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[Pablo]

Nesta, those alum jig blocks are my favorite tool. Unfortunately, they are no longer made.
For retro, did you know a JK bracket is built to lay flat on the deck and provides perfect clearance with .812 wheels ? Jig wheels aren't really even needed execpt maybe just to align the bushings. Just ensure the bracket is flat, straight, and centered.

As far as metric, digital calipers can be had on EBay very reasonably, and all you have to do is push a button to show metric.

[68Caddy]

Thanks for the information and good luck with the build.
BTW who made those jigs when they were available?


Nesta

[Bill from NH]

Nesta, those aluminum jig blocks shown in the rear were a product of RGEO. At times, I wish I'd bought a pair when they were available.

[68Caddy]

Thanks Bill personally I think they should start to manufacture them again, they look like they could be a excellent tool for builders.
Sorry Pablo I will not speak about this any more.
Now I would like to see ya building the ride of yours.


Nesta

[Duffy]

Thanks Bill personally I think they should start to manufacture them again,

I always chuckle when I see a "THEY should..." comment--but, I was already thinking along these lines myself, so I can't complain.

Having messed around quite a bit with the new R-Geo jig, and in many non-standard wheel sizes to boot, I've come to like the jackscrew feature he's using to set axle heights. Unfortunately, you don't have a lot of choice in wheelbase with this function. Even one pair of jig blocks like this, with a fine-enough vernier, would pretty much solve it all.

I may have to discuss this stuf with Rick, re: height requirements and graduations. The four or five of us worldwide that might ever need this much fussiness might be within my range of capabilities, making ME "The "Go-To THEY." We'll talk.

Duffy

[Prof. Fate]

Hi

Neener neener...I got mine!

Rick went back to round because of people complaining. I didn't get it. I think they are a brilliant solution.

Fate

[Horsepower]

Yeah, those rears ARE a brilliant solution to make adjustments. I'd be up for some myself, assuming they were ever re-manufactured. Rick always makes the best and brightest. Immitated but never duplicated (except by Rick)!

[Duffy]

..., just trying to inspire Nesta. Maybe someday he will figure out what all those holes are for on his Rick's Jig

That's easy: they're where you dry the toothpicks after the olives come off.

I'm thinking about these graduated jig blocks. There're possibilities...I keep wanting them to do MORE. I don't know when to let a good idea just BE, entire and perfect. After all, I'm Duffy. So little time, so much to overdo.

Rick went back to round because of people complaining.

Rick must be a Democrat.

Well, I can sorta get it, people just can't wait to push their little car and make Vroom-Vroom noises! But, why limit oneself? Rick could have round ones, AND holey ones. He could combine them and be a Holey Roller. I'm trying right now to talk him into letting me make him a drill jig to turn these things out. He's not answering my calls. Typically, that means he's weakening.

I'd be up for some myself, assuming they were ever re-manufactured.

Nesta, me, Gary--that makes three so far. --How many did I say?

Duffy

[68Caddy]

Duffy don't forget Bill?


Nesta

[Duffy]

Duffy don't forget Bill?

--But he didn't actually say he'd BUY 'em...okay, so, four.

Anyway, Rick & I are talking drill jigs now. One for Normal Racers with 3/32 & 1/8 in popular tyre sizes, & maybe one for Scale dweebs & their 1-3/16" diam. & such...see, there's no end to this stuff until you just stop.

Duffy

[Jairus]

Well, I read through this whole thread and I gotta say that I am impressed with the project and Pablo's work so far. But, shouldn't the title be changed?

P, I have a nice little Lola T-70 by Revell and a bunch of Russkit bits waiting for just such an inspiration. This may just be it, keep going!

Watching with interest...

[Bill from NH]

Duffy, come up with a action plan for what sizes you're going to accomodate & an approximate cost. Then I can give you a thumbs up or thumbs down answer as to my interest. From a selfish point of view, I don't run wagon wheels, nor do I run roller skates. I also have a Unimat, so I usually turn what I need & use.

[Horsepower]

Well, I read through this whole thread and I gotta say that I am impressed with the project and Pablo's work so far. But, shouldn't the title be changed?

Yeah for sure. The title could throw off someone who was actually interested in a 1/24th like this, although initially he didn't actually KNOW what scale it was.

[Duffy]

Yah. And--like, who the heck's this Duffy?

[Pablo]

I don't mind the thread drift at all.
The build is in pause mode due to work and then slot racing next week.
But you know I will not quit and I won't forget.

[Duffy]

I don't mind the thread drift at all.

Okay, you should know: that's like offering a gas can to a candle, for SOME of us.

But, I'm goin' to bed.

Duffy

[Pablo]

Thanks for reminding me about the thread misnomer... it will soon be fixed.
Meanwhile, you guys can talk about the alum blocks all you want, while I am busy nights bringing home the bacon for a while.

[Pablo]

Found some slot car time today, thanks to my friend Bonnie in the Gulf had a day off.



Sunburst flag: blade has been shortened to fit the front of the body, and rotating surface faced.

Cobra tongue trimmed to fit the flag, faced, 10 thou forward lift.

Whenever I use a .063 X 1" brass block like this, I always use the Dennis Samson trick of using the ridges to my advantage with regards to the tilt. Also, the Rick Thigpen method of filing the upper edges of the block a little to allow solder to pool along the (rail/block) joint.

My retro buddy John Clow says "Boy, Pablo, you really ARE anal, aren't you !?"
Yes I am.

I changed my mind on the piano wire rails --- they will be brass.

As Capt. Rick says, "Onward !"

[Duffy]

My retro buddy John Clow says "Boy, Pablo, you really ARE anal, aren't you !?"

See, the real problem is that Freud just gave us a bad name. It's--unsettling. All these pretty-positive traits lumped in with that Eeeew word.

Now, if he'd called us, say, DIGITAL, heck, everybody's wanna BE us! "Ohhh, he's soooo Digital..."

Duffy

[Prof. Fate]

Hi

You cannot let sloppy people stereotype those of us with a proper sense of precision.

Fate

[Pablo]

[Duffy]

What? No fourth decimal place?

[Jairus]

On the other hand.... "Eyeball Engineering" has it's place....
I'm just saying!

[Pablo]

Hi Jairus

I agree, the human eye is an amazing creation. What blows my mind is when I eyeball something, mike it, and it is +/- one thou

BUT, sometimes the mind can play tricks on you.

No instrument currently created by mankind can replicate the human eye. This is why kamikaze pilots were so effective

[Bill from NH]

The sheer number of aircraft they might send on a single mission didn't hurt either. Sometimes they sent 300-400 kamikaze planes with a like quantity of conventional aircraft. There also was a good deal of brainwashing that went on along with the pilot training. The Japanese kamikaze speed boats & torpedoes weren't nearly as effective. But no nation on earth has ever won a war using a suicide-warfare mentality.