Dried out erasers

 Anyone know of a way to return dried out erasers to service? I have Pink
Pearls, art gums, and other erasers that smear instead of erase. Pencil
erasers do the same thing. Any way to recover them or do I need to replace
them. (I suppose.)

(Being nearly perfect, evidently I don't make enough mistakes and don't use
them up before they dry out as I should. <g>)

TIA

Ken


--
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

 
Ken, I am an artist and find that there is no hope for them once they dry
out.   If you use them once they are dried out you can even ruin a drawing,
or whatever you are doing, because the smudge is very hard to get rid of
once it happens.

The only ones I know of that do not dry out are the tiny erasers that go in
my mechanical accounting pencil.  They sell them in tiny tubes of 3.    I
have some that are ten years old and still as good as new.

--

Evelyn

"Even as a mother protects with her life her only child, So with a boundless
heart let one cherish all living beings." --Sutta Nipata 1.8

 KenK wrote:

Replace them with vinyl erasers (commonly found on mechanical drafting
pencils). They seem to last forever without drying out. I have some that
hardly see any use and they are as good as new.

 George wrote:

And I assume everyone knows that in a pinch you can wrap a rubber band
around a pencil (or your finger) and use that as an eraser.

--
Evelyn C. Leeper
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

 

replace

One good vinyl eraser will apparently last a lifetime.  I have one that's
extensible - it's a plastic case about the width and length of a BIC pen,
and the eraser is a cylinder of vinyl whatever inside, about the diameter of
the eraser at the end of a pencil.  There's a slider bar on the side that
let's you slide more eraser out the end as you use it up.  I've had the
thing 20 years or more, it's way less than a third used up, and it erases as
well as it did when it was brand new.