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A lot depends on the construction of your paint booth, but getting a furnace filter big enough to cover the inlet of the air system and duct tape into place. If the system is open air with an exhaust side then it becomes more difficult. Arranging several like you were building a card house might wor...

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The site did not work for me either - 10:15 CST.
I will keep trying back every so often.

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I have some of that 'Wire Glue'- very disappointing. It does not conduct very well and is not much of a glue.
They do make some conductive epoxies- I had a thread looking for some like that a couple of weeks ago. They are expensive and I have not bought them yet.

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I probably use 'tensile' strength incorrectly- what I was refereing to is what you called shear strength. I hate buildnig something and then having a part 'opo off when the model is stresses. I stick to epoxies (pun unintended) for resin kits and good old fashioned testors tub gell glue for styrene....

Personally I hate the 'super-glues'. They stick tightly but have no tensile strength- some stress and the part is loose with just dust. I like to use styrene plastic since it is what I have used most of my life and I know how to push it. Acrylic is great for some uses but it is harder to work with I...

If you have not already try this forum-
http://www.eagletransporter.com/forum/

This is the largest group of experts in all things Eagle andthey have dealt with vrtually every problem you can think of. (Jim Small is a member ther also).
It is easy to join and everyone there is eager to help.

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Loads fast on my cable connection- interesting gadget but I tend to power my projects with a regulated external power supply.

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Welcome to the Forums!
It sounds like a great project you are working on- be sure to take notes and some photos of it in progress- others may wish to try a similar things.

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Custom colors and subtle panel color changes.
I do tend to use rattle can and brush more (well most of the time since my brush died), but as mentioned above you can get some great scale surface appearences with th eairbrush.

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I always look at kits as points of departure- even if it is just adding some detail where things seem blank.
I htink the only kits I have build OOB in the past 30 years are the Bandai Star Trek ships- they fit together like watches and already have the aztecing painted on.

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I need to check at work Monday- we just engraved two 3/4" thick 4'x8' panels for edge lighting- looks like floating neon...

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Same here- Epoxy is best for that sort of thing. CA sticks well but has no strength - it can pop to dust with any flexing/pressure.

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It may not match the sequences prefectly but there is a way to get the sensors to light up and flash without full circuit creation. I go through the toy section in thrift stores, Target, Walmart & such. There are a lot of toys wich have flashing LEDs in them. I tear apart the toy and usually the...

I like that idea!
It should work if the latex and silicon play well together. I have the first latex coat dry, I will add a second layer of latex and then try the silicon instead of the third coat..

Y'all remember that next time you scream "IS IT READY YET???" for your kits.. I believe if you check back I was one of the very few who did pull the "IS IT READY YET???" routines. I got rid of that when I realized that the kits I bought on first day of issue aer still unbuilt af...

It does take a lot of thin coats to build up a stable mold- my first one took a week. I am letting them airdry for half a day or so- I won't add aanother coat until the curent one loses it's "white". Pollon season is finally past so I can set them in the sun- I am not in a big hurry so mec...

Well it looks like I am going to have to go back to making a Latex mold for this current project. I do not have the funds to get a bunch of new materials just for a three castings. I will deal with making some new silicone molds and baking hem IF there are going to be additioanl casting fo rothers, ...

I used the Alumilite 'Quick Set' RTV mold and cured for 24 hours before using (the frakk'n instructions never mentioned anything about heat). I wll get some acetone tomorrow and try to get it cleaned up- I do not have a lot of materials to work with here so I would rather not waste some of the casti...

Is the mold salvagable or do I need to scrap it and make a new one?

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HELP! OK- I screwed up- the question is how badly. My second attempt for a mold I went with Alumilite Silicone. Mixed it to a perfect 1 to 10 ratio, used a set of Legos for the mold box. I was doing a one sided mold so I just poured the compound, placed the piece into the top nd held it down with m...

Nothing fancy-
EasyCast clear casting epoxy.
The mold was from brushed on latex mold builder (many layers)

I know there are much better materials and methods but I just needed to make this one part for my project. Now that I know it is so much fun I will get more ambitious for the next one.

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I am not picky- I will accept ANY kind of luck these days...

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Below is a casting of the Reactor Wall from the Moebius Flying Sub (to go on the port side)
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e267/ ... 0055-1.jpg
First time I tried to cast something.

Yea!

Details of current problem in lower post

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Sign supply shops usually have it in stock and can provide 18"x24" or 4'x8' sheets. We get it all the time from a loca supplier- your phone book should give you several choices but call for pricing- some palces are much more expensive than others.

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IIRC there used to be a way of hot-rodding AMD CPU chips by using a pencil to bridge certain parts of the chip top.

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I would go with copper tape instead of this conductive glue. The sample I bought and tried (from the link above0 beaded up into clots and was not very conductive- I ran the metter on several lengths. It also does not stick to anything very well for being a 'glue'. It does work enough to decribe as t...

http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp?pn=3035852&cmss=conductive&bhcd2=1236372510 I tried this last year- I ran a metter over differnt lengths of it and found it does conduct but not well. It also bries into a brittle film which flakes off most surfaces. I had hoped to use it for lighting...

I like it!

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Rechargable batteries have to be replaced after time- that would be rather difficult with them built in. Inducting power is spreading- there are devices for recharging your cellphone/PDA/iPod things by just placing them on a tabletop. Those are recharging batteries, but the power transfer is the sam...