Hello Everyone,
Well, the first great mess up of the year, but I have high hopes that it wont be the last.
Just got my first supply of copper tubing and my brand new copper tubing cutting saw from Corbin. I got out the books and went to town, cutting and making my first tubing jackets. I think this would have been a good day for me to just to have stayed in bed. That front pin in the front of the swaging press has been bending back and forth for a while, that and the added pressure of a too long of tubing jacket finely just sheared that pin off. So now, I cannot get the other part of the pin out and for what ever reason I cannot get the core seating die out of my press either. I figure sense the press and die is going to Corbin to fix my royal blunder, this is a good time to have that upgrade done to the press. So, I guess not all is lost.
I just have to keep a :grin: on my face because if I cannot afford to make some mistakes then I should not try to play around in the swaging game.
My daddy always said “If anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” I guess that goes for messing up too, because this is one dussy of a mess up.
This is my eat crow post. :oops:
Donna