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Ok, scoring. I just made Snake in a box and I used the blunt edge of an X-acto knife to score it. As you can see I have lots of white lines. I'd heard that some people use a pen with no ink in it to score, so I thought I'd try that.

I took the ink out of the pen (a ball-point), and rinsed the end out with water; that didn't get rid of the ink left in it. So I tried soaking it in Turpentine; again, nothing. I've now tried degreaser, brake cleaner, petrol and laminate stripper, which is the most powerful solvent at my disposal. None of these worked, the pen still writes.

So I ask you /po/, what have you used to de-ink your pens for scoring?
>> Anonymous
Why don't you just write on something with the pen until the ink that's left over runs out?
>> Anonymous
>>101594
I've been doing that, and the way it's going at the moment it looks like I'm going to be here for several hundreds of years. Seriously, this pen is amazing.
>> Anonymous
>>101597
Holy shit it's super pen! Usually only takes me about five minutes, bad luck for you man.
>> Anonymous
>>101597

I've had some do that, yeah. Sometimes it helps to take the ink tube out and try to blow it out just to get it to flow more as you write. The random superpens are irritating.
>> Anonymous
Just use normal paper for smaller jobs like Snake in a box, no need to score, white edge lines are minimum and its cheaper overall. Since the job is small it wont matter that the paper is weaker it should support itself.
>> Anonymous
Just use an xacto and press lightly. I don't understand all this pen bullshit.
>> Anonymous
I use a dull pocket knife to score, works great. I cant imagine using a ballpoint, isnt it too thick of a line for the smaller details?
>> Anonymous
personally i just use my x-acto adn aply light pressure, its so much easier to fold and for me a ball point would be much to large for most pieces o_o i know a lot of people dont like having lines on their finished models and i can understand that, but for me using 110lb card stock (want to swtich to 65lb when i run out of 110 why waste!) i dont see how the pen would score it enought
>> Anonymous
OR use lousier pens. btw, what is the brand of mentioned superpen?
>> Anonymous
orange box?

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>> gizmogal !MmLOyiCYJs
or just use a mechanical pencil with no lead and a fine tip...
>> Anonymous
I use my pointy tweezers to score lines, it works pretty well. I just hold the tweezers closed like they were a pen.
>> Anonymous
>>101763
Staedtler. I also tried it with a BIC pen and I'm having the exact same problem. I'm thinking maybe that all the solvents did was loosen the ink that was already in there or something.

Also, the laminate stripper must have done something to the plastic in the Staedtler pen, because it's all soft and bendy now.
>> Anonymous
I know a lot about pens.

If you are using a simple stick ballpoint pen, you are best off taking the tip (whether in be metal, soft plastic) so you have two pieces of the inktube. The two pieces are the tip, and the actual ink in the tube. this is sorta hard to take out if you dont know how, but you can probably do it using your brains. (brute force won't help)

the pen will be very leaky. rinse the tip.

rinse one end of the inktube (the end that is more inky)

put the tip back on the inktube, on the opposite side.

the inktube should now be complete with the tip, ready to be placed back in the pen
>> Anonymous
>>101896
if you want a more simpler but less reliable way...figure it out yourself. But i'll teach some basic mechanics.

The ink is staying in because of a jelly in the back of the ink, preventing it from coming out the other side of the tube.

use a paperclip or something thin, and poke the jelly around, and you can also take some ink out. this is very messy. this screws up the flow of the ink.

I would also like to revise my comment on brute force. (getting the tip off the tube) It does help if you are pulling it the right way.

finally, smash the tip. :p

smash as in, not break, but to damage the tip. I have had many pens fail to write because of damaged tips.