If you see any, it would be best not to use that ink, but if you like to live dangerously you might be able to strain out the sediment and safely use the ink in your pen. You should always check vintage ink for sediment in the bottom of the bottle. Sediment can form in vintage ink by evaporation or just age. Sometimes it’s just better safe than sorry! Sediment If you’ve never opened a particular bottle of ink before, I would suggest opening it very slowly, maybe even draping a towel over the lid and bottle to catch any ink that might spray out. When you open a pressurized ink bottle, its contents can spray out, getting you and your work area quite messy. This happens often when ink is shipped via airplane, but can also happen with age. Sometimes pressure can build up inside of a bottle.
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Looking at this half full bottle of ink, it is impossible to tell if it has evaporated or was simply used in the past. If you happen to come across a bottle of moldy ink, it’s fine to purchase it and display it in your collection, but never use it in any of your pens! Your ink might also smell unusual (more organic and earthy than the normal chemical smell ink has). It will be a visible substance in the ink and possibly on the bottle and lid. It should be pretty obvious if your ink has mold in it. So, it’s very important to check for mold in your ink before you use it. Now any pens you dip in that ink will become infected and pretty soon mold has spread through your entire collection. If you dip that pen into another bottle of ink, the mold is in that ink. Once you use a pen in moldy ink, that mold is now in your pen. Mold can damage or destroy your entire pen and ink collection. Paying attention to a few simple things can save many headaches down the road. While old ink is fun, there are a few risks to watch out for and precautions to take if you decide to use it in your fountain pens. I use a popsicle stick to open old boxes to keep from damaging them. In the process of opening the bottle I could have easily torn the label off or sloshed ink all over the place if the lid suddenly came loose.
I have tried opening bottles of vintage ink with steel lids where the lid didn’t really feel like moving after 70 years of sitting around. You could end up getting pieces of cork in your ink if you destroy the cork, and then you will also not be able to properly close the bottle again. If you have a bottle that is sealed with a cork, it might be very difficult to get the cork out of the bottle.
One thing is how hard the bottle will be to open. There are a few things that you should think about before using vintage ink.
Before we cover that, though, let’s take a look at a few of your ink options.
If you plan to use old ink (which is why you’re reading this article, right?) there are a few precautions you should take, which are outlined in the “caution” section below. For the majority of this post, I’ll be talking about inks that were made between the 1930s-1960s (or “vintage” inks), since that is what I enjoy using, but it could also mean a bottle of ink that’s been sitting in your desk drawer for the last 10 years. I keep mentioning “old” ink, but how old is old? I’d consider ink that is anywhere from 10-100 years old to be “old” ink. Using old fountain pen ink is no different than using modern inks. While your pen can probably survive a lifetime without doing this, it can’t hurt, right? You’ll find recommendations by many people to fill your pen with vintage Quink or Skrip every once in a while to help flush out any residue left by modern inks. These old inks contained cleaning agents that were meant to keep pens in good working order. Many people who repair fountain pens even swear by vintage ink and its cleaning properties. If you use vintage fountain pens that are subject to barrel staining, you should be able to use vintage inks without worry of staining. Even though this Skrip Permanent Red is from the 1940s, it still has a bold color and shows some sheen.
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