MONTEVERDE USA® Flush 8 fl. oz. Bottle Fountain Pen Cleaner

Works well as a fountain pen flush, wish it was less expensive, but it does the job.

Today I did something, with all the daily chores I have, I never thought I’d do or tell anyone I did. Today, I cleaned 4 fountain pens. A defective Wordsworth &Black inked with W&B cartridge blue, a replacement W&B inked with W&B cartridge Black, a Pilot MR Animal Lizard inked with the standard bladder converter with Diamond Writer’s Blood and a Pilot MR Animal Tiger inked with a Pilot Con-40 converter with Waterman Intense Black. I let a W&B converter sit over a week with Waterman IB and dry totally out. It was gummed up. I drew clean water in each pen and expelled it several times. I then drew in the Monteverde pen flush and gave it a little shake. The Pilot Con-40 converter spit drops of inked ink flush all over my fingers. Having ink on your fingers is kind of like wearing fancy shoes, yep I have ink on my hands from a fountain pen. The first pen to expel clean water after flushing the ink flush out with clean water was the Pilot bladder with the Writer’s Blood in it. Next, the Pilot Com-40 with the Waterman ink. Next was the replacement W&B with the W&B black and last was the W&B with W&B Blue. Now all the pens are drying. The nibs of each pen looked extra shiny like the car does when it comes out of the car wash. No trace of ink in any of the converters with windows even the one with caked on ill treated ink. I had to pour enough flush in the shot glass to be able to draw the fluid into the pens and at the price for the bottle that was about $3 worth of fluid. That’s a bummer. But as far as I can tell, this pen flush works terrific and I can’t wait to dirty up my pens and the new pens I have ok order. Way to go Monteverde.

I was struggling with home made solutions and bought this and it literally took a few minutes. Great product

Used occasionally it helps to make my fountain pens run better. Even when I think they’re completely clean running this through them shows me that they’re not. As well as excellent cleaning it has strong lubricant properties.

If you're a fountain pen and dip pen fan & user, you need to make sure you have this in your box to keep your writing tools and nibs clean & free-flowing.

I thought my fountain pen was clean but I thought I would try this. I left the nib & feed soak for 5 minutes and wow did it dissolve a lot of dried ink. Recommend this product.

I have a lot of fountain pens, so I usually put cartridges in all of them and then rotate which one I use. It seems like the more expensive the pen, the faster the nib dries up. My Amazon Basic fountain pen writes after a month of being stored upright. So do my Retro 51s. The only high end pen that seems to always write is my Waterman Carene. My Mont Blancs l, my other waterman’s, and my sterling silver Parkers won’t write if they’ve sat for more than several days. I poured a little of this in an old, clean coffee mug (enough to completely immerse the nib assemblies, dropped in one nib assembly for about 15-20 seconds, blotted it dry, rinsed with distilled water, and voila….they write like they did when new.The picture is scribbles from 4 pens (Mont Blanc, Waterman, and 2 Parkers) - just uncapped and started doodling - on a less than ideal 3x5 note. 3 medium nibs and a fine and no skipping, no missed lines, just ink to paper. Tomorrow, I’ll clean more, including some Monteverdes.I couldn’t be more satisfied with the results.

I made the mistake of using a pink ink from a big name brand that wasn't just staining the inside of my demonstrator, it came out with every rinse no matter how often I cycled the pen and it altered the color of inks I put in after, even the black ones! Put this in, did a good shake to make sure it got well up in the piston system, let it sit for a few minutes and emptied the pen. Rinsed and already the water was coming out cleaner than it had in multiple ink changes. Another dose, another shake, another rinse and my demonstrator was clear again!!! No more evil pink lingering to haunt me! Definitely recommend.