Model Forum / General / Models / July 2009

The best way to tell a manufacturer that their prices are to high is
to vote with your dollars. Dont buy the kit! And if you have the time
write them and tell them in no uncertain terms you will NOT buy their
over priced kits.

Be sure to watch the Videos:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090706/NEWS01/707069944&news01ad=1#Meet.Mukil
teo.engineers.model.tanks.Herman.Helmut.Heinrich.Horst.
Jack G

not too many kits were made in this scale.   this subject would have
made a great 1/35 diorama subject.
what's the history behind 1/40 and its incompatibility with 1/35 and
1/48 ?

fox movies is running flight of the phoenix today. the real one, you know,
with jimmy and curt and richard and peter. you know, the good one. just
watched jimmy swallow some pride and write pilot error.
now thats a movie. no stupid gun runners or whatever.

For those of you interested Nat Geo at 9:00 PM EST is showing Hitler's
Stealth fighter the GO 229 and a group is actually going to try and build
one so it seems could be very interesting

I am trying to watch Wimbledon in this hot weather with a fan to cool me,
but the noise and vibration from the fan is distracting. Can anybody suggest
a methodical way of balancing the fan, or is the trial and error method of
attaching weights to the blades at random my only ...

FREE
Materials
Sortout - free to good home - or bad one for that matter
To make room for two new CNC's I have had to sort out my 'spares'

Trying to get my son interested in modeling, so started with the old repop
of the Monogram Phantom mustang, with all the moving parts. However, after
getting started we found several of the gears were missing. Is Revell USA a
source for parts if the kit was molded by Revell ...

nice to see some here.

With Geocities closing soon, Plasticpusher has obtained his own domain
and completely updated the sale page with new kits to sell!
(He was locked out of Geocities for years and couldn't properly update
his page; but, that won't be a problem now.)

Has anyone got a full set of parameters for a Bridgeport Interact series 1
with a Heidenhain 151 controller please.
Power failure at workshop wiped the machine parameters, despite have good
backup batteries, which is worrying to say the least.

I have an old machine possibly from the 60's that specifies use of
Wakefield V oil in a dashpot. Wakefield was the forerunner to Castrol Oils.
Can anyone suggest what viscosity oil this might have been and a modern
equivalent.

We've lost some servicemen today and will continue to do so, as that is the
nature of the world we live in. To them and their families, and for all of
our warriors and patriots that fight the good fight here and abroad , past
and present - God Bless You and God Bless the USA.

Okay the combination of my having recently seen "Sinking of the
Bismarck", learning about an upcoming 1/144th scale kit, and then then
threads here about kit prices,  Swordfish, Civilian workers onboard,
old war movies and 1/44th scale tanks prompts me to post about this 6

I need to duplicate a screw from an old (circa 1910) British machine, but I
can't identify the thread from my references. Does anybody recognise it? 36
TPI with a diameter across the thread of 0.135".
Cliff Coggin.