White Sierra.

With all the struggle people are having trying to turn Corian and white materials for their weeding pens, I thought I would have a little play.
Done on a kit that is easy to strip and redo if it don't work I chose the Sierra for my experiment.
This Sierra came this week in the post and I am really disappointed with the quality, I get further disillusioned every time I open a packet these days.
On assembly the parts fell into the tube, the only thing holding it together is the way they fit.
The tube is oversized by a good 1mm I can spin it now fully assembled, more bloody rubbish I have been sold.
Back to the point, I slung a cheap piece of bland ol soft pine on the spinner and turned it down finishing with 600 grit scratch.
Sealed it with two coats of thin CA then took it off and dipped it white primer (of the automotive paint variety), when dried (approx 5 minutes) dipped it again.
Returned it to the lathe and started a CA process of about 5 coats and a quick squirt of toothpaste to polish it job done.
Why do you want to mess about with joining plastic when all you need is a pot of paint..
Sorry about the poor quality of the pic I have just downgraded to Microsoft for tests and looking for a suitable cropper resizer that ain't full of bloat.

Looking at the image Brian it does look as though you have used some plastic for sure, but i would need to actually see the pen to be convinced it to be a good substitute .. I like the fact that you have taken the time to do an experiment and share the result with us ..

Well that's one way of getting round the problem of splitting Corian .

Well I think it is a great success. It looks just as horrible as a plastic pen to me!

Jim said:

Looking at the image Brian it does look as though you have used some plastic for sure, but i would need to actually see the pen to be convinced it to be a good substitute .. I like the fact that you have taken the time to do an experiment and share the result with us ..

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Just scraped it off a section it needs to go back on the lathe and be taken back to brass anyway it fits so badly.

A good experiment Brian but its not for me. I hate painting, painters, paint brushes, the work paint and anything to do with paint. Having painted battleship grey for the Queen for many years I refuse to touch paint in any form or fashion ever again.

Come now Paul it asint no Queen Mary but I do share your enthusiasm for painting, Brian still like timber unadorned.

Peter.

Good experiment Brian, thanks for sharing

You say the quality of the kit is bad Brian, where did you get it from?

If you had said that you was feeling left out Brian I would have put a white Corian blank in the post mate. No need to have gone to those lengths to get one..

Top marks for effort tho...

yorkshireman said:

You say the quality of the kit is bad Brian, where did you get it from?

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Pm'd you with the name.