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oooh nice bits :)

paddy

paddy

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After a few builds of model cars and trying to figure out how to lock wire 1mm screws i found these today

unobtainium - Web Shop, purchase our 3D printed model products online

unobtainium's web shop - securely purchase our wire-wheel system for the Italeri Alfa 8C Monza in 1⁄12 scale
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Needless to say i ordered some as well as a set of five of these

unobtainium - Web Shop, purchase our 3D printed model products online

unobtainium's web shop - securely purchase our wire-wheel system for the Italeri Alfa 8C Monza in 1⁄12 scale
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Both for italeris Alfa 8C 2300 roadster

Looking forward to reporting here when they arrive. Happy Christmas to me :)

PS...suppose i better order the car as well now...
 
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Oh yes sorry i am chopping and changing here
Heavens Eagle said:
I was thinking it was something for the 1/8th kits.
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No this italeri 1/12
I do want to get on with the pocher, i am a bit sad to put it to one side but there are several reasons, one being the temp here is 0c and i have large parts to spray and i am using proper car paint so its an outside job. I did the doors which are only 5" square indoors and there is a fine layer of red dust over the whole kitchen that took me a week to clear up :) i did use an indoor spray booth with extractors but the paint is under such high pressure it bounced off the subject and the extractors couldn't cope really......just as well i am currently single :) I thought i might play with the 1/12 parts above over Christmas. I dont have any friends or family these days so its good to plan to be busy. I usually do my business accounts for the year over the holidays but i thought i would do something different this year ....lol
 
I get it Paddy. Sorry to hear you have no friends close by. I am in somewhat the same boat here in Memphis. It seems these days most of my friends are on MA which is fine by me.
 
Snap Paul
More than happy to socialize here as long as people put up with my recent "abandoned half way" through builds :)
I have always been someone who would find it hard to choose between as good friend...and a Labrador... except with a Lab you get a good friend anyway :)
 
Anyway the bits arrived in under 24 hours and i think we are in with a chance here,

This is the basic set , rim ,hub , Spinner and valves along with out of focus spoke nipples

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obviously you get 5 wheels etc


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and these are the lockwire bolts with correct square heads drilled through

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Rather bizarrely the whole lot comes with a roll of .15mm wire for the spokes which is way to small, i rang the guy up and he said thats all he could get and it should be .3mm really
Well i think it should be 0.4 mm to give a true 5mm spoke however the rims and nipples are drilled .3 so i will order some .3mm Nickel silver rod... which will be about .4mm once its painted though i might not paint them, not sure yet

Its a novel design with the frame on the rim designed to hold the hub in position till its laced up . not seen it done like this before, it might be a problem if you want to paint the rims first before you cut the jig off the back...
 
That works also. But it's kinda a catch all for us. Kind of like "hold up a min" or "Let me have a try".

"That's the dumbest thing I've seen." said Eric
"Hold my beer." Bob replied.
 
Strange question but has anyone any idea what thickness the spokes might have been ona 1930 car wheel ???
A motorcycle wheel would have had about a 4mm spoke but i seem to envisage a car spoke as being much thicker like E-type jag spokes ?
 
OK so at the moment i think these are my options...

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clockwise
0.3mm nickel silver spoke with 0.6mm bras nipple home made

0.15mm spoke with 3D printed nipple Kit supplied

0.45mm spoke with no nipple home made

To me the 0.3mm is the best bet, 0.3mm x12 (scale) is 3.6mm spoke but dia seems to vary with the number of spokes and these wheels are unusual as they have 3 rows or 72 spokes a wheel.
Only ref i can find is a austin 7 of the same year as the alpha with 5mm spokes but half as many....

i suppose it comes down to what looks right but it seems a bit pointless swapping inaccurate kits wheels for equally inaccurate after market wheels.
 
Agree option A looks about right, down side is 5 wheels , 70 spokes = 350 bits of brass tube for the nipples :)
I would have got 3mm through the 3D printed nipples but half of them dont have a hole right through and i cant hold them to drill them, even lightly holding between fingers crushes them so a drill bit just tears them up.

Also the spokes are not straight so i need to make some kind of jig to form them......i hope this is worth the bother lol
 
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