Model Forum / General / Models / July 2009

Has there ever been a scale model of this venerable icon?
http://www.reedberry.com/wienermobile.html
Scratch build time?
The reason I ask is it was just in an accident - no injuries/minor

Brown and Sharp type gear cutters each cover a limited range of teeth
numbers.  E.g. a number 6 cutter covers 17-20 teeth gears, and a
number 5 cutter covers 21-25 teeth.  As I understand it, the cutters
are exact for the lowest number of teeth, becoming less and less

Is there anyone here with the equipment and skills necessary to repair
an exhaust silencer? The 1947 Dennis motor mower that I'm restoring has
an unusual silencer. The outer skin of the silencer is rusted through in
several places, but I cannot find a similar replacement. The ...

Using 5 min epoxy to glue larger scale figures, legs and arms.
Instructions are a bit vague as to how much will do the job.
Any experience here as to how much/little you can get away with to get
the job done?

Can anyone point me at a UK supplier of nylatron washers, size 4mm ID
6mm OD?
Cheers,
Paul

This movie might give you some fodder for scratchbuilding, etc.
Wonder if Dragon knows about this movie, don't they do all the fantasy
German aircraft kits?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KEueJnsu80

http://www.idf-armor.blogspot.com/
for IDF modelrs

heard 21st. Century Toys is going out of business?
does anybody know more?
i had the chance to buy 150 planes and 1200 tanks in scale 1/144 off
wal mart has taken them out of the sortiment, too?

Bit of a shot in the dark but.......
I'm looking for some small pinions for a one off project and it occurs
to me that the planet gears from a S-A hub gearbox might just be around
the right size.

hi all , its been an age since ive posted, but im back for advice! i
anyone familliar with the 4 postion toolpost these use, not the quic
change type! mine doesn't index, and has a nut on the top which need
nipping up. the correct handle is on, the internal parts are there

Bob:
There is a complete gear set available, it was a bit rusty due to lack of oil,
but I have cleaned it up a bit in some thinners, and all the gears look fine. A
bit of oil and they all spin OK and no bad play in anything. There is the sun

Though otherwise in excellent condition my recently acquired Student 1800
has no No Volt relay. All that remains is a black blob that at some point,
after it melted, has been removed from the circuit :-)
Any thoughts on a suitable replacement and a source welcome.

I watched "Strategic Air Command" on one of the movie channels last
night (for about the fifteenth time) and enjoyed just about every
minute of it.
The aerial photography was superb - again.

I need a MT3 test bar, accurate to a hundredth of a mm, and preferably
to a couple of microns, at say 150 mm.
I also need an MT3-MT2 reducer sleeve, accurate to something better than
the 3 thou plus the horrible one I bought from Chester is - and