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5019 Fehskens, Len
lfehskens Offline Send Email
Nov 1, 2002
2:49 pm
... I do this all the time (for paper to plastic bonds) and it works great, though I almost always back it up with a yellow glue fillet. I use Plastruct white...
5020 Steven Rogers
steven_austi... Offline Send Email
Nov 1, 2002
3:17 pm
... That would be the Stone Soup of plastic glues, would it not? ;) ... I will admit that it works if done carefully, and on a part that doesn't load the...
5021 petealway@... Send Email Nov 1, 2002
4:47 pm
In a message dated 11/1/02 1:15:24 AM, srogers1@... writes: << I try not to pull out the CA unless I really need it. Somehow, no matter how careful I...
5022 Chad W. Cox
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Nov 1, 2002
5:01 pm
I would use rubber cement or double faced tape to attach the pattern to the balsa. Or you can use what they call a pounce wheel. It is pen shaped tool with a...
5023 Fehskens, Len
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Nov 1, 2002
5:09 pm
... See, for example, http://www.dxmarket.com/micromark/products/15200.html len....
5024 petealway@... Send Email Nov 1, 2002
5:12 pm
In a message dated 11/1/02 11:03:25 AM, ccox@... writes: << How best to transfer a pattern to balsa and cut it out? I've printed the pattern and cut it...
5025 doug holverson
dholvrsn Offline Send Email
Nov 1, 2002
5:18 pm
... I use a felt tip pen because it doesn't indent the balsa. ... I also use the table. DGH...
5026 A Senna
asennad Offline Send Email
Nov 1, 2002
6:04 pm
You must be talking about Ambroid "Proweld". I was thinking the original Ambroid wood glue. http://www.ambroid.com/Ambroid.html Why I ask is that I tried a...
5027 doswonk Offline Send Email Nov 1, 2002
6:46 pm
... my ... stuff. Gee, I hate it when that happens, especially if that fresh can of beer is also stuck to the cat. My only sticky situation with super glue...
5028 Steven Rogers
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Nov 1, 2002
7:24 pm
... I have a big wooden cutting board that I use for cutting on and as a sanding "block" by moving the part rather than the block. I also have really gotten to...
5029 Fehskens, Len
lfehskens Offline Send Email
Nov 1, 2002
7:30 pm
... Think of it as a laser cutter with solidified photons. len....
5030 Steven Rogers
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Nov 1, 2002
7:32 pm
... Yeah - I've never seen any of their other products. Have to give them a try. I like that "dissolves a thin surface layer" in the Pro Weld description....
5031 Sean Lannan
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Nov 1, 2002
8:54 pm
... I've had the same problem. The Ambroid Wood Glue was highly recomended in the old Model Roketeer as being a very lightweight glue for gliders. I could...
5032 Steven Rogers
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Nov 1, 2002
9:19 pm
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5033 Steven Rogers
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Nov 1, 2002
9:34 pm
... And now I shall appropriately say DOH! and redirect you to this: http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldrockets/vwp?.dir=/ &.src=gr&.dnm=Just+say+DOH!.jpg...
5034 kwickart@...
rocketguy_61761 Offline Send Email
Nov 1, 2002
11:29 pm
... K-series >>numbers. ... I just winged it. And far too many of my models--then and now--were in my signature "winter camouflage" paint scheme. ... I am,...
5035 Doug Sams
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Nov 2, 2002
2:58 pm
Peter Alway wrote: <anip> ... This works great for fins and the like; not so hot when you're working on your car :) FWIW, I use both. When trying to even out...
5036 Mike Upton
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Nov 2, 2002
5:35 pm
Several years ago on the night of the 23rd of Dec. I was enjoying my Christmas break and sitting in my favorite modelbuilding chair watching tv and building a...
5037 Jim Flis
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Nov 2, 2002
6:55 pm
Maybe we could call Letterman about an episode of "Stupid Hobby Tricks"... LOL...
5038 doug holverson
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Nov 2, 2002
8:26 pm
Does it show your age if you still refer to Estes igniters as Solar Igniters? What year did these go from being optional add-ons to coming standard with Estes...
5039 Craig McGraw
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Nov 2, 2002
9:05 pm
... From: "doug holverson" <dholverson@...> Subject: [OldRockets] solar igniters ... I still refer to them that way... "Solar Igniters" were already a...
5040 kwickart@...
rocketguy_61761 Offline Send Email
Nov 2, 2002
10:13 pm
In spite of the odds, my own CA nightmares are secondhand. When I first started using CA to build competition models, my wife Rachel bought me a bottle of...
5041 doswonk Offline Send Email Nov 3, 2002
1:46 am
"Solar" igniters were necessary if you wanted to use your "Solar Launch Controller," which was powered by a mere 4 AA cells. (And there was not a thing...
5042 Craig McGraw
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Nov 3, 2002
2:22 am
... From: "doswonk" <doswonk@...> Subject: [OldRockets] Re: solar igniters ... Probably meant to imply the new igniters got "hot as the sun" on less...
5043 Starlord
starlordcomm... Offline Send Email
Nov 3, 2002
2:31 am
And those igniters still brake apart, I've found more than one pack of new ones that where all trashed. I used up the very last of the old 12v wire ones last ...
5044 Craig McGraw
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Nov 3, 2002
2:34 am
... From: "doswonk" <doswonk@...> Subject: [OldRockets] Re: solar igniters ... The earliest I can see for both is 1973. I thought they came a bit earlier...
5045 Craig McGraw
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Nov 3, 2002
2:40 am
... From: "Craig McGraw" <bayshore@...> Subject: Re: [OldRockets] Re: solar igniters ... Big oops here... Didn't go back through the pages far enough... ...
5046 Doug Sams
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Nov 3, 2002
3:03 am
... I'd say that's as good of an explanation as I can think of....except for one thing - the Solar stuff (ignitors and launch controllers) both came on the...
5047 doswonk Offline Send Email Nov 3, 2002
4:12 am
... I like the "hot as the sun" theory. The tiny length of very thin nichrome between two thicker leads was a clever idea. But I was always a Sure-Shot fan....
5048 Wolfram v.Kiparski
astronwolf Offline Send Email
Nov 3, 2002
4:15 am
... I don't think that anyone still refers to them as Solar igniters. ... I don't know, but I can tell you that the original Estes Solar igniters were not the...
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