Hint for Sailing ship modelers

There is a strip mall that I shop at the has a hobbystore, a fabric store, a dollar store, and a beauty supply store all side by side. Talk about convienient shopping for sailing ship supplies.

Good points, on the dental tools and Dollar Stores. I didn't even think of them, and I should have. I've got 50 or 60 dental drill bits, plus picks, scrapers and such. As for Dollar Stores, they're a treasure drove of neat, model building, stuff. Parts as well as tools.
Then there are "Craft Stores". It didn't take the wife, long, to figure out, that taking me to the craft store wasn't a good way to keep me out of trouble, when shopping. She says that the difference between a hobby shop and a craft store was, that she didn't have to look, befor saying NO, at a hobby shop.
Mike K.

Just wanted to put in my 2 cents and say that those things and other helpful goodies can sometimes be found in the "dollar stores". I found miniature bench vises at one of them for 99 cents. Hmmm..keyboard has dollar sign but no "cents" symbol??

Look in the Publisher's Clearing House mailing before you toss it. They sometimes have a little cordless rechargeable rotary tool kit. It is not powerful and runs at pretty low RPMS so it works great on styrene. At least mine does, but it could be a quality control issue. Been using it four years. I've never ordered a magazine through them but I've found some great little modeling tools in their ads. You just have to dig past the Olivia Newton-John greatest hits CD and the cloth chicken toaster covers.

The boss says we got the latest letter from them and they have it again. Called a "Roto Matic" and it's a 60 piece rotary tool set for "four easy payments of $4.99".

Good tip and...
Boy, won't our wives be thrilled that we can take interest in crotchet, sewing, needlpoint, beadwork, and going to the dentist.

I visited the dental hygenist and, as well, she had a whole bunch of neat tools with hooks and blades on the ends. I'm surprised she doesn't have me pass through a metal dectector or strip search when I leave.

Scott