It's been a year since I starting using an air-tight Plano as a Pen Dungeon/Pen-itentiary/Stasis Chamber of sorts where I put pens that didn't seal well.
Sadly, every pen in there is dry, so it didn't help as well as I'd hoped. One pen still wrote (Pilot Penmanship) but its non-jailed counterpart still wrote on its same fill, too.
I hadn't checked on them in quite some time as part of the experiment, I think it may have been Nov/Dec or so.
Ref: Original Pen Dungeon Post
Interestingly, every pen in there that was filled with Diamine ink had some nib creep, some gunky, some crystalized. None of the pens with Pilot Iroshizuku ink had creep. I may have to put them under the microscope before I eventually clean them.
I suspect I'll find similar from my other air tight case that was just used as storage and happened to have some filled pens in it (mostly from Colorvent). I know some of those still write, just not sure how many.
Finished checking the other case and of the inked pens in there, 14 were dry and 6 still wrote OK (a couple hard started). The ones that still were OK were three Kakunos and three Sharks (about half of each type that were in there). Nearly all of those were pens I used for Colorvent and occasionally pulled out since then for a bit here and there.
Of course one of them that survived had that ugly Sunbeam ink that just won't seem to die, but it did darken. I had to look at it, so now so do you.
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