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HARV's Build-A-Tool entry #2
HARV
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Posted: Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 07:08 AM UTC
Here is my second entry for the campaign.

As you can see it is nothing fancy. I got the idea from the Shepard Paine book "Modeling Tanks and Military vehicles". It is a jig to make scale wire springs for vehicle seats. It is shown on page 69 in the book. It is nothing more than a small piece of pine with some small nails driven into it. The heads of the nails were cut off and the tops then filed down to make them smooth. For being something so simple it works pretty good.

I will post a couple of pictures of it but I don't know how well they will turn out.



Here is the jig. Like I said........nothing fancy.




Here is a before, during and after photo showing the end result. I just used a small gauge wire that I had on hand.

That is all for now. Hopefully I will get something else made.

Thanks for looking.

HARV
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Posted: Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 07:04 PM UTC
Interesting idea, and the springs look good.
HARV
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007 - 02:31 AM UTC
Thanks Dave. Those were the first ones that I made. I will have to do a little more practicing on them I think.

Thanks again,

HARV
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