Get your old pens working again- tip

[Sekt]

This isn't earth shattering tattoo info or anything, just thought it might be helpful. Say you used a nice new pen on someone, and now it doesn't work? Or you have an old pen that seems dried up? This was bugging me so I got a lighter, and put the tip of the pen in the flame for two seconds, then immediately scribble amap to get ink flowing.
Yet to see this fail =]

[Eturnus]

Heat expands the metal tips. Ink gets thinner.

[asA]

I just use pens once... And throw it away. Problem solved.

[asA]

Plus the pen prolly stops working cause there is bits of people's skin and oil and nasty bits all up in it.

[chris-in-cali]

is that basically what those "specialty tattoo skin pens" are?./...just regular ball points but with thinner ink?