Agree! Much easier to get a tube, rather than accordian, when the grain works with you.
Also, condenser tissue is not ideal for tubes. Shrinks too much, and the edges are like razor blades.
hbm
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "olbill61" <wdgowen@...> wrote:
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> John
> I've always run the grain along the length of the form because it's pretty hard to do it the other way!
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Barker" <john.barker783@> wrote:
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> > Bill
> > A year or so ago I did a build thread on SFA for an LPP and I included the two pictures attached here which support the idea of pushing off the paper tube with another tube. I actually stayed with the usual 1/16 wire as a mandrel and brass tube. The label 'Tube Roller' is not just for the photo' it has been on that bit of wire for years. Before I put on a label I was searching for a smooth clean bit of 1/16 wire every time I made a tube. In the build thread I mentioned that I thought it better to run the tissue grain along the length of the tube. That was a recent discovery for me but from an earlier post on this thread I gather Ray Harlan has done it for years!
> > John Barker - England
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