02-05-2012, 09:50 PM
Ralph:
I'll just suggest that you take your time with the places where the string goes through holes. You'll want a nice smooth cut with no bits inside the hole.
Our RV has "day & night" shades that run up and down on cords and most of them now have frayed or worse strings. I've got replacement cord but I need a couple of nice warm days to work on it.
I've assembled a couple of the Bullfrog mechanisms; it's not difficult after you see how the first one goes together. The control rods come in yard lengths and can be cut down. The inner rod takes a 2-56 screw so you can try to make your own knobs. FT sells little packets of fixin's. The controls are nearly identical with (is it) Bluepoint.
I'll just suggest that you take your time with the places where the string goes through holes. You'll want a nice smooth cut with no bits inside the hole.
Our RV has "day & night" shades that run up and down on cords and most of them now have frayed or worse strings. I've got replacement cord but I need a couple of nice warm days to work on it.
I've assembled a couple of the Bullfrog mechanisms; it's not difficult after you see how the first one goes together. The control rods come in yard lengths and can be cut down. The inner rod takes a 2-56 screw so you can try to make your own knobs. FT sells little packets of fixin's. The controls are nearly identical with (is it) Bluepoint.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.