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Make super fine EZ-Line for braille scale rigging

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  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Make super fine EZ-Line for braille scale rigging
Posted by wing_nut on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:18 AM

Not to long ago I was feeling a bit warm.  A little sweaty and shaky.  It was either the flue of an attack of AMS. why couldn’t it have been the flue.  

I recently got my 1st spools of EZ-Line, 1 ea. of the heavy and fine, and was playing around with the stuff to see how I was going to like it.  Because of the horrid state of my bench I got impatient looking for my scissors and snapped a piece off the spool.  Because it stretches so darn far you have to pinch with 2 hands very close together and give is a sharp tug.  When I did that I noticed how the end split. 

 

 

Each of those splits can be pulled the length of the piece you have to make extremely fine fibers.  I pulled the tiniest f the threads the length of a 1 foot piece as a test.  However this stuff is made, and of what, I think I may have gotten to an individual "thread".

 

In this pic “A/B” is a hair and #80 bit for comparison.  “C” is the heavy EZ-Line and “D” is the fine.  The fine is said to be 0.15mm, (0.006").  “E” and “F “ are 2 of the frayed ends pulled of the heavy line from the top pic. It may take a couple of snaps but you can get down to G, both the same.  And this is really fine.  It retains the exact same stretching properties as the original piece off the spool. 

 

 

The last 2 pics show the finest piece added to a 1/144 scale Platz N1K2 “Rex”.  I had used some dark invisible sewing thread for the original aerial wire so I put the EZ-Line underneath for the comparison.

  

 I think "F" would work very nicely on a 1/72 bipe.

 

 

Marc  

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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:22 AM

Where can you buy this?

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  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:04 AM

AMD triumphs again! I think we have a winner here, although I do sooooo love burning the tips of my fingers while stretching sprue.

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  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Posted by wing_nut on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:19 AM

I would have bet the farm you might be the 1st to respond. Wink

Marc  

  • Member since
    April 2005
  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Posted by wing_nut on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:22 AM

Manny... dunno what happened but your poat was not there when I repsoinded to mfsob.  I got it here...

http://www.bobeshobbyhouse.com/ezl.html

Marc  

  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:36 AM

*laughs* What can I say? Small is beautiful.

Speaking of No. 80 bits, I had to order a couple more packs ... I broke my last one reaming out all the limber holes on my 1/700 Gato sub. I know, I know ... but it's going to look so cool being depth charged by the itty-bitty Japanese sub chaser that came with it!

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