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22.000 - ok, I give up now I'd like to see the other 2 that are up there with you in the Top 3 ^^

800 fiber strands? Hmmm, maybe it's not really THAT far out of my league ^^ I used several light sources throughout the model and I'm quite sure it has something around 800 windows in it as well. Many of these only have very short fiber strands of about 2cm. Especially the core parts and the parts b...

I almost thought so. I'm glad I did leave a good impression so you'd remember my build-up, I just have to work better on attaching my name to it

Marco, that's a LOT of fiber strands! Way out of my DS9-league! Great work! (As always, when you tackle a project)

Glad I could help

@zaphod, there is another DS9 build-up in progress? I didn't find a thread on that in the on-the-bench forum, so either I'm blind or too dumb to use the search correctly could you link it for me?

Well, the thing about my epoxy is, that it is a 5-minute epoxy. That leaves fairly little time in which you can apply the mixture before it gets too gooey and eventually already hardens in your mixing pan. But I always only mix as much as I need so that has never been a problem for me. So I can say ...

I'm in the final stages of my DS9 lighting project and I've used hundreds of fiber strands. I used the same 2-part epoxy to glue the fibers in that I used to fill bigger windows and to glue the entire station together. The reason for using epoxy on the entire thing was to make sure that if some glue...

Yeah, that's the link I was looking for. I knew I had seen that build-up before, but couldn't find it as I was looking in the reader's gallery. BTW Scott, nice fleet of Cardies you must have! :) This article shows exactly how to deal with the things I've mentioned in my first reply. Really nice work...

Ummm, ok, where to start? Well, I for my part am in the progress of my first lit model as well (Look at my signature). I'm a mechanical engineer and electronics have never been my favorite, but I eventually got around to liking to wire up stuff to light things. What's probably best if you know nothi...

I'M DONE!!!! I can't believe it! I just spent over 2 months to get the station back into shape. I finally got the last cleaning done this morning and now she has a smooth black primer once again. So this week I'll finally get to painting her again and this time I'll use a brush. No more spray-experi...

I wish I could do that on my DS9! But it's entirely assembled with electronics and everything and I don't have a tub big enough to put it in and fill it up with Super Clean. But for other paint removal jobs, I will keep this method in mind! Looks great!

To keep you updated and in case anybody runs into this problem as well. I'm cleaning it using 70% Isopropanol. I let it soak for about 20 minutes and then scrape it off with a wooden toothpick and a hard toothbrush. It's a pain to do, but it works. I'm done with about 50% of the station and hope to ...

Alright, thanks for the hint. I'll see if I can find it over here. Right now I'm working on it with 70% Ethanol. It doesn't work as well as I had hoped it would, but it seems to be better than oven cleaner.

And I'll remember the gloves

Yeah! Great! Next problem! Nitromors, Microstrip or Easy-Lift-Off are not being shipped internationally. They are under HAZMAT regulations and not to be shipped over here. Any Germans around that could point me to an equivalent product on the german market? I found paintstrippers from Molto and Sche...

Alright, I've tried different soaking times now. From 20min, to an hour to even a day. It's useless. The paint softens just enough so I can scratch it off. If I'd do that to the entire station, all my lighting efforts will be rendered useless because I'll have broken off all the fibers. Now, to get ...

Yeah, electricity is like water, the only real difference is, that if you drill a hole into a wall and hit a water-pipe, water comes flowing out. Hit a wire and... ;) gotta hate those electrons floating around the room ;) But I'm glad you're getting the hang of it. I'm fairly new to all the solderin...

Hey, Happy New Year! I'm back working on the station :) I have so far given a part of the station a good soak of the oven cleaner. The paint is coming off, but not as well as I had hoped for. I'm worried that I'll break off the fibers when scrubbing it with a toothbrush. And it really takes a lot of...

An update on my oven cleaner experiments. I had it soaking for about 24 hrs and tried what the paint would think about that after I got back from work yesterday. While still damp I could use a toothbrush to get the paint off. After I let the test-part dry out, the paint came off in pieces. So I'm co...

Well, I tried it on a piece of plastic that I tried the paint on last weekend and after about an hour of soaking I can scrape off the paint with my fingernails. It comes off in small skin-like pieces. I'm trying to let it soak in for another few hours and see if that helps it any further. If not, it...

Alright, thanks DX-SFX! I'll go and get me some oven cleaner right after work today. That'll be my first try. I'll let you know how it went!

Well, it says that the copper is Acetone-based. The black doesn't really say a lot about it's ingredients, but as it says that it's supposed to be hard surfaced and very durable and not dilutable with water it should be an enamel paint, right? Sorry for being so inprecise, I'm figuring all of this o...

First of all, thanks for all of your replies! @Lt.Z0mBe the base coat was left to cure for 6 days before I applied the copper yesterday. I'm not an expert on paints, but shouldn't that have been enough time for it to cure? @Kolschey That were my thoughts at first, too. But I painted indoors with the...

Hey, I've already posted this over in the Star Trek modeling section in my thread about my Deep Space Nine project, but I wanted to get it in here too, as probably not all of you read all the forums. (I for my part am hardly ever anywhere else but in the ST part ;) ) So I've got the fiber optics DS9...