RE: [FT] UNSC Mini Assembly

Here is a tedious way to make sure the holes line up, but at least it
works.	I got it from a friend on another group.

Drill one of the holes to the depth you need it to be.	But a piece of
the wire you're going to use to pin it so that it's _just_ long enough
to stick out of the hole.  Put a generous amount of a bright-colored
paint on that wire and then line up the parts your pinning together,
applying extra pressure once done to transfer more paint to the
un-drilled piece.

Then drill where paint is, double-checking the alignment when the 2nd
hole is still shallow.

Once done, pin and glue as normal.

--Flak

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 13:47, Dean Gundberg wrote:
> Schoon wrote:
> > Brian Bell wrote:
> > > I did not pin my SDN, and it is rather sagging.
> > > http://www.cygnusx1.info/images/ft/shippicts/073_sol_sdn.jpg
> >
> > I was even thinking of running a piece of coat hanger wire
> > throught this one
> > myself.
> 
> I was thinking of that too, drilling straight through the middle
sections
> and using a brass rod or other straight wire as a spine for the ship
and
> wondered if anyone had done this yet.  I just worry about keeping all
the
> holes straight, but maybe if I start at either end of a section and
meet in
> the middle there would be less chance of an error and messing up the
part.
> I did something similar for my B5Wars Omega minis so I could get the
habitat
> section to rotate and I haven't had any problems with them at all.
> 
> Dean Gundberg
> 
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