Recent content by Sempak

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    Does anyone play Microsoft Train Simulator?

    Did you upgrade from 98 to 2000 or do a fresh install? It's possible that you have not installed the correct drivers for your graphics card, if you tell me the manufacturer I can tell you where to find them. When your computer is starting check for words such as nVidia or ATI. Windows 2000 is...
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    Glue for White Metal?

    For my whitemetal kits I have used mostly cyanoacrylate (super glue), where I live most of the hobby shops carry a brand called ZAP which comes in three different viscosities. I use the medium stuff for pretty much everything, it does take a little longer to dry but it doesn't run everywhere...
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    Stargate fans

    I've tried that with a variety of keywords, no such luck. :( I wonder if www.gooogle.com.jaffanet would have better results for chappa eye. :thumb:
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    Stargate fans

    *digs up old post* What schematics/drawings did you use for the stargate? I'm thinking of doing something similar myself but I havent found anything accurate to base it on.
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    Soldering School

    If you aren't interested you dont have to read it... Isn't this the kind of thing we put in the academy? Or can that only happen when its finished because posts can't be replied to?
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    Making Ice

    What about using your favourite water making resin (envirotex etc) to make a normal lake and then using fine grain sandpaper to rough up the surface so that it does all opaque and frosted looking. You could also try painting the surface of the lake with some kind of paint that will get rid of...
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    Metal Etch Primer in my eye

    Two days later I can see fine and there's no discomfort. I think it's going to be fine.
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    Metal Etch Primer in my eye

    Thats why you have two! :D
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    Metal Etch Primer in my eye

    I washed my eye as soon as i got the primer into it and it was only a very small amount. My eye feels fine and doesnt look red or anything. I can still see straight so I'm guessing things are ok. But yes... it's a lesson learned, i shall wear safety glasses from now on!
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    Metal Etch Primer in my eye

    Does anybody know what getting a small amount of Metal Etch Primer (I'm guessing phosphoric acid) diluted 50/50 with Methylated Spirits (98% Ethanol) would do if it got in your eye? I managed to splatter some while cleaning my air brush. Yes I know I should have been wearing safety goggles but...
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    Of interest to cell phone owning modelers and their kinfolk...

    Can somebody explain this to me? In Australia only the person making the call (either to or from the "cellular phone" pays for the call...
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    New Baldwin Class B Model

    Thats not a B class... this is a B class! or this... As for a D class... :D
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    My half finished tram

    Depends... if that noise in the middle was a connie, well theyve been gone for a long time. :cry: On the other hand... if it was the sound of the wheels sqeaking on sub standard track then you're right on! :D Would you beleive some of the new ones have a horn!?!?!
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    My half finished tram

    It runs on HO gauge track although... In my part of Australia all of the electric heavy rail/EMU's as well as most of the freight and interstate passenger traffic runs on broad gauge track of 5'6" while the trams run down the middle of the streets on standard gauge track of 4'8.5" So if I...
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    My half finished tram

    This is the Melbourne B2 class Light Rail Vehicle I've been working on, more commonly known as a "double tram" or "long tram". :D It's a whitemetal kit that I've glued together and it's just received its first coat of primer. The body is constructed and i put the Bowser mech in to see how it...
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