Introduction
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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Unfortunately this did not help for me.
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
