Minor construction question...

**lingarn** · 05-09-2006, 09:46 AM

Greetings!

I don't know if anyone has run into this, but it is a general hilt question...

What is the best way to secure an o-ring, if you don't have a machined groove for it to fit into?

Thanks,

Lingarn

**rohgan** · 05-09-2006, 10:18 AM

I'd suggest glue, probably, or, if you've got a few next to one another, glue them to each other and glue them to the hilt.

**lingarn** · 05-09-2006, 10:55 AM

That's a good idea, but what glue would you suggest that would be adherent enough without being visible?

Lingarn

**informalmyx** · 05-09-2006, 11:28 AM

you could make a groove with a file or any tool just draw where ya want the groove and lightly grind/file/cut a small notch into the metal and just at little superglue in th small groove would help alot

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**lingarn** · 05-09-2006, 11:40 AM

That's a good idea too.

Sink tubes don't give you a lot of thickness to work with, but if the dent isn't that deep, it may work out.

Thanks for your welcome! I've actually been lurking here since November or December, but haven't had a novel question until now.

Lingarn

**Jedi-Loreen** · 05-09-2006, 12:07 PM

If you are "stacking" O-rings right next to each other, you can also use square O-rings on either end, to hold them in place.

That's what Zhi-Don did with his MHS hilt and it looks like it works pretty well. Though he said it was hard getting the square ones on and took a while, those have to be real tight in order to keep the other rings in place.

If you want to space them out, then I don't know. I'd probably try making some grooves in the hilt. I've seen people try to use glue and it doesn't seem to work so well. [xx(]

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**jedijohnson** · 05-09-2006, 12:11 PM

Steal hilt, pretty hard to groove without, going through the thin steel.

Having 1/16th grooves put in a aluminuim hilt, is the way to go.

I have not found a glue that hold longs or does not cause the rubber to crack.

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**MetaDi** · 05-09-2006, 01:22 PM

Apoxy is your friend

Also i dont wanna hijack this thread but where are people getting O-rings? I hav gone to lowes and homedeopt and all ifind are the damn 10$kits with only 3 size orings that fit the MHS tube....

**Jedi-Loreen** · 05-09-2006, 01:40 PM

*sigh*

It's Epoxy, not Apoxy. I can, and do, forgive a lot of the spelling errors I see here, but not when it comes to someone's name, or the name of a product. [xx(]

 I didn't get my reputation on other boards of being a Spelling and Punctuation Nazi for nothing! [

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