On 2/5/20 8:51 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:49:07 -0500, J-J wrote:

On 1/27/20 5:07 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:

The following formula is recommended :

Aniline colour . . 10 gm. Glycerine 125 cc

Sugar . . 10 gm. Water . . . . 250 cc

Heat the water and dissolve the sugar in it ; add the glycerine in
small quantities
and stir the mixture thoroughly until each added portion is dissolved.
Beat up the
aniline colour in a small quantity of the mixture and stir into the
remainder of the
mixture. The ink is ready for use when cool. Various dyes can be used,
giving
different coloured inks.

This normal type of recording ink can be used at ambient temperatures
down to about 5° F. in the normal triangular pen, or to about €”30° F.
in a pen of the crow-quill or tit-quill type, A special ink having
the composition, water 50 cc , ethylene glycol 50 cc , methyl violet 2
cc , can be used at temperatures down to about -50' F. with the
triangular pen or -75 °F. w ith the crow-quill or til-quill pens . .

Wow, yours truly wasn't sure how he missed this until today (and found
it in a google search to boot), but THANKS! I intend on giving this
formula a try very soon.

JJ
I was kinda wondering why there was no response . . ..


I just stirred up a batch a little while ago. I was able to easily
source the water of course, glycerine, and sugar. I scaled everything
down to 1/10 of the recipe for now during testing. Only problem was the
dye as no one near me seems to have the powder, so I'm trying the RIT
liquid fabric dye for now. The result seems a lot thinner than the
Staples ink I had been using, but time will tell as the drum rotates and
I'll see what happens.