Originally posted by Max
<br />Mike,
How did you get the rustoleum paint down into the tubes? Spray/brush/???
and did you use Fangar's pin chuck for this? If so, can you use the same chuck for the pen cap?
Such a great look!!
-Max
I used a BBQ skewer to get the paint in the lucite.
I do not have a fangar pin chuck though i hear excellent things about them. I have several pin chucks that a machineist made for me one of them fits in the baron body. The baron cap and the gentlemans body seems to be about the same ID so if you have a gents pin chuck it may work on the Baron cap. None of mine fit the cap which is a much larger hole and while I ordered 3 new pin chucks for some of my kits yesterday (includeing baron cap\gentlemans body)I did not have the patience to wait. Plus this is a tubeless pen and I modified the threaded insert so that the hole I used for the cap is signifigantly smaller than the normal Baron Cap hole (it was one of the letter sized drills can't remember which).
When I do not have a pin chuck I usually just make a jam chuck. I take a steel rod that is at least 1/8 smaller than the ID of the tube glue a piece of hardwood on it and turn the wood down to the tubes ID (internal diameter), if you go to far build it up with a couple coats of ca. It works very good for larger tubes. For this Baron cap I got lazy and I am suprised this worked as well as it did. I had a piece of drill rod that was just a hair to small for my hole( i think 3/8ths rod) I just put a couple wraps of teflon tape around it to get it to size for a jam chuck, it ran supriseingly true.
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