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Home made squares - Dave Harris sctchbld - 07-26-2012
Here are a couple of tiny squares I made a while back. It seemed that just about any square one could buy was a bit large for small inside building corners, so I elected to make a few of my own. I bought a 1 foot length of .032 feeler guage stock and some 3/8 inch X 1/2 Inch keystock. A bit of work with a dremel and a 1/32 cutoff disk and a dab of solder with the parts clamped to a larger square was all it took. Somewhere I have one even smaller just for the hell of it.!
Re: Home made squares - Dave Harris sctchbld - 01-24-2013
I am curious -- did anyone copy my cheap- n-ez square building tip?
I built about 5 or 6 of them for under 2 dollars! Gave most of them away .
Re: Home made squares - ezdays - 01-24-2013
Now that's downright cool. I missed this when you first posted it. I'll keep it in mind, you know that I like tools, any tools regardless of size and I never thought of making mini-squares. Thanks for the idea..
Re: Home made squares - Puddlejumper - 01-24-2013
These are great! There are so many instances recently that I have needed a "little square". This coal pier i'm working on the last few weeks being one of them.
Dave
Re: Home made squares - Dave Harris sctchbld - 01-24-2013
Now I feel much better, thought for a while there no one liked the idea. 
Here is another twist on the theme. I know everybody has seen these gadgets in the hardware store , come in many sizes and are CHEAP! They are also pretty precisely stamped at 90 degrees . If you are a bit shy about being seen using something so primitive , dress it up a bit like I did.
Re: Home made squares - Sumpter250 - 01-24-2013
I've been using the "corner braces" as miniature squares for a long time ! 8-)
They fit in my model builder's tool box, far more easily than almost ( I do have a couple of Union Tool Co. 2.5" X 4" ) any commercial square.
There are places on some of my ship models where even smaller squares could be very useful. I had to have seen your squares before, but memory, it seems, is now in short supply - - - it used to be terabytes, "now it just bites"
I'm thinking 1/4" square brass, and 0.032" X 0.25" brass strip, mill .032" deep X 0.25" across the square stock, and solder the blade. Maybe even .125" Square, and .125" X .020" strip.
It would be a bit more "permanent" than 0.040" styrene sheet triangles !
Re: Home made squares - Dave Harris sctchbld - 01-24-2013
Sumpter250 Wrote:
I've been using the "corner braces" as miniature squares for a long time ! 8-)
They fit in my model builder's tool box, far more easily than almost ( I do have a couple of Union Tool Co. 2.5" X 4" ) any commercial square.
There are places on some of my ship models where even smaller squares could be very useful. I had to have seen your squares before, but memory, it seems, is now in short supply - - - it used to be terabytes, "now it just bites"
I'm thinking 1/4" square brass, and 0.032" X 0.25" brass strip, mill .032" deep X 0.25" across the square stock, and solder the blade. Maybe even .125" Square, and .125" X .020" strip.
It would be a bit more "permanent" than 0.040" styrene sheet triangles !
I made one with 3/16 square keystock and 1/32 x .125 brass that was 1 inch by 1 1/4 inch , first guy that saw it grabbed it and made a key chain ornament out of it.
Re: Home made squares - Sumpter250 - 01-24-2013
Dave Harris sctchbld Wrote:I made one with 3/16 square keystock and 1/32 x .125 brass that was 1 inch by 1 1/4 inch , first guy that saw it grabbed it and made a key chain ornament out of it.
"made a key chain ornament out of it"
Maybe - - - somewhere back in the "Evolutionary Chain", some part of his DNA, was discarded as an Ornament !!
Re: Home made squares - tomustang - 01-24-2013
If you clean off the rust and apply Gun Bluing it'll repel the oxidation well
I use spare parts from jobs I use work at, still think about buying an 81pc Block Set