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  1. 8th January 2017, 04:27 PM #1
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    Default Wheels, pre WIP

    I am making my first batch of toys. Those more experienced than I, will already be aware that GRANDparenthood does that to woodworkers!
    I have a (Carbitool?) wheel cutter that has lived in a dark cupboard for a few years and, once I tried using it, I discovered that it is prone to tear out and other forms of timber grain mutilation! While trialling different timber and RPM combinations, I had a brainwave and reached for a scrap piece of plywood. Not only does it minimise tear-out but, if you are careful, you can create both tread AND whitewall tyre effects!

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    Ill l'll post a 'proper' WIP when (if?) my first batch is finished.

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    Thanks Fletty, they are looking good. Should look top notch with a finish on them. Cheers, Fred
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    looks like a couple have been marked by the parking inspector already!
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    They look ACE Fletty - Top Stuff

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    What's the lead time if I order a few (hundred).
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    Quote Originally Posted by shanesmith80 View Post
    What's the lead time if I order a few (hundred).

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    I like the effect you have got using ply wood great idea, keep making them and yu will have plenty to make a compete fleet of vehicles. I certainly would fit these to any model I made

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    Those turned out great!
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    They look wheely good. (Some one had to say it. It's done now and we can move on )
    Those were the droids I was looking for.
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    Excellent work Alan.
    Do you have a jig/pattern to do the centres
    and if so could you please post a photo, thank you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crowie View Post
    Excellent work Alan.
    Do you have a jig/pattern to do the centres
    and if so could you please post a photo, thank you.

    Cheers peter
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    Thanks Crowie, the jig is just a ply base fitted with a pin that fits in the centre of the wheel. A pencil mark on the wheel is then aligned with the 8 pencilled 'rays' on the base and a hole drilled less than half way through from both sides.
    In an earlier method I cut square blanks for the wheels, drilled the centre hole for the axle and then drilled the 8 holes right through the blank. THEN I used the wheel cutter. This gave a neater set of holes BUT holding the square blank was a bit tricky during wheel cutting!

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    Found these plans in a Model Maker Magazine from 1954.
    Thought the Bedford may suit your wheels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shanesmith80 View Post
    What's the lead time if I order a few (hundred).
    Group buy perhaps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Repliconics View Post
    Found these plans in a Model Maker Magazine from 1954.
    Thought the Bedford may suit your wheels.

    Cheers mate
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    You don't want another 4 filing cabinets of magazines do you? These ones are aircraft history and modelling, some continuous from the sixties?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    You don't want another 4 filing cabinets of magazines do you? These ones are aircraft history and modelling, some continuous from the sixties?

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    YES PLEASE VERY MUCH!!

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