eyepins

[svein erik]

Hi 

Dos anyone know's were the kit eyepins from ME is made?

the brass eyepins thats comes with the syren kit Seems to be different or crapy one,

I have dunn the blackenig befor with good result, but this time it Seems to not stikk 

I did try acid dip first and so on... but its turn out the same 😲( I used carr's)

 

Svein.erik 

[ccoyle]

Erik, have you tried making your own? Eye bolts are quite easy to make with blackened annealed wire and a pair of round-nose pliers.

 

Cheers,

[svein erik]

Hi chris 

no I havent, but t think I wil do so, but I think I need a nose pilers thats nerow to make them small

to match the 1/64 scale 😊

 

Svein.erik 

[wefalck]

Have a look at the other recent thread on eye-bolts ... the can be made very small.

[svein erik]

I have to do some mor test 

so I did find some pins from artesania kit I had and tested with to sorts of blackening liquid, 

I did also try it on a tube from K&S (the result speek from it self)

 

The pins I have from ME (syren kit) has to be made from ....... it is crapy 😲

[Chazz]

Just get a cheap pair of needlenose pliers and file down one point to what you need.  Since the points are tapered, you can make several sizes of eyes from one point by using a spot further up or down the jaw.

 

Chazz

[svein erik]

Hanks chazz

 

Do you have a photo?

 

Svein.erik

[Roger Pellett]

My System:  A small nail diven part way into a piece of wood with the head then cut off or you can use a broken drill bit.  Bend the wire around the protrusion and crimp the two legs of the shank together with pliers.  Then cut one of the legs off.  Basic but it works.

 

Roger

[davyboy]

Hi Svein Erik.

What I did was get a piece of 3mm tubing,cut a slot about 10mm long drill a hole right through at 90° to the slot of the diameter I want the eye to be. Bent the wire around whatever pin,drill shank etc diameter to get the size of eye I wanted. Hold the wire with pliers and spin the tube. I can make dozens of eyebolts in a very short time. I have several of these for making different sized eyebolts. No need to butcher a pair of longnose pliers as has been suggested. Incidentally a spun up eyebolt holds much better than the single shank ones.

 

Dave

Edited October 16, 2018 by davyboy

[wefalck]

Can you post a picture, Dave ? I don't seem to understand what you do with the tube, once you bent the wire around the pin etc.

[davyboy]

2 minutes ago, wefalck said:

Can you post a picture, Dave ? I don't seem to understand what you do with the tube, once you bent the wire around the pin etc.

Wefalk, I wrote "hold the wire with pliers and spin the tube" Sorry no pic,I thought this was self explanatory.

 

Dave

[wefalck]

I may be stupid, but it isn't to me, sorry. Is the pin with the wire inside the tube and you form the sharp corners with it ? Perhaps also the term 'spin' is confusing, as it normally implies serveral, if not many turns.

[davyboy]

18 minutes ago, wefalck said:

I may be stupid, but it isn't to me, sorry. Is the pin with the wire inside the tube and you form the sharp corners with it ? Perhaps also the term 'spin' is confusing, as it normally implies serveral, if not many turns.

Wefalk,perhaps I should have written bend the wire around the pin ensuring the two ends are inside the tube slot,silly me.

 

Dave

[Roger Pellett]

The single shank version that I described is the economy model.  You are making the premium version!

 

Roger

[svein erik]

Thanks for all the good way's for making pins😊

but first I wil try the Beadsmith-one step looper tool (1,5mm) you can get 2,25 and 3mm also.

 

Svein.erik 

 

 

[puckotred]

Cool tool, but an inner diameter of 1,5 mm is too large for a 1:64 model?... And I've heard that it still need some afterwork as the loop is open and misaligned. So it may still be that the old round nose pliers is the way to go...

Edited October 20, 2018 by puckotred

[svein erik]

Yes it need some work,  but I wil do try it out,  my next build is the 1/4 cheerful so it Mayby good for this model,

so wen I get the tool home I wil see if I can get the pin off maby make it small or have different sizes 😊

 

Svein.erik