Model Forum / General / Models / April 2007

Is there such a thing as allthread where there is a tapped hole through the
length?
Anyone know where to get some?
Thanks,

GREETINGS TO ALL!
MY NAME IS MANUEL THOMAS, I LIVE IN THE CORAL SPRINGS FLORIDA AREA. I
AM LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED BUILDER AND FLYER THAT IS WILLING TO
TAKE SOMEONE UNDER THIER WINGS. WOULD LOVE TO LEARN BUILDING AND

I have heard, and have a book that claims, that all Mustang wings were
primed and painted, with rivet depressions filled, to allow laminar
flow. A photo in the book shows a wing at the factory in prime.
However, I have other photos that show units in 1944 that are natural

At the recent Taunton show I was forced (at the price I just could not
leave it there) to buy a fair sized 60deg dovetail cutter. Problem is
that I guessed incorrectly as it turns out that I could use it in the
Bridgeport.

Kit Review: SKIF 1/35 scale Kit No. 226; T-80UDK Tank; 307 parts (292
parts in medium green styrene, 14 in black vinyl, 1 length of steel
wire); estimated retail price US$36 (note: out of production and molds
have changed hands)

I have just filled my sweet pea boiler ready for a steam test and it works
out at 37.48 bar-litres capacity. Any sweet pea owners is this about right
Thanks Bill

Just acquired one of the above from the 1950s (serial no. 3 :-).
A quick strip shows it to be very well made and eminently restorable. A
manual would help me understand some of the more esoteric jigs. Does anyone
have one or be prepared to copy one for beer-tokens please?

In my previous thread on this subject I mentioned I had chosen the wrong
scale for the Z-axis of my FB-2 mill. I contacted Alan Ward at
Machine-DRO, and he was fantastically helpful; I can strongly recommend
their service.

GREETINGS TO ALL !
MY NAME IS MANUEL THOMAS AND I  LIVE IN THE CORAL SPRINGS AREA. I AM
LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED BUILDER AND FLYER WILLING TO PASS ALONG HIS/
HER MODELLING EXPERIENCE

Gentlemen,
Daily my ears get more sore from the ear bashing I am getting from storing
at least 40 years of  ME in our caravan and as we are about to use it in the
next few weeks I am offering FOC the whole lot from around the 40s to the

What do the 'team' suggest as a good glue for expanded polystyrene
sheet to stick to itself? I am making up some temporary formwork for
an epoxy fibreglass moulding and intend to make the structure from
expanded polystyrene. When it was popular to stick patterned

Can anyone here give me a price to produce 50 or 100-off steel disks,
36mm diameter, 6mm thick with a 3.16" hole in the middle from free
cutting mild steel.  O/D is not critical, and I could probably adapt a
little to suit a standard bar size.  Too small a quantity for our

 Have no idea how you feel about the re-launch of Airfix yet again,
but unless Hornby are seriously going to drop all the old dross it
seems to me that in a few years it will be bust yet again. Let's face
it 75% of the Airfix range is dross, out of date and totally

Hi, Does any company or employee in the southeast of England eg
Kent,Sussex,Surrey,Essex have a requirement for SolidWorks 3D design.
This is a massive tool for designing anything from a resistor to a
ship. It has many time saving features. Have a loot at the website and

Is anybody going up North from down South? Somewhat OT, but I need to
get a brace of motorcycle handlebars up to Carlisle. They are not flat
and I would like them not to be flat when they are arrive. So I'm a
bit wary of using Her Majesty's Postal Dis-service.