ZanderPommo
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i have this paint and have had problems brass tubes showing through the acrylic.just got a big x-mas order and need to know, will this paint work????
thanks in advance
thanks in advance
Butch, I'm sorry, I don't agree at all with your post. As long as there is good people like Chris on this forum, what is the problem with him asking? Hey man, that's what makes this site great. BTW, he posted at 10:17 and had an answer at 10:23, I for one couldn't do a search and find a definite answer in what... 6 minutes. I honestly hope that you don't take this wrong, but I have recently seen several post like yours and I just don't feel like that's what this site is all about. If that were the case we should just take everything off the site except for the search and the library and tell any new turners "there it is find it if you can." Again, I'm sorry for the rant and the search is great, but there is nothing wrong with a new turner posting a question either.Zander , don't take this the wrong way , but you need to familiarize yourself with the search function .
Testors comes up with 107 hits (including yours) http://www.penturners.org/forum/sea...og_searchinfo=1&photoplog_searchquery=testors
I'm not saying this as a dig or anything . It's just that you could save yourself allot of time by searching before waiting for an answer .
Recently I was given a really really nice pendant blank. and the only reason the person that gave it to me knew to even send it was all the posts I have made about my kids making them and what not.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
I always thought it was "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in the boat and drink beer all day.":biggrin:
I think that one was made up by the same guy who said
"Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Cry .. I'll give you something to cry about.."
1. Zander, thanks for starting this thread, I have learned A LOT.
2. Butch, hopefully this is the question I should be asking - I thought the purpose of gluing the tube to the blank was to ensure the two never seperate. When I first started turning, I used CA to bond the tube to the blank. This works great for a short period of time. After a few people came back to me about a free spinning tube, I switched to epoxy. No more issues. Here is the million dollar question - if you paint the inside of the tube, you are bonding the tube to the paint and not the blank. Will you eventally end up with the same free spinning tube? And yes, I did search for this first, but did not find the answer.
Thanks,
Jason
Zander,
Don't paint the tubes, reverse paint the inside of the blank. You will get better results and will be just as fast.
A while back I bought a bunch of little bottles of different colors of acrylic paint for painting tubes. I used a Q-tip and painted the inside of an acrylic blank, trying to get good coverage, but trying not to over-do it.
When completely dry I glued the tube in using thick ca. When that was dry I turned it and it started spinning.
It seems to me that the ca stuck to the paint, and the paint doesn't stick to the blank nearly as well as the ca does; therefore, it spun.
I haven't used my little bottles of paint since then.
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Clay