skamrath1
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What is the best and easiest way to remove a brass tube from a blank blow out? If there is a way.
I also use a birthday candle to heat the tube up from the inside enough to cause the glue to let go. Normally I just turn the material off, but sometimes it's a different issue requiring rescue of the tube AND the blank.
I also use a birthday candle to heat the tube up from the inside enough to cause the glue to let go. Normally I just turn the material off, but sometimes it's a different issue requiring rescue of the tube AND the blank.
Someday, this WILL happen to you. So, if you use each blowup as a chance to try a technique to save the blank, it is probably time well spent.
I never found a way to save blanks--but I threw away my mistakes---destroy the evidence!!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
As noted above turn off the dead blank.
In the future consider ordering additional tubes with new kits you buy. I buy 3 sets (if ordering 10 or more kits) so I have them as insurance. I don't order more unless I've had to use them.
AK
So if a brass tube went into an acrylic blank 3/4 of the way in and got stuck because the CA cured too fast, how might you remove the tube to save the acrylic blank?
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I did not even think about using the vice before reading this, so the tube has definitely set.
Now if I soak in acetone, will I eat away at the acrylic or cloud the acrylic. I don't mind spending the extra time to get the tube out but I don't want to damage the blank if at all possible.
Otherwise I will just end up cutting off the tube at the end of the blank and gluing in a partial tube on the other side. Yes, I ordered extra kits and some extra tubes for such an occasion.