How Do You Restart A Dry Ball Point Pen?
If your favorite pen is dry and the ink is not flowing, try some of these tips before you give up. • Try this first. Scribble vigorously for a while on a piece of scratch paper. Sometimes, this is all it takes to coax a pen into writing again. • Run tip under hot water. If dried up ink is clogging the tip, this could get things flowing again. Some ink is alcohol-based, so you might also try dipping the tip in a drop of alcohol or hair spray. • Lightly press pen on something (paper is best) and wait for it to start writing. • Tap the pen tip against a desk, or other hard surface. Put paper underneath so that you don’t get ink all over. The ink may start to flow. • Warm up the pen. Leave it in a sunny windowsill for awhile or hold it under warm water. • Write on an eraser or other rubber surface. This may get the ball of the pen to move freely. • Shake the pen. Hold the back end of the pen, opposite the tip, and shake the pen like a thermometer. Sometimes air bubbles get into the ink cyl
