Model Forum / General / Models / October 2006

Is there a UK supplier of non ferous metals in powder and nugget form?
cheers
Bob

Does anyone know where I can get some lead powder?
And some Arsenic?
cheers in advance.
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Just trying to thin the herd.  I prefer to ship to USA only, but will
consider other places if feedback is good. Thanks for looking!
Original Car/Auto Transporter (Hauler) Revell built N/R    Item number:
200034807461

Sometime in the next few  weeks  I may have a need to do some fairly
wide flycutting on some Aluminium plates. Depth of cut won't be really
large, just enough over a few passes to get it quite flat.
The problem is these plates will be about 10"-12" wide and around 18"

I've got a nice Dickson T1 toolpost on my lathe with a slack handful
of toolholders. However I've found that original toolholders are like
rocking horse crap (and slightly more expensive). The replica ones
just don't fit very well.

Anyone got a source for a decent-sized DPDT switch.  Rated about 240V, 30A
would do.  If it has an "off" in the middle, so much the better.  
want it for a reversing switch for a single-phase motor, on my Colchester
Student.  Currently, the motor is only 1.5HP, and I have a 2-gang ...

Question for you peeps, was wondering if anyone can come up with a
better way.
I have 10 steel discs, about 20mm diameter, 4mm thick, that I need to
hold & put a groove in one face of.

I am lucky enought to be near a good hobby shop that has lots of
Humbrol / Heller / Airfix kits and supplies in stock.  I was thinking
about speculating with some $$$$ with hopes that the value of these
items will climb as the supply goes away.  Anyone have any thoughts??

Hi Troops:
    For those of us in the USA, a question. Do you think gasoline will get
down below $2 a gallon before the election, and what do you think the
odds are of it getting back up to $3 a gallon by Christmas???

I'm looking for a brass, stainless or plastic fitting with a 5/8" BSP
parallel or taper male OD.
Ideally it should have a 3/8" BSP female thread but I can tap out a
smaller one, reduce a larger one or adapt a male to male.

Picked up a nice 24" Chesterman contraction ruler from eBay. It has fou
scales:
A CONT 1/96"
K CONT 1/64"

Got a couple things from last auction that didn't sell, plus some other
real collectibles. Just check out the burgundy Aurora Me109!
Vac LOT! Astra Avro CF100, CF105, VP CT-114 1/72
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=014&item=330037723909

Does anybody know a source for steel M2 bolts with a halfround head an
without a slot, emulating a rivet?
Thanks
Johanne

Just thought I'd share this with you
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=017&item=270036984423&rd=1&ss
pagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
ow many week's wages were they when new?
(I'm using Thunderbird  -  that link looks a bit long. Apologies if it

I was just on ebay.........As usual, I clicked on toys and then took
the model kits tab.  When I started to scroll down, there was a couple
of pictures of girls in bathing suits there.  I laughed to myself and
thought I was looking at a different kind of "model"  I clicked on one