01-09-2009, 02:59 PM
Russ Bellinis Wrote:Check out Mocro-Mark http://[/url]http://www.micromark.com[url] You can get the set from #61-#80. I lists for about $30.00 or a little bit more. For your build I don't think I would order one of those sets though. As you go through the menu, they list drill bits, rather than drill sets. On that page you can order individual sizes and get them in packages of 6. If you haven't used those small drills yet, or even if you have a lot of experience with them, you probably will not get your box car done without breaking a few bits. If you spend $30+ for that set and the first hole you try to drill you break a bit, you will be in deep do do. You need 6 packages of 6 each of those drill bits the sizes 60 to 74 will run $7.15 per package and the sizes 75-80 will cost $8.20. The other alternative is to go to a pharmacy and buy a hypodermic syringe. You should take the box car kit in with you to show the pharmacist what you want to do with the syringe. It is considered "drug paraphernalia", so you need to show him that you are buying it for a purpose other than shooting up drugs. The advantage of the syringe is that it is cheaper and stronger than all of those tiny drill bits. You should also get a "sharps Box." used syringes are considered medical waste and can't be just thrown away like a broken hack saw blade. In one of the clinics at the NMRA show put on by a mmr, she mentioned that when she first went into the drug store to buy her first syringe, she took a kit in and offered to pay for the syringe and show the pharmacist what she wanted to do with it with the proviso that he could dispose of the syringe after she used it if, and keep the money if he wasn't comfortable selling it to her. When he saw what she did with it, he became a "friend for life." She didn't know before she went in that he was a model ship builder and was looking for something to make small holes in ships hulls to mount the rigging to! She pointed out that if you "recycle" the various parts of the syringe inot other scratch building and kit bashing modeling projects, the only thing that will go into the sharps box will be the very tip of the needle. She uses the needle except for the tip in the bottom of tree trunks to mount the trees on her layout. The various other bits and pieces of the syringe are used for vents, pipes, culverts, and whatever else she thinks of that the pieces can be made to look like. The barrel of the syringe works as a natural pin vice as well. You hold the outer barrel with the handle at the joint where your thumb and fore finger attach to your hand, then swivel the inner barrel between the thumb and forefinger to drill.
I don't know why it doesn't parse the url.
Actually, if you tell the pharmacist you are diabetic, he has to sell the needle and syringe. He has no legal authority to assume you are guilty of a criminal act, but is he is dedicated hard-***, go see your local vet. I give my animals their shots all the time, and I get the needles and syringes from my vet. I don't drill with them; I use them for gluing...after I give the creatures their shots. Why should they have all the fun while I do all the work?
Television shows are not good sources of information.