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  • Member since
    April 2023
  • From: New mexico
really tiny broke parts
Posted by John3M on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 10:48 AM

I am beginning to realize that some of my kits my be to small for my meathook hands.

I built an MG for my wife and some of the parts were smaller than a rice kernel. One part of the foot pedal was broken and with my largish hands I had to figure a way to handle the part and get it glued back to normal. I have a lot of experience with tweezers firing my parts into the neighbor's house, so this was going to be hard. I decided to imbed the part into the sticky putty you get from Staples and since I didn't think glue would hold it without making a mess, I dipped the peddle into a small drop of UV resin and without much trouble it worked.

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Thursday, March 28, 2024 7:40 AM

John3m;

        Hi. Since I was diagnosed with Parkinsons, I figured why when tweezing a part it flys off to "Never" land. So, to solve that I do two things now. First I make sure I am not squeezing as hard, and secondly Make sure all my tweezers have teeth to hold with. If they don't, Then I make teeth with 180 grip Emery cloths passed through their jaws. Don't laugh! It works!

  • Member since
    April 2023
  • From: New mexico
Posted by John3M on Thursday, March 28, 2024 2:16 PM

something i recently did with my tweezers. I also had the same problem but recently found a resolution. In another post i mentioned the use of plastic dip or plasti dip

I dip the tweezers in the rubber for an inch or so to coat the tips and let it dry for a few hours and now the tweezers grip better and because of the friction added surface the part will more likely not fly away as easily. I hang the tweezers from a vertical surface to let the drips flow down. I hung mine from a metal cabinet with a magnet. this substance i originally purchased to coat my metal tool handles and yard tools. 

 

 

An additional advantage of the rubber tips on the tweezers is your less likely to damage your plastic parts, especially if they've already been painted and you have to move something around this really small 

 

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