Barry Comer wrote: >Hi John. Try this old trick. Make a template of the area you will be >working on. If you are going to be doing more than one shell, use brass. >Otherwise, plastic will work. On the plastic, make dots where the grab >iron mounting holes will be. You can make sure they are square, aligned, >etc. At each dot, drill a clearance hole for the drill bit you are going >to use for drilling the mounting hole. Hold the template against the >shell, and drill the mounting holes using the holes in the template. >Should come out square and aligned. Kalmbach used to have a book out >called "750 tips for Model Railroaders", or something like that. It >might be a little old now, but many of the tips still work. Barry. > > John et al --
I'd like to add one more suggestion: Before drilling your template at each dot, dimple each dot with the point of a scribing tool. If the template is brass, tap the scriber with a small hammer to impress the dimple. For az plastic tremplate, hand pressure is enough. This process will prevent the drill bit from roaming off center. Dick Karnes The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. 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/
