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  • Member since
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  • From: Burlington, Ontario Canada
Posted by gburdon on Friday, November 18, 2005 1:10 PM

Jin:

If you are not making "working" hinges you can simply build them from styrene and stretched sprue or styrene tubing

To make the hinge

Cut the anchoring plates from flat sheet styrene to size using the existing as reference.

Cut the "tube" of the hinge from either stretched sprue or styrene tube of the same size.

If you use stretched sprue cut the sprue into sections to show the seperations of the hinge tube

If you use styrene tube score the seperation lines with your hobby knife.

Then position and glue down.

 

To make "working" hinges there is an article in the Fall 1983 issue of Fine Scale Modeler by Steve Zaloga. You can order a copy (hopefully) of the article from FSM directly.

The article shows how to make working hinges out of shim brass (very thin brass used in machining) wrapped around a styrene pin. These are not hard to make and they do not require expensive tools to make them.

The third method is to photoetch them yourself, now that requires drawing the parts and etching them yourself etc. etc.. Thisagain not a hard process if you understand all the principles involved. However the tools to make your own photoetch parts can be quite costly.

Again search the back issues and articles of FSM and you will find all the information you need to make your own parts. I was fortunate enough to complete the full series of FSM right back to the 1982 test issue and there is a wealth of reference in each. If you have the means to do so I highly recommend locating all the issues. You will not regret it.

Hope this helps to answer your question and fix the problem for you.

 

Cheers;

Gregory

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how do you make hinges?
Posted by jinithith2 on Sunday, November 13, 2005 3:09 PM
I broke one of my hinges on my Jackson and when I was fixing it, I noticed that when I attached it last year, I attached it horribly wrong. there are no ways of getting it off without damaging it, so I'm asking: How do you make hinges???
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