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I was sitting here yesterday morning and noticed that I had 5 pens that needed to be cleaned out.
1. Conklin duragraph
2. Pilot metropolitan med. nib
3. Pilot metropolitan fine nib
4. Lamy Safari
5. Shaffer’s snorkel 14kt fine nib 1950’s era I believe
The Shaffer only holds enough ink to write for a minute or so. The bladder is pretty hard so it doesn’t suck up much ink. So it cleaned up very quickly.
I was very surprised how quickly the Conklin cleaned up. It didn’t take but a couple minutes and water was flowing clear through it. It is a wet writing pen so maybe that helped some, letting the water pass through it so quickly.
I’ve always had decent luck with my Lamy’s cleaning up somewhat easily. It just depends on the ink with them too. If I use Shaffer black, my wife likes that color in the lamy she “borrows” from me. It can be a living hell to clean out. But most other inks come clean pretty easily after a few minutes.
Now the pilot metropolitans, that’s another story. For some reason they always take longer to clean up than any other pen I have. Now it’s not like it’s takes a hour or anything of the like. But it does take a little more time for me to make sure all the old ink is out. For some reason the feed in those pen hold a ton of ink and they just don’t want to let it go. One of them took almost 10 minutes to clean before all the California teal was gone.
After cleaning, drying and putting away those I inked up to fresh ones. A pilot vanishing point med nib and a Jinhuo X450 that I received in the bombing run in January. Now that 450 is an awesome writing pen. My wife tried it and absolutely loves it. She said she wished it had a black in it because she would like to borrow it. That’s the reason I inked it up with robert oyster fire and ice.
1. Conklin duragraph
2. Pilot metropolitan med. nib
3. Pilot metropolitan fine nib
4. Lamy Safari
5. Shaffer’s snorkel 14kt fine nib 1950’s era I believe
The Shaffer only holds enough ink to write for a minute or so. The bladder is pretty hard so it doesn’t suck up much ink. So it cleaned up very quickly.
I was very surprised how quickly the Conklin cleaned up. It didn’t take but a couple minutes and water was flowing clear through it. It is a wet writing pen so maybe that helped some, letting the water pass through it so quickly.
I’ve always had decent luck with my Lamy’s cleaning up somewhat easily. It just depends on the ink with them too. If I use Shaffer black, my wife likes that color in the lamy she “borrows” from me. It can be a living hell to clean out. But most other inks come clean pretty easily after a few minutes.
Now the pilot metropolitans, that’s another story. For some reason they always take longer to clean up than any other pen I have. Now it’s not like it’s takes a hour or anything of the like. But it does take a little more time for me to make sure all the old ink is out. For some reason the feed in those pen hold a ton of ink and they just don’t want to let it go. One of them took almost 10 minutes to clean before all the California teal was gone.
After cleaning, drying and putting away those I inked up to fresh ones. A pilot vanishing point med nib and a Jinhuo X450 that I received in the bombing run in January. Now that 450 is an awesome writing pen. My wife tried it and absolutely loves it. She said she wished it had a black in it because she would like to borrow it. That’s the reason I inked it up with robert oyster fire and ice.