How to clean your fountain pens

Considering we live in a time of a global pandemic, it's crucial now more than ever to keep your fountain pens clean. Wait! Before you reach for the hand sanitizer - I'm not just talking about viruses and bacteria. If you want to keep your pens writing smoothly for the long-term, you need to clean them regularly. Thankfully, proper pen hygiene isn't as difficult or time-consuming as it sounds; nor does it require any special tools.

In this video, Tom demonstrates how to clean all the most common filling systems and offers tips and best practices on how to keep your pens in excellent working order for the long term.

Timestamps
(0:00) Introduction
(0:30) Why clean a fountain pen?
(1:18) How to clean a cartridge fountain pen.
(5:51) How to clean a converter.
(8:41) How to clean a piston-fill fountain pen.
(12:05) How to clean out shimmer and sheen inks.
(13:37) How to clean a vacuum fill fountain pen.
(18:04) How to clean an eyedropper fill fountain pen.

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