I was reading the post about favorite tool and got to thinking. What are the tools you wish you had? Bench tools like hobby size drill press, bandsaw, lathe, mill, etc…? Are there some specialized hand tools you have a hankering for? Dream big and share with the rest of us.[;)]
A spraybooth. Maybe someday, hopefully before I pass out.
Thats a tough one.
I’ve got the dremmels,hand tools, and a drill press,(I also have a dremmel router and drill press).
I think that I would like a mill and a lathe.
I think that the tool that I need the most that I do not have is a punch set for poping out the dials and gauges on aircraft instrament panels.
Waldron and some other company make them but the last time I checked they were about $70.00 and shipping.
Too rich for my blood right now.
My dream tool would likely be some sort of lathe. I’ve never tried one, but it holds a certain ‘mystique’ that would definitely draw me in. Other than that, if there was some sort of ‘magic masking tool’ that automatically masked a model off exactly where you want and how you want, then I’d go for that. Masking is probably my least favorite part of this hobby. I usually cut corners and kick myself for it later.
Murray
Is piece and quiet and being away from any living thing while working on a project a tool? I want one of them.
this one has got me thinking and the answer i have come up with is something like a lapping table, sort of a large slowly-about 40-50rpm- rotating disk with a suface of 100 grit for sanding my vacforms. that way i would probably do three or four a year instead of one every three or four years. [8D] Greg
I would like to see X-acto blades that never dull or lose their tips, sandpaper that never wears out, and a self-cleaning airbrush. Am I dreaming or what ?
A small engine lathe and vertical mill.
Gip Winecoff
Gip and anyone else interested in a hobby size mill or lathe at affordable prices, check out Clisby! http://www.clisby.com.au/ I’m seriously thinking about getting these and there is an American company that has developed a CNC setup for these neat little machines.
A nice sized spraybooth for me. I live in an apt and have no “good” place to paint expect on the back patio.
God Bless
Dave
A Smithy mill/drill/lathe. http://www.smithy.com/
A ducted spraybooth.
DJ
I’m torn between a Waldron punch set and a spray booth. . . .
but I have learned to hold my breath for a long time! [:D]
A nice airbrush booth with a built in lathe and photo etch folder. I also wouldn’t mind having the facilities to make my own PE stuff.
demono69
A spraybooth, looking in to a homebuilt
I’ll have to join the spraybooth bandwagon. The reason for its popularity in this thread is probably due to its exhorbident cost. It falls into the catagory of “well, how much would YOU pay to stay healthy ?” Priced by oppourtunists.
Since coming back into the hobby after about 25 years, immediately jumping into a Tamiya Spitfire V, and biting off more than I should have by getting all the aftermarket stuff such as the Eduard detail set which includes the landing flaps, I’ve become obsessed with how to better do the landing flaps with the little tiny ribs, or any of the very small photo-etched parts.
Right now my “dream tool” would be something like a drill press, with dials or calipers, so that I could mount the flap on it, position it with the dials anyway I needed to, and “crank” down the rib which was being held in an upper arm by another clamping device, and position and glue the part.
Like I said, I’ve become obsessed about this in trying to figure out a way to do this better (right now I’m using “splinter tweesers”) with thick zap and acelerator, so I would be extremely thankful to hear if someone has a good way to do it.
steve - my suggestion would be to fix the flap at about a 45 deg. angle, hold the rib on the flap w/ tweezers, and apply a bit of CA from a pin or a toothpick, and let gravity & capillary action draw the CA along the joining surfaces. Don’t get the tweezers near the glue, though. I would also use magnification, if that’s possible That’s the way I have done it. Good luck !
I have the maginfying head set which I have to use (eyes are starting to go a little), and I try to make sure about the tweesers not touching the CA. Nothing is more irritating than having it just right and realize the tweesers are stuck to the part. But I haven’t tried doing it at a 45 degree angle with the thin stuff. Seems to make sense, I’ll try it next time. Thanks!
Wow, everyone wants a spray booth, and I am in the process of trying to build one. There is a link for one around here someplace.
Spraybooth - got (mostly)
Airbrush - got
dremel set - got
how about a tool that pays off my credit card for me without me using my money.