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== Cleaning Pens ==


'''Myke:''' The semi-annual pen cleaning has occurred. I did it. Woo-hoo! I went through, cleaned some stuff out. I had some real disasters.

'''Myke:''' Who knew? But now they're cleaned. I've re-inked some stuff. I've added some new entries, some new inks. I got a couple of those Pannonia inks. Yeah, me too. I bought some more. I haven't really had enough time to properly try them out yet, but the colours are nice. But yeah, so I had a couple of pens that were... I had one, actually, is a thing I've never had before, where it was just completely jammed to the point that, like, if I was... Say I would fill the converter with water, and I would try and twist the converter, it would just pop off the pen. But, you know, it was a lot of nasal aspirator time and hot water, and I got it taken care of and cleaned, and it's all good.

'''Myke:''' Wow.

'''Brad:''' I don't know why it jammed up. I don't know how to take this. Try me again on that one. Try me again on that one.

'''Myke:''' What? What?

'''Brad:''' Can you repeat what you just said? You don't know why it jammed up. When was the last time this pen had been cleaned?

'''Myke:''' I don't know. But what I'm saying is it hadn't had a different rotation to any other pen, and no other pen did that. And it wasn't, like, a special ink in it or whatever, you know? It's just the way it went. And I had to do some real tender loving care to one of my Salon 1911s, because Mont Blanc Lucky Orange is one of those inks that gets a bit crusty. Definitely. You know, so I had to give that one a bit of love and care. But yeah, they're all working great. They're all refilled with ink again. I brought a new selection of pens here for the studio to mix that up a little bit. Feeling good.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. So we're good for another year, huh? Good for another year, yeah. A year from now, you'll be completely flummoxed as to why you had any difficulty cleaning your pens.

'''Myke:''' No, I've never had that before. I've never had a pen completely jam up, like, that no liquid would flow through. I've never had that before. That's a skill. I've just never had it before. It never happened to me. And now, I mean, look, it probably won't be a year. It's, I do it not on a time frame. It is on when most of the pens that I like to use have no ink in them. That's when I then, like, all right, everything's getting cleaned out, refilled, reset.

'''Brad:''' Do you have a general number that you cleaned?

'''Myke:''' Uh... Maybe, like, 15. Okay. That's less than I thought it would be. That's not terrible. That's like 15 that needed, like, cleaning and the rest just got refilled. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, God.

'''Brad:''' Okay.

'''Myke:''' Phew.

'''Brad:''' Yeah.

'''Myke:''' It's all liquid, you know? No problem. It's all just flying through there.

'''Brad:''' I'm gonna need a drink after this episode to calm myself down.