Ever had one of those weekends that...

Signed-In Members Don't See This Ad
Status
Not open for further replies.
armyturner

armyturner

Member
Joined
Sep 1, 2006
Messages
425
Location
Oil Trough, AR, USA.
leaves you headed for bed disqusted on sunday night? It was one of those for me this weekend. I didn't spend a lot of time in the shop, but what time I did spend was bad. I ruined a perfectly good Buckeye burl blank....thick CA set up as I was inserting the tube. Never had that happen with thick CA. Second try at a Buckeye burl blank almost resulted in the same. I had intended to make a European with it but put slimline bushings on instead. Didn't notice until it was turned down too far.

To finish it all off I ruined a corn cob cigar pen that I have been working on a little at a time all weekend. It was beautiful, but I soon noticed how bad I had messed up. I flip-flopped the bushings. I used the bushings for the upper tube on the lower and vise versa. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.
 
Signed-In Members Don't See This Ad
sorry to hear that, unfortunately that still happens a lot to me as well.

After one of those days i try to clean up the shop to "clean away all my screw ups"
Next time i go in i dont have to be reminded of my last bad day......

Needless to say i clean a lot...[:D][:D][:D][:D]
 
This is what I did yesterday that left me in pain headed to bed.

Tried to make two cigar pens, one with some WPP acrylic and one with homebrew metallic resin. I drilled the blanks out easy enough, painted the tubes, glued them in place and turned them. (must have used waaaaayyyy too much hardener in the homebrew as I needed a perfectly sharp tool set at a slice just to keep the shattering to a minimum)

Anyway, got them turned and buffed and took the kits upstairs to assemble while I watched the Colts/Pats game. Started to get the one together and something was not right. I think I screwed up in the bushing order because the sizes don't match up. I get my punch set and knock the parts back out. Go to assemble the metallic homebrew and I presses in the cap end first before the centerband, so when i pressed in the CB, the cap end got pushed all the way in. Time to break back out the punch set.[xx(]

Then I start looking at the blanks I thought I screwed up. Apparently I tried installing the stuff on the wrong barrel. Assembled again and everything fit just fine. As I start putting together the photobox for pictures I realize I forgot to sand before I buffed.[xx(] Now I have to take everything back apart for sanding and then buff again.

To top it off, I now have about three mystery cuts at teh ends of my fingers which hurt like heck whenever I touch anything as the skin keeps peeling backwards from the cut. I alsoi have a nice area on the side of my hand where it got caught between the Beall Chuck and the tool rest resulting in a bunch of skin being rubbed off.

I only hope today gets better because I'm taking these pens back apart for sanding when I get home.[:(]
 
CA and spalted wood don't go very well together...especially when gluing in the tube. Spalting reacts with CA and makes it cure much faster.
 
Armyturner, as a retired USAF you left me no option but to say, "If there were no pictures, the Army could not do it" [:D] just kidding, little rivalry Army Air Force had to plug it. I had bad days like that too, usually do like Pete clean shop till I get settled down [8D]and want to try again.
 
CA and several variables associated with gluing tubes into pen blanks don't go very well together. That's one of the reasons I use two part epoxy to glue tubes. I use 5 minute epoxy and turn after 10 minutes or so. Never a problem with holding or glue failure.
Do a good turn daily!
don
Originally posted by Dario
<br />CA and spalted wood don't go very well together...especially when gluing in the tube. Spalting reacts with CA and makes it cure much faster.
Click to expand...
 
I was turning some dyed stabalized blanks without having a tube glued in this weekend for an engraving project. I had one chip on the end more than tolerance, and tried to stick a tube inside with thick CA glue. It stuck before the tube was all the way in. I put the whole thing into acetone and after sitting most of the day, the tube did come lose and could be extracted. Also I now have tinted acetone and most all the color is gone from the wood. Nice wood, so I will put the tube in and patch the small chip out. It was such a nice color before it took a bath....
 
Ken-would it be possible for you to cut off the tube and then glue it in from the other end? I've had to do that on more than one occasion with no problems but I don't know what your situation is.
 
Originally posted by armyturner
<br />To finish it all off I ruined a corn cob cigar pen that I have been working on a little at a time all weekend. It was beautiful, but I soon noticed how bad I had messed up. I flip-flopped the bushings. I used the bushings for the upper tube on the lower and vise versa. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.
Click to expand...

I did that with some crosscut juniper last summer. You can switch the barrels and use them like you turned them. There is enough 'play' in locating the transmission so that either tube could be used for the lower barrel and the parts will still fit together. The center joint is a little shifted which you can call a 'design modification'.

Paul in AR
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom