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Post by rrp23 on Jan 23, 2018 23:30:27 GMT
That dont write smoothly? It doesn't appear to be dried out.
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Post by joblackford on Jan 24, 2018 1:03:22 GMT
Sorry, I don't know how to fix them, if there's a way.
But I do remember a Chinese penpal telling me a long (long) time ago that if you drop certain kinds of pens (I think she said specifically Japanese or Chinese pens) they can might not write smoothly any more. I guess maybe they got bubbles in the ink...? Seems ridiculous to me.
I hope someone has a suggestion to help.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 24, 2018 5:02:19 GMT
I’ve never gotten the ones that start to skip to work again over 20+ years of using them. I got to the point where I threw almost all of mine away and vowed never to buy any of them ever again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 5:21:08 GMT
I don't have good luck with them.
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Post by papersilly on Jan 24, 2018 5:55:31 GMT
No. Just throw them away.
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Post by riversong1963 on Jan 24, 2018 12:58:51 GMT
I've had some success with pulling off the tip and cleaning it out with a toothpick or paper piercer. It has worked for me about 75% of the time, and I've saved quite a few pens.
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Post by ashwyness on Jan 24, 2018 13:58:32 GMT
It is funny that this has come up. Last weekend, I was cleaning out my room/stash and came across some OLD gelly roll pens. Most of them did not work, so I took a heating pad, and put them on it for about a half hour, then stored them vertically, and I got many of them to start working again. Not all of them, but a few were salvaged. Worth a try.
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Post by GiantsFan on Jan 24, 2018 17:12:14 GMT
I've got the ink flowing again by briefly holding a flame to the roller part (metal tip only) of the pen then scribbling to clear the roller. If that doesn't work then I'd toss it.
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Post by anniefb on Jan 24, 2018 17:22:15 GMT
I usually don't bother because nothing I've done seems to work. But some of these ideas sound they'd be worth a go.
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