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Woodchipper

Woodchipper

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Was assembling a two piece pen with two different lengths of blanks. Well...even with being careful, I picked up the wrong part and pressed in the click assembly. Then I discovered my mistake even with being careful to separate the two blanks. The clincher is to disassemble the click assembly, plastic parts are destroyed. I have all kinds of trays, lids, etc. where I can separate the appropriate parts. Live and learn.
 
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Been there, done that.
Now I make one piece at a time and finish it before starting the next. I get all the hardware out for that specific piece, turn it and assemble it before starting the next.
 
Mortalis said:
Been there, done that.
Now I make one piece at a time and finish it before starting the next. I get all the hardware out for that specific piece, turn it and assemble it before starting the next.
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That is my plan now. I use the lunch meat containers to keep kits. I can put parts in one container and others in another container. Thanks two bunches.
Reminds me of the Johnny Cash song about the car, One Piece At At Time.
 
A while ago, I was working on 6 different kitless pens at the same time.

I figured I'd save some time in retooling by doing all of the drilling, tenon cutting, tapping and threading for them all at once. Makes sense right? Drill 6 cap blanks, thread them, move on.

Sounds good, BUT (BIG BUT), Some were 13mm triple start and others were 14mm triple start. Well, I got the streams crossed (Ghost Busters reference), and ended up turning and threading a 13mm tenon on the barrel of a pen that I had made the cap 14mm. OOPS!!

I was more than a little upset as the material was some rather pricy 5 swirl yellow & black Nikko Ebonite.

I put the cap blank back in the collet chuck, drilled the threads out and epoxied in a piece of black ebonite turned down to fit. After letting the epoxy fully cure, I re-drilled it for 13mm threads and tapped it. I was lucky, if you aren't looking for it, you cannot see the recovery.

Our mistakes truly are how we learn!!
 
Thanks for Sharing. I have a piece of plywood about 16" long. It has 6 grooves 3/4" wide running the length of the board. each pen goes into one groove with the pieces and blanks in the order of position / assembly.

Some learn by reading,
Some learn by watching others,
Some got to pee on the electric fence!
 
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