I goofed again,
In the effort to coat more rod blanks I thought I had a thought come to mind. So I set this thought into action and built myself an adaptation for the power wrapper I have built. Things got ugly soon after. Anchor point for a floral wire was adapted to the chuck of the wrapper, centered up and all. At the other end of the wrapper a peice of all thread rod was fed through two skate board bearings on either side of a block of wood bored for the bearings. I driled two hole in the threaded rod, one down through the center and one from the threads intersecting entering the other hole. The floral wire was fed through the blank and anchored at both points on the wrapper. I dialed in the router speed control and started spreading two part. I got it on the blank real quick but it didn't exactly level itself.
Either this is bad or I can coat blank with a long swirl the whole length of the blank. I think I am back at the drawing board. :(

All in testing for the build on the rod drier, jeez!!


Tight wraps and lines,
Wylie

That is not a blunder.....That is meerly an experiment in the works.....

Now touching the pretty finish BEFORE it is dry.......THAT is a blunder....and one I happen to do far too often.

Sigh.....Back to the drawing board.

Derek

Heck, Wylie, that's the way they do it in Rexburg!

Putter
Williston, ND

This is not a blunder. You've learned one more way not to finish a rod blank. Ralph

If at first you don't succeed, go fishing, then try, try again.

Thanks guys,
It was really just an experiment that did feel like a blunder at first thinking it was going to work for sure. One factor I didn't mention that most likely makes very little difference is that I added Fire Opal Glitter to the Permagloss on the first coat and that was a real booboo. Too much glitter building on the edges of the applicator (poly brush) so I wiped it off quick and went with straight Permagloss for the first coat that still look swirled. Then came the two part and the glitter that I was thinking might self level, but it didn't.
It may just take another means of application of the coatings in order to speed things up. Everything spun real nice and level so the machine concept may not go by the wayside.
After this blank is saved by means of some block sanding to level the swirlies I'm on to the next idea in this process.
I'm thinking airless sprayer here but that will involve a box similar to a sandblasting box or a vacuum filtered type box using some HVAC filters or something cheap like that. Cleaning coatings from a sprayer sounds like real fun! :P

It does look as though this will have to be a separate machine from the rod drier which I was trying to avoid, limited space and all you know.



Tight wraps and lines,
Wylie