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(...) Check your local hardware store: many of them have those little bin-drawer cabinets full of obscure fasteners, and some have one full of springs. (...) Aquazone sets? If you're talking about the kind with ribbed hose, and a female stud (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Unfortunately we don't have hardware stores in the UK any more, just DIY super stores where you can buy all sorts of delicious sounding coloured emulsion paints, gas barbecues and pot plants, but nothing useful. (...) It's a plain tubular (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Spring - hobby shops Tubing - sounds like pneumatic tubing to me, they still sell a pack of grey and black tubing at US S@H, so maybe they do over there, too. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Nope: "discontinued" when I tried to buy some back in May or so. LS@H is almost completely out of the pneumatics business. Ran (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Try the spring inside an old click-top ballpoint writing pen. There are also smaller pens that have smaller springs. I no longer have a forklift to look at, but I believe it will work. (...) Strip an electrical wire of the right colour & keep (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Cheers Clark And that's all they'll cost! Have you ever considered writing a thrift book or something, those ideas are ingenious! I found a spring in a motor factors, but it is too strong, I'll go and raid my stationery drawer now. Mark BTW (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) The Model Builders for Lego use MEK/ABS mix - Methyl Ethyl Ketone mixed with some ABS resin. MEK alone should work fine. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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I thought someone said they use methylene chloride (a.k.a. dichloromethane)? I have used dichloromethane, it does dissolve ABS, and the resulting goop eventually, overnight, becomes solid ABS again. Chris P.S. Neither methyl ethyl ketone nor (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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