today's work

[redboat219]

Post-apocalyptic world

Time to address the servile followers.
The Lord Humungus


Immortan Joe


David Merriman

[redboat219]

I gotta do a better review of my photo's before posting them!

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Okey, back to work.

[Rick Teskey]

Dooms day prepper or preeminent strike on Canada?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Post-apocalyptic world

Time to address the servile followers.
The Lord Humungus


Immortan Joe


David Merriman

**** you, Romel!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[redboat219]

Do you perform any balancing (not on a broom stuck up your arse ) or just remove flash from the casting?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Do you perform any balancing (not on a broom stuck up your arse ) or just remove flash from the casting?

No attempt is made to statically or dynamically balance our propellers or PJ rotors. But that was a fair question. I'm sure there is significant imbalance to most of the cast metal screws we produced. Thing is, they don't spin at the rates where bearing wear, or system vibration would be an issue. These are marine propulsors that work in a liquid fluid, not a gas, so don't spin at significant RPM's.

[Subculture]

I remember a conversation with Simon at Prop Shop about metals used for his investment castings. Silicone bronze is the usual choice- modellers like hanging a nice bit of brass off the end of their tub, but he said that aluminium is a good choice if aesthetics are of less importance as you get a much lighter prop and it's generally more than strong enough.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I remember a conversation with Simon at Prop Shop about metals used for his investment castings. Silicone bronze is the usual choice- modellers like hanging a nice bit of brass off the end of their tub, but he said that aluminium is a good choice if aesthetics are of less importance as you get a much lighter prop and it's generally more than strong enough.

Your talking pure metals and specific alloys that melt at temperatures that require extensive labor and infrastructure: the investment casting process. Alloy; master; wax; wax injector; investment; investment vibrating table; wax burn-out oven; and gas or electric furnace.

Unless there's a rubber tool material that can stand repeated cycles at 1400F it's not worth the labor for a vendor like us that produces in quantity at a low price-point. Our rubber tools can only work with metals that can be poured at a temperature below 700F.

D&E Miniatures was not a 'specialty' shop at the end: Our last decades were spent, as an exclusive vendor, affiliated with the Caswell Co. and Nautilus Drydocks where we engaged in production work, not one-offs.







David & Ellie

[Joe oliver]

ALFA build: Where can I find the small magnetic couplers used to connect control rods? I need about six sets.
Newbi

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

ALFA build: Where can I find the small magnetic couplers used to connect control rods? I need about six sets.
Newbi

I'll enclose them with your ALFA SD, coming soon.

David

[redboat219]

Any updates on the CB class masters?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Any updates on the CB class masters?

Steve Reichmuth is lead on this project and informs me that the 3D printed hull master is in work. I'll reduce that, when it arrives, to tooling from which I'll produce 'kits for Steve, the 3D printer guy, myself and a few of my buddies. You're not one of my buddies? Here's a message from my buddy, Venom:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZaGkHQdg4zI?feature=share

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[JHapprich]

David, why nitro-stan on the hatches?

Got that Xia-Kit still in the Box, too.

Jörg