Bree
Member
Here's a tip that will save you some headaches. Make sure to shoot some accelerator down the inside of your blank before you insert the tube if you glue up with CA. You can spin the blank and even do a little back and forth pushing to evenly distribute the glue before it sets up if you use thick CA.
Why accelerate the blank? Well the reason is that CA usually gets the curing process started by grabbing some moisture from the blank when you do a wooden pen. Even a dry blank has 7-9% moisture which is enough to trigger the curing of the CA. An acrylic blank has ZERO moisture unless you put it there.
It's possible to have the ends cure from moisture in the air but the center of the blank is still liguid CA trapped that might as well be in the CA container. Sometimes the blank will spin if enough force is applied to shear the small amount that actually has cured. Moistening the inside with accelerator solves this problem. All the CA cures and you get a nice strong bond.
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Why accelerate the blank? Well the reason is that CA usually gets the curing process started by grabbing some moisture from the blank when you do a wooden pen. Even a dry blank has 7-9% moisture which is enough to trigger the curing of the CA. An acrylic blank has ZERO moisture unless you put it there.
It's possible to have the ends cure from moisture in the air but the center of the blank is still liguid CA trapped that might as well be in the CA container. Sometimes the blank will spin if enough force is applied to shear the small amount that actually has cured. Moistening the inside with accelerator solves this problem. All the CA cures and you get a nice strong bond.
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: