Hi Frank, If a 1mm bit works for you, then fine. But for 7mm modelling I would have thought its uses were limited to tacking small items. For most 7mm work, I...
I agree with Trevor, have used one of these Antex irons for years, my RSU rarely gets used although it is very useful for attaching lamp irons etc. If used at...
Hi, I,ve been using the Antex irons for a long time now, no bother at all, even on the biggest jobs. Jeff. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Does anyone have any experience of wire in tube operation in the garden? I have 5 turnouts 18 ft remote from the panel and I'm looking for a 'wire in tube'...
Thanks for all the replies but the reason I couldn't use the soldering iron I had was it couldn't produce enough heat for a smokebox wrapper. This had me...
Hi Dave Have you ever thought about using the kind of weather protected solenoid that car manufacturers use for locking doors etc. 12 volt operation, very ...
Hi Bruce, I had a similar problem (large heat sink of a body) and got around it by baking the loco in the oven - 10 mins at 100C!! Then my soldering iron had...
In a message dated 01/03/2005 07:24:55 GMT Standard Time, ... I use a piece of aluminium cooking foil clipped to a piece of heat resistant board - I don't know...
Hi Dave Suggest you look at the control systems the R/C boys use, with ptfe tube etc. If you talk to the larger model shops it is available in coil form in ...
Bruce, Let it all cool down between jobs, if you keep at it everything heats up. You might try doing one bit and then plastering it with a mixture of plaster...
If I'm doing a box like structure, one terminal is the vice with one arm of a toolmaker's clamp as the 'anvil'. This does take heat out of the job even with a...
I was step soldering, the main reason that I thought I would get away with it. I was using 227, 179 and 145 solders. Unfortunately I held the torch on just a...
For a heat sink, I always use paper handkerchiefs, wetted to a pulp and pushed around the joints you do not want desoldered. But this is the advantage of big...
Very obliging people. I once had a scow ended, 'landing craft' type work boat to deliver to one of the west coast islands. We arranged for one of Macbrayne's...
This is a follow up to Andy's excellent treatise on road construction. Road markings - a historical note After the First World War, as the fashion for motoring...
Hi all, This subject quite often comes up and its not my intention to say much about them. I was the instigator of the proposed soldering iron "duel" at...
By all means be sarky, Ed, but PLEASE spell my name correctly ! ! ! There's only one "a" in McMillan... (A minor point but are we not attempting to get things...
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just making my list for kettering going to get some different melting point solders, could anyone tell me the melting point of the cored solder as used for...
HellO, For soldering larger parts I usually use a small blowtorch powered by lighter gas, mostly with success ;-) Jan Coeckelbergh ... Van: Bob & Sheila...
Raymond, What voltage values do you normally use? I have a "self-made" unit based on a transformer from Conrad, a major mail order company from Germany. For...
Hi, I've got 3 Wellers, had them for years. 25, 40 and 75 watts. I bought them cheap at a local hardware shop's closing down sale. The coating on the bits...
... Servos seem an odd way of doing it unless you really need the servo action. Embedded Controls supply a servo to operate signals, plus a module to generate...
This reply didn't get through because yahoo decided to shut down some of my groups due to bouncing messages, but they only bounced after they had shut me down!...
Thanks guys. I have a pot of French (builder's) chalk powder, and even shock horror some old M&S talcum powder - 'Magnolia' it says on the tin. Talc is a tad...
... The highest setting I have is 4.5v but it whacks out about 40 Amps! I mostly use the 2 or 3 volt setting unless dealing with large lumps of metal. Regards ...
Andy have really enjoyed this thread. Thought you might like to look at a friends attempt at the M40 in 'N' Click on the following link... cmrc members layouts...
See below.... ... From: John y Christine Smith To: 7mm@... Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [7mm] Reproducing tarmac...
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Directed to Peter Bloomfield. I have not got your 'phone number, have not got your address and now Email returned undelivered. If you are still out there...
