Replacement Tubes and parts

[mikegibs]

Hey all,

I have a couple of kits that - well - I messed up. Does anyone know where I can get replacement parts without having to "buy" a whole kit? I have seen the straight tubes, but not the tapered (which is the last set I botched). I also bent a pencil cylinder...

Thanks, Mike

 

[Malainse]

Will need to know what the "Kits" are that you messed up... Then we can point you in the direction of replacement tubes ect..

 

[Rifleman1776]

Messin up is part of the equation. Keep the parts and move on. Buy new kits and save your left-overs for future disasters. It's part of the game. Do factor in your losses in your pricing formula.

 

[mikegibs]

Thanks for the responses. The kits we're PSI Slimline Pencil and their Designer Elite with Tapered Tubes. Since I've VERY new to turning (got lathe as a gift in last May), I figured it was part of the learning curve. Just thought I'd check to see if more experience brains new something I didn't.

Mike G.

 

[wdcav1952]

Mike,

Frank is right on. After a year or two you will have enough spare parts to start designing "Frakenpens!" []

 

[Narwhale]

wdcav1952,
[:0] What you mean after a year or two?

[8D] [] My first pen was a "Frakenpens." [8D]

Rich S.

 

[wdcav1952]

Originally posted by Narwhale
<br />wdcav1952,
[:0] What you mean after a year or two?

[8D] [] My first pen was a "Frakenpens." [8D]

Rich S.

LOL [][][]

 

[TBone]

Originally posted by wdcav1952
<br />Mike,

Frank is right on. After a year or two you will have enough spare parts to start designing "Frakenpens!" []

Finally.....something where I'm ahead of the curve [][:0]

 

[skiprat]

I mess up all the time esp when trying something new or tricky. I now buy the 10 inch slimline tubes to play with. But before, and still for non- SL I would just turn off all the material off the tube to save it and start again. I would imagine that you would really have to wreck the tube pretty badly to make it unsalvageable[][]

 

[JimM]

Originally posted by skiprat
<br />I now buy the 10 inch slimline tubes to play with. [][]

Why do you get them in 10" lengths?

[Oops! on edit]

I meant to ask Where do you...?

 

[skiprat]

Originally posted by JimM
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Originally posted by skiprat
<br />I now buy the 10 inch slimline tubes to play with. [][]

Why do you get them in 10" lengths?

[Oops! on edit]

I meant to ask Where do you...?

Jim, First the 'where', I buy them from a UK online company that re-sells PSI stuff so I'm sure you can get the tubes from them.

Now the 'why'. I can do full length pens, I can cast a full length blanks and cut them to length, they are much cheaper and previously I found that some different 7mm kits had different length tubes and I couldn't get the correct spares.
You can get other sizes as well. I first saw them when I visited Mark Ligget.[]

 

[guts]

JimM,you can get 10" 7mm tubes from woodturningz if that is what you are looking for,if not then I made an oops.