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Ball-Point Pens
Typical mug on a desk, dozens of pens which often enough don't work.
Here they are laid out, over three dozen of them.
I haven't shown you the piece of paper with scribbles where we try to find a pen that works. When we find it, we use it, but replace all the non-working pens into the mug. You never know, some of them might work next time ...
I sorted the pens into categories. I was particularly interested in re-using the small springs from the spring-loaded pens.
I extracted the thin plastic ink-tubes and loaded them into a jam-jar part-filled with gasoline, shook it, and left it for a week.
The gasoline will loosen the ink.
A thin piece of (plastic-coated) wire serves as an interior cleaner.
Here you can see it is partway down a tube, dislodging the remainder of the ink from the far end.
Some ink/gasoline adheres to the wire. You can rub this off under a hot tap.
I hold each tube for a second or two under a hot tap to flush out any loose liquid.
My goal in cleaning out ink is to avoid huge splodges of goop in what follows.
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