For many in the hobby, a model railway is more than just a collection of trains, track and scenery. It's a living,...
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For many in the hobby, a model railway is more than just a collection of trains, track and scenery. It's a living,...
A superglue activator, also known as a cyanoacrylate (CA) accelerator, is a chemical agent designed to speed up the...
In the world of scale modelling, greeblies (or "greebles") refer to small, intricate details you add to your models...
Brake vans, also known as guard's vans or caboose cars, have played a vital role in the history of railways. These...
Wire Glue is an electrically conductive adhesive specifically formulated to connect wires without the need for...
There are three main types of hand drills used in modelling, all with quite amusing or non-descriptive names including eggbeaters (officially known simply as hand drills or wheel braces), the Archimedean drill, which developed into the push drill and pin vices.
Traditional hand drills (eggbeaters) have a handle you turn to provide rotation to a drill bit via a gear, a push drill also produces a rotating motion but is operated by pumping the handle of the screwdriver-like device up and down as you work and a pin vice has no mechanism therefore is operated by screwing a bit through a surface in an action not too dissimilar to using a bradawl.
Hand operated drills specifically designed for modellers accept very small bits ranging from zero to just a couple of millimetres making them ideal for modelling projects. Although there are numerous other types of hand-operated drills available, these three are the most commonly used by modellers providing them with a means to drill holes with a precision that power tools would not allow.
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