How to revive or unclog a clogged gel pen

Quick diy in how to get an old clogged gel pen to work again. The inks started to flow after some simple steps.

[ejk]

I don’t know how many pens I’ve thrown out because I thought it was dried up, I am so glad you’ve shown us these tips and tricks to get it to work again. I love my gel pens and I am so grateful to know it can be done and how to do it.

[yazosoyo]

This has saved about 30 gel pens I was about to toss!

[knittysong]

I never knew you could remove the nibs of gel pens, just did that to clean out a few of my retractable ones. I realized that I could also use this trick if I wanted to change the tip size (put an 0.5 tip in a 0.7 pen, for example) if they are the same pen so the nibs fit. Thanks so much!

[seashells]

This is such a pet peeve of mine! My pens clearly have so much ink in it but fails to work, thank you so much for this 😂

[EC-fmvb]

I had one like the blue one. After cleaning the nib, I soaked the whole ink tube in warm water and then spun it (whole pen reassembled, ballpoint out) in a bag. Totally worked! Got all the ink to the ballpoint end and the air bubbles to the other side.

[mindachow]

I have the Staples brand that have not been used in several years. I cannot get the nibs out so I blew into the back end. And it worked. Thank you😊

[ShibaInumom]

What a helpful video!!! I am glad I found it before I threw out any more of my vintage marble gel pens! Thanks!!

[stefanielaris]

Bless! You just saved two of my oldest gel pens from a very sad throw out!

[shraddhasonawane]

I wasn't sure if this would work because my gel glitter pen stopped working in the middle of the artwork, but the first trick itself worked thank you so much for the help ❤️ Liked 🌟

[StudlyFudd]

Had expensive white gel pens that were practically brand new that would not work for anything. This worked! Ty ty ty!

[crise_not_found]

Man u r a real life saver, I need my green pen to work so bad, and all the shops are closed my 10:00PM, thankx to you I can continue making my notes

[Menoetia]

I tried _so_ many other 'hacks' to fix some pens that were giving me trouble and this is the ONLY one that actually worked! My only addition was using an eye dropper to put just the tiniest drop of water into the ink tube to rehydrate any thickened gel further up above the tip and help get the flow started again. Like magic, they all work again. ♥

[s.mariejensen]

This worked beautifully on my Pentel metallic gel pens - I'm so happy! Thank you for sharing this tip!

[luvurobert]

OMG, I wish I saw this yesterday, LOL. Now I'm going to go get all the gel pens I just tossed in the garbage in my craft room and try this!! Thank you for the great tips! =)

[abrown]

I love the extra "little hands." Real life and we keep it moving!

[sarahjessicatamon]

Thank you! I have tried this technique too to revive my clogged ballpoint pens and they all work now like new!

[brendawinner]

Thank you sooo much, this really does work, I just need to remember to put the writing tip back on the pen before I. Low on it, what a mess! LOL

[Yuunjae]

Omg thank you I have a white gel pen that had so much ink but never worked I tried everything but I saw your video cause I decided to look it up and it finally works again thank you 😭💕💕💕

[RoGard]

I found I did not even need to remove the silver tip, i just took ink tube out of cylinder and popped it into a small 1/4 container of water. The gel began to flow... and no messy dealing with metal tip.

[songkim]

instead of taking it out, i just stick it to water. it works. thx . you saved my gel pens