Repairing a Dried-Out Sharpie Marker

Introduction

A Sharpie can quickly dry out if you leave the cap off too long or use it often, making it weaker or completely unusable. Many Sharpies are thrown away because of this.

If your Sharpie has become dried-out and hard to use, you can use this guide to revive its ink and keep it out of the trash.

For this guide, it is recommended that you wear gloves so that you do not get ink or rubbing alcohol on yourself.

What you need

Step 1 Repairing a Dried-Out Sharpie Marker

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Remove the cap of the Sharpie.

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Step 2

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Use a pair of pliers to separate the black part from the grey part of the Sharpie.
This can be a little difficult, so you may need to use two pairs of pliers to pull them apart.

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Step 3

Pull out the ink pad.
Only touch the sides of the ink pad so that you do not get ink on yourself.

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Step 4

Draw the rubbing alcohol into the syringe.

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Step 5

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Drip the rubbing alcohol into the part of the ink pad that has a sponge with a hole in its center. Do this until the sponge seems saturated (or about 5 drops).

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