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Thanks, that was useful. I’ve never had any luck using CA glue on this kind of plastic, I’m surprised and pleased to learn that the CA+baking powder combo works on it. (I just used CA+baking soda as part of an oven knob repair, but would never have guessed that it increases adhesion.)
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Huh. I bought “3 component super glue” at a trade show, the third component being “specially developed filler microgranulate” (or some blurb like that) … and now I know I had the secret ingredient in the pantry all the time!
Also, that “sandpaper on the back of a steel ruler” trick will be implemented shortly.
In fact, both tips will be used soon, I need to do some work on the plastic bits of my Africa Twin.
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Emory boards are a cheap, disposable version of this. They also come in different grits.
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I use wet/dry automotive sandpaper epoxied to a plastic strip harvested from a heavy plastic container. You can also do this to plastic from the curved part of the container, for shaped sanding.
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Okay, I had to feed that into a search engine… and nail files have their uses, especially around plastics.
When it comes to measuring things I don’t want cheap and disposable - I want a robust, reasonable flexible ruler that keeps its edge for marking and cutting and won’t slip off a curved smooth surface all the time. And this is ideal for me for a lot of applications. And I already have all the parts I need at hand.
Okay, sometimes a metal tape measure fixated with duct tape does the trick. But that’s always a bit fiddly and only works for marking.
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Well, it’s true grit or bust, isn’t it.
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Well, that doesn’t stink.
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Now we all know your secret ingredient.
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Sanding the heck out of everything appears to be a good starting point. I guess that the rougher surface gives the CA glue something to hang on to.
Bill Making Stuff is a real youtube treasure; along with the likes of Miscast, Blackmagic Craft, and Darkmatter Studio. Stuff like this fills up a lot of my youtube watching, making for a positive social media experience.
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Yeah, there may have been a specific use I missed; I scrubbed through about half of the vid. I recently rediscovered emery boards while looking for wood carving supplies for Young Master Peas.
ETA: Apparently they’re spelled emery. Edited to correct.
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Perhaps the ur-example from back in the days when Games Workshop was cooler about entirely scratch built stuff:
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That image in White Dork inspired more than just about any other.
Came here looking for this. Glad I was not disappointed. Rogue Trader was a very strange game.
I love making stuff out of trash. It’s marginally sustainable I guess? The ultimate was one where I collected garbage form various parking lots.
[Ship entirely built with parking lot trash](Link to details and pictures of the final result)
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