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    A couple of tools

    I think this is the right area, admins please move if I've got it wrong.

    Bare Metal Foil Scribe.

    I bought one of these a while ago on the recommendation of a fellow model making friend. You hold this as if you were holding a pen it's got a bit weight to it but as you draw it back through a panel or shut line it removes a small amount with every pass without making the panel or shut line any wider.

    Link

    Fibreglass pen

    Found out about this from reading a magazine so though I'd get one a give it a try, and it works as you can get into those sometimes hard to reach spots. I got mine from this chap on ebay

    Link

    Photo's

    Bare Metal Foil Scriber

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    Fibreglass pen

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    Hope it helps

    Regards

    David

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    • Ian M
      Administrator
      • Dec 2008
      • 18270
      • Ian
      • Falster, Denmark
      #2
      Fiberglass pens are rather handy aren't they. They are good many things: Run one down a new scribed line and it softens it a bit. Good at removing wayward glue and fingerprints....A good surface prepper for superglue and solder (which is their real purpose as it is sold as a burnishing pen).

      That bare metal foil scriber looks very much like a dental probe :-/ I have a few I scored from a dentist...

      Ian M
      Group builds

      Bismarck

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        • Guest
          #3
          Hey some nice ideas there for the fibreglass pen Ian. Used it for difficult parts & it is a great tool.

          Bought david one of those metal scribes. I meant to buy a scribe for plastic but hit the wrong button on ebay which is really the death button. But the metal scribe works well.

          Laurie

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            • ojays
              • Oct 2011
              • 1713
              #4
              Although a very necessary piece of equipment, be carefull with the fibre pen, minute fibres are deposited every time you use it.

              I found out the hard way when cleaning up my working board one evening.

              I was rubbing the side of my hand across the board to brush bits in to a tissue, when I got several

              very tiny (but Painful) ops:fibres in the edge of my hand!

              Just thought I would mention it!

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                • AlanG
                  • Dec 2008
                  • 6296
                  #5
                  Gregg. We used fibre pens all the time in the RAF and I can totally agree that they hurt like a hurting thing when you get the 'spent fibres' in your hand/fingers

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