Dry-Erase Marker has Dried Out. Can it be fixed?

Question

I left my dry-erase marker out for about a few hours, and it has seemed to dry out. I tried standing it on its head for a day and writing with it then and that didn't work, and then i tried soaking it in water for another day or so, but nothing worked. When i write with it, i notice that a clear substance is left on the board like a normal dry-erase marker would do, but it has no color, so thus impossible to see if not looking really really close. This marker is brand new so i was just wondering if there was any way to save the marker without wasting it by throwing it away. thanks.

Answer 1

The pigments in the marker have dried up, like they dry when you write on the board.. if you take the "dust" from the marker and rub it on the board after it has dried you will notice that it doesn't make any marks, even if you get the "dust" wet it doesn't mark. Once the pigment dries, it is done. the residue is the water you added and alcohol from the marker. You'll just have to get a new one unfortunately :(

Answer 2

Sorry I don't have a remedy to fix your dry-erase marker or I would share it with you and fix my new three-pack of Expo low odor black dry-erase markers.

Used the first one for maybe two weeks and it went dry. Thought it was my fault. Second marker lasted a little longer, but also went dry. I do know it was not my fault this time. Also the caps on the Expo brand do not click tightly when closed after use. The third lasted all of one week. It is my gut feeling that it's the content in the tube. Perhaps 5-drops of fluid instead of 25-drops of fluid, as an example. Kind of like how a manufacturer of a product reduces the volume but not the package size. It's sneaky and deceitful. Maybe bordering on stealing. That's where this world is going. Just get the money and give CEO'S their bonuses. If they had pride in their company and their products those products would last longer than expected by customers, not infuriate them (I don't want to run to Target two or three times a year when one package of three dry erase markers should last me for a year). CEO'S should look for legitimate ways of increasing sales and profits. Reducing volumes, as I suspect, is never legitimate. Sorry for the rant. I'm 65-years old and I've seen this scenario play out a hundred times before.

P.S. Consumers should not have to figure out ways to make a product do or last as it should have right form the manufacturer.

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Dry-Erase Marker has Dried Out. Can it be fixed?

I left my dry-erase marker out for about a few hours, and it has seemed to dry out. I tried standing it on its head for a day and writing with it then and that didn't work, and then i tried soaking it in water for another day or so, but nothing worked. When i write with it, i notice that a clear...

Answer 4

trace over with dry erase marker, let dry for an hour, erase again

Answer 5

Nope. Once they're dead they're dead. Unfortunately it doesn't take much to KO them either. The good ones last longer than the cheap ones though. I've got my students trained that if they are replacing the cap on one of my dry erase markers they have to hear it "click", or else they haven't got the cap on tight enough. I hate it when they mangle the tips by pressing too hard too!