My First Nib Related Restore, Hilarity Ensues !

[syngent]

So along with my Auction win,.. and 2nd place prize combo from Jason, i got a couple of restore projects, first is a pen but we will come back to that,... and the second was a retro bottle of ink in need of some work,... I knew this wouldnt end well so i was sure to have a camera on hand to take pictures for everyone

What I was up against:



as you can see we had a bad inner seal,... thank goodness the outer held,... cracked cap was at fault upon inspection

to begin with started running water in the sink and got a roll of paper towels of a box we would later find out is labeled "latex gloves" which you will see would have been great to notice ahead of time,...

First thing i did was cut the corner off the zip lock bag and decant into another bottle,.. and squeeze out as much ink as possible,... and only missing a little bit down the side of the decanter





dont worry the counter cleaned okay,... so did the sink after I discarded the ink bottle and its wrapping into the sink



..... we are not done yet

 

[syngent]

after trying to both clean up the mess i made,... while trying not to make a new mess was going nowhere, i thought the old bottle was now cleaned out and dry maybe time to get the ink back in there (which was smart with it having a broken lid and all)

and to my amazement, the actual loss of ink wasnt all that bad



unfortunately it wasnt all good news,... as this is my good hand



after a whole lot of scrubbing too,... but on the plus side i have a lot of ink to play with so I dont need to feel bad,.. and Jason can get a good laugh out of it

oh yeah the pen too,... gonna try my hand at a restore all by myself so what i have to start with here ??

 

[syngent]

This is the pen



Btw anyone know of a common item that has a lid that will fit that bottle,... im afraid to transfer it again as i think i have pushed my luck quite to its limit !!

 

[rockviper]

Try palm lathering ro remove the inkstain
As stupid as I sounds, I shaved after refilling a pen one day and almost all of the ink came off when I palm lathered (moment of inspiration there!). Soap and water had failed to remove the ink earlier.

If all else fails for a bottle lid, some saran wrap tripled over (or more) and a nice string rubber band might work for a few days.

 

[syngent]

Try palm lathering ro remove the inkstain
As stupid as I sounds, I shaved after refilling a pen one day and almost all of the ink came off when I palm lathered (moment of inspiration there!). Soap and water had failed to remove the ink earlier.

If all else fails for a bottle lid, some saran wrap tripled over (or more) and a nice string rubber band might work for a few days.

Yeah i got some wrap on it now with a hair tie,... I may have some of those dollar store containers i got for some tobacco laying around that would work okay for this




Oh btw for anyone interested, I remembered to close the bathroom door so the cat is every colour he is supposed to be, with nothing artificial added

 

[brianw]

Pumice stone will work well on that ink stain.

Nice wearever

 

[syngent]

Thanks for the tips Brian, and Sam I dont want to try to explain a green hand at work tomorrow lol, the cool part about the pen,.. i know very little about it,... probably already better then my last standing chinese pen,.. and i get all the fun of taking it apart and making if work great again, then that sucker will really be cool cause i know I saved it

 

[syngent]

The Jokes aside,.. i notice what is left over of some kind of "sack ?" inside the body of the pen,.. and that the Nib section just slides out,.. takes a bit of effort though doesnt just fall out, should that nib do that ?, and are sacks for these pens fairly universal, and can be bought online ?, as that kind of seems like the place to start

 

[nemo]

Cool project James! If you got the nib section out, good, that's half the battle over already. Drop the section with the nib and feed into some cool water to soak. Your faceted Wearever will take a #16 sac, just use shellac to glue it in place after scraping off the remains from the nipple. Was it crispy?

 

[syngent]

Haven't got to it yet it deep inside or whats left of it let me get a paper clip see if I can get a chunk out

 

[syngent]

What's coming out is in dried hard chunks

 

[nemo]

What's coming out is in dried hard chunks

Haha. So typical! Shake 'em all out.

 

[syngent]

A paper clip knocked the tougher pieces off the sidewall and I think we are sack free... but I can't see behind the metal spring at the end

 

[syngent]

So what about the clip and the trim can anything be done with them?

 

[nemo]

A paper clip knocked the tougher pieces off the sidewall and I think we are sack free... but I can't see behind the metal spring at the end

Probably nothing living back there. Now go order some latex sacs and shellac from Martin at Woodbin (he's in Simcoe).

Not much can be done with worn plating within a limited budget.

 

[syngent]

Lol model ink it is! The tip of the cap is black and white I can't match the hardware to that and I'm guessing he's not in simcoe Ontario?

 

[celestino]

James, good luck, my friend! You never seem to fail to entertain with your adventures. Have you ever thought about writing a book on your daily happenings? Hee hee.

 

[syngent]

James, good luck, my friend! You never seem to fail to entertain with your adventures. Have you ever thought about writing a book on your daily happenings? Hee hee.

I Tried that once,... the lawyers say its best i dont talk about it though,...

but i did a dip test with my new nib and discovered one important thing,.... My Jinhao sucks



that and using a flex will take some getting use to,.. where to and when to and how to fit the pressure into your writing and have it look natural im guessing is going to take a little time

 

[maxman]

Thanks for posting this. I now know that I will never restore a pen or ink bottle.
Nice looking pen though.

 

[syngent]

The pen looks easy enough... although I'll have to see how the nib flows and the filler lever works when I get it back together... I cleaned the nib up last night it's shiny again... but yeah I made a huge mess (that all cleaned up) recovering my mystery ink