Why Every Workshop needs Foamcore

Adam Savage shares some of his philosophy for building in foamcore. Adam builds a box to hold and organize his medical tool collection. Interesting set of tools.

Detail Scribing and Greeble Creation Kit

I haven't decided on how I may use these tools. Whether I will use primarly for scribing or some of both. I do enjoy creating my own greeble and the templates will make it a bit easier to create more intricate pieces.

My Favorite Bending, Cutting, and Measuring Tool

This is one of my favorite tools when working on "small" projects. Although it doesn't have a cutting edge, it does help in getting a straight cut. I just make sure that one edge of the triangle is perpendicular to the bottom edge while another to the edge being cut.

I am cutting four foot squares out cardstock strips for another structuure for the village. Recently I made use this triangle when bending some cardstock pieces. It worked very well on those small angles of carstock needing a bend.

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Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Mini Chop Saw!

From start to finish, Adam uses his shop and his machine tools to revamp and improve a Harbor Freight chop saw.

Could These Micro Tools Actually Work?

Model Train Making Process

"A 73-year-old Japanese artisan crafting model trains for decades" I am rather envious of this makers shop. It contains a lot of specialized tools and apparatus. Tools of the trade.

HO, 1/87 Scale Details - Hand Tools B

Model citizens must have tools in order to stay productive. I believe this is most of them.

My car mechanic has a collection of large specimens of wrenchs hung on one of his walls in his garage. I have seen others that were larger then these. Who knows how these large wrenchs are used. The three wrenchs depicted here are on the rather large size, however I often thought about modeling a wrench larger then these for a scene.

HO 1/87 Scale Details - Hand Tools

I know where these parts are and now, with this illustration I know where they were sourced.

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More HO scale hand tools

Link added at 12:14 PM on 5.22.24

New Tools for the Craft

There are times when you need a special tool to fashion components. I thought this kit with its three special blades might come in handy to fashion these parts.

Recently, I was working on a project where I needed to get into a tight spot to snip something and although I did accomplish the chore, I thought there must be an easier way, so when I saw these miniature snippers being advertised I sent for a copy streight away.

A Host of Characters - Red-Shift

"Red is an industrail family with its roots in the dawn of space travel, it is very firmly fixed on Earth specifically and throughout the Dacro system.

Red-shift made the components for all conceivable space drives, the tools for dismantling them, the machines for servcing them, and replacment parts."

Chapter 2, Nova, Samuel R. Delany

Robot Bits - building components

I am in process of building a few components for my future robots. I have decided to switch from a small sanding drum to one of the diamond coated routery tools that came with my dremil tool. The tool (I am sorry that I did not take a picture of the tool) gives me more control over the removal of unwanted plastic. Off to the left, a couple of other sets of legs and feet wait to be assembled.

One use Tools

Although these tools may be useful outside their desinated uses, they were created and included with products for a specific use.

A miniature flat head screwdriver. This is the smallest example of those tools.

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I didn't bother to measure this wrench, but it does look it may be a useful sized wrench. However noticing the materials in which was formed tells me that it would stand up to much use.

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Both of these philips-screwdrivers may be useful for light work found on the hobby workbench. I keep one like the larger one in with my dremel tool to tighten my sanding disks.

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I don't use allen keys all that much, but they do seem to a poplular assemble tools found in all sorts of products. I have them in all different sizes and configurations. The allen key at the bottom is your standard make, while the silver one has a star point configuration, really making it for a specific use.

Miniature Robot Scratch Build-An Update

Using a verity of tools the electronics and mechanical pod is just about ready to to be droped in to the bay. There is still a little material that needs to be removed from the left hand side of the bay so the pod can be dropped in.

I have been brain storming about how I want to proced with the head and arm units. I believe I will start on the computation unit next.

Making Miniature Papercraft Architecture!

I am glad I had a "Micro" label for this post. Otherwise I would have had to create one. These miniature structures look like they will be fun to build, even though they are so very small. You will find links to the card stock models and the tools mentioned under the video on YouTude.

Wrenchler’s Fasteners

It is amazing how some of us are born into a calling for life. You would have ever thought that Charlie Wrenchler would be a model citizen and business owner, but with last name like that why are we so surprised?

I created a couple of signs for the structure that I had made posts back in December. I created these signs on my computer, printed them on plain copy-paper, and cut them out. I usually use a font sized at 8 or 9 points for my signs in HO gauge. For the sign on the right I used either 4 or 5 point font. I realize that by default these font sizes are not available, but they can be accessed by selecting the font size, typing in the size that you have need of and clicking enter.

Sometimes I paste these on a piece of thin cardstock. These I just pasted to the structure. You defiantly want to use glue that doesn’t dry too quickly. You will need a little time to adjust and paste the sign exactly where you want it.

The shop features fasteners of all sorts. Both standard and metric are carried. Wrenchler’s carries full line of specialty fasteners and the tools used to fasten them. You can purchase fasteners in bulk or by the package.

New Tools and a Small Tube of Epoxy Cement

I have been adding and or updating some of my tools, especailly tools that I use for hobby constructions. I found these precision screwdrives at a good price and I also picked up a few other screwdrivers for my bench. The item that I was most fortunate finding was a two part epoxy contained in two small tubes. I cannot tell you how many tubes of expoxy and superglue I have purchased that have hardened before I had a chance to use them up. I am building more now and that could account for my having less waste, but I am also purhasing small tubes of these adhesives when I can find them.

I will let you know what I think of these new additions once I have had a chance to try them out.

Carving Tools

I was reading through Alan Armitage’s booklet on Styrene Fabrication and I took note how Armitage fabricated a few scribers which he uses to scribe styrene into random boards, stone, and brick. While in a hardware store I took notice of these carving tools. They are supposed to be used on clay, putty, or wax, but with a little grinding they might perfect scribers.

Light Duty Rotary Tool

I purchased this light duty rotary tool as a stand in until I am ready to purchase a heavy duty one. Until then the tool should work for my light duty wire-brushing, cutting, buffing, sanding, grinding and drilling. In the way of sanding, it should make quick work on wood and plastic. The grinding stones will help me keep a keen edge on my other tools. And the drilling, well you know I have to drill a hole to attach a coupler on to the 7mm flat car.

Creating Hydraulics using Styrene tubes

This is a short video describing the process of creating hydraulics using styrene tubes. Starts of explaining about the tools and the materails needed to create a hydraulic system.

Take a Tour of Adam Savage's Cave!

Adam Savage is a special effects designer that I receive a lot of inspiration from. Take a virtual tour of his workshop. Savage takes you around his shop and shows you his extensive collection of tools and memorabilia. The 17 minute video is worth the watch.