Glued Bushings

[emtmike]

Up until now I have lead a charmed life. I have never glued bushings to my wood in finishing. That is until I made a Cigar pen with a corn cob. I glued those suckers on good. When I did get them free I chipped the cob and that was it for that. What kind of wax do you guys use to keep this from happening [?]

 

[JimGo]

Butcher's paste wax was recommended when I asked about this. The initial tin isn't cheap ($7-10, if I recall correctly), but a little bit goes a LONG way, and it has a ton of other uses, like on the flat surfaces of your saws, you lathe ways, etc. to help keep things moving freely.

 

[gerryr]

Bee's wax should also work as should the parrafin used for canning. Anybody know if Ren Wax would work?

 

[Rifleman1776]

What kind of glue were you using? Even when using CA, mine snap free with little effort.

 

[smoky10]

Johnsons paste wax works great.

 

[Geo in Winnipeg]

Try this thread about waxing mandrels:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12628

 

[Rudy Vey]

Originally posted by gerryr
<br />Bee's wax should also work as should the parrafin used for canning. Anybody know if Ren Wax would work?

Ren wax works fine for me. I put it on the bushings, the mandrel (and also on my lathe ways), since I use TSW on my pens I've never gone back to Ren wax on them.

 

[angboy]

Two questions:

If you put wax on the bushings, does that not mess up the exactness of knowing how far down to turn the pen?

And I know if I did that, no matter how hard I tried, I don't think I could manage to sand without at least a tiny, tiny bit of the sandpaper touching that wax, otherwise I probably wouldn't get the very ends of the pen blank sanded. So what would that do if the sandpaper then drags some of the wax onto your pen?

 

[Rudy Vey]

Originally posted by angboy
<br />Two questions:

If you put wax on the bushings, does that not mess up the exactness of knowing how far down to turn the pen?

And I know if I did that, no matter how hard I tried, I don't think I could manage to sand without at least a tiny, tiny bit of the sandpaper touching that wax, otherwise I probably wouldn't get the very ends of the pen blank sanded. So what would that do if the sandpaper then drags some of the wax onto your pen?

I put the wax on the part of the bushing that goes inside the tube and the part that rests against the wood, at least that's what I try to do. I try to be very careful when I apply the wax, sometimes a tooth pick helps. The coating is very thin, so there should not be a problem with sizing.