The Great Central Railway (GCR) was a major railway company in the United Kingdom, known for its ambitious...
Valid to UK only - excludes oversized items
The Great Central Railway (GCR) was a major railway company in the United Kingdom, known for its ambitious...
Tracksetta templates are essential tools for ensuring that your model railway track is laid accurately and...
A turntable is a means of turning your engine around. An example of this would be, if you have several engine sheds...
White metals are bright metal alloys made to possess varying qualities depending on their intended use. Some white...
In theory, any analogue model railway locomotive can be converted to DCC, but instead of having a socket to plug a...
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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