We have had dinner. Meditated. Watched some YouTube, from my Subscription list. I have been thinking about what to type. Or rather what subject to type around. I thought about it some more as I cleaned out a fountain pen. As I figured out how it could be set to not spill out ink. This pen uses the body, the entire body, as the reservoir for ink. (These are Jindao 3008s for the curios among you.) I had taken to not filling the pen totally. Needed to try out inks. There are lots of inks available for fountain pens, over 700 at one vendor. More on that in a minute. But I drew some into, ink into, the pen. And left it. This is controlled by the end of the pen, it is connected to the plunger that runs up and down the pen body. Since I was not filling the pen up I just left the plunger in the middle of it, where “it” is the plunger in the Body. Since I didn’t fill it all the way one could twiddle the with the cap at the end and … well one day it was twiddles enough to force the ink out of the body. All over. This lead to two important things to know about. 1) don’t twiddle with a pens thing you use to get ink into the pen, and 2) figure out what kept you from doing that. It turns out there is a click stop when you draw ink all the way in. Which I had 1) never used before, and 2) I had never noticed it before. Well, all the ink is off of everything. And I now know what to do to keep a bit of idle twiddling with the end of the pen from putting pressure on it and causing ink to flow out. Of course, pens that don’t use their body as an ink reservoir so this is not a problem. I’m not sure if the expanded storage of ink is worth it. About the over 700 colors of ink, it is a treat. One vendor sells sample packs of ink. 2oz containers of ink. As a result, I have close to 30 inks. Blue, red, brown, green, gray (or grey if you prefer that), and black. I am developing favorites. Or so I think. I haven’t tried them all yet.
— MichaelRpdx :: ih3k