Model Forum / General / Models / March 2007

Did anyone pick one up?
I figured what with all the painting for the sub coming up, I could save a
good couple o' quid by buying 'normal' paint and then using it to spray it
on....

Googling for miniature reamers threw up lots of hits, but nothing smaller
than 1.5 mm. What I am looking for is 1.00 mm down to 0.50 or even less. Any
ideas where I can get them? Do they even exist that small? (I need to make
some collets for an obscure and thoroughly obsolete lathe ...

wtf is that, the brit barling?
http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/1920s.cfm
a kit of that monster would be fun.

did production king tiger's normally have a mg on the
commander's cuploa? was it a normal add-on? were they used
at all? 7.62?
tanks.

Help!!
I have three adaptors from 1, 2, 3MT to 40 INT which have the name
"Bristol Erickson Ltd" scribed around them However, I don't have a
drawbar for them. I have failed to find what thread they are to make a

I've got a 5 kg carbon dioxide fire extinguisher. I'm trying to figure
out if it has been pressure tested since it was new. The markings are
a bit vague. Does anyone know what the pressure test mark looks like?
Suggestions would be appreciated.

It appears from their website that Gizmology (the index of armour
after-market products) is no longer available or in production, which
is a shame.
How do people keep up-to-date with what's out there?  If I pick up an

I've spent the last three weeks knocking together a toolpost grinder. It would
have been quicker but I had a nasty cold in the week before last and that
slowed me down somewhat. The grinder is loosely based on some of the ideas
from Prof. Chaddock, but only enough to give me ideas ...

What do the numbers in those peculiar American threads like 2-56,  4-40 and 6-32
mean ?
Thanks,

Well I've had a play with some of those formulas and I just want to run a sanity
check on my numbers, so all of you chaps with pre-programmed pocket calculators
please stand up :
50 inch EN1A bar 1 inch in diameter,  load of 10 lbs in middle of the bar.

Does anyone know of any dry storage in East Sussex where I can park my
workshop for about a year? I reckon I need something like 500-750
square foot with level hiab access for an estimated 20-25 tons
AWEM

I have a bunch of clippings from old magazine articles and am
trying to upgrade my filing system. I have seen plastic baggies sized
for documents but I don't know where to find them. They look like the
press and seal freezer and sandwich bags one buys in the supermarket

...somebody's got to start it.

I've two pre- WW1 threads one measures at 6.3mm across the threads and is
20TPI,  so I'm assuming 1/4 Whit,  the other measures 6.7mm across the
threads and is 18TPI any idea what that is?
I don't know why the two different threads have been used,  one is a stud

I finished the Revell (China) A10 Warthog just now. My skill level is
better than when I started building last October yet
this Warthog build isn't my best work.
I need lots of practice in so many aspects of plane modeling that I