Recent content by Heavens Eagle

I have a set of the diamond hones that Saúl posted but use them for dealing with metal parts. The 1200 works really good for removing nibs on photo etch parts. It even works on the steel PE parts. Then I have a set of credit card sized diamond hone cards. 400, 600, and 1200 grit. As I have...

Bob Letterman's daughter Gail posted this link earlier to the Facebook page "=AZZZKbPr-egZDBnFDAhIkWn01n4w282x-uyDoi7vSo81qegdwQZED_icoVniUmu8sRK1BmofcifmgmkVzExS-hPS11hZcxifxj81FVpouokl3Sby94wxR8_ucDuJ8L1E4wEyHKtAVJ3rISM6DdazX-_p&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R']Bob Letterman -The master of the large...

I mostly use metal files. Have used them for years. Only use sanding sticks etc. for light blending and final finishing. I must have 30-40 files minimum in my collection. Everything from expensive super fine watchmaker escapement files, through a couple of sets of needle files, riffler files...

It is a standard watchmaker lathe. IF I were to haunt Ebay for a while, I "might" find a 16 inch Boley bed or lathe. The standard beds are 11 inches long, and the headstock is about 3 inches as is the tail stock. You can nudge them off the ends a bit and get away with it, but you will still...

I just got some spare gaskets and parts for my H & S airbrushes. Been watching Midwest Airbrush Supply and they were always out. Then over last weekend was looking through my cardex file at the Badger entry. At the bottom of the entry was a supplier that I had not looked at in several years...

Only for leveling more than anything. These seem to be about the only parts really needing this.

I wish I had more. Have a tube someplace, and squeeze a bunch out into an old Testors liquid glue bottle. Add MEK when it gets thick. Works pretty good that way.

I have done a bit on this over the last week or so, thus it is time for a small update. I guess this weekend I will be building an extension for the lathe bed so that I can add a turning center to the other end of the barrel. As I will be just turning this all by hand, it doesn't...

LOL! I also keep my head down and avoid females completely. A double "War Dept" would be a bad thing if it got fired up. My dad was my mom's mom's favorite son in law. She basically got my parents together. One time when I was just a few months old, my dad and grandma decided to go fishing...

I have an old Revell P47 kit that is unbuildable due to a major short shot to a fuselage tail, but that is someone with bb for a brain not doing their job. Umm, Bob, I looked at the photos for those grab handles. The WWII photos don't seem to have the handles. They are on the restoration...

Thanks! That will help a lot once I get all the sub assemblies built up. The weathering and wear on that one that the G.I. is messing with is pretty severe. In enlarging the photo, it also looks like the units were originally grey and overpainted with desert sand and some green.

Thanks for the photo and clarification of which gun this is. I thought there was something "not quite right" with it. The photo I posted was one that came up when I did an internet search. I did find a walkaround for an s. FH 18 that is being quite helpful with details. That gun is a display...

Here are a couple of photos of my watchmaker lathe. It gets used a bit. Some for watch repair, and a fair amount for hobby which keeps my skills up for the watch repair stuff. Then there are a bunch of collets, chucks, special collets and other tools that I have stowed away in a drawer below.

What Saúl said...