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I recently found my dad's old Mont Blanc fountain tip pen. It's one of those thin ones and is very sleek and sharp looking, but I'm guessing it's around 20 years old. So I need to do a little restoration, so two questions, ink and cleaning. I just went out and bought some large blue Waterman cartridges. I'm not sure how great that ink quality is, but it's the only thing I could find at a local store and I'm not sure which stores would specialize in ink refills. And then, it's got a slight amount of rust on the nib, I'm fairly certain there is a large build up of old ink throughout the delivery system (hasn't been used in years) and the only way I can get it to write at all is if I squeeze the cartridge while it's inserted until it's dripping. That might also be in account that the cartridge attached was also years old and had mostly evaporated. So I guess, how would I clean this bitch. I was thinking rubbing alcohol, but I'm not sure how much damage it would possibly do.
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Feb 14, 2008 02:30
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I have a cartridge pen, so I ended up finding a dental syringe with a rubber cone adapter that fit the pens threading perfectly. I flushed it out with warm water and then used the syringe with a 1 part ammonium 2 part water solution and that pulled out all the caked ink residue. Just be careful when you use the ammonia, some pens use different materials that can corrode. Though I really like Parkers black blue ink, it's just I can't use well ink. If they had it in cartridges I would totally get it, my current blue ink is very bland if not silly.
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Feb 17, 2008 20:58
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