Ryan
Member
All,
I have been fighting out of round Statesman's since the first one I made. I have done everything I can think of to keep it round on the tail end of the pen and nothing has worked. Since I live not too far from CSUSA I even took them into them to look at with my bushings thinking the bushings must not be square. We checked their display pens and found they had the same problem. Rex came down and looked at the problem and he discovered that the bushing is undersized. He said they would get some new bushings ordered to correct the problem. He said in the meantime just leave the tail end a little proud of the bushing. I said ok and went on my way.
The more I thought about the problem the more this did not make sense, because the blank fits perfectly on 2 sides of the pen and is proud on the other 2 sides. This tells me it is out of round. I started to rotate the blank a half turn just before the final cuts and this seemed to help a little but did not solve the problem.
This weekend I was gearing up for Christmas and while working on some Statesman’s again I think I found the problem. I do not think it is the bushings as stated. I looked at my mandrel and found that the bushing sits on the threads of the mandrel causing quite a bit of play. As I tighten the nut it is pulling the bushing to where ever causing it to be off center.
So now that I have been long winded the short version is: The mandrel seems to be too short for the larger pens.
Can anyone else confirm this for me?? I REALLY want to get this solved. Aslo let me know if anyone else is having the same problems.
Thanks,
Ryan
I have been fighting out of round Statesman's since the first one I made. I have done everything I can think of to keep it round on the tail end of the pen and nothing has worked. Since I live not too far from CSUSA I even took them into them to look at with my bushings thinking the bushings must not be square. We checked their display pens and found they had the same problem. Rex came down and looked at the problem and he discovered that the bushing is undersized. He said they would get some new bushings ordered to correct the problem. He said in the meantime just leave the tail end a little proud of the bushing. I said ok and went on my way.
The more I thought about the problem the more this did not make sense, because the blank fits perfectly on 2 sides of the pen and is proud on the other 2 sides. This tells me it is out of round. I started to rotate the blank a half turn just before the final cuts and this seemed to help a little but did not solve the problem.
This weekend I was gearing up for Christmas and while working on some Statesman’s again I think I found the problem. I do not think it is the bushings as stated. I looked at my mandrel and found that the bushing sits on the threads of the mandrel causing quite a bit of play. As I tighten the nut it is pulling the bushing to where ever causing it to be off center.
So now that I have been long winded the short version is: The mandrel seems to be too short for the larger pens.
Can anyone else confirm this for me?? I REALLY want to get this solved. Aslo let me know if anyone else is having the same problems.
Thanks,
Ryan