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Allen Neighbors
03-03-2009, 10:07 PM
When buffing pen barrels I always wore rubber gloves, and they still got away from me on occasion. :mad:
So I 'made' this tool. It is a rod that's just slightly smaller than 1/4" that came out of an old printer. It has an 'e' clip on one end, which keeps the pen barrel from sliding off. I hold it at an angle to the buffing wheel, and it's just a slow pass, and it's done.
It takes away the worry of catapulting a pen barrel around in the floor. :D
(The dark streaks in the Tripoli wheel are just some dark material that went into the wheel when I made it.)

David Christopher
03-03-2009, 10:09 PM
Thats a great little tool...I just do it on the lathe

Ken Fitzgerald
03-03-2009, 10:29 PM
I buff mine while they are still on the mandrel.