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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.
For people thinking about this 100% do not do this in the original bottle. Some inks have known to react with each other to form sludge and such. Non-absorbant surface is definitely the way to go.
I’ve been told De Atramentis Document Ink was designed to be safely mixed with each other. It might be something you would be interested in if you like mixing ink!