How to Restore a Dried Marking Pen

Written By: Alex Diaz-Kokaisl
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How to Restore a Dried Marking Pen

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

5

Time Required

1 hour

Introduction

Use this guide to restore a dried Marking Pen.

Note: You may have to repeat the procedure a few times depending on how dry your Marking Pen is.

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    • Fill a cup with enough isopropyl alcohol for the marking pen's tip to be fully submerged.

    • Place the pen into the cup with the tip side down.

    • Keep the pen as upright as possible to prevent the alcohol from going around the side of the pen nib.

    • Wait 15 minutes for the alcohol to soak into the pen tip.

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    • Remove the pen from the cup and wipe off any remaining alcohol from the pen tip.

    • On your FixMat, or another dry-erasable surface, draw the pen back and forth until you see alcohol leaving the pen nib.

    • Rotate the pen while drawing to ensure all sides of the pen nib are exercised.

    • If no alcohol is coming out of the pen nib, repeat the previous step.

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    • Fill a cup with enough water for the marking pen's tip to be fully submerged.

    • Place the pen into the cup with the tip side down.

    • Keep the pen as upright as possible to prevent the water from going around the side of the pen nib.

    • Wait 30 minutes for the water to soak into the pen tip.

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    • Remove the pen from the cup and wipe off any remaining water from the pen tip.

    • On your FixMat, or another dry-erasable surface, draw the pen back and forth until you see ink forming in solid lines.

    • Rotate the pen while drawing to ensure all sides of the pen tip are releasing ink.

    • If no ink is coming out of the pen nib, repeat the previous step.

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    • Congratulations! Your pen has been revived.

    Brand new pen turned up dry and this fix didn't work.

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Conclusion

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Author

Alex Diaz-Kokaisl

Member since: 16/01/22

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2 comments

Unfortunately this did not help for me.

Sven Alleblas -

This is such a great pen I wish I could find replacements.

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