being used with an "eyedropper fill". (Some people call that an "eyedropper conversion", but dawbing some silicone grease onto the threads doesn't seem like much of a "conversion" to me.)

Kaweco Sport and Pilot 78g are good ones for eyedropper-ing.

 

[Nightshade18]

Hehe, yeah doc, that was a far more thorough explanation

 

[chris.hale]

If you have a converter, you could remove the converter from the pen and fill it directly, that should get you to the bottom. Failing that, syringe with a blunt needle.