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Tools?
« on: September 28, 2019, 10:27:34 pm »

I will be building the slipway Tamar in a few months time. I have a fairly comprehensive modelling tool kit have that I collected over the years. Are there any tools in particular you good people would recommend?
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Re: Tools?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2019, 02:31:05 pm »

Best ever tool to find when you are modelling is PATIENCE!!  {-) {-) {-)

Without it you can get nowhere very fast and then lose the will to carry on and complete the boat.

Also when in doubt about how the kit should build ring Jackie at Model Slipway. They will soon sort out your problem.
Mike


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Re: Tools?
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2019, 02:49:52 pm »

Depends what you've got already?

Tools I use the most and find indispensable are PermaGrit blocks and files and my Record scroll saw. Don't use that often but my set of forstner bits make for neat and splinter free holes. And lots and lots of clamps!! And some mini-squares.

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Re: Tools?
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2019, 07:14:07 pm »

For me it has to be the digital calliper.  Especially when you are working in metric with millimetres, even though my sight is pretty good for an octogenarian counting mm on a ruler is a bummer. Good thing is that they are cheap and last forever
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Re: Tools?
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2019, 07:18:58 pm »

or the cheaper version when LIDL have them available (exactly the same rebranded)


  This week they are doing blood pressure monitors   :-))
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« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2019, 05:36:59 pm »


  This week they are doing blood pressure monitors   :-))


Hope I wont need one of those !
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« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2019, 06:31:51 pm »

or the cheaper version when LIDL have them available (exactly the same rebranded)


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Re: Tools?
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2019, 07:01:43 pm »

The no.1 priority, if you don't already have it, is good quality lighting - especially now, with the dark nights drawing in  O0 .


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