My Toolbox just got Bigger!

[Nick]

I went into Lidl last week and they had a lot of hand tools that could be used for modelmaking. I came home with a set of small drill bits in a case with a pin vice handle. Only £4.99 I think from their own Parkside range.

Should be good for putting tiny holes in kits and other projects. They also had sets of saws, files and tweezers.

Like this one:  https://www.reddit.com/r/Airfix/comments/1ev4e8x/just_a_heads_up_lidl_in_the_uk_currently_have/

[Gondor]

I decided that my old set of Flex-I-Files were a little worn out. After a little searching on the web, I found a starter set for just under £13.



They should last me a while.

Gondor

[Wardukw]

I was in the need for some high quality half millimeter drill bits and with a tiny bit of work found a chap who sells em ..so I brought 20 .5mm HSS ( high speed steel ) drill bits 
A grand total of $7 nz 

[Gondor]

Received today from EBMA a 215mm Modular storage box with a 50ml paint draw and an empty draw. Very handy for outsized paint tins.

Also received from Amazon, a pack of 0.5mm drill bits, as I broke the one I had in the tail fin for my P.8

Gondor

[Weaver]

Great minds and all that...

I just received a second EBMA paint stand in the post and started glueing it together just now.

I bought it because I accidentally damaged the Micro-Sol/Micro-Set top plate for my other one: it also takes Humbrol tinlets, and I absent-mindedly pushed the lid back onto one while it was in the stand. Trouble is, the tinlets don't reach the base, being merely suspended by their rims, so in doing so, I cracked the thin bits of the top plate at either end of the "figure 8" hole. You can'y buy separate top plates (at least not officially) and it struck me that a second stand would be handy anyway (paint+thinners), so I ordered another one. I'll make up a drop-in block for this one so the same accident can't happen again.

They initially sent it without the optional Micro-Sol/Micro-Set top plate that I'd ordered, but one e-mail got a prompt reply from Andy Goodman and it arrived in the post today. Mistakes happen in the best of companies: it's how fast and well they put them right that marks the good guys out from the rest. I can heartily recommend both the company and this product.

Link: https://www.ebmahobby.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=67&product_id=74

[George the Cat]

I have been using his products for some years now at my bench. When first I had them they made such a difference. Hope to get some of the racking for acrylic paint later this summer.

EBMA are thoroughly recommended.

[Weaver]

I have been using his products for some years now at my bench. When first I had them they made such a difference. Hope to get some of the racking for acrylic paint later this summer.

EBMA are thoroughly recommended.

I'd love to try some of his other stuff, but my bench and the shelf above it are very narrow so they're not a good fit. Theres been a note on the website for years saying that they're going to make a narrow version of the range, but there's no sign of it yet, and now they've been beaten to the punch with me by cheap clear acylic dressing-table stands from a discount store, and cheap wall-mounted drawers from Aldi.

[Rick Lowe]

I finally managed to get hold of a Vacform machine, after quite a few years of nebulous plans to make one.

On special for $20 at Spotlight!! 
At that price, it would have been rude not to. It comes with 4 sheets of PET-G as well.

5.5" (14cm) square bed, so good enough for my uses.
Only need to add a vacuum cleaner, and as I have to get one anyway...

Should be good for normal styrene too.

I have immediate plans for canopies, especially as the resin printed ones didn't work at all well.

One Very Happy Modeller! 

[Gondor]

Bought on my way home to ensure I drill holes in the right place



One spring-loaded centre punch.

Gondor

[NARSES2]

I'd still have to get that in the right place 

[Gondor]

I'd still have to get that in the right place 

I do as well, however with it being spring loaded, to make the mark I just place the tip as close to where I want it, the push down. The rest is then in the lap of the gods. I bought it because I am working on Square brass tube at the moment and really needed a positive pint to start drilling from.

[NARSES2]

I'd still have to get that in the right place 

I do as well, however with it being spring loaded, to make the mark I just place the tip as close to where I want it, the push down. The rest is then in the lap of the gods. I bought it because I am working on Square brass tube at the moment and really needed a positive pint to start drilling from.

Understand that and it's a good idea. Unfortunately my stigmatism can cause real problems when it comes to trying to cut/drill anything by eye. I've often been accused of deliberately cutting a cake in "half" and grabbing the larger slice deliberately, until I prove how my stigmatism operates 

[zenrat]

I was in the need for some high quality half millimeter drill bits and with a tiny bit of work found a chap who sells em ..so I brought 20 .5mm HSS ( high speed steel ) drill bits 
A grand total of $7 nz 

Best places i've found for tiny drill bits are small specialist tool shops located in industrial areas where they serve a variety of small engineering businesses.  They usually work out cheaper than from hobby shops.  Especially if you break as many as I do.

[Gondor]

I'd still have to get that in the right place 

I do as well, however with it being spring loaded, to make the mark I just place the tip as close to where I want it, the push down. The rest is then in the lap of the gods. I bought it because I am working on Square brass tube at the moment and really needed a positive pint to start drilling from.

Understand that and it's a good idea. Unfortunately my stigmatism can cause real problems when it comes to trying to cut/drill anything by eye. I've often been accused of deliberately cutting a cake in "half" and grabbing the larger slice deliberately, until I prove how my stigmatism operates 

I still have to get the point in the right place. So far I have marked out and drilled two holes, one of which is defiantly off center. I have another twelve holes to make, and all of them are pairs of holes that are on opposite sides of the tube and have to match up.

[NARSES2]

I still have to get the point in the right place. So far I have marked out and drilled two holes, one of which is defiantly off center. I have another twelve holes to make, and all of them are pairs of holes that are on opposite sides of the tube and have to match up.

I salute you sir