New idea........or is it?

[Gary Dowler]

So did I hit on something new, or am I the thousandth nimrod to "think of it"?

Cutting out parts from a sheet in an old Sterling kit which, and I know this will surprise many, wasn't die cut all that well. It suddenly hit on me that the die cut in from one side, and if I took a block and sanded the backside of the sheet it might help release the parts.  It works!  A sanding block with 80 grit adhesive paper cuts quickly and definitely helped parts come out of that sheet.

Gary

[Will Hinton]

I believe the common expression "way back when" was die CRUSHED.

[Dan McEntee]

    This was common practice on Guillow's kits also. One thing it does for you is that you lighten all the parts. The wood in most high volume kits was hard and stringy. You could use them as patterns, but often times sanding them down to half thickness gave you light and strong parts. You just need to figure that out as you went along building the model.
  Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee

[Steve Helmick]

Gary is SN 1,001...Serial Nimrod, that is.  Steve

[Randy Cuberly]

Hey that was actually published as a "TIP" in "Air Trails" Magazine a very, very long time ago.  'Course, since you're a "youngster" you probably missed it!   

Randy Cuberly