Dan_F
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It's been a while since the tap and dies arrived, wondering what people have come up with for alternative center bands?
Dan
Dan
Originally posted by Dan_F
The bands I'm thinking of were very thin, and were mounted on a shallow groove about 3/16" above the lip of the cap. They could be very plain or very fancy. I still wonder how they did that, does the plastic compress enough so that they can be forced on?
Dan, that is exactly the way it is done. I think it's Richard Binder that has the tooling to re-shring bands to fit caps that have shrunk. This is a big problem with old pens, some more so than others. I do not think a collet chuck will grip it evenly enough to be honest.