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== Capsule Technologies in Fountain Pens ==


'''Myke:''' it Fibber asks aside from Platinum's capsule tech are there other capsule technologies for fountain pens I noticed that the Bic grip had an inner cap to seal the rollerball vents for the outer cap

'''Brad:''' I don't know of anything offhand outside of anyone trying to mimic Platinum's technology right other companies have put these little kind of cup and seal mechanisms in there I can't think of another one off the top of my head but I've definitely used pens to where they will do it not as nice as Platinum has done it and try to have this insert when you put the pin into the cap tightens against the seal of the cap to the barrel to help seal off the nib from airflow I don't know that any of them are special enough or interesting enough that beat what Platinum's done I'd be interested to know what other people think at one point probably two years ago Myke I don't know if you recall this there was a Kickstarter where you could have liquid humidity in the cap created do you remember this conversation there was a cap with actual liquid in there which like I understand the idea but I don't understand the desire for people to want it I don't understand the marketability for that product right is like I get what you're saying that this might technically work I also do not want this anywhere near my fountain pen nip right I just do not want this so that was interesting I don't think it was necessarily useful or compelling decision making so outside of that just from like a cap seal technology Platinum obviously clearly does it very very well they stand they put that at the forefront of a lot of their marketing for good reason and I can't think of anyone else who hasn't who has done anything interesting and if they have they've done it kind of as an afterthought like yeah this might work like if you jam this cap thing in there and you seal it off and like that's gonna be good but they're not gonna they're not gonna lead their marketing with this kind of like afterthought Platinum Copycat deal that is probably the only thing I've seen before

'''Myke:''' and I guess you can't go too heavy on it because then you're clearly copying Platinums which I'm sure are patented technology

'''Brad:''' yeah so the the key that what Platinum has solved that the other implementations of this that I've seen haven't is the small size of it it does not get in the way at all it's barely noticeable and the other ones have that I've seen are very kind of clunky type of type of mechanisms in the cap that look like outliers where Platinum Platinum is completely built in almost seamlessly

'''Myke:''' yeah it's got the little spring in it I can see on my 3776 it's not I mean

'''Brad:''' people will argue that that's like visually poor right with the translucent pin in the spring in the top and like fair fair enough but no one else is doing that as well as they're doing

'''Myke:''' perspective the Platinum really do make a difference like they're good to go way more than my other pens are so it's a good technology and Chris asks have you ever figured out how to wipe a nib without smearing ink between the tines I love this question from Chris I think it's impossible you can't

'''Brad:''' do it yeah

'''Myke:''' just by the nature of how the technology works right like

'''Brad:''' yeah nor should you attempt to do it and I'm gonna tell Chris something that I think for most things is bad advice but for this one I think it's good advice and it's just to get over it you have to worry

'''Myke:''' about there being ink on the nib like if something's happened and it's like burped maybe you've got like a drop get that off there but you're just gonna smear the ink on the nib like there's no way around it like this is just how it lives

'''Brad:''' you know I think for life advice telling someone to get over anything is terrible advice I had to learn to get over having ink on my tines and just living with it and not and stop making it worse by using a paper towel or using a microfiber cloth or trying to wash it because it's even if you do the most amazing job give it five minutes of usage or cap the pen again it's coming back

'''Myke:''' you use a paper towel and then you get some fibers in the nib and then you're dealing with a whole lover it's not worth it aggravation it's just

'''Brad:''' not worth it yep so that's one of the things I learned a few things back when I was a new fountain pen user I had to get over that was number one is why is there ink here you know whether it was on the tines or with a translucent barrel pen and you put an ink cartridge in and you see it kind of go through the feed system is like why is all this ink inside my pen well it's supposed to be there and then also getting ink on my fingers like all of those things I had to get over and realize that that is part of the experience and there is no way to fix like getting the ink off off the nib or between the tines without just making it worse or just you know pushing pushing the rock up the hill right it's it's it's coming back down like eventually so you just have to learn to love it and enjoy the beautiful color ink on the outside of your nib because sometimes it's going to be

'''Myke:''' there if you would like to send in a question for us to answer on a future show just send out a tweet with the hashtag rstpa use question mark rstpa in the relay fm members discord or you can send them via email to hello at pen addict dot com in two weeks time we're going to have an episode where we're going to aim to just do rstpa but because of some scheduling stuff we are recording that one next week we're recording two episodes so what i'm saying is if you have a question send it in before next week's episode so it could be included in the one in two weeks time

'''Brad:''' yeah we have five pages of stpa that i'm still looking at right now no i'm saying for me we're long overdue getting this done and we can do more if we're doing a dedicated

'''Myke:''' show the problem is and the reason a lot of these haven't been answered is a lot of the questions we have are really long really long so they kind of need a dedicated time but similarly though i would like some shorter questions to also go into the episode two so it's not just like me talking constantly for 20 minutes and then you giving a one minute answer and then 20 minutes and be talking again you know

'''Brad:''' what i mean yep so if you have questions for us you want to get them in before next

'''Myke:''' wednesday which i mean of course time is relative we are talking about the 25th of may in the year 2022 you can always send them in though we're always answer them but just absolutely you know just a relative thing because there will be people listening to this in i bet 2032 and they're gonna be like oh

'''Brad:''' no by next week or or hey it's been 10 years they just got to my question that's that's

'''Myke:''' more likely that is more likely if you want to find brad online in the meantime go to at dowdy is on twitter at pen addict on instagram you can find brad streaming live on twitch over at twitch.tv slash pen addict three times a week you can find brad at pen addict dot com and spoke design dot com i'm at imike i-m-y-k-e and you can find what stuff that i'm working on over at cortexbrand.com and you can also find this show as part of relay fm where we have a ton of wonderful shows for you to check out shows about creativity and technology and we say creativity technology obsessiveness is that a thing the three words technology no it's creativity curiosity and obsessiveness i think that's it so like you know on our challenge coin we have like three things and that it's not technology it's creativity curiosity obsessive if

'''Brad:''' you keep this up you're gonna be through the moon so my challenge coin

'''Myke:''' kate's on the other desk that's the problem so my challenge coins over there uh i'm trying to find relay fm is an independent podcast network for people who are creative curious and maybe even a little obsessive just like its hosts that's it creativity curiosity obsessive that's that's the three anyway uh thanks so much to canalea pen co and penchillay for the support of this episode thank you for listening go check out our members episode relay dot fm membership as a piece of follow-up uh lisa suggested that you were right and i was wrong until next time say goodbye brad goodbye brad you

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