Editing The Pen Addict 302/transcript (section)

== Eyedropper Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So. Amit. Wants to know. What's the best way. To clean an eyedropper pen. Before changing ink color. The regular bulb syringe procedure. Yeah. That's pretty much what I use. If I see. Ink lingering around. In a clear barrel. For an eyedropper. I'll just soak it overnight. I have a. Um. What's the. The. The. Ultrasonic cleaner. That. Seems to do okay. But. Nothing beats cleaning an eyedropper. Than soaking it. You can. You know. Add a tiny. Tiny. Microscopic bit of dish soap. In there maybe. If you're having a real problem. But. I usually have. I can get. You know. 99% of the ink out. Just by soaking it overnight. In water. If. Just cleaning out. With a bulb syringe. Doesn't work. But yeah. That's a. Pretty straightforward. To. To clean those. So. Albert. Had. An interesting question. What's the significance. Of 88. The number 88. In fountain pens. There's an aurora 88. Now a pen maker. Opus 88. That's what I was. Talking about. Stipula has a prisma 88. 88. So. I have. I have two theories. On the 88.

'''Myke Hurley:''' One. It's the year I was born. So like. Everybody just decided. To celebrate that. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Absolutely. I think that's probably it. That's. I mean. That's the winner. Probably. But what else.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My other more serious. Is. Except for some. You know. For. I think for a lot of brands. That maybe are bringing out 88s now. Is that means 30 years. Right. 88. To now. Is 30. That's my thinking. Right. That there's. A bunch of 88s now. Because it's signifying 30 years. Or something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So. I looked this up online. To see if there was like. A real answer. And. Eight's a lucky number.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' For Chinese people. So. Double eight. Maybe. Just like. Double lucky. But. I don't suggest. Necessarily looking up 88. Why it's important. Because there's actually some. Negative connotations to that. Which I didn't realize. Before looking up. But obviously not. In these pen world. So. I don't know. What the. You know. Maybe it's some type of anniversary. Maybe it's just good luck. But like. You know. Why would. Why does Aurora name it. 88. You know. Because. You know. They're an Italian company. Not a Chinese company. But I guess they have. Maybe have a big. You know. Asian market. Where the number eight is popular. So. I don't have the perfect answer. For you. But I have noticed there being. A lot of 88s. And. I don't know. It's a cool number. So. It's a. It's something we'll probably keep seeing. So. It's very cool. So. Scott asked. One thing I've been wondering about. Is how to store extra nibs. For one's pens. That's a great question. So. They're small. They get away from you. I have trouble. If I swap out a nib. That I've had custom ground. Say like a Yovo nib. Where I have a separate nib unit. And forgetting. Like. Okay. Which one. Is really the ground one. And who did this work. So. You can use small. Like ink vials. To put them individually in. So. Like the sample ink vials. If you want to keep them. That way. And you can write a little note. On. That type of case. If you wanted to use it. Then I throw them in. Just like a pen case. Like we have a. Just like a. Chimney top pen case. Is just like an open storage. For those little. Types of cases. So. I do try to. Separate them. As much as I can. And write information. On there. Because I do forget. If I don't use them. For a while. But I. I do just. It's easy to find. Those little. Those little sample vials. So it's. It's. That's kind of the thing. That. That I do. So this last question. Myke. We'll. We'll pose to the. Listeners. And I know. We have some people. We have some people. In this chat room. That can answer this. Question. But we need. A detailed. Answer. I think. And I'm. Neither one of us. Can answer that. But I think it's an important. And fun question to ask. So Jim wants to know. What equipment is needed. To start making fountain pens. What's the initial investment. I don't know. And I hate saying that. You know. I hate saying. I don't know. But this is a case. Where. I think the question. Merits. An answer. From. Some of the pen makers. So we have. Chewbacca. In the chat room. He just started. Making his own pens. So. Maybe he can chime in with. Hey. What's involved in getting that started. We're obviously friends with some. Really. You know. Big pen makers. Like. You know. Jonathan Brooks. Well. He makes materials. He doesn't really make pens. So. You know. I don't know. That he would know. Sean Newton. Would be able to tell us. You know. What does it take to get started. In making pens. Maybe these people. Don't want to divulge their secrets. So. Who knows. But. I think it's a good question. People are always interested. In. You know. What it takes to. Start making their own pens. And I think it's a very cool thing. So maybe we'll get some response from that. And I will. Report back. With my findings. Myke. Just like we did with. Should we. Keep or destroy our notebooks. When we die. That one. Lasted about a month.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I wonder if this one will go on as long. Who knows.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll see. So. That's out there. All you pen makers who listen. I know there's a few of you. Hit me up. At pen addict. Not at pen addict. At dowdyism on Twitter. You can hit me up. Pen addict dot com. You can find my contact information. Send me over all the info.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm really interested in this one. Actually. Because I'm keen. Like. What does it take to start. Aside from. Buckets of makeup. As. Jonathan. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So. Chewbacca's already got us started. At the stationary wiki. Stationary dot wiki. He started to. To. Put some things together. There. So. And. He's going to shoot me an email. So. We will follow up on this. Not next week. Because that is our live show. Which we should remind people. Myke. Our schedule is different next week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Of course it is. We're not going to be recording on Wednesday. Because. It feels almost wasted. Considering we're together a few days later. So. The episode will be out. On Saturday. We're recording on Saturday. And it'll be out Saturday night. So. We won't be around Wednesday. You can just wait a couple more days. And then you'll get us live. From the Atlanta Pen Show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And then we'll follow. Back that up with a Wednesday recording. The following week. So we'll have two close episodes then.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. For sure. Because. We'll do our kind of wrap up. Two days. After I get back home again. Yep. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' As is normal. Good times. Good times ahead. Myke. Most definitely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So. Go to. Related.fm. Slash. Penaddict. Slash. 302. That's where you get our show notes for this week's episode. Thanks to Squarespace for their support. If you want to find Brad online. He's at penaddict.com. He's penaddict on Instagram. Dowdy is on Twitter. I am imike. I-M-Y-K-E. We will be attempting to stream live next week. Just keep your eye out for that. So we're kind of aiming around kind of 6 p.m. Atlanta time. Whatever that is in other time zones. So yeah. Just keep your eye out for that. We're going to be trying to stream live as we always do. But the episode will be out shortly after we record anyway. So until next time. Until Atlanta. Say goodbye Brad. Goodbye Brad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Goodbye Brad.

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