BKind2Anmls
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To make a long story short, I have really messed up inserting brass tubes into laser cut blanks. I need to remove the tubes, which have been glued in, and glue in new ones. As you know, the blanks are too expensive to just abandon.
How can I remove the tube without destroying the blanks?
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In case someone needs to know, here is the long story.
I bought quite a few laser cut blanks while they were on sale. I was setting up an assembly line to make a lot of pens (not just laser cut) and had the various kits set out with their drilled matching blanks. Next step, glue in the tubes.
The laser blanks said they fit "Sierra-style" kits.
I had bought the Le Roi kits (said to be Sierra-style) and, in my haste and ennui, did not notice how short the tubes were. I glued the Le Roi tubes into the blank. Then, the next day I looked and, uh oh, the tubes were too short to allow the entire laser inlay to be used.
So I had a wonderful idea! (not)
I would order extra Le Roi tubes and glue in a small piece in the empty end of the blank. Then, having found out that the Le Roi kits would be a problem to make work with the longer tubes, I would just go ahead and get Sierra kits but use them with the hybrid LeRoi tubes.
Guess what! Le Roi tubes were out of stock so I ordered Sierra tubes from another dealer.
I glued these in the empty end of the blank, let them dry a long while and then cut off the tube sticking out of the blank. I then cut this hybrid blank blank down to the length of a Sierra tube in order to use the Sierra kits (which were long enough to allow me to keep the entire inlay).
When I began to clean out the blanks/tubes, some of the small tube pieces came out. I expected this and glued them back in.
When I tried to insert my TBC bushings into the tube, I discovered that the inside diameter of the Le Roi tubes and the Sierra tubes are different. So I now have two different inside diameter tubes in each blank.
Bah Humbug! I have really messed this all up so I want to remove the existing tubes and glue in whole, Sierra, full-length tubes.
That is the sad story of someone who did something really dumb. Please help me figure out how to get out of this mess.
How can I remove the tube without destroying the blanks?
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In case someone needs to know, here is the long story.
I bought quite a few laser cut blanks while they were on sale. I was setting up an assembly line to make a lot of pens (not just laser cut) and had the various kits set out with their drilled matching blanks. Next step, glue in the tubes.
The laser blanks said they fit "Sierra-style" kits.
I had bought the Le Roi kits (said to be Sierra-style) and, in my haste and ennui, did not notice how short the tubes were. I glued the Le Roi tubes into the blank. Then, the next day I looked and, uh oh, the tubes were too short to allow the entire laser inlay to be used.
So I had a wonderful idea! (not)
I would order extra Le Roi tubes and glue in a small piece in the empty end of the blank. Then, having found out that the Le Roi kits would be a problem to make work with the longer tubes, I would just go ahead and get Sierra kits but use them with the hybrid LeRoi tubes.
Guess what! Le Roi tubes were out of stock so I ordered Sierra tubes from another dealer.
I glued these in the empty end of the blank, let them dry a long while and then cut off the tube sticking out of the blank. I then cut this hybrid blank blank down to the length of a Sierra tube in order to use the Sierra kits (which were long enough to allow me to keep the entire inlay).
When I began to clean out the blanks/tubes, some of the small tube pieces came out. I expected this and glued them back in.
When I tried to insert my TBC bushings into the tube, I discovered that the inside diameter of the Le Roi tubes and the Sierra tubes are different. So I now have two different inside diameter tubes in each blank.
Bah Humbug! I have really messed this all up so I want to remove the existing tubes and glue in whole, Sierra, full-length tubes.
That is the sad story of someone who did something really dumb. Please help me figure out how to get out of this mess.