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My absolute favourite hack is for people who don’t own brass shims to floss a nib that has collected a lot of paper fibre. If you get mail with a plastic window, you can carefully trim a strip long enough that you can hold between your fingers so there is tension. This is often enough to floss a tine.
If you’re an occasional sample user that tends to forget about using them, have a nice eyedropper in the collection. I’m not a huge samples owner and a little forgetful, I found my samples started evaporating before I finished them. Things changed when I got an Opus 88 Demonstrator. Now when I get a sample from a local swap meet, I can drop 3.56ml into the tank, so often that’s an entire sample.
After filling piston pen drop 5 or so drops back in to bottle, turn the pen up and pull back the remaining ink. Your pen will be filled but there won’t be much excess ink to wipe off. Not only are you saving ink you are also reducing chances of getting any ink on your hands;
When flying with your pens keep nibs pointing up. That way air expanding due to pressure can’t push any ink out.