How To Clean Converter Fountain Pen

Clean a cartridge converter fountain pen fountain pen ink is water based and over time will evaporate.

How to clean converter fountain pen. This handy video is here to help. Lightly blow air through the nib assembly to clear all liquid out of the nib. Leaving ink in a fountain pen for an extended period of time can create problems for your fountain pen. Then shake out the excess water and let the nib dry for several hours.

This may vary by the type of fountain pen and some pen such as a piston style may have little to disassemble. A converter not being used for ink can be used to flush the nib by drawing cool water up through the nib and forcing the water out. In order to clean the converter dump out the excess ink then flush it out with cool running water and let it dry overnight. At its most basic cleaning a fountain pen consists of rinsing or soaking the inky parts of the pen in water which washes away the old ink so you can fill the pen with new ink.

Using either running water or a cup of water clean out any old ink from your cartridge converter fountain pens. Click here for. Like converters each fountain pen is different so they all have different ways of being disassembled. If you are not going to use a fountain pen for an extended period of time you need to remove and clean your pen.

To clean the fountain pen you must first disassemble the pen. If you re not comfortable disassembling your fountain pen to clean it that s okay. Eventually the water should come out clear. Below are detailed instructions for cleaning the four most common types of fountain pens including an eyedropper pen a cartridge converter pen a piston pen and a vacuum filler pen.

How do you clean a fountain pen. If you don t have one you can probably manage without but it s a fairly cheap addition that can be useful for cleaning and lets you use a lot more inks. Fountain pen inks are water based and as the water evaporates from the ink the pen dries up. Some parts of a pen like a converter can easily be rinsed out and ready for fresh ink.

With a converter to clean your fountain pen just fit the converter into the pen then repeatedly fill and empty it with plain water. At the end of this portion of the article there is a special section on cleaning fountain pen nibs that applies to all four fountain pen types. If the pen does not have a converter or built in filling system a fountain pen cleaning accessory is an indispensable addition. On a cartridge converter fountain pen remove the attached cartridge or converter.

It took me a good two years of fountain pen use before i was comfortable enough to pull a nib and feed out believe it or not. A cleaning accessory is a syringe or pipette that attaches to the pen like a converter allowing you to flush the pen properly.