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If its any consolation Chris you do reach an age where you have seen it all before with politics and each generation has to experience the good and the bad. Trouble is by the time they do that and work it out...the next generation arrives :rotf. They talk about politics being democratic and a...

This stuff is like putty Paul. It bends if you look at it. My worry is i have to drill all the holes in it for the spokes and they are all at an angle. I can set it up on the drill press to drill them all at the same angle but i fear the wheel will bend under the pressure of the drill unless its...

I had my doubts about the guy when i saw his picture of ABSD-7 USS Los Alamos at Holy Loch, Scotland ? That's not Scotland, for starters the suns out... Tell him to get over it baby get over it :)

Note to self............remember to check if the frame is straight ? :)

Hi Paul The frame is pretty near now, it was 1/2" out at the front !! I cant photo it properly because i am getting a fish eye lens effect because i am to close but its much closer than it looks. once the engine is in the frame it will be 10x more rigid and once i get the forks and wheels in it...

This is 1/2" tall and consists of 16 parts !!!! You need one of these Paul, its right up your street, just not sure its your sort of subject ?

Before i go too far i have been advised to get the frame lined up. This is a task in itself, unlike plastic White metal bends and stays there and it bends very very easily.. like between finger and thumb you could put a 90 degree bend in a straight length. As its supplied its out, by the time...

Have you got a project planned Steve ? you will get withdrawal symptoms if you dont start something soon :)

Landmark day today... The engine was loaded onto a pallet and moved from the table by the window to the table by the computer for further work :) .

Presumably some fake bomb disposal men made it safe ?

Nice but really all people want is what they ordered in the promised or advertised time.

For those that dont do barreling its very much like a washing machine drum, it has ridges in the barrel so as it revolves the parts and media are lifted up on the ridges till they drop off and fall to the bottom of the barrel. The size of the chips and their shape and weight all act on the parts...

Having found an easy way of cleaning up castings i have expanded on that now. This was my original barrel set up, it was a mix of 3mm and 6mm chips with a few other odds and sods.. i have now sorted these out and just gone for the 3mm chips This works even better In order to get a...

I can only admire you patience Paul :notworthy

I had good results with lens cloths which are very tight weave but in 1/72 i think Chris is on the money with coffee filters.

I accidentally hit on a good way of cleaning up the castings. Some of the engine covers had a finish applied ie: the castings were dressed to give a smooth finish/shine. I attacked one with a 3m 1" dia flapper wheels with a super fine grit in the 1000;s but what i got was a polished finish and...

I am looking at that bomb trolly and that poor P38......maybe a little too much for it :-)

When i was in engineering we used to get travelling sales men call in, one was from loctite. We used Loctite for holding bearings on shafts and fixing interference fits permanently. One of his sales pitches was that train companies use Loctite to hold the wheels on the carriages....so it must be...

Yea i think its because you have to drill so many holes and they all have to line up, also there is a possibility that a bit could be bent or a peg could be oval and not fit in a hole etc so it does make sense. I will give it a gop...just hope it comes apart again or its going to be a very odd...