My last Fountain Pen Day post (probably)! #FountainPenDay #FountainPen #FountainPens #FountainPenInk

Had a Prefounte and two Preppy pens to refill so I figured I'd try some fluorescent inks in them. Works just fine, though the Pennonia ink really wants a wider/juicier nib than a Platinum EF/02. Added the TWSBIs to the sheet because they were handy, and the reason will be apparent in my next post. #FountainPens #FountainPenDay

A couple more for Fountain Pen Day. Asvine C80 in Cobalt Blue w/Stub nib inked with Akkerman Out of the Blue. I really like these Akkerman bottles, but the size makes having many of them impractical so I'll be forced to limit myself (which is good). Filling pens out of them is super easy, though. The color is a nice medium blue. The C80 writes super smoothly but has no clip/stop to wants to roll away easily. Looks great, but keep an eye on it! #FountainPenDay #FountainPens #FountainPenInk

Happy Fountain Pen Day! New stuff! Platinum Preppy Wa Edo-Monogatari in Purple / Neko inked with Akkerman #13 Simplisties Violet. My first Akkerman ink. The bottles are neat! They look cool and the top is an inkwell sealed off by a marble. Main problem is they're tall and won't stack, so storage is tricky. The ink seems good so far, especially the color. The new Preppy is as good as ever, and can't go wrong with cats, however (1/2) #FountainPenDay #FountainPens #FountainPenInk

Inked up my new TWSBI ECO Plum w/Onyx with Tono & Lims - Antares, another one of their very usable fluorescent inks in the Star Light Series. I hope they make even more of these! The three I've tried so far have been great. Hoping to have time for a proper swatch this weekend. The pen color leans a bit more pinkish/fuchsia in person than I expected from photos but still close enough to red for me. Looks great, otherwise your standard well-behaved TWSBI ECO. #FountainPens #FountainPenInk

Back home and resting after all that travel and peopling. Greeted by several packages: The new TWSBI ECO Plum w/Onyx, a Preppy Wa Neko, Tono & Lims Antares, Akkerman 13 Simplicities Violet, and Akkerman Out of the Blue. Also a Sailor Hocoro 2.0 stub dip pen and a Pilot Juice Up Gel Pen w/white ink. Not pictured because it went directly to my wife: A Sun-Star UFO pen case. Will flush & ink the TWSBI and Preppy when spoon supplies replenish, and get better pics. #FountainPens #FountainPenInk

On August 1st I swapped the O-rings on my Hongdian M1 and M2 with thicker O-rings and now just shy of three months later I checked them both. They wrote immediately (no hard starts or skips) and the converters are both still full. Ref:

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Jim P.resents (@jimp@masto.ai)

Attached: 1 image Finished cleaning the M1 and M2, soaking did the trick. Had to disassemble one of the converters because it somehow got water b...

They were already pretty good at sealing but when left that long both would normally have hard started or need some help to flow again. So I'd highly recommend that change: New o-rings are 8mm OD, 5mm ID, 1.5mm wide. #FountainPens