tubes

Spent a bit of time today constructing some polymer clay blanks. Not made any of them in the past couple of years, but nice to spend some time doing these and am reasonably pleased with the outcomes. Not sure yet whether I'll just turn, sand and CA them or to clean them up and resin coat them...

I am looking at painting some tubes white to give a better background for resin blanks. What is the best type of paint to use and do you need to prime? I predominately use acrylic for model making and hope this would be good enough. Once painted is it OK to use CA glue to bond blank to tube?

I have a plastic bag with a dozen brass pen tubes. These tubes are 50mm long x 7.85mm o/d and 7.34mm bore. Has anyone any idea why I bought these :thinks: :rolling: take care Don W

Can anyone please tell me the size of the tubes for the Shakespeare pen kits?

Hi All, Poplar burl, resin and some pen parts. I will use it to push brass tubes into pen blanks hopefully. Wood & Resin thing - YouTube

Is there a simple one tube glue for sticking tubes in blanks. I tried ca but had a couple of disasters when it set before the tube was in the right place. So I tried epoxy but trying to get two equal amounts out of the tubes is a pain, even with one of those twin tube jobbies. What glue do you...

OK quick question.....what kit makes the thinnest fountain pen please?.....yes i know its limited because of the cartridge.....is there one using tubes thinner than 10mm?? Thinking hats on.....:thinks::thinks:

I have been away from the workshop & forum for sometime but hope to get some turning done over the Christmas period and carry on after that too. Managed to get in the workshop cleared up a bit, fought my way through to a draw of blanks....... No turning today, but, four blanks cut & drilled...

I'm impatient, I freely admit that. Does anyone bake painted pen tubes to make the paint dry faster? I'm thinking a small toaster oven. Any idea what temperature to use?

HI,Has anyone used gorilla glue for fixing there tubes in blanks ?

How many of you use the acrylic display tubes? I use them to store the pens for safe keeping until they are sold or if I ever need to take them to a fair / market. I also have the 48 pen holder wallets which are great for displaying them, but I don't feel it protects them well enough when...

Can anyone tell me if the Sierra Elegance is the same as the Elegant Beauty? I need to know if the tubes are the same.

Im very sorry to make a 2nd thread about this as there are a few edits and I cannot edit a thread once it has been posted. The length if the tubes does not matter as I can cut them to various lengths for the pen kits and other projects I would like to do. The wall thickness of the tubes needs...

Hi I have 3x pens I need spare tubes for... The site i bought the pen kits from i wont mention names does not reply to emails or pick up their phone! Searching the interweb yeilds sites that either dont sell the diameter i want or do but dont advertise the length so pretty useless. I dont...

Evening ladies and gentlemen, Doki oki, here I was turning some leadwood for the omega's attached and all was well. Process to get me there was pretty normal. Drilled out to the correct diameter, very slowly and with great care. Tubes fitted well, not too tight but snug. Glued with 5 minute...

I wanted to back paint the blanks white and the tubes white to show the contrast between these and the ones I back painted Black, but I had no white spray paint and my wife let me use some white nail polish, but I didn't get the inside of the blank covered well nor the tubes so I didn't bother...

Well i have just had my first total failure, i was making a pencil kit with the big pencil lead. I prepared the tubes sanding with a coarse grit to give plenty of adhesion. I use thick CA and leave it for 24hrs to go off and cure. I am not sure what the blank was made of but it smelt like...

This has been a material that has caused me a lot of frustration but finally after 4 cock ups I managed to produce this but not sure if you can see it but you can see the tubes through the acrylic is there a solution for this? Any help would be gratefully received I had considered spraying the...

Has anyone used this Gorilla Glue stuff for gluing tubes in blanks ? Bought some today because Toolstation no longer stock my favorite Evo Stick epoxy resin. On reading the instructions it says that you have to moisten the item your gluing and that the glue swells to 3 to 4 times its volume...