TerryDowning
Member
Inspect you pen kits at point of sale or when they arrive in the mail. Look for finish problems, operate the transmission, make sure all parts are in the bag. Nothing like meeting a deadline only to find that your last pen kit has a fatal flaw.
+ 1 on the above and if purchasing your blanks inspect those as well for obvious signs of impending disaster. I recently returned 2 blanks out of an order of 30. 1 was undersized (Too Short to get a designer pen out of), 1 was badly cracked and would have disintegrated the minute I got a tool on it. It may not have even survived drilling. Better to find the problem while it can still be returned.
Remember to get what you pay for.