Wednesday 6 July 2011

Broken signum!

So annoying! While taking some photographs I managed to snap one of my signums.

I had nothing to lose so I decided to drill each part, pin and superglue. So far, so good ...

The signum was not lost ...

7 comments:

  1. same theing happened to me while clipping from the sprue. Pinned it and its all good.

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  2. Hi Anon: tricky to drill but can be done with great care.

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  3. What size of drill and pin?!?!

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  4. Hi Larry

    The drill bit was 0.3mm ... which I also snapped :-( so I used part of it to pin the plastic part :-)

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  5. Forgot to ask... what type of pin vise/drill are you using? Where did you get it? Those are some tiny tiny drill bits!!

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  6. Hi Larry

    The pin vice is an X-acto one that I seem to have had forever. The drill bits are from these guys:

    http://www.expotools.com/

    ... but I'm getting bored of the breakages and am wondering if there are any stronger bits available ...

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