I read about this new tool by Greif. Any of you guys ('scuse me Penny - ladies too ! ) have experience with this little gizmo ?

It is from
GREIF
Ezequiel Chavez # 78
Vista Bella CP. 54050
Edo. de Mex.
Mexico [email protected]


From what I heard, you warm a piece of sprue and shove it in the metal frame of your choice... let it cool ... et voilà, a nice hex nut you can cut off. Sounds easy enough, but is it worth the money ?



Jan

Ezequiel,

I bought these when their first test sets came out.

They are made by a squash method that realy, err, sucks. 'scuss the language, but I was really disappointed after the purchase.

In my humble, and sometimes abroupt, opinion, the Historex Punch-n-die set (yes, it is expensivce, but well worth it) is the better shoice.

Dave

First time I saw this kind of tool, I though: " Gosh ! I NEED ' t "....Then, I bought one from a spanish Co...Got a piece of metal, 2" x 2", with more or less 40 holes ( round, square, hex...)
IT DOESN' T WORK !
I couldn' t make more than 2 or 3 ugly blobs, pretendin' to be hex nuts or rivets....!
Truth of the day.....FORGET ' T !
As Dave said, better spend 50$ for a Waldron or Historex Agents Punch & Die Set.....!
' ve a nice day....!

Thanks for your honest reply. I was considering to give it a try, but I'll stick to my tradional punch&die and other tricks of the trade. Thanks,
Jan

Jan in all honesty I found cutting hex platic rod much easier and less costly than buying funky tools.I used my friends hex punch set and it loked terrible.

Josh Weingarten
Aka shiryon

I use that trick to cut round rivets from rods, but hex rods are hard to find here. I'll have a look around next weekend. Thanks for the hint ! Would you know where to find hex rods on the web ?
Jan

Jan I get mine from PLastruct, the Website used to be plastruct.com. If you need I could probably find some in the local hobby shop, no promise on supply or sizre though

Josh
aKa shiryon

Some of the Airfix sprues are hex shaped, although they have two thin sides. I scrape them a couple of times with a blade or razor to make them into a more even hexagon shape, then I stretch them, and cut boltheads from the stretched sprue. The neat thing about this is that I can make any size nut I want to from one sprue, and it's cheap... Just like me.