A Smelly Situation

[avbill]

5 weeks ago I turned a celluloid pen. It still has a odor to the pen blank The blank is from CUSA.

Will time reduce the smell or is the odor a permanent result of turning celluloid ?


thanks in advance.

 

[mick]

Bill I'd never had this problem until this past June. I made a Panache from a CSUSA celluloid.(Scarlet and Black) We did a show several days later and when I unpacked this pen the odor was very strong. I put the pen aside and thought I'd email customer service and aks about it. Anyway I forgot about it and just this past weekend happened to think about the pen.....odor's all gone, but I have no clue how long it took!

 

[ldb2000]

Bill I made a rollerball from some celuloid from WPP and it took about a month before the smell on the capped pen went away , uncapped it still stinks .
If I leave the cap off now for a few days it's not too bad but if I put the cap back on and wait a few days the smell is back .

 

[Nick]

Would the glue you used for the tubes have anything to do with it?

 

[ldb2000]

I can't speak for Bill but mine had no glue , no tubes either so mine is from the celluloid .

 

[Skye]

If it's anything like resin, I had a car which I used a lot of resin and fiberglass in. It lasted quite a while.

I'd defiantly leave that cap off for a month.

 

[scotirish]

I did one also and the odor did not leave my shop till I emptied my shop vac.

 

[winpooh498]

We store our pens in boxes, we have some that have been turned for over a year and they still have the "new" smell.