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    Points:5

    Nowadays ink-dropper is available at pharmacy shop!

    Some members of ISC may be aware that I am an old-fashioned man and interested in various things/products of the bygone era. I am fascinated by fountain pens and fountain pen inks. Every month, I spend a fairly good amount on fountain pens and inks (much to the chagrin of my wife).

    This month, I had been searching for tanker-type fountain pens (remember how the fountain pen ink used to work in earlier days). After lots and lots of hard work and searching (both online and offline), I somehow managed to get a fountain pen of the Camlin company where I can use all three types of ink mechanisms (cartridge, converter and tanker).

    After purchasing the fountain pen, I took out the cartridge and converter to use the tanker of the pen for filling ink. I requested the shopkeeper to give me an ink dropper to enable me to fill the ink in the tanker of the pen. But the shopkeeper expressed his inability.

    Again my desperate search started. I moved from one stationery shop to another to purchase an ink dropper but failed. But at long last, an old gentleman purchasing something from a stationery shop advised me to check from a pharmacy shop.

    I was totally bewildered and asked for an ink dropper from the nearby pharmacy shop. And I got the dropper at a cost of Rs. 20/-. Its shape is not like the ink dropper of the olden days. Rather it is totally different.

    Now, I am delighted that both the ink dropper and the tanker mechanism of the new pen are working fine. Today I am using this new pen with a tanker for storing ink.

    But I am still perplexed that nowadays we get ink droppers not in a stationery shop, but in a pharmacy shop!
  • #769927

    Points:1
    My newly-purchased ink-dropper and fountain pen:
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

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  • #769928

      

    Points:4 (₹ 3)
    Partha,

    It has been purchased from a pharmacy. So it is not actually a dropper for putting ink in a pen. It will more likely be the dropper that you are given for ear drops. When purchasing ear drops, there will be one in a sealed packet within the box, and pharmacies sometimes have a separate extra stock of these.

    Did the one you bought come in a sealed packet or it was by itself, picked up from a drawer or from the space below the glass counter where you can generally see things like ear buds, small soaps, Vicks, and other general items that are not medicines?
    When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust! ~ John C. Maxwell

  • #769929

      

    Points:2
    Partha,

    I was typing my response when you put the attached images in the interim. From what I can see, that is not an ink dropper. I think you are smart enough that you would realize that for yourself!
    When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust! ~ John C. Maxwell

  • #769930

    Points:1
    I did understand that this is not an ink-dropper, but the pharmacy-shop owner promptly gave it to me as soon as I asked for an ink-dropper. And it is functioning excellently.

    Not only that, I also use injection syringes to insert my favourite ink in cartridges/converters.
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

  • #769931

      

    Points:2
    So basically you were not at all, as you claimed, perplexed about getting a so-called ink-dropper in a pharmacy shop, but in complete self-awareness of what exactly you got there. It was just a typical over-dramatic statement, not to mention the entire narrative in the same vein. More of an amusement piece for all and sundry I would say!
    When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust! ~ John C. Maxwell

  • #769932

    Points:3
    Ink itself is not available in many shops. Like the author, I am also a fountain pen lover. I have a set of two pens in which one is fountain pen and the other one is ball pen. I keep that set very safely so that my granddaughters will never eye on that. In the fountain pen I am having is a tanker type pen only. I have an old ink pillar with me but recently it got damaged. But I have a ear drops dropper system in our house. I cleaned it and kept it so that I can use the same for ink filling.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #769941

    Points:4
    This is a pharmacy dropper used to give medicine to the kids by counting the drops or any other such purpose but it will very well act as an ink dropper also. Some eye drops or children medicine drops in bottles are having these droppers inbuilt in them and one can have that in the house if that old bottle is still lying in junk in the house somewhere.
    Plastic ink droppers are available in some small stationery shops but not in big ones especially in big cities. That item is almost at the boundary of obsolescence.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #769942

    Points:5

    I enjoyed this thread for its subtle satire and bare truth.
    I have to admit that sometimes and in certain matters, "I am an old-fashioned man" too.
    Hence I also have to face some anachronic situations and the possible practical remedy is to improvise. I had to do various improvisation at various times.

    Of course, I have discontinued using ink pen long back after spoiling a couple of my shirts and banians due to ink leakage.( Similar issue I faced with ball pens also early in summer season). cold and wet seasons. winter and humid seasons. These nasal drops have droppers provided in the pack. After the medicine is exhausted I keep the droppers and use them in improvised need situations, like oil dropper for Dosa and mild fry items; as dropper for 'chai masala' concentrate(liquid masala) while making tea. I also use it for e regulated addition of food essence, food colour etc.

    My wife keeps a box full of such items, retained from some used and exhausted items which at the first look may appear as junk and waste box'.' Whenever I am in difficulty finding spare parts, fasteners, holders, connectors, sealants, extensions and containers or any such imaginable and unexpected situations needing immediate fix, my trusted destination is that "antique treasure box'.

  • #769945

    Points:1
    Umesh Sir has understood the exact issue. He has aptly said: "Plastic ink droppers are available in some small stationery shops but not in big ones especially in big cities."

    Venkiteswaran Sir has given me a very good idea when he mentioned: "My wife keeps a box full of such items, retained from some used and exhausted items which at the first look may appear as junk and waste box."
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

  • #769946

    Points:1
    After reading the comments of Vandana Madam, I resumed my online search for ink-droppers.

    Ink-droppers are simply not available.

    The nearest substitute available is PILOT Super Color Permanent Marker Refill Ink, Blue Ink, 1 Ounce Bottle with Dropper at a cost of Rs. 1833/- .
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali


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