Only neat because I have to clean up before dinner! Well, okay, I had to clean it up when my youngest got up from his nap... An old cookie sheet makes for a good rapid get away for the project. Now it is in a much messier (and not baby accessible) work area...Nice and neat. Nothing like any of the too many work areas I have!!
My pleasure! I got tons of advice just can't always remember it, after all these years!
Yep... I made a disk with a 1mm hex shaped hole in it for a clay tool that would squeeze out long 1mm hex string in sculpy, but baking them was a pain, and they were hard to stick down... Book punch is the way to go, wish I had the ability to fabricate a 1mm-and smaller book punch using brass tubing! I have thought about it, but getting the shape and the open tube to extract the punched out hexes is just not gonna happen anytime soon!I saw a guy make a tip for an epoxy filled syringe, that was premixed, and he would push out the bolt heads to the desired thickness, then just cut them off. The epoxy didn't stick to the syringe, so hardening wasn't an issue. Lots of ways to make these details like this. I liked Gandolf's idea though, less messy!
Perhaps 3D printing will yield the desired result. Currently such tolerances are the realm of aerospace industrial 3d printers, perhaps in a couple years we might be able to print the desired tool on the desktop printer at home. Machine cycle time is slow for doing lots of parts, but just fine for casting masters or tooling. Already there is copper PLA blends with 80% copper that can be kiln treated to remove the PLA plastic and leave a nice coppper part, brass is not out of the question now.My pleasure! I got tons of advice just can't always remember it, after all these years!
Yep... I made a disk with a 1mm hex shaped hole in it for a clay tool that would squeeze out long 1mm hex string in sculpy, but baking them was a pain, and they were hard to stick down... Book punch is the way to go, wish I had the ability to fabricate a 1mm-and smaller book punch using brass tubing! I have thought about it, but getting the shape and the open tube to extract the punched out hexes is just not gonna happen anytime soon!
What to do when power goes out... Work by a window!]
...thankfully there are places with power and free wifi!
CG Admin is working on the picture uploading issue now. It should be working within a few days.
Very much appreciated! I hope to have a few more to add to this thread when it gets fixed! Left side got the first set of rivets (or bolt heads), I hope to get the right side done and then continue assembly of the hull with the tracks.
