Prepping for some Painted Beads

Prepping for some painted bead making  -havnt made any in a few years - hand painted that is - made some screen printed zentangle beads - needed to make some quick panels

These are done with ink pen and nib - add my Reusche  black trace  DE-401 mixed with clove oil
( I love painting as the smell is really nice )

First step is black outline - then I will fire - then I will add colors if necessary- its more of a reverse painting technique the black is first then the color

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Final collection of Jump Rings Made on the Ringinator this weekend

Well I went up to the studio and Sunday  morning and sat and made more aluminium coloured coils for cutting
got  as many as I wanted done  and then started up the ringinator - I have it down so nice I can do a full run of rings into the sieve  without stopping - so nice .

my coloured aluminium jump ring collection increased before noon

now I have to make something with them 

Aluminium Jump Rings -

finished the Aluminium Jump Rings today
I only have the sterling silver left to cut - but I think when I finish that I am going to make some more colored aluminium coils as
Heidi Duppstadt  post of that beautiful chain mail collar has really made me want to make one too

Ringinator set up changes - update

Proposed changes for tonight to the set up

• condense into one jug intake and drainage - will give me perpetual oil recycling I tried this but the little aquarium pump had a hard time pushing the oil vertically - so maybe a larger pump is required - so went back to two jug system for now - but the two lids have both size drain and suction holes so its jut open the lids and switch jugs - no repoouring etc.. 
• put a filter into the jug to take out copper grindings - maybe a coffee filter as its not pouring too fast back into the canister so it should give it time to filter and drain back into the jug  This works ! so now back to two jug system the receiving jug I put the coffee filter in the mouth of the jug and twist the lid to hold the edges 
• fix the cut ring exit tray so the cut rings will fall into sieve without me having to push them - needs some sort of sides and a better angle - I bent up the sides and pushed it down a bit - its ok but still not perfect - still have to push every once in a while the pile that is accumulating 
• figure out how not to have drips from the exit tray - maybe new type of exit tray  - or it has to sit up higher so there is more room for the drain tray to be under the exit tray  put the tray just over the sieve bin and a piece of packing tape to hold the trays together - once done no drainage 

cant wait to get home and make the mods and cut some more stuff tonight - should be end of copper coils  and onto the the silver plated

cut the balance of the copper and did the silver plated copper  16g  so next is the colored aluminum 

Ringinator Set Up

I didnt get home early so I had to spend some time prepping the drain pan - where is the glue when you need it !

Finally got the pan attached to the clear tubing and attached to the drain jug

Overall results were great tonight - by the time I finish I'll have tweeked it even more for this years run-- after setting up and running and when all the oil was in the drain jug - I was thinking - why dont I just use one jug and put the hose for the intake into the same jug -  tomorrows modification!

the pan I put holes on either side and a piece of wire to hang from the threaded bolts

the pan is on an angle so it drains into the jug 

the jug at the end of the run - a good 15 -20 minutes as I adjusted and let the cutting oil run 

side angle - you can see the drain pan on an angle to drain 

right now I have a sieve sitting so it collects the rings and drains them 

the only issue is the positioning of the metal tongue where the rings come out on to drop into the sieve -not angled enough and the holes if not over the pan drips onto the table 

the tongue piece is great but if the pan is not resting on the sieve it drips and the angle is not great enough for them to just fall into the sieve I have to push them in or they fall to each side and into the pan 

todays haul  and still lots to do 

I want to finish all the copper then work on the silver plated and then onto the sterling silver 

I love my Ringinator Time - some changes to layout

Here is a hand drawing of how I am going to set up tonight the Ringinator with the drain jug - so I hope it works - will make cutting even easier if that is possible - did I tell you I am on the same blade for last two years - I used to break my blades constantly with the hand blade method- Once I have it set up tonight I'll take actual pictures of Ringinator set up