Re: Resin vehicles - customizing

On 23-Sep-99 at 11:33, Tim Jones (Tim.Jones@Smallworld.co.uk) wrote:
> >I know resin is just basically plastic, so it's fairly soft.  
> >My first instinct
> >is to grab my router and go to town, but I don't want to a) 
> >shatter the piece,
> >or b) melt the resin onto my router bit.
> >
> 
> Its very probably going to melt and fling hot plastic about
> Drilling with a hi-speed motor drill has a similar effect. 
> 
> Try it out on a test piece first if you have one.
> 
> a variable speed dremel and a tooth bit or cone grinder might
> be more controllable. You could melt the hole with a 
> hot soldering iron and then clean it up with machine
> tool afterwards.

Just FYI, if you are buying a dremel buy a single speed dremel
and get one of the speed control attachments.  I use a sewing
machine peddle on mine, works great.

Roger