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>>3218056
A wacom tablet is just a grid of wires under plastic, there's nothing to break or wear out. You need a new pen, or you need to clean the one you have - the nib rides in a copper coil, and if that gets gummed up, it will effect the sensitivity.

To take your pen apart, just slowly pull it apart. It should open up. DON'T pull out the eraser part, there are too tiny springs that are impossible to get back in right.
The culprit is in the coil, somehow. It's probably gummed up - clean it carefully with a toothpick or something, and look inside the cap and see if any skin/dust/whatever is in there. If that doesn't fix it, you'll need to replace it. It's almost impossible to break the tablet part of a wacom, short of ripping the USB cable out, or cracking it.

>>3117706
Not really. This is what a Wacom pen looks like, taken apart, I just took it right now - the coil at the tip is what the nib goes into. It's only held onto the board by the wires from the coil, so it flops loose. The nib sits snugly inside the coil, so if something breaks off, it'd be easy to clear it out. Taking the pen apart is easy - pop the side button off, pull the back end off, the board and the back end with the erase should pull out of the end you hold it with. WARNING: do not pull the board out of the eraser end - there are two small springs in there that are hard to get back in and lose if you do.
Any rigid or semi-rigid material will work as a nib. I have plenty of nibs left for my Cintiq, but any soft plastic will work in a pinch if I need to replace them. You can get nylon rod, if you look for it, if you want what they give you.