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Offline wookieecrisp

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #60 on: February 16, 2010, 01:55:07 PM »

MJ all I was asking was what specific set of hand files were those? And thanks Navel for the link!

Oh.  Well I just used those as an example.  I'm not sure EXACTLY what brand I'm using since I buy these things often.  They pretty much all work the same.   ;)  I've had a few that used that handle thingy, but I don't care for it too much.  Too bulky. 

And thanks, Gaby!

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #61 on: April 17, 2010, 02:59:30 PM »
As seen here:  http://www.fx-sabers.com/forum/index.php?topic=20112.msg346147;topicseen#msg346147

Dremeling Brass Rings



Sanding with a metal file



Polishing and rounding edges

« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 12:51:37 PM by ANAKIN SKYWALKER »

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #62 on: June 26, 2010, 11:33:15 AM »
This is art.
It is splendid technology. :)

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #63 on: September 18, 2010, 01:04:14 PM »
Very nice tutorial !
Can I translate this tutorial into french and post it in my french blog on luxeon sabers without forgetting to say it was made by you, Master Jedye ?
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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #64 on: September 18, 2010, 01:21:24 PM »
 By all means... go for it.  Let's not let a little thing like "translation" get in the way of teaching, shall we?   ;)

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #65 on: September 18, 2010, 01:44:03 PM »
No, we won't. That's because I spend more time now on this forum than before.
I prefere to ask because you spent a lot of time writting this useful tutorial. If I had read it before working on my saber, I wouldn't have made some mistakes (not dramatical, of course ^^).
If you want to see my work for french-spoken people, you can see it on http://sen.tabesi.over-blog.fr where I wrote some articles and my own studies and translations of most interesting non-french turorials like disassembling MR or Hasbro sabers, and so on...
Thank you for your work. This is a nice work ! :)
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- Leina Cidubren
- Master Cre-Beruh
- Mara jade
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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #66 on: July 29, 2011, 03:42:46 PM »
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Sanding Down a Sinktube

I have no luck with Gold transparent powdercoating so I am still forced to sand down sinktubes. The first one I ever did, my first saber actually....was sanded down by hand. It took all day.
Then I saw Jay-Gon using brass polished sinktubes....but they were $30.

The sinktubes I use are from Ace Hardware. In the store, they cost about $9.00....online, they're about $4.00. Doing so many brass shrouded sabers, we had to come up with an easier way to sand it down....so here's a video of how we do it.

If you have a better way, please let me know.

All you need is a drill, a 5/8 compression stop plug, a heavy (thick) glove and sandpaper (80 grit to 1500 grit). For the final "polishing", I use the same technique but with 0000 steel wool and Brasso or Flitz metal polish
The results....a smooth, gold sinktube!

VIDEO-------------> http://s605.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=FILE0001.flv


Hey  everyone,

As no one asked I guess a compression plug is something common in the US, but I've not been able to find something like that around my place (I live in france) or even on the web. Where do you guys buy these things? Is there a website that sells this kind of stuff?

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #67 on: July 29, 2011, 03:51:48 PM »
I couldn't exactly what we use during an online search, but It's pretty similar to this;
http://topkayaker.net/TopKayakerShop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=390

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #68 on: July 29, 2011, 03:55:41 PM »
It's not just you. I live in the US and had to google what it was too...but I watched the video twice before I figured out what he was referring to and guessed based on the usage of it, that it was being used for a modified purpose. Basically, a rubber type plug that you can insert into the sinktube to hold it on the drill so you can work the outside.

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Hey  everyone,

As no one asked I guess a compression plug is something common in the US, but I've not been able to find something like that around my place (I live in france) or even on the web. Where do you guys buy these things? Is there a website that sells this kind of stuff?

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #69 on: July 30, 2011, 02:38:41 AM »
Thanks guys,

I didn't realize this was something you made by yourself! I thought this was some kind of tool used in plumbery and whatnot.
I think I'll try to make one out of a piece of rubber, two large washers and a thick threaded rod.

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #70 on: July 30, 2011, 06:40:59 AM »
Thanks guys,

I didn't realize this was something you made by yourself! I thought this was some kind of tool used in plumbery and whatnot.
I think I'll try to make one out of a piece of rubber, two large washers and a thick threaded rod.


We didn't make it ourselves. 
It's a 1.5 base for a sanding drum.



Here's one on ebay.... http://cgi.ebay.com/1-5-DIA-1-TALL-RUBBER-BACKING-SANDING-DRUM-DRILL-BIT-/110460069940

Here's another:  http://www.hardwareworld.com/Drum-Sanding-Kit--15-inch-p38H1HV.aspx

But these can be found at Lowes or Ace hardware

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #71 on: July 30, 2011, 11:07:52 AM »
LOVE this idea. Going to have to set something like this up when I get back home.  ;D  ;D
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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #72 on: December 07, 2011, 06:27:38 PM »
this is great! glad i read it, it'll help me out quite a bit!

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #73 on: December 07, 2011, 06:31:49 PM »
Holy Wow on a stick this is a great tutorial!  Basic or not it helped a lot!

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Re: You, Your Dremel and You! (a very basic tutorial)
« Reply #74 on: January 29, 2012, 05:42:45 AM »
Dremel the best:)

 

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