07-30-2011, 09:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by jetlag
I've cut my finger at least twice looking at that vacuum-formed sheet of all those tiny parts! 
There sure are a lot...
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Indeed! They remind me of watching my father swear while cutting out all of the vacuum-formed parts of the Estes U.S.S. Enterprise (score around part with X-ACTO knife, flex plastic sheet away from part, curse [optional] if edge of part begins to split, carefully sand "cracked-away" edges of part on taped-down sheet of sandpaper, repeat for next part...). My late-production Estes Space Shuttle had die-cut vacuum-formed plastic parts, so I wonder if such parts could possibly be laser-cut? That would certainly cut down on the labor required to remove the parts from their plastic sheets without wrecking them. |