Model Forum / General / Models / April 2007

Hello Gents,
After reading the responses to my request for tooling advice for m
Myford ML7, I decided to perhaps have a go at the Glanze ones Keit
(sorry, don't know surname) suggested. Chronos have sets vailable

Is it me, or are some people mad?
I've been watching an ever nasty MEC Brown chop saw (with the awful type of
no back jaw vice)on EBay, it sold for an amazing £520
Maybe I will put my old saw back together !!!

Another submarine related question here. The motor I have for it is rated at
2hp (nameplate says "Horsepower: 2").
So does this mean:
a) Max power - what I thought and a electrical engineer told me (he was a

Up this week --
VISION Resin Kit 1/4 'Commandant Lee'
Monogram Injection Plastic USS Voyager Star Trek
Monogram Injection Plastic 1/32 Phantom Mustang

One of my toolmakers is having a clearout, and I said I'd help get rid
of some stuff by giving you lot first refusal on it before it goes
elsewhere.
First off - a Shadowgraph/Profile Projector.

Greetings- I have just finished a gear hobbing attachment for my non
universal horizontal mill. The arbor is driven by a gear train, and I had to
fabricate a small table to obtain the lead angle offset of 1.7 degrees.
I am using a 16 DP, 14-1/2 PA hob with straight rows of teeth. ...

Got some sheets with nice alternatives on them.
Tried the leave it in the sun thing with other decals with no or very modest
success. Is that still the only formula or is another possible.
Hmm maybe scan remove the yellow and reprint?

Hi, I have an etch brass ships decking area approx 65mm x 15mm tapering to a
point and need to affix it to the ships smooth styrene plastic decking.
Brass is half etched 6 thou so is mostly 3thou now with some raised detail
(hatches etc )

Kit Review: Dragon Models Limited 1/35 Scale '39-'45 Series Kit No.
6357; 1,015 parts (654 in grey stryene, 288 "Magic Track" links, 67
etched brass, 4 clear styrene, 1 turned aluminum gun barrel, 1 length
of twisted steel wire); price estimated at US$44.98

On Future Weapons last nite they had a bit on the AC-130 gunship. No
reference to Iraq was made in regards to where its been used.
Anyone know if its been used in the Middle East?
Craig

HI Bill
I tried the addy in your return line but I guess it isn't a real one :-)
shoot me a line from mine. OH and could I borrow some of those nondescript
planes?

Suprisingly I don't actually want to make my own twist
drills -- after all they don't cost that much, but  am
curious to klnow how small twist drilss (say #60) are fluted.
Some victorian engineering texts which I have lying around show

I'm looking for a "tube" type sight glass capable of handling 600 psi (maybe
up to 50 C). No problem finding the "disk" type, or flat glass with the
rating, but I'd prefer a tube. Just the glass would do as we could make the
end fittings. Have any of you guys come across any good ...

Hi, all !
I'm finishing a 1/72 Mitsubishi Dinah that was forced down on a beach for a
diorama.
http://forum.modelbrouwers.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8051&highlight=dinah

Does anyone know where I might get a hydraulic hand pump suitable for
use with water and capable of supplying a pressure of 200 bar?
Preferably one which isn't exorbitantly expensive either. I know
Rothenberger make this type of pump, but as far as I can see their