How to Get an Extra Day's Use from a Pilot G-2 Pen

In a round about way I discovered this secret about Pilot G-2 pens because I am just such a hard core fan of the pens. Pilot G-2 pens are the greatest office pens ever invented. My love affair with Pilot G-2 pens started the moment I picked one up at the store and used it the very first time. It was a Pilot G-2 7. Now I prefer the Pilot G-2 10. But I would have to admit I'm addicted to the Pilot G-2 pens series. These pens make ink flow fluidly and beautifully. I honestly think the Pilot G-2 pen has improved my handwriting, which I do a lot of. It pained me to throw them away when the ink ran dry. It pained me even more some months ago when I discovered the Pilot G-2 pens series offered replacement ink cartridges.

My Pilot G-s pens run out of ink just like anybody else's and many times I would toss them right into the waste paper basket. Last week, another of my trusty Pilot G-2 pens, Model 10 ran out of ink. But for some reason I've yet to figure out when that happened, today became the first day I unscrewed one of my Pilot G-2 pens and checked the ink level. It was bone dry.

Since my Pilot G-2 pen was cashed already I saw no harm in pulling off the tip of the pen and removing it from the tubular plastic ink holder. I couldn't do it with my fingers alone, but when I wrapped a piece of paper over the tip first, the tip came right off. The tip was off the pen was apart and still there was nothing much to examine so I put the tip back into the inkwell tube, put the tube back into the plastic G-2 pen and screwed it back together.

I was about to toss it but, again for some unknown reason, I decided to try and write with it one last time even though I knew it was out of ink. And the ink flowed! And kept flowing! I got almost another day' writing out of my Pilot G-2 pen in that matter. Now I do it with all my Pilot G-2 pens when they initially run dry. Evidently, taking the tip off and putting it back in allows some remaining unaccessible ink in the pen into the tip. The trick can be repeated several times until it no longer works. So, when your Pilot G-2 pen initially starts to run dry take the following action to increase it's life span:

1. Using something disposable to keep from getting ink on your fingers, remove the tip from the ink tube.

2. Re-insert the tip half-way into the ink tube and , applying pressure, bend the tip back and forth against the ink tube.

3. After several seconds of this motion, re-insert the tip all the way back into the ink tube and re-assemble the pen.

4. Repeat as often as necessary until your certain all the ink has been used.

Using this trick I always get extra mileage out of a Pilot G-2 pen, often up to a full day of free writing. I've tried it with other brand pens but the trick doesn't work as well.