Another complaint about kits init?

[Grump]

Who is making a database of bad kits?
I seem to remember someone on here was going to start one.
Before Charlotte my grandson was interested in woodturning, or so I thought.
It turned out he was only interested in making bullet pens and selling them for £28.00 each at school, good luck to him and he had a good little enterprise going until the school stopped him.
I wanted to say a thank you to him today for defending his sister in an argument, so went to my drawer and got my box of bullet pen kits out.
None of the packets had been previously opened and all came from the same supplier on the same order.
I opened each kit to find that all had no center band except for one which had no clip or nib.
The bullet click cannot be assembled correctly without a belt so I am stuffed with those kits.
Now to make matters worse, of the 6 kits I have there are 3 different types and the clips and nibs differ not one fitting the kit with the belt which does fit on all kits.
One kit has tapered tubes, not by much but enough for it not to glue in the 8mm blank tapering from 7.8.. to 7.3mm and has a nib to fit the small end.
3 different types or sizes of clip with 2 different assembly methods, I did cobble together a bullet click to give Liam but am left with a load of parts to figure out what to do with.
I know it's easy to say get hold of the supplier and they will put it right and I am sure they would but this parcel was bought a couple of years back and I don't got a receipt anymore.
Seeing Jim's Olive wood turned to round made me look in my van for the bits I acquired seems dry enough to me turned nicely and smelt gorgeous.
I dunno what's wrong with my camera skills today but I took about 20 pictures of this thing and this is the best I could do.

 

[Neil Lawton]

Can't help with the kits Brian, but the Olive you got was pre dried. Only needed a week or so to acclimatise.
The stuff Jim got was from the fresh cut bag, and will take a while to dry.
Regards,
Neil

 

[edlea]

Don't know what to say about the kits Brian ...but you was definitely sold a lemon there.

 

[Jim]

Seems all the bad kits made head your way Brian ... Those teachers should have been in on the sales, they would have been in my days ..

 

[paulm]

nothing wrong with the kit, the turning, the wood or the photography there Brian, that's very nice. Teachers just don't understand economics... Bah!

 

[Grump]

Can't help with the kits Brian, but the Olive you got was pre dried. Only needed a week or so to acclimatise.
The stuff Jim got was from the fresh cut bag, and will take a while to dry.
Regards,
Neil

I remember you saying about that now you have reminded me Neil.
It's a lovely bit of wood which the picture doesn't show and I only used a small piece on this in case it was still green.

 

[Terry]

I was prepared to start a database Brian but there was no response so I dropped it !!!!

 

[Grump]

nothing wrong with the kit, the turning, the wood or the photography there Brian, that's very nice. Teachers just don't understand economics... Bah!

Tis a shame Paul because he was showing promise as a turner but that put paid to his interest.
His older brother went through a phase too but no more, if nothing else they both know how to work a lathe and not be frightened by it so maybe in the future they will come back.
Probably when they are old and grey with tales of how they used to watch granddad.

 

[Paul]

Tis a shame Paul because he was showing promise as a turner but that put paid to his interest.
His older brother went through a phase too but no more, if nothing else they both know how to work a lathe and not be frightened by it so maybe in the future they will come back.
Probably when they are old and grey with tales of how they used to watch granddad.

Considering the other post about how people started, I'd expect a similar post in the future where these mini grumps (are they grumbles?) posting. My old grandad got us on a lathe, life intervened, but now I'm taking it up again. Got some of his hand made tools around here too.....

 

[Kardav]

Pity the school stopped him, I would have thought he was learning valuable 'business sense', something that's difficult to teach!
Nice pen BTW, pity about the rest.

 

[Penpal]

Every bullet has a trajectory schoolies that is teachers are a rum lot when I was a kid they ran all the weekend sporting teams under the school name then unions intruded as they should and by the time in the 70,s when I had my real experiences with burocracy gone rampant I had to Front up an Education Dept for overall permission, get pics individual provide groups of every kind even insets for vagrant anyone. Provide free a copy of every fly on the wall be leant on by even the Janitor.Have a Police Clearance (did not ever mind that). Allow every Tom Dick and Harry to peep over my shoulder offering advice. First yr sent home via the kids an individual finished print on appro (can you believe that or would you send home 500 pens and expect money back) no teacher was to handle money
was paid for 130 pics in full colour and I made up a pro background shot the pics on 6 by 4.5 cm film etc etc. Came the revolution next year go through the same check and balances they canvassed all the pro businesses within two hundrd miles asking for competitive prices. This time no proofs given out money on the day a gentle reminder about honesty sold two hundred and fifty individual pics guilty conciences accounted for a lot of sales. The next year I dont need this crap so they got an Aussie wide firm and paid through the roof, no more extreme misery.

Like that pen Brian shame about it was dry etc I find Olive has a real feel when its dry told to me by SWMBO found it like the clerical man infallable ever since. Heck life gets in the way dunnit.

Peter.