Re: FT detachable base construction/installation

Thomas Barclay schrieb:
> Made my first tubular brass base for FT 
> (SemFed BB from Brigade.... love that model 
> Tony!). 
> 
> Problems: 
> 1) Squaring a hole in the bottom of the BB - 
> 2) Installation of brass outer collar - I think I 
> 3) Installation of brass stand into old GeoHex 
> base. How do you gaurantee verticality and 
> perpendicularity in both relevant axes? 

I have used a slightly different approach. Round tubes cut at a 45
degree angle. This is enough to ensure a reasonably stable direction of
the mini. Solves the first two problems.
Aligning the upright part on the stand is still not really easy,
though.

See:
http://home.t-online.de/home/kh.ranitzsch/gallery/sf_modelling.html

Greetings