Recent content by Heavens Eagle

Love the photos Ian! Definitely a beautiful country.

Refer also to the movie "Strange Brew"

I don't think I mentioned it before, but the lathe is only the first part as you well know. I would suggest shopping by what tooling is available for it before deciding. On my lathe there were two chucks that were the hardest to get without paying an arm and a leg. The first was a good 3 jaw...

I am sure you can do it Paddy. Experience opens our minds to all kinds of things that we were never able to visualize before.

I think you were thinking of my watchmakers lathe Paddy. Picking a lathe that will do the work you "think" you might want to do is always going to be an issue. When I bought my lathe, I bought just about every attachment I could get my hands on in order to work on watches. That gave me a huge...

Ready for molding, the Mosquito Helicopter!

Don't leave the tape on very long.

For everyone watching this thread, I will be giving a "How to properly use and handle Tweezers" demo. If you have ever had issues with launching or damaging parts when using tweezers this will be quite enlightening. Part of it I will try and explain maintenance on your tweezers as well because...

Pets can be a real hazard to builds. Currently I have none and it isn't an issue. When I still had my Border Collie, the hobby room was kept closed. While he was a very good dog, there were a few rare days where he would go bat shit chasing a fly or something and stuff would get knocked over...

LOL! Tulsa Oklahoma had a white Halloween back in the early 2k's. Thought it was wild and weird at the same time. It actually snowed enough to stick and make everything white.

You can get Goo Gone here as well, but it smells so bad that I use lighter fluid.

Testors still makes the tiny bottles of paint and they have Yellow Zinc Chromate in them. Go Figure.

We still have green trees and lawns here, though it finally is dropping into the 40's tonight as we have had a bit of rain the last couple of days.

A bit. I use chopsticks and you don't rotate the chopsticks like you do the tweezers. The tweezers are held between the thumb, first and middle fingers. The squeeze and hold rotate as you rotate the tweezers. As I said, once you get it and practice a little it pretty much locks in as it...