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Compressor zhng and Nina

Published on June 7, 2007 @ 11:58 pm in Rants, Resins and Tools. 2 Comments

Few day ago, I screw up. I overspill the compressor oil. Thats ok, just an oil spill. But whats not okay is the air fitler got soaked in oil. Operation status changed to red. Dangerous to run the compressor without a filter.

After a whole day trek almost over half of Singapore, managed to get one in Jalan Besar. Its almost half-price of what I got quoted from the Bukit Merah car workshop area. Its the original K&N oil-breather whereas the previous one a chiong one. Its uses oil medium as its filter.

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Plastic Injection Moulding

Published on May 30, 2007 @ 9:32 pm in Rants and Tools. 1 Comment

During the previous few days trip roaming in Malaysia. I got access into one of the plastic injection moulding maunfacturing center. Instead of PVC toys, they manufactured bottles, bowls, caps and such. Some of it have already made it to your house. What items is it, is classified information.

Most of the injection machines are classified as well, but I managed to snap some of them, especially those oil bottle and water bottle blowing machine.

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Silair 15A

Published on May 23, 2007 @ 1:05 pm in Tools. 4 Comments

After much mental orgies, decided to drop the bomb. An SMS to the seller got my compressor delivered 2 hours later. All happen near to midnight. All was good except the hose adaptor was not the correct one and too much oil inside.

Therefore decide to do a strip down maintanance to pour out the excess oil.

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Tool spree

Published on May 19, 2007 @ 9:37 pm in Tools. 0 Comments

Today everything start coming in. At first was the flexshaft and the keyless chunk. Went taken home to try on the China dremel. The whole thing start vibrating. There you have china made tools. Lucky it is cheap. Anyway the alignment is off and it broke one of my most expensive scrap bit. Then, I order a original dremel and the guy delivered to my block. Open my mailbox on the way back, padded envelope! My shipment from UK have arrived. 1 airbrush lube. Bought 2 paint from Comic mart and 1 2K blue.

Tamiya Polishing Compound

Published on May 17, 2007 @ 4:28 pm in Resins and Tools. 1 Comment

On a unexpected visit to Nakamoto shop for his lengendary thinner, I asked him about gloss and matte coating. It seem for the normal gunpla modeler, trying to get a flat look and a gloss coat is a chore. Something that doent really bother a resin modeler; Flat just spray on a artist varnish, gloss just coat on a PU clear aka your car gloss with scratch resisitant and UV protection. ^^

However the steps with the gunpla way which normally people use is, 1 to 2 layer of gloss, sand and polish. Thats when I took notice of the "polish" which turns out to be Tamiya Polishing Compound. I got no idea what is that which later I found out was used for polishing. Works on every paint type.

One of the cliche that I encounter was to achieve a satin gloss. A pain in the ass surfacing. I dont want to spray another coat on the 2K black. Using gloss will have too much bling bling.

It works! Just the way I want, although a bit too way glossy. The polish was only rated FINE. I wonder what the tube rated FINISH will do. ^^ Can see my face on it I supposed.

Gunze Procon Boy FWA Platinum 0.2 Airbrush Part 1

Published on May 6, 2007 @ 5:36 pm in Tools. 5 Comments

This will be an extensive review of the Procon Boy FWA Platinum 0.2. There is another 0.3mm model which I think the overall build would be the same except minor changes here and there. Just a heads up this review would hopefully accomplished the following: