Need a little help here. I am trying to determine the tool used to assemble wall sections of plastic model kits at 90 degree angles. Can someone direct me to the tool that can enable this and also if possible to a place that sells them? It seems like I have seen something that looked like it screwed on to the walls and held them together, such that you could leave them to let the glue dry. But I can't seem to recall it exactly. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
If you use Tenax-R cement, you won't need something to hold the walls in place. This cement bonds plastic parts instantly. Stay cool and run steam....
Hey everybody go to: www.micromark.com they have a magnet table that holds projects with 90 degree angles in place during glueing process. you get 8 magnets and holding table for under$40.00.
For most people, I'm sure it is, but I am VERY skilled at balling things up. I need all the help I can get.
There is a 90 degree clamping tool out there. I used to have a bookmark for it on my old computer. Seems to me they were about $20.00 each. I keep an old combination square in a drawer of the workbench. Works very well for me. Boxcab E50
I use an angle plate and 1-2-3 blocks like tool makers use. I am thinking about getting a couple of the corner clamps like Boxcab was talking about, they look very nice and easy to use. go to www.coffmaneng.com
You could go to home depot and get one of those right angle clamp things they sell for about 2 bucks... then ones with the adjustable jaws and a gap on the inside of the corner. Perfect for applying glue to the inside, and they're metal so MEK wont get too in love with it. I've got about 400 of the damn things cos people keep giving em too me. Never thought about using em for that though..... Might give it a whirl!
The least expensive jig is one you can make with a few scraps of wood. You need the following: 1. piece of good finish grade plywood, melamine, or smooth 1x shelf board measuring around 4 " x 6" 2. 2 pieces of 1x3 birch or maple hardwood 4 to 6" long 3. wood glue 4. carpenters square or draftsman triangle. Arrange the 2 hardwood strips on the plywood to make a right angle wall. Use the triangle to make sure you have a 90 degree angle. Glue this down and you have a square corner to brace your structure to. Use masking tape, double stick tape, binder clips, or small clamps to hold your work together. Work one corner at a time. If you are doing a craftsman kit, or are working with CA and are concerned that the work will stick to the jig, line it with foil or plastic tape first. Barry
Barry, what size is that birch? I'm thinking that if the birch was only 1/2 and inch high or so, you could only use it to glue the corner...but if you made the birch, say 6" high triangles with the high part where the corners meet then you could glue the entire wall section in one hit. Clamp at the top of the corner, bottom of the corner, and at the bottom of the other end of each wall and you've got a perfect corner (with the walls held square for their entire length).
Barry, looks like I have another project. That is a great solution! Simple, which I always like. I have quite a few buildings to go, too.
I, too, have a metal tray and magnets to hold parts in square while drying. I can recommend it until I see something better. Many devices are dependent upon the user to properly align the parts until dried even though the device seems to claim that there is no such skill required. Some is. Ken
Hey, there, Flash. I am trying to be a Cotton Belt Fan, even if I know next to nothing. I grew up in Commerce, TX and I, and another young fool, spent some time in our formative years, playing hide-and-seek among the bales on the dock - surviving in the face of obvious peril - through several weeks of school vacation. We frequently passed through a local "five and dime" to swipe a few tootsie rolls before proceding to the train yard. I cannot say with accuracy when that was, except that it was in the early forties. My layout depicts no particular era. (It's a 32" door layout.) My abiding pipedream concerns the Sherman spur from Commerce. I may bring that to be, but then again at this age, maybe not.
