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I recently got a #Sailor #Hokoro dip pen, and much to my chagrin have found that several of my #FountainPen inks do not work well in it. It's almost like the ink refuses to be picked up by the nib/feed.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a solution?

Edit: the paper also seems to be a factor

#fountainpen #sailor #Hokoro
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StarSloth
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Have you washed the nib? Like with dish soap?
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@StarSloth I ran it through the ultrasonic cleaner with a little dish soap. I assumed that would suffice?
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StarSloth
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should, yes.
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StarSloth
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So mine had worked with all inks I've tried it with, but it's obviously not every ink in the world. If you'd share some inks it doesn't work with for you, and if I have the same, I could do a test?
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@StarSloth I'm giving them a second longer go with a bit more soap. I've also picked up a few other tips. We'll see of those make a difference.
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Jim P.
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I haven't tried this, but I've seen other people say they transfer a little ink to an ink well and add a thickening agent of some sort to help. I just dip straight into the bottle, just be sure to get it at least over the hole in the nib.

Though I haven't really had that problem with my Hocoro dip pen unless the ink is super watery. Even then it still works just have to re-dip frequently.

I swatched all of this past Colorvent with one of those dip pens (stub and EF nib) and it went well.

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Seven
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I haven’t had any trouble with any of mine. They don’t have feeds, but did you purchase the reservoir which is available separately?
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paradoxmo
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do you have a nib with or without reservoir? It works better with reservoir so I put them on all the nibs. You do have to keep it dipped in the ink for a few seconds for the reservoir to fill up, which is something that’s not necessarily intuitive.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@paradoxmo Ohhhhhh... I do have a reservoir. I shall have to try keeping it submerged a moment.
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I've had good luck with cleaning the nib gently with an extra-soft fine toothbrush and a little toothpaste. Wash the natural oils off your fingers before handling the nibs as well.
As to the ink- some of my fountain pen inks absolutely refuse to work with my various dip pen nibs, while other ftn pen inks of mine work fine and coat/cling nicely.
Adding about 1/5 volume of Gum Arabic does work to adapt a small vial of ftn pen ink for dip pens, but then don't use that ink for your ftn pens. The gum-treated inks tend to dry a bit shiny and make shimmer inks less shimmery... something to keep in mind. There are dip pen-specific inks for sale, of course.
For black waterproof ink that works really well right out of the bottle in both ftn pens and dip pens, I like my De Atramentis 'Archive' black ink. It's luxurious! That ink can also be used for drawing and then watercoloring over when dry, btw.

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