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- Manbench Industries; Purveyors of general mayhem since 1994, a blog to follow the crazed, possibly deranged projects and emotive musings, of an undergraduate engineer, and an apprentice organ builder who have always felt they were born in the wrong age. Follow us as we, re-write history, learn lost skills, discover strange new worlds, break things, rant at things, mend things, make new things and generally find ways of passing the day instead of doing "proper work" !
Thursday 10 January 2013
Unusual Methods of Clamping V
I'm currently working on an Airfix model of HMS Iron Duke, the first step of which is the assembly of the hull - a job I always hate on Airfix. It involves the joining of two moulded hull sections together - although the fit of the components is usually pretty good, they don't always want to go together too well. My method is generally to align the components and glue either the bow or stern sections together (whichever is easiest to clamp), allow these areas to dry, then do the rest of the hull in one go, clamping together with the deck in place using elastic bands. I'm far from an expert Airfix builder, but that is the method that works for me! Might be of interest to someone!
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