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Building Tips and technical articles. => Paint and finishing => Topic started by: Howard Rush on November 13, 2024, 12:27:38 AM
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Once a month I get an injection in my sinister (left) eyeball for a retina anomaly. I ordered the doctor to give me the needle. Although it feels bigger, its 0.3 mm in diameter. I used it to squirt water into a wing-leading-edge dent, then heated the area with a lukewarm MonoKote iron. The dent came right out, and the hole is nigh invisible.
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Botox?
Dave
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there are a few suggestions for dent removal in the article in the April, 1992 issue of Flying Models for a smaller model called "The Professor" by Mike Spedaliere and several other wood working hints for better looking glue joints and parts fit up. I'll have to get that out and refresh my memory. I think one old school way was just lay a dame rag on the spot, let it soak the wood, and then apply the heat from the iron. I can't remember if the damp rag is left in p lace or not. The key in any method is to soak the wood and make it swell up.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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I guess I could have sanded off the finish to get at the bare wood, but I took the easy way out.
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I guess I could have sanded off the finish to get at the bare wood, but I took the easy way out.
Well, you didn't give us that tiny detail that it was a finished model!! I'm glad it worked for you but if you had not acquired the needle, a steaming wet rag and the iron may work also.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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On a gunstock with a dent, a damp rag on the dent will let water soak into the crushed fibers. Heat from a large soldering iron (on top of the rag) will cause the water to turn to steam and expand. A chunk of wet denim works really nice. This would be for bare wood or oil finish.
Small dents and fingernail marks on bare balsa usually come out by just wetting the dent to re-expand the crushed fibers.
Injecting through the paint and using low Temp heat is a clever twist.
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Injecting through the paint and using low Temp heat is a clever twist.
What is the procedure for removing the bump from overdoing the removal? LL~
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Once a month I get an injection in my sinister (left) eyeball for a retina anomaly. I ordered the doctor to give me the needle. Although it feels bigger, its 0.3 mm in diameter. I used it to squirt water into a wing-leading-edge dent, then heated the area with a lukewarm MonoKote iron. The dent came right out, and the hole is nigh invisible.
You're one of the lucky ones too. Every 6 weeks for me!
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Now I need to look for .3mm holes in Howard's wing LE. Let's see...that's .0118". Shouldn't be a problem with my 30X loupe...but which ImpAct? LL~ Steve
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Now I need to look for .3mm holes in Howard's wing LE.
Doesn't he cover them up with mouse poop?