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Use this guide to restore a dried out 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.
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Place the pen into the cup with the tip side down.
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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.
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On your FixMat, or another dry-erasable surface, draw the pen back and forth until you see alcohol leaving the pen nib.
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Fill a cup with enough water for the marking pen's tip to be fully submerged.
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Place the pen into the cup with the tip side down.
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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.
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On your FixMat, or another dry-erasable surface, draw the pen back and forth until you see ink forming in solid lines.
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Congratulations! Your pen has been revived.
Brand new pen turned up dry and this fix didn't work.
My pen has been iffy for quite a while—not dried out, but writing poorly. One round each of isopropyl and water have got it working beautifully.
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Unfortunately this did not help for me.
This is such a great pen I wish I could find replacements.
Apparently this pen that comes with the FixMat cannot be purchased, but is covered by the lifetime warranty. Send an email to support@ifixit.com to get replacement pens.
P.S. It's called the iFixit Marking Pen
Same for me, I repeated the guide 3 times, it didn't helped, I wish I could just open it and use a replacement, it's cheap to buy but I feel bad of throwing everything, and also the pen dries super fast I think I need to buy another one and just glue some metal plate to use with the I fix it magnetic mat
See my reply above
Echoing the consensus that this did not work for me - will be seeking warranty replacement.
Seems to have done the trick, thanks. It was a brand new pen and must've dried out on the shelf.
Further tip:
If you wrap a pair of tweezers around it, and lay the tweezers across the top of a glass, it's pretty easy to stand the pen perfectly upright, even if it's a short+wide glass.
Update: the fix only lasted a few days. It's dried out again. The cap may have been slightly loose though (friction fit, not clicked into position).
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I received a replacement from ifixit wich is great but I ended up having the dame problem and this guide also using comments suggestions didn't work, I'm not going to request more replacement because I think it's a product fault, and I don't want to generate more waste If they make a new oen and sell separate I'll be happy to purchase
This worked for a few seconds, but then It just stopped, and wouldn't work afterwards. I attempted this fix 3 more times, to no avail. Will attempt to get a replacement.
