Ted, Go to the craft store they have pins with very small round heads and they look really good. When I was still building model cars, I had pins that had a big round head. I took a white one painted it black and then took an Ex-Acto knife with a #11 new blade and scribe ans H pattern in it, this was to be a shifter for my hot rod. So the craft stores are a gold mine for modeling almost anything.
Good luck Bob Black --- T Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I asked a few weeks ago what S modelers use for doorknobs for > their > structures. I was referred to brass doorknobs available from > BTS. > Whilst awaiting those, I tried an idea. I chucked a straight > pin (the > type that is in a new dress shirt) in a pin vise, chucked that > in my > drill press, and leaned on the head with a hard arkansas stone > until the > head diameter was down to 0.040 inch. This is slightly larger > than the > correct scale 2 inches, but any smaller and head of the pin > would have > been too close to the shaft diameter. To appear correct, the > head does > need to be larger. My "doorknob" looks pretty good! > -- > Ted Larson > http://www.frontiernet.net/~mhrreast/car/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
