#8 20 days ago 18

Hi Ross M, thanks for asking I do have a full set of tools and update where necessary. I find Xuron pliers very useful, they can slice through model railway line and not leave a burr or crush the metal. Expensive at about 3 to 4 times the price of palm held tools.
I also have just about all types of glue! PVA is best with wood but only if it is clamped not just gripped with spring fasteners.
Nice evening coming up the radio is working and now for the moving parts!
Roy

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#7 20 days ago 20

Thanks for the sympathy and the advice most appreciated. Next time I will use the method suggested for holding nuts in place. Since my cataract op reading glasses are cheap for me and I will try the bending of the arms.
Although all happened I try to make light of my experiences. By the way the wood and screw worked a treat and so quick and not messy either.

Thanks again for your thoughts, Just about to test the radio for the first time.
Roy

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#6 20 days ago 27

I know your pain. If I may, I have a couple of tips/suggestions.

I have a grease I use called Aluslip, it's like copperslip but far less reactive to most metal. Put a tiny bit on the thread of a spare bolt & run the nut over it several times to make sure the grease is spread well over both the nuts & bolts thread. Then use a bit of IPA on a paint brush to clean the areas on the nut you want to stick. Use the same bolt to put the nut in place, then use you favorite glue. It shouldn't stick to the threads as the grease stops it.

Secondly, I have just discovered UV activated Epoxy Resin... it so good. You do the above with the nuts, then using a bit of tape as a former to contain the resin, poor in an appropriate amount of resin, you can add more later, shine a UV torch on it, & it sets... just like that... it only works as a glue where the UV light can penetrate, so no good for flat opaque surfaces, but for captive nuts etc, it's great.

You can't ferretproof your heart.
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#5 20 days ago 29

@roycv Eyeglasses: I was having the same problem , I look down at the work and the glasses fall off. One day I got so frustrated I took the miniature needle nose pliers to the frame. Bent the ear piece behind the ear a little tighter and re-set the nose pads. Gee, do you have miniature needle nose pliers?!?

Force nothing, waste nothing, leave nothing undone

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#4 20 days ago 35

No worries Roy. I have no fingerprints left on my right thumb and forefinger. Alas, no "lock picking" for me. 😂

I keep a bottle of "de-bonder" around, wonderful stuff, but a bit more for separating glued parts. Hand washing a set of dinner dishes always helps after a tug-of-war in the shop. My biggest issue is my eyes and I search for as many phillips-head screws in my stash other than flat heads. I need all the help I can get with the small ones.

Speaking of debonder...there is a legendary true story from my Hollywood days when an actress crazy-glued her philandering actor boyfriend's rather sizable member to his thigh. Yes, they keep some form of de-bonder in the emergency room!
🤣🤣🤣

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#3 20 days ago 39

Super glue 'n fingers never the twain shall meet of as Ned Kelly commented' Such is Life" Col

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#2 20 days ago 40

Hi Roy,

It is strangely reassuring to read about your experience with super-glue and dropping things - not to mention your glasses falling off when trying to look at things through them!

My own experience with almost everything you mention replicates these experiences and although I can sympathise - it has also made me smile as I realise I am not alone in some of the cartoon like situations I also find myself in!

Thank you for brightening my day !

Bob.

Never too old to learn

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#1 20 days ago 45

Stuck on the job

Hi all I have been doing a simple job of embedding 4 small nuts to an alluminium frame that holds a servo. It is a sail arm winch for my Wild Duck yacht. It sound simple but I spent all day with 6BA nuts and epoxy resin and then cyano. I was eventually glued to the holder and had to cut myself free with a scalpel.
My fingers are not as sensitive as they were and what with dropped nuts, I hunt for them with a strong magnet and some screws which look identical but the threads are marginally different, and the cyano migrating into the threads on the nuts, I wonder if the universe has taken against me!
I got 2 done without problem but I am going to glue some hardwood in place so that I can use small wood screws (just thought of that!) instead.

Anyone else have a poor relationship with glue? It used to be model boat window frames but now it is glue, having 1 and a 1/2 frozen fingers on my left hand does not help also reading glasses which fit nicely but as soon as you look down they fall off. I do have a banded 'hat' with drop in magnifying lenses, which are excellent if I can find them!
Anyway, press on, must finish within the next 4-5 weeks ready for our public Model Show.
Roy

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