What about using some other type of material (instead of styrene) for the car sides? I will probably use styrene to make the master for the basic shape of the carsides, but will probably make molds of the sides so I can make (many) more in the future. So I wonder if brass strips will adhere to the resin (or other material?) used to make the sides? And if so, what type of glue/cement should be used to accomplish this?
John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] John's World on the Web http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: June 04, 2005 12:32 PM Subject: [S-Scale Modeling] Re: Scratch-Built Box Car Sides > I too would like to hear about a good (easy and consistent) way to make > thin riveted strips in either brass or styrene. This seems to be one of > the skills that I have not yet mastered, i.e. i find it a difficult, > time consuming task and my results are inconsistent! Grrr... half-way > through a project i often swear i will never do another project that > has rivets! > > One comment on brass to styrene... my experience has been that the two > materials do not have the same 'flexibility coefficient' (made-up term) > and on rare occations if the styrene is flexed the brass part will pop > off. It could just be me... :) > > kbt 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. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. 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/
