Arghhh, gosh darn it

[Guest]

Prepping the fork stanchions on the bike i'm building at the moment, (they're seperate from the fork tubes and are movable on springs), the plunger unfortunately was a very fine part and whilst taping it to a bit of sprue as a handle I snapped the darn thing, oooh, i am quite upset.

(this is one i'm building as an xmas pressie for the friend)

I'll have to look at repairing it after i've painted it with the alclad but may have to glue them in permanently.

[Guest]

any pics hows the damage?

[Guest]

None yet and can't take any until the enamels dry and i've alclad-ed the part as it's taped to the sprue handle at present.

Essentially imagine a sprue with a thinner portion moulded to it about 1/3rd the width, this is the plunger which fits into the fork tube, to actuate it like a full size fork.

I was taping the thin section to the sprue as this is hidden and doesn't need paint and snapped the thin portion off, a dab of superglue should do the job hopefully.

[stona]

I did the same recently with some pipework on my Spitfire comprising two small curved pieces. I broke one cleaning off the sprue attachment point glued it back together with some poly cement,no problem. I then stuck the two halves of the pipework together, painted them up (Alclad aluminium) and promptly snapped the other "half" whilst dry fitting! I cleaned off a bit of the paint,stuck that back together and repainted it before finally getting it fitted to the engine. It took more than a day to fit a bit of aluminium pipework made up of two pieces!!

I feel your pain.

Just look at it as part of the fun.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Just look at it as part of the fun.

Cheers

Steve

You're a strange man Steve, however, having left it after spraying the gloss black, (in case my frustration got the better of me and I damaged another bit), I feel much better and plan to just put it down to a little hiccup along the path of the build.