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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2014 20:05:29 GMT -7
Wow. As soon as I unpack my stuff again, I'm going to have to try this. I'm intrigued now.
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Post by sharp on Sept 13, 2014 15:37:55 GMT -7
Here 's something i found out. Got tired of buying detail master spark plug wire,because you only get a small amount of wire for your money.I was on ebay and found wire that looks to scale for 1/24 1/25.The wire is called kynar wire 30 awg comes in different colors.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2014 16:36:17 GMT -7
DAMN thats like opening aserious can of worms with me, LOL
My biggest secret? IF I told you all one of them then I'd be tried for murder... you tell it, its no longer a secret!!!!!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Um, I make a lot of my own parts, either molded, OR machine made on a mini metal lathe, or mini milling machine!
I use A LOT of Evergreen styrene sheet, and structural shapes? Rip old electronics apart for the power supply in them? MAKES GREAT fuel lines, and even spark plug wires if you get a smaller transformer, the smaller the smaller diameter of wire....
I go yard sale hopping to find all sorts of things specifically knitting needles, the big "metal" ones, they're aluminum, turns GREAT in the lathe! I actually keep a LOT of the model part "sprues" too, they turn well in the lathe, as well as solid plastic toilet plunger handles!!!!
IF you need chunks of plastic sheet thats thick? go to your local glass repair place....They will have JUNK sections of plexi-glass that they can't sell, normally tossed out, THESE are also GREAT for our modeling if you need thick sheet....My neighbor supplies me about every 6 months or so with stuff from .080 thick to quarter inch, FREE....Takes plastic weld GREAT ad if you need a stronger bond? PVC "pipe glue does a wonder too....For me it also machines well, I've milled it and if you stack it glued together with PVC glue, it can be turned in as metal lathe!
Not only do I use lathe bits in my lathe, and milling bits "end mills" in the milling machine, BUT I also use router bits! It cuts wood right? hard or soft wood? WELL why not styrene or even plexi, or Lexan? Makes a heck of a mess but if you need a "shape"? Why not?
The knitting needles, makes fittings, or fuel filters that slip over the wire used for the plumbing to the engines....
Have a look at my '70 Plymouth Roadrunner....that 440 6 pack the wire and the filters, are ALL from things that were made on my metal lathe!
Got a drill press? need to "center drill" something? IF it can be held in the drill chuck? Put that round object into the chuck, bring the table up to the item WITH a drill press vice on the table, have the jaws of the vice open, bring the chuck down into the vice to then clamy the object in the vice. Once its tight, loosen the chuck to release the object, then put a smaller then needed bit into the chuck, AS FAR AS IT WILL GO, so just the point sticks out....
Put a "dimple" onto the the object DO NOT try to drill it! Then once you dimple the object, bring the drill bit down out of the chuck, drill it as needed with a SMALLER then needed hole....This is called step drilling.
WHEN you got that done, put in the size of drill you actually need, continue to drill object, it is not CENTER DRILLED without a LATHE! ANY drill press will do this, you just have to know how....
I know, I have a fully stocked shop, but the rest of the world aren't lucky and may have certain shop tools, BUT I also can take a real 1:1 and bore it! I'm a machinist, and there are times that it doesn't have to be dead accurate BUT you need if for whatever reason, WELL this is how you learn things....
Turning, you have an crank adjustable drill press? Thats a vertical lathe! Use your vice as a tool holder, chuck the round object in the chuck, and move the table up and down as the bit touches the object, removing or shaping the item in the chuck!
A lathe is nice, sure is, BUT without the milling machine, the lathe would not exist!!!! A milling machine can reproduce itself and any other tool made and not need any other tool to do it! A lathe just makes turning round objects easier and longer a Mill will be limited to its height unless you got a hole in the floor it sits on LOL
Guys, who here wants to add carburetor return springs for the linkage? THAT spring, you get 3 for something like 3 or 4 bucks.....I use Kadee coupler springs.....They come 40 to a pack for $3.00 "Kadee" makes couplers for scale model trains HO scale "1:87th" scale works the best for the carburetor springs.....AND I got plenty for awhile!
Save all my "empty" Testors paint bottle or well ANY small glass bottles that seal when closed for mixing paint colors.
I haven't bought paint thinner from the paint company in 20 years! I buy it bulk from Home Depot, Lacquer, Xylene, MEK, Mineral Spirits by the gallon..... Altho the paint company bottles for thinner are nice to have around for mixing paint!
WOW thats alot! There are a few secrets.....AND some teachings!
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