{"id":4039,"date":"2013-07-03T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:09:56","slug":"how-to-revive-dried-out-pens-5-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/how-to-revive-dried-out-pens-5-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"How to revive dried out pens:  5 Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4046\" src=\"\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/how-to-revive-dried-out-pens.jpg\" alt=\"how-to-revive-dried-out-pens\" width=\"615\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/how-to-revive-dried-out-pens.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/how-to-revive-dried-out-pens-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who hasn&#8217;t reached for a pen only to find that it&#8217;s all dried out and doesn&#8217;t work anymore. Did you know most pens can draw a line nearly two miles long before running out of ink? Yeah, we&#8217;ve never gotten nearly that amount of use from a pen before it dried out either. Luckily, you can revive dried out pens. Easily. So before you toss your scratchy pen, try our <strong>5 tips on how to revive dried out pens<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>5 ways to revive dried out pens<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>Soak:<\/strong>\u00a0dissolve dried ink on the nib by soaking your pens in a cup of <strong>hot water<\/strong> or <strong>rubbing alcohol<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Forced air:<\/strong> remove the ink cartridge and blow on on the clean end to force ink to the nib.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scraping method:<\/strong>\u00a0remove the dried ink clogging up the nib by rubbing your pen on\u00a0the <strong>bottom of your shoe,\u00a0a damp cloth or an\u00a0emery board<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fire<\/strong>: Hold your pen tip to a lighter flame for a few seconds to melt dried off a ballpoint.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rod it out:<\/strong> use a straightened out paper clip and a drop of nail polish remover to clear out the dried ink clogging up the ink cartridge.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you try all these tips and your favorite pen is still well and truly dead, you may be able to just replace the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/pen-refills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> ink cartridge<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Know another way to revive dried out pens? Share your tips in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Recording Thoughts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Restart-a-Dry-Ball-Point-Pen\">Wikihow<\/a>, Lifehacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know most pens can draw a line nearly two miles long before running out of ink? Yeah, we&#8217;ve never gotten nearly that amount of use from a pen before it dried out either. Luckily, you can revive dried out pens. Easily. So before you toss your scratchy pen, try our 5 tips on how to revive dried out pens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-helpful-hints"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}