joefrog
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I've been working a lot in the shop lately, and last night found me in full "production mode," bouncing from project to project.
I've been working towards a big show this weekend, so it was "finish these nice ones" night. I cut all the blanks to tube length, drilled, reverse painted the tubes, went on to something else while paint dried, glued, then went on to something else while the glue dried.
It wasn't until I glued the first set of tubes in the EXPENSIVE blanks that I realized what I had done... I had drilled the wrong size hole. I had the wrong instruction sheet in front of me.
I had been working on building Jr. Gents, but I was drilling for Continentals. Lucky for me, I did have a Woodcraft Continental kit handy and was able to see that the same length tube will work, so I haven't completely screwed myself. Yet.
So there's the screw up, now the question. It's an alligator jawbone blank that has the wrong size tubes glued into it. I simply can't throw it out, too expensive. Can I use some nail polish remover on this blank and release the glue to get the tubes out? Or am I stuck pouring more glue into this hole to try and fill the gap between blank and tube?
Help!
I've been working towards a big show this weekend, so it was "finish these nice ones" night. I cut all the blanks to tube length, drilled, reverse painted the tubes, went on to something else while paint dried, glued, then went on to something else while the glue dried.
It wasn't until I glued the first set of tubes in the EXPENSIVE blanks that I realized what I had done... I had drilled the wrong size hole. I had the wrong instruction sheet in front of me.
I had been working on building Jr. Gents, but I was drilling for Continentals. Lucky for me, I did have a Woodcraft Continental kit handy and was able to see that the same length tube will work, so I haven't completely screwed myself. Yet.
So there's the screw up, now the question. It's an alligator jawbone blank that has the wrong size tubes glued into it. I simply can't throw it out, too expensive. Can I use some nail polish remover on this blank and release the glue to get the tubes out? Or am I stuck pouring more glue into this hole to try and fill the gap between blank and tube?
Help!