Re: Single-sheathed box cars
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Steve SANDIFER
A sewing machine foot pedal on a fixed speed dremel mounted in the drill press works well to drill holes in plastic or resin steam era freight cars.
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From: Gene Green To: STMFC@... Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:58 PM Subject: [STMFC] Re: Single-sheathed box cars --- In STMFC@..., "pierreoliver2003" <pierre.oliver@...> wrote: > > Jeff, > I'm going to jump in here and mention that for all of the holes I > drill in resin , I use a Dremel Mini-Mite. A battery powered moto- tool. > If you're careful and use the right feed rate and speed you can also > successfully use this tool for styrene as well. > Drilling 36 holes becomes a job of mere minutes. > Pierre Oliver Interesting. My son uses a similar technique. He regulates the speed by choosing batteries already run down by the appropriate amount. Gene Green |
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