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Nah, it's plenty durable to air cool. Just don't stick your piece in water
to cool it faster. Both the brass and the solder could 'shock cool' causing
them to crack. It's not as much a problem when soldering as with Brazing
since youre working at a lower temp, but it could happen.

Waay too much trouble. Heat, melt, cool, done.

Don't know about the pre heating thing. My little butane can't 'cherry'
brass anyway, and it's fine. But clean is a must. I've gotten in too much
of a hurry now and then and usually ended up paying for not cleaning
it like I should have

I think he may be right about JB

Well now, thats.. differant
I think steel can be soldered, but it needs to be 'Clean Steel'.
By that I mean impurities clean, not in the sink clean. lol
If your feeling lucky give it a try. I still think epoxy would be the best way
to go though.

If those pieces are white metal, and they look like they are. Then solder wouldn't do at all. The melting points of the two are very close together. And I don't think they like each other very much anyway. Your best bet would be to drill holes into the piece and into the end of the barrel's then pin...

The clapper Eagle. LOL
Well if it wasn't too complicated.

Well image shack just sucks. lets try this one.
http://public.fotki.com/shrugger/eagle_11/cm2.html

Here we go. I forget who's pic this is. But perhaps it'll clear things up a
bit. I thought the button looked a little tacky so I hit opon the idea of
using the center disk itself as the button.
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9813/cm15ic.jpg

This would be perfect if it weren't momentary
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/c ... type=store

Sorry, ya kinda lost me there Are you using the copper tape for more
than just conducting?

If aluminum made a good enough conductor then I'd be set. If I could figure out how they work :| I'm looking to use the bottom sensor dish on my 44" Eagle as a camoflaged power switch. That way I can keep everything inside the Command module. Making changing the batteries and whatnot much less ...

Thanx, looks like they may have one that will do the trick.

Wish I could figure out how 'Touch lamps' worked and whether they could
be run on 9-12 volts. Now that would truely be power switch perfection.

Found this at Radio Shack.
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?c ... d=275-1555
So far it's the smallest I've found and it'll work if need be.
But does anyone know of any smaller?
Or any with the least amount of button travel?

oops looks like they raised the price

AAh.. heres the pic http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=42307 Got this little cut-off saw at Harbor Freight regular price $19 but it was actually on sale for $16 :shock: They getcha though with replacement blades, 3pack for $10. I'm on my 7th, and hopefully last blade. T...

Bondo is great stuff.
If it's mixed to a nice light pink color Then its just about right.
And if you'll be using a bunch of it like Alex here
http://www.alexkung.com/scale/serenity/cmain.htm
Then its allot easier on the wallet.

Self learned and did all myself. http://public.fotki.com/shrugger/eagle_11/ In one of the pix you can see the torch I'm using. I think it was $6 at Lowe's and works great. Unless what your building is huge and you need all the structural strength you can get, then brass tube would be alot easier to ...

Now that sucks! Luckily my LHS sells enough that they have new stock
every couple months.

A friend of mine is creating a simple snow covered base for one of his tanks. He built up the snow with 'Sculpta mold' to where he liked it. He then used 'acrylic gel medium' to completely coat the sculpta and then shook a half salt shaker of 'baking soda' onto it. It turned out to be the most reali...

Thanks everyone.
With buiding the wings open it's ok if the angle is off just a slight bit
so long as the edge is flat. Now if I was going with closed, then it would have to be absolutely perfect

Well, the leading wing edges of my CC X-wing need a little smoothing. Little bit rough and a couple tiny bubbles here and there. So I'm wet sanding as carefully as I can to keep the flat edge but its still coming out slightly curved. Probly no one would ever notice the very slight curve, but being t...