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== Lamy Safari Orange ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And I think we found when we were looking at the Lamy Orange, Lamy Safari Orange limited edition release, I think it was 2009. So I don't think that these cartridges are that old. It seems like they're newer to me. But I got an interesting email, Myke. Oh, the plot thickens. This just happened this morning, so I didn't put it in the show notes. A friend and listener from Heidelberg, Germany, the home of Lamy. So this is all speculation and hearsay, but they have a friend that works there and Lamy Orange is in production, according to them. So that's a...

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you reckon these are samples, maybe? I don't know. Brad, I have a story to tell you. Okay. So this is like, you know, typical Myke style. He has a story which just is going to make everyone mad at him. So this box arrives and I was very excited, right? Mm-hmm. So I wanted to try it out and I didn't have a clean Safari, right? So I took my petrol Safari, right? That had Lamy petrol in it. The cartridge was... It had no cartridge in it, but that was the last thing that was used. And I cleaned it out. Like, I ran it underwater. I was kind of like... I was following along with the Brad Dowdy stream, you know? Like, I watched your stream. And I was, like, shaking it out. Like, I used pen flush. I was, like, putting some water in it and blowing through the other side, right? To kind of extract everything. Doing my absolute best, right? So I was running it through and everything seemed fine, right? And I popped the cartridge in and the cartridge turned blue.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The cartridge itself? Like, it's... The ink. Back into the cartridge?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It went back into the cartridge. Oh, Lord. And ruined the ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is such a Myke thing to do. So I ruined it. It wasn't like... Okay, so here's the thing. My expectation is a lot of the times that somebody changes ink, right? Like, this is what happens, right? Like, the color kind of changes in the ink that you're using a bit if you're changing color, right? Like, because there can be some residual stuff built up in it or whatever. And usually it's not a problem for me because I'll just keep using it through and the colors, like... It's kind of orange or whatever, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, usually it wouldn't bother me. Usually, though, it's the output.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know what happened. Maybe when I put the cartridge in, I kind of squeezed it a little bit, right? So, like, it, like, sucked it in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I was like, oh, God. Because the problem is I need to see what the actual color is, right? Right. So I was like, well, what am I going to do? So I took it out, ran more water through it, like, really, like, waiting until the water was clear. Put another cartridge in. It happened again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, two... See, Myke, this is what happens with not-for-sale cartridges, Myke. These are not... These are not...