How to store your Paint Pens

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How should you store your paint Pens? This is something you are going to get many different opinions on. Some Paint Pen companies say upright some say horizontal. We store our paint Pens horizontal (sideways) WHY?

It was logic that the decision was made, and here are a few of the reasons we stacked up to decide on the paint pens being stored horizontal. You may like pen bags to store your pens – AVAILABLE HERE
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Pigment is heavier than the binder. When the pen is left unused over time pigment sinks to the bottom of the pen barrel, the metal ball bearing with it. Acrylic paint seperates as shown in a picture below.
When left upright the pigment and ball sit in the small base area of the pen, if it gets stuck, it is harder to get the ball and pigment fully mixed back in – Sometimes a whack on a table top is needed to budge it and extra shaking. If the pens are stored sideways the pigment still settles but across the larger area across the pen. The greater area gives more space for the pigment and ball to move and much easier when you have to re-combine the mixture.

We know that some brands are fine nib/tip side up for short bursts of time and never become an issue when used regularly. But look at the OVERALL scenario where we have some readers that do not use them all the time. Horizontal storage is just a step that covers the bigger scenario of helping Rock Painters. And personally the admin team here have ALL the paint pens across different brands so just go with horizontal for all – less to think about and troubleshoot later.