Model Forum / General / Models / July 2006

Does anybody know the name of an old wwii desert movies, intro goes like
this......
bloke driving in  a jeep with a dead buddy in passenger side, Lilli Marlene
(in german) on the radio, he hits a certain point changes radio to Radio

I have decided I need a bench pillar drill. Ideally to be used both for
modelling and some full size car/bike engine parts, i.e. robust enough
to handle the odd 1/2 inch hole. I already have a big range of 1MT and
2MT drills, and several chucks, which may swing things.

First let me apologize for asking an actual "on topic" question.  I was
wondering if anyone has built the Tamiya kit #61080 MIG 15 BIS CLEAR
(Visible) EDITION 1/48 MODEL KIT.

I took delivery of a new Warco BH600 last week. Finally got the chanc
to play with it today. When I plugged in, very little happened. There'
a green ON light on the front, which is indeed glowing green. But th
motor is not turning. I have the change-wheel cover on and th

I need to move a chiller unit from Merthyr Tydfil to Bromley - anyone
know any transport contacts down there that could put it on a pallet
and ship it? Unit is about 1metre square and 1.75 metre tall weighing
380 kgs. This is it:

I have all the parts to a Ki-43 Oscar / Hayabusa, recovered from my
Hurricane Katrina flooded house.  The plastic parts were sealed in a
celophane bag but the instructions, decals and the box were eaten up by the
chemical / sewerage contaminated water.  I was wondering if anyone ...

will they ever release the 1/48 lanc? prices are retarded.
but i wonder what the re-release would go for? any rumours,
gossip, crystal balls?

hello im back online after a major crash with the PC. I have lost the lot,
all address, photos, docs and worse of all I have lost 5 years of web
favourites. my fault I guess I should have backed up more often but the
usual why of 'it wont happen to me' got in the way.

HELP!! How do I get the Tufnol gears on the tumbler reverse off of the
arm they are mounted on!!!
Thanks all!

The variable speed controller on my Chester mini lathe has died, it's a 2A,
220 V DC brush motor and looks like a pulse width modulation controller.
Anyone know of either a circuit or a supplier of a board? I've found a
simple12/24 v circuit but I don't want to waste time ...

I've finished adding a low speed range to my Seag C6B.  It works well,  but
not as expected.
In its original state,  the C6B has a single speed range 0 - 2000rpm.
The motor pulley is 67mm and the spindle pulley is 135mm. From this,  I've

I have a small lathe - Made in China! - with an 80 mm self centering 3
jaw chuck. It is about 0.003" out of true. Has anyone tried truing up
chuck? I had a look at the US 7 x 10 web site and someone there
describes a method, but it is not all that clear, or at least to me it

shortbed Harrison M250.

Anyone else having problems with the bt mail server
mail.btinternet.com ?
Not been able to get it to respond all this evening (Sunday) either
via webmail or Outlook.

This airplane guy would much appreciate some aftermarket 1/35 Sherman track
advice, please.
I've come into possession of Dragon's M4A1 76mm "Operation Cobra" Sherman.
While I'd like to build it pretty much out of the box, I'd rather not deal