Model Forum / General / Models / May 2008

So how much worse could the instructions be for this kit?  Section  #2
is just about useless. Gonna have to blow it up a lot just to see what
the pictures are.
Luckily, one of the previous posts on this kit gave a review link

Nice big pics, clear closeups of some very sweet looking builds.
Check'em out
WmB

It has been a long time since I last posted here. Anyhow, I have been going
over some of the past few weeks postings to catch up...
I am currently building a lady stephanie beam engine. I am currently making
the 'eccentric rod'. It is suppsed to be made from 1/16th MS, but I ...

I was wondering if any of you fellows know if Chris Heapy is still
the author/owner of this website .It has some good projects for small
lathes and mills.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050313085821/http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrish/h
omepage.htm

Hi,  has anyone taken the screwcutting gearbox off a Myford super 7 an
can offer any suggestions.  I'm trying to strip the lathe down to ge
the bed and saddle reground so don't want to disassemble the gearbox i
I don't need to.

Who is planning to be there? I expect to get there Friday.
Regards,
Tony

Buying 3mm aluminium sheet on Ebay, looking at a particular seller, it
works out at £50 per square meter. Then there is postage which is about
2/3rds the price of the sheet.
I'll actually need somerthing like a 500mm x 500mm sheet to cut out the

Having looked at the Hannants site, I see that the re-issues of the Airfix
Gloster Gladiator and TBD-1 Devastator are at No 5 and No 10 in the charts
respectively.
These moulds must be 40 years old.  I doubt if they have been modified in

Got a call out yesterday to a mate with a stuck locking wheel nut stopping
him changing a flat tyre. Looks like the gorillas at the tyre fitting place
he'd last been to had torqued everything up to several hundred foot lbs. The
first wheel nut key had just snapped in half trying ...

I'm making one of these little planes in 1\72 and have a question about the
painting instructions.
It says that the top and front of the fuz, the interplane struts and the
rear strutwork that the tail feathers are attached to should all be painted

Chuck Jaws, inside and outside - 120260330525

I have looked high and low and I cannot find the above kit.  Is
anybody willing to part with the Heller or AMT kit of either the A or
R model stratotanker or knows where I can buy one?
I have been on eBay, checked collections, hobby shops, and model shows

who makes the best with a brenn and without?

Anyone know where to find any?
I'm looking for summat like 18" dia by 18" long, 2 off.
dia is variable up to a point, 16" or 20" might be OK too.
I'm trying to make a motorised roller - got an engine from an old mower.  I

A few threads down is a reference to a farm aution this coming weekend
near Carlisle - could have been interresting, but a bit of a trip from
Oxfordshire!!!
Does anyone know if there are there any similar autions these days in