How to clean and fill rapidiograph and other technical pens

This video describes how to clean and fill technical pens such as Koh-I-noor's Rapidiograph and Rapidiosketch pens. The video talks about care and maintenance of the pens as well as ink choices and cleaning. Brought to you by Art Trader Magazine!

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• art
• how to
• technical pens
• cleaning filling
• rapidiograph
• rapidiosketch
• rapdiosketch
• inks
• tutorial
• drawing

[Arachnalicious]

@Metalcortaku Barely. The nib is the only technical part of the pen. You save about £3 or £4 buying just the nib. If I was in that situation, I would likely replace the whole thing. Particularly if the body was starting to show signs of wear and tear!

[Arachnalicious]

@5:20 They're not made by rapidograph, they're made by Rotring, Rapidograph being the model (just like car parts aren't made by Fiesta, but Ford, as an example). Just thought I'd clear that up.

[LottieSue]

Extremely helpful - thank you so much.

[AceCorona]

Should you store the pens point up or point down?

[unlucky13tattoo]

Rapidograph your adding a I... None the less thanks for the video.

[Xhyena]

Thank you so much! this video was super helpful!

[steves2kool]

You saved my life. I love you.

[MadTito]

Thank you! Your tutorial has helped me a lot!

[Metalcortaku]

@raspberrysparkle If you can't get them to work, you can just replace the nibs instead of the whole pen. It's still expensive, but far less so than buying a new pen altogether. Good luck with that.

[raspberrysparkle]

I have found these kind of pens. They havent been used for a long long long long time..will they still work?