My Toolbox just got Bigger!

[zenrat]

Having had a birthday I treated myself to one of these.

20251204_181326 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Works well once I found an adaptor for the european plug on the power supply.

[NARSES2]

Many, many moons ago someone, probably in one of the magazines constructed a paint shaker specifacally for Humbrol acrylics and enamels. From memory it involved an awful lot of elastic bands.

[The Wooksta!]

I remember someone at school designing and building one of these in Technology.

[kerick]

Just make sure the cap is on!
What would happen with a glass jar with a BB inside.

[Old Wombat]

Just make sure the cap is on!
What would happen with a glass jar with a BB inside.

The same as if you shake it manually ... "Don't ask, etc."<sup>©




©</sup>zenrat industries

[Steel Penguin]

Just make sure the cap is on!
What would happen with a glass jar with a BB inside.

most of the time, it will mix fine,
BUT occasionally you'll be picking glass shards out of a pool of paint.   And thats not exclusive to glass, with the plastic bottles it can slowly chew through the bottle meaning it splits and the same happens 
its come up a couple of time as warnings on the lead adventure wargames forum

[PR19_Kit]

A nice packet of Flex-i-files just arrived. 

My last lot died amidst the never ending PSR of the Dragon B build!

[kerick]

Just make sure the cap is on!
What would happen with a glass jar with a BB inside.

most of the time, it will mix fine,
BUT occasionally you'll be picking glass shards out of a pool of paint.   And thats not exclusive to glass, with the plastic bottles it can slowly chew through the bottle meaning it splits and the same happens 
its come up a couple of time as warnings on the lead adventure wargames forum

Sounds like a cover over the mixer while it's running would be a good idea.

Somewhere I saw that a fellow had turned a vibrating massager into a paint shaker. I have a small one in which the battery died so if I can figure out how to hard wire it to a cord and plug it in it might work. If there is a charging plug in the proper voltage and enough current in the drawer of things that are saved for no reason.

[The Wooksta!]

Couple of cans of primer, one was my usual Hicote but I'll come to that.  The other a new brand I'd not tried but bought as the primers I had were not quite what I was happy with - the guy in that branch said that they didn't have the usual grey Hicote.

So I went to their other branch on the West Road and got a can of my usual grey primer plus a can of Hicote Aluminium.  Getting the two was a pain - the bus broke down en-route to the West Road and on the journey back I was freezing cold as some thoughtless knacka had left a window open and there was some hateful woman shrieking at the driver for the entire journey back across the city.

[zenrat]

Just make sure the cap is on!
What would happen with a glass jar with a BB inside.

The same as if you shake it manually ... "Don't ask, etc."<sup>©




©</sup>zenrat industries

I did this manually...
Ooops! by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

...but these SMS lacquers are what I need the shaker for.  It takes forever shaking them manually.  I put the mixing ball in to try and speed things up.  Won't do that again with a glass bottle (although Zero Paints glass bottles come from the factory with balls in...).

[Rick Lowe]

I have heard of the complete bottom of a glass bottle being removed with the 'help' of a BB... 

[Gondor]

Received a Jakemy UC01 Ultrasonic cutter set today.

[Weaver]

Received a Jakemy UC01 Ultrasonic cutter set today.

Just watched a video review of that: apparently it needs a break-in period before it starts working properly, so don't be disappointed if it doesn't seem okay right out of the box.

[Gondor]

Almost straight out of the box



That's an old Airfix WWII German Bomber engine/cowling that it has cut through, like a hot knife through butter, as the saying goes. That's a Revell 1/72 Hunter cockpit tub for scale next to it, so you can see the thickness of the plastic I was cutting.

I am quite impressed.

[Charlie_c67]

I assume this is where I should be putting this.

I've purchased 6 of the AK paint pens, three allies cockpit colours and three insignia colours (which includes white and yellow, but not blue?). So far, they've all worked from the off, the yellow has needed more than one coat, but that's to be expected, and I've not got up the courage to try the white one... yet!

Main takeaway so far, protect those tips!