Reviving dried up Mark B Gone markers

[mrsfawlty]

I have been using Mark B Gone water erasable markers on and off for many years, and I'm finding that they dry out very fast these days - water doesn't really help to revive them, and I'm at a loss. Some are on their last legs as I take them out of the packaging - does anyone have a suggestion to keep them going?

[Helen W.]

I have been using Mark B Gone water erasable markers on and off for many years, and I'm finding that they dry out very fast these days - water doesn't really help to revive them, and I'm at a loss. Some are on their last legs as I take them out of the packaging - does anyone have a suggestion to keep them going?

mrsfawlty, I figure you have already tried storing them upside down with the nib (writing end) at the bottom. All tips say to do
that with paint and permanent and water soluble markers. The fact that they hang in the stores with the nib at the top
makes it seem it would dry out. If you have one you want to experiment with, try pulling the nib out with needle nose pliers
and pour a little water in the pen part. then put the nib back in with the pliers and put a little hot, hot water in a small container
and set the nib end in it for a hour. I saw a you tube where they did that with a Sharpie marker and poured a little rubbing alcohol in the pen part and put the nib in and it worked like new. HelenW