today's work

[redboat219]

David Merriman with a hoarse voice: " Swear to me!"

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[SubICman]

Okay Dave. I'll take one for the team, and accept the yelling. I would like to learn, soooo......What are you doing with the heated up exactly blade?

Tim

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Okay Dave. I'll take one for the team, and accept the yelling. I would like to learn, soooo......What are you doing with the heated up exactly blade?

Tim

https://youtu.be/YWyCCJ6B2WE

Hey! I'm here to learn as well, Tim.

There are situations where a store-bought blade or file face is unsuitable for a specific task -- the geometry of the work precludes use of a straight blade edge or file face to cut or abrade away material. The solution is to bend your hand-tool to a shape that will accomplish the task at hand.

Simply take the tool to a red heat, bend as required, and get to work.











And you may find that a stock blade is not suitable for a task. In such a case I use the store-bought blade as a 'blank' and grind and hone the blade to a shape suited to the task. A good example of this is the re-shaping of a #11 X-Acto blade into a pull-scrapper -- in this case a tool to undercut a length of square stock to give it the sectional form of a 'T', representing American submarine external safety-track.





A set of #11's have been ground into specialized chisel points. These needed to form these sail vent louvers. (Incidentally, this is the master that later gave form to the tool that produced the sail for the 1/72 THRESHER model I'm currently assembling).





David
The Great and All Powerful

[SubICman]

Thanks for the lesson Dave. I honestly never thought to make a new tool like that.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thanks for the lesson Dave. I honestly never thought to make a new tool like that.

Necessity is the mother of all Invention.

David

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[redboat219]

What sizes are those self made scribes?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

MTRONIKS BITES ME IN THE ASS... YET AGAIN!























Hurumph!......

[RCSubGuy]

I literally just had a customer's SUB10 blow up just like this again, too, David. Happened on Wednesday.

I'm going to reach out and see what the hell is up. We had this issue a few years ago, too. Looks like MTroniks is taking shortcuts in QC. I'm going to need to source a new line of products, unfortunately.

Bob

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I literally just had a customer's SUB10 blow up just like this again, too, David. Happened on Wednesday.

I'm going to reach out and see what the hell is up. We had this issue a few years ago, too. Looks like MTroniks is taking shortcuts in QC. I'm going to need to source a new line of products, unfortunately.

Bob

Agreed. What is likely happening is this: 1. they source a different (cheaper/more reliable) supplier of parts, the part(s) are flawed; and 2. Mtroniks is not batch testing assembled ESC's to a significant degree before releasing these products for sale. Seems to be a cyclic problem with these guys.

But to be fair, with the rare exception, I love their stuff!


David
Gun Shy

[Das Boot]

I literally just had a customer's SUB10 blow up just like this again, too, David. Happened on Wednesday.

I'm going to reach out and see what the hell is up. We had this issue a few years ago, too. Looks like MTroniks is taking shortcuts in QC. I'm going to need to source a new line of products, unfortunately.

Bob

I told you guys 2 years ago that their stuff was crap. Cheap Chinese parts have taken a toll on this company. I have 2 sitting here that burned up, and MTronics wanted me to ship them back to the UK on my dime. They’re still here.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I told you guys 2 years ago that their stuff was crap. Cheap Chinese parts have taken a toll on this company. I have 2 sitting here that burned up, and MTronics wanted me to ship them back to the UK on my dime. They’re still here.

You got an alternative that's better? I'm all ears, Casey.

David

[Das Boot]

You got an alternative that's better? I'm all ears, Casey.

David

There are always alternatives. If the one I have in the Blueback goes south, I’ll find one.