Wacom pen wet

The top end- with the nib- was drizzled in water as I was washing my hands and stupidly held the pen as I did so, and now the pen does not work. After letting it dry overnight, it still does not work- however, the eraser end works just fine. I've re installed the wacom program and checked as much websites for help but no avail. (The touchpad works fine as well)

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Edward Easley

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Posted on Nov 28, 2008

SOURCE: New pen and airbrush. How do you change the nibs?

Hello there. You just have to pull it out. It may require some tweezers or some such device, but that's how it been for a very long time. You must grab the nib by the nib.

Anonymous

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Posted on Feb 24, 2009

SOURCE: Wacom pen not working - on the pen side

check the battery of the pen

FlorisHJ

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Posted on Apr 05, 2009

SOURCE: Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen isnt working correct

I think you dropped the pen on its tip and broke the little ferrite sensing core. You can try to repair it by gluing the core back together - it worked for me. For detailed instructions on how to do it, go here: http://wishidknownthat.blogspot.com/2009/04/fixing-wacom-bamboo-pen.html or you can try to swap the core for the eraser and the tip (more involved - you would need to be very good with a soldering iron to attempt this). Either way - it's unfortunate that the pen is so fragile and that the user manual doesn't really warn you of this.
Good luck!

Anonymous

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Posted on Aug 24, 2009

SOURCE: I dropped my wacom tablet pen and now only the eraser is working!

...and it landed right on the tip, breaking the sensor, which could probably be tracked down and replaced.

... it landed on its side and has a mechanical malfunction which can be fixed by opening it and using careful observation and Yankee Engineering!

...or saving time, effort, and probably money, getting ahold of Wacom about a new one (BUT where's the FUN in THAT?)

GL!

Anonymous

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Posted on Dec 20, 2009

SOURCE: I have a wacom tablet, and my pen refuses to work.

I had the same problem and this is what I did
1) reinstalled the latest drivers from wacom.com
2) removed the tip (I pulled it out with tweezers) and put it back several times
3)went to the pen/tablet settings and restored everthing to defaults

Don't know which one did the trick, but my pen works again. Good luck.

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