Flushing German style: how am I doing?

[PenguinLust]

I've got this cyan BCI-6 cartridge I've been trying to flush, and I'm not sure how good a job I'm doing. The water that comes out the syringe hole, the top vent, and the outlet doesn't look very cyan anymore. However, there are still coloured spots on the sponge, the ball at the top of the ink reservoir seems to have a stain on it, and look at how cyan the sponge at the outlet is. Do I have to do anymore flushing, because it doesn't seem like anymore ink wants to leave.

 

[emerald]

A tip of the hat to you, PenguinLust. It's not easy flushing a cartride that clean without opening the factory refill hole. To do it through the hole drilled for the German method takes extra effort. The sponge appears to be as clean as one flushed through the factory refill hole. To dry it out, I refer you to ghwellsjr's method. You might share with us the techniques and tools you used to do this. Don't worry about the stain on the outlet filter screen. If it passes water, it'll pass ink.

 

[martin0reg]

to me it looks white enough, the problem is not to get it pure white but to have a good ink flow after refilling.
http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4835&p=4
To flush I would let water from the tap/faucet just trickle on the outlet, it takes ca. 30minutes for the ink to flow out of the vent hole

 

[PenguinLust]

Umm... ok, thanks. So it's clean enough. I don't think there's a lot to tell you about my technique: this was only supposed to be a practise run on a practise cartridge, so if you want to do what I did, forget everything you know, say "stupid is as stupid does, and that's all I have to say about that" and go to it.

Perhaps one thing I could point out is that most of the ink was flushed when I only had a needle that was too short to make it into the reservoir. For this reason, initially, I injected the water directly into the sponge. So, FWIW, you might try that for the first phase of the flushing, and then do the rest of the work with the needle in the reservoir.

Oh, and one other thing I should point out: I performed all this while single. I think when I'm married I should probably take precautions to make sure that all the ink ends up in only one place, which would be the drain.