Model Forum / General / Models / February 2007

Recently received a handful of ROCO Minitanks models, including the
West German HS-30 IFV of the '60s.  I can't find crap for references
about it - and it's a fascinating vehicle, seemingly ahead of its
time.  I have Googled, and found a few short paragraphs and pictures,

Anyone heard of Spabo brand face mills?
I got three different sizes of these in a job lot of cutters recently,
they use a square insert on edge. The insert is held in place with
what looks remarkably like a bent nail through the centre of the

i want at least one of al's kits. i have thousand of spare
parts he sent, but it ain't the same. is this kit ok? i
realise in that scale it won't show much, but it fits the
space i have.

I could do with knowing a UK source for small boxes to put oddments in,
current work in progress parts in , that sort of thing. That would stack,
with lids. Currently using tesco pasta trays but stacking sees contents
vulnerable as they have no lids.

Greetings to All!
Has anyone out there built a Korean war era M-39? Is there a "straight
from the box kit" available or maybe an M-18 conversion set you'd
recommend? Or if it comes to it, a good reference for a scratchbuilt

I know Myford's massive publicity and marketing department will
probably broadcast this through all available channels, TV ads, Spam e-
mails etc, but for anyone they might miss, they are having a 'Spring
Show' at the works at Beeston, sale items, new and used stuff ,

Need to do a house extension so this lot is on ebay :(
Myford Super 7 Lathe.
Stand for the above.
BCA precision Jig Borer.

many on ebay now. really a sad site.

I usually avoid the Supermarket shopping like the plague but about 3
weeks ago my wife mentioned that they had started doing a lot of tools
on promotion in the local Tesco's. So to earn a few "smartie points" I
obviously offered to help next time she went. I turned up "to help" as

Anybody see anything terminally wrong with this ebay item no 140087278572
before I sell a couple of the kids and jump in?
I realise that now I have drawn everybodys attention to it the price is
going to be silly - DOH!

I have, or had, a yellow marker pencil that was great for marking
metal parts. It had a wooden 'casing', so to speak, and a soft waxy
'lead'. Unfortranately I seem to have sharpened it down to a stub, and
lost that.

(Posted to uk.rec.models.engineering and uk.rec.engines.stationary)
Looks like we may have some more storage heaters coming out of a substation near
us, if anyone wants some of the bricks, let me know asap please.
Peter

The current West Point Machine Tools flyer came this morning, and I was browsing
through at tea break to see what was on offer and looking for the occasional
bargain (I live in hope!)
What did strike me was that even relatively old machinery still seems to command

ALDI have their compressor with tools back on sale again from thursday
1st March for £59.95
I bought one about 15months ago and it has been pretty useful, even
the gravity fed spray gun and air brush that came with it have worked

I was wondering what came first, or what is the story of a machine that has
the turret arm with a cast plate that only says "Bridgeport" as opposed to
one that says "Bridgeport by Adcock & Shipley"
Would the one not marked A & S be an American import?  I have both, and feel