Small, circular, styrene disks...
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- Lt. Z0mBe
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Small, circular, styrene disks...
Wise and Sagely Modelers,
I bring a question before the council of construction. I need to either buy or make six or eight styrene (or ABS) perfectly-circular disks of styrene. They need to be no thicker than .010" thick, and slightly smaller than what a hole punch makes in paper. My hole punch is just a hair too big.
I have no punch and die set (I know.... ). I also don't have a hobby shop near by which carries them. I also need to get these parts made pretty quickly, leaving mail order out of the question.
Are there different sizes of paper hole punches? Is there some generic tool I am overlooking? Is there some technique I have net yet developed? Is there some craft store source?
Help me my brothers. I have prayed and fasted all day in front of the blessed Aves, but alas, I have not yet received a sign. Aves expects me to help myself.
Thanks in advance,
Kenny
I bring a question before the council of construction. I need to either buy or make six or eight styrene (or ABS) perfectly-circular disks of styrene. They need to be no thicker than .010" thick, and slightly smaller than what a hole punch makes in paper. My hole punch is just a hair too big.
I have no punch and die set (I know.... ). I also don't have a hobby shop near by which carries them. I also need to get these parts made pretty quickly, leaving mail order out of the question.
Are there different sizes of paper hole punches? Is there some generic tool I am overlooking? Is there some technique I have net yet developed? Is there some craft store source?
Help me my brothers. I have prayed and fasted all day in front of the blessed Aves, but alas, I have not yet received a sign. Aves expects me to help myself.
Thanks in advance,
Kenny
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Do they have to be plastic?? Will resin, or aves putty work??
Find the drill bit that matches the best, and drill a hole in a piece of scrap that is the thickness of the piece you want. Then simply press some putty in, or resin cast up a few. Remember, when using resin, USE A MOLD RELEASE.
Find the drill bit that matches the best, and drill a hole in a piece of scrap that is the thickness of the piece you want. Then simply press some putty in, or resin cast up a few. Remember, when using resin, USE A MOLD RELEASE.
John Fleming
I know that's not what the instructions say, but the kit's wrong anyway.
I know that's not what the instructions say, but the kit's wrong anyway.
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I bought a rotary type tool at a local craft shop. I believe it was for leather work. It had a wheel with like 5 different sizes of punches attached. You just rotated to the right size, slid in the stock, and squeezed the handle. It's not as good as a punch and die set, but it'll work in a bind.
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Go to the hardware store and buy the brass tube that has the same outside diameter as you require.Andrew Gorman wrote:You can also use a piece of brass or steel tubing as a punch, which could save you a trip to the craft store.
Andrew
Use an x-acto knife to bevel the inside edge of the tube. Do this until the end of the tube becomes some what sharp. Then roll the out side edge one or two times over a piece of fine sand paper.
Instant hole punch for thin balsa, bass wood, card stock and styrene.
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Acolyte Kenny, remove thyself to the art shoppe and obtain thyself a circle cutter. Lo, dost thou hear the gasps of the uninitiated? Allow them to gaze upon this wonder!
http://store.artcity.com/olf-cmp1.html
http://store.artcity.com/olf-cmp1.html
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The Olfa circle cutter won't work, the circles he wants are too small. The Olfa IS the poo for big circles, though. He definetly wants the Tandy Leather punches. I got mine at Pearl Art Supply, a store that I do believe has a branch in that cluster of humanity you guys call Chicago.
I had the same problem recently. Find thee the punches!
Erin
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I had the same problem recently. Find thee the punches!
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I have located the punches of Tandy! They lie in the region of Louisville, in the Shire of Jefferson. I can pick it up Monday on the way home from work for the future. There is a scrapbooking store there on Shelbyville road...in the same shopping center as Hobbytown. This can only be interpreted as a sign from Aves, my brothers. A good omen of a good styrene harvest. Amen?
Because I'm the impatient sort, I kind of combined several techniques here into one. I cut a thin ring off the end of a teel tube, filed it to about .010" (seriously), CA'd it to the surface, and filled it with Aves.
I read the replies, meditated and smoked some Aves through my airbrush. The short-term Aves-and-ring solution came to me in a vision.
Thanks!!
Kenny
Because I'm the impatient sort, I kind of combined several techniques here into one. I cut a thin ring off the end of a teel tube, filed it to about .010" (seriously), CA'd it to the surface, and filled it with Aves.
I read the replies, meditated and smoked some Aves through my airbrush. The short-term Aves-and-ring solution came to me in a vision.
Thanks!!
Kenny