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| Subject: | Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... |  |
| Date: | Mar 30, 2006 |
| From: | Al Crawford | |
Hmm. It's one of two or three things.
1. Not being quick enough with the annealing and finding that a part that was meant to represent, say, very fine internal wiring has basically evaporated.
2. Putting one of those damn Aber clamps together. On the 15th try everything goes right and, yay, you've got a working clamp. You move the handle a fraction of a millimeter and not only does it fall to pieces, but the base of the clamp snaps at one of the folds. I tend to use the Eduard clamps where possible now - a little more origami and they don't work, but most of the time I can actually assemble them.
3. Rivets so tiny that even my smallest tweezers can't grasp them and they're barely visible with my most powerful Optivisor lens *and* the loupe. Yet I'm somehow expected to get a tiny spot of CA glue in the correct place on the fender and get the rivet held in the tweezers on top of it without either a) dropping the rivet b) CA-ing my tweezers to the fender. Then, even when I do it, it's taken long enough to do that the CA has dried.
I do not understand why it is considered good to produce PE sets that contain parts so tiny and so thin that they would have been better as etched surface features in the first place.
I sometimes wonder if the people at Aber sit and think up improbable things that are impossible to construct without a microscope and some sort of robot manipulator, just for fun. When you see a photo on their website of what appears to be all of the PE set in perfect place on an unpainted kit, what you're really seeing is a model about 4ft long to which someone has attached 1500 rivets 5mm across just by applying the glue directly from the nozzle of a bottle of Elmer's glue.
That's my theory. Giant models, big blobs of glue and photo-etch rivets like small coins.
Al |
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 | PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - R.C. Hill - Mar 29, 2006 |
| . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Paul A. Owen - Mar 29, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Neil Oram - Mar 30, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Frank Blanton - Mar 30, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Jerry Plettenberg - Mar 30, 2006 |
| . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Steve Frost - Mar 30, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Al Crawford - Mar 30, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Bill Goodrich - Mar 30, 2006 |
| . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Tim Streeter - Mar 30, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Bjorn Tingstadengen - Apr 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Mike Peplinski - Apr 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Konrad Schreier - Apr 4, 2006 |
| . . . Re: PE - The scariest part about working with PE sets... - Richard Munoz - May 3, 2006 |
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