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Why do these ball pens dry up?

Numerous ball pens all over the place, pack of new ones too, in the draw, but all dry!

I am tired of throwing pens away! Does anyone know how to make the ink flow again so we can use them?

so many pens all over the place but none to write with in an emergency! Huh?! What a nuisance?!

Update:

these are pens with plenty ink in them, and a packet of pens still new, there must be some way to get them to write again, surely.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    With a match - just heat the writing end. Not too much or you melt the thing and it bends out of shape.

  • 1 decade ago

    Go buy a fountain pen and some decent writing paper. That's what I did after 15 years of throwing useless biros against the wall.

    Biros are really cheap and nasty things, and poor in environmental terms. My fountain pen is 12 years old, and the glass bottles of ink are recyclable...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They run out of ink

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