My 'vintage' ink buy turned into a $45 bottle of sludge

Found a cool looking bottle at a flea market, but it was totally separated and clogged my favorite pen for a week. Anyone know a safe way to salvage old ink, or is it always a gamble?

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andrew91613d ago

Remember my buddy who bought that old sheaffer ink? He tried to filter it and it still wrecked his nib. Maybe just keep the bottle for display.

reese_perry610d ago

Ever think that sludge is the ink's final form? Andrew_kelly is right about the gamble, but maybe the real vintage find was learning a hard lesson about your pen. At least you got a cool bottle for your next, less chunky, ink.

andrew_kelly13d ago

Feel like that's just part of the hobby sometimes. You're buying a chemical that's been sitting for decades. What did you expect it to do? I've had some luck filtering gunk through a coffee filter, but you're never getting that fresh ink performance back. It's always going to be a gamble, and a pen clog is the price of admission. Maybe just keep the cool bottle and put some new ink in it.