Anybody ever use this to make a pen?

[angboy]

I was browsing on ebay, after seeing an old post where people were talking about using delrin to make pens. I came across a seller who had delrin but also had this UHMW stuff, and was wondering if it'd be something that a pen could be made out of- anyone know or have any thoughts? Here's a link to the listing:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7608737028&fromMakeTrack=true

 

[RussFairfield]

Good luck gluing in the brass turbes. Nothing sticks to it.

 

[Chuck Key]

Delrin should work ok.

http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10285&whichpage=1&SearchTerms=delrin

and yellow:

http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10423&SearchTerms=yellow

middle of page:

http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9172&whichpage=2&SearchTerms=ta8

black ends

http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=8475&SearchTerms=hornbean

Chuckie

 

[Rifleman1776]

Won't glue, no way, no how. But if you drill to inside diameter of the tubes you might be able to assemble a pen. But this begs the question: Why?

 

[btboone]

You could press fit the tubes into the UHMW. It should work that way. It's very rubbery and stringy to machine.

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Made one(1) MB style(EURO)pen in UHMW. I can only say it became the only one that I disassembled and recovered for pen parts. The colour is 'bland' and proved impossible to sand no matter what grit(s) I tried. Could not put a 'shine' on this pen, even my buffing shaft/wheels could not save it. The blank resembled a scattered 'ball' of string when I had finished. Despite the fact that I have another ten(10) blanks remaining, I would not turn UHMW again nor would I ever consider giving it to a friend unless I wanted to lose the friendship[}]
-Peter-

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[btboone]

Also, these polishing mandrels are UHMW (Ultra High Molecular Weight polyethylene.) As peter said, unless you machine it perfectly to the right diameter and finish, there's no going back to finish over them. It doesn't take sanding well.

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[alamocdc]

I use it for bushings for lacquer dipping, and Pen mill sleeves. Works great! I've never tried to sand it though. It finishes smooth with my skew.

 

[jdavis]

we cann't get it to gule too bland no color students didn't like it

 

[KenV]

I made a few cones for use in pushing tubes into blanks. It will machine, glue cleans off it nicely, and it makes great jigs. It always looks like plastic.

 

[Nolan]

Funny I have a big piece of this and it crossed my mind to cut it into blanks!![] I also have some yellow stuff that was supose to be "self healing" and hold up to my manufacturing process--Didn't work.

Nolan