Thread: Is this problem fixable and how?

Should be no problem. CA is fairly brittle when it is a thin coating on the bushes.

Hold the pen body and grip the bush gently with pliers (wrap something around the bush if you don't want to mark it but not necesary).

Give the bush a small "jiggle" or turn with the pliers and the CA should break it's grip on the timber, then pull the bush out and lightly sand the end of the timber to remove the bits of CA.

Don't be too afraid, it happens fairly regularly.

Clean the excess CA off the bushes...it chips off fairly easy.

OK WoodKid, put it back on the lathe, use the edge of a Skew, and lightly make a small cut as close to the blank as possible, do this for all 4 ends, then take it off the mandrel , hold one end of the bushes with a pair of pliers and remove the bush, requires quite a bit of tugging and twisting, you should be able to get them off in that way.
Some peolple put the whole thing in the freezer for couple of hours or so, then try the same thing, apparently the difference in expansion and contraction helps break the bond the CA has. Amos

thanks for that i got it apart i only had 1 small fracture but i can hide it under the clip.
can you guess what the wood is?

Is it Pine ??? Amos

At a guess, Concaberry?

wrong and wrong i dont think its a very good picture for seeing what wood it is, its mistletoe off of an Iron Bark

Little trick can help with this…
Take the bushings and before you begin to apply the CA, wax them.
Just mount them on the mandrel, make a spacer to hold them snug, and wax the living daylights out of them with Minwax, bees wax or automobile wax, (use the none abrasive kind).
Be sure and get the nubs or ends that go inside the brass tube, so any CA that manages to get in there during finishing wont stick.
The wax will keep the CA from adhering very well to the bushings.
Once you have finished the CA coating, take a hobby knife/Xacto knife and do something similar to what Amos said, score the bushing right where it meets the pen…do not do this with the lathe running, simply rotate by hand and score the seam.
(with the lathe running you run the risk of finding the Xacto knife buried in odd and painful parts of your body)
The bushings will come out of the pen a lot easier; you may find you can simply wiggle them out by hand.