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Post by Tobi on Apr 14, 2013 4:06:42 GMT -5
Ok, this is not new and it is not by me! Matter of fact it is pretty old-school. For all those who forgot or have never heard of how to take on the dreaded carpet monster at least a little bit: *Do the cutting in a clear plastic bag!*  They come in different sizes and I have even one that can fit a really big, complete sprue from a tank model in it, with working space for my hands! Also great for trimming resin parts (as in picture), so the cast blocks don't fly around in the whole room, plus you don't need protective goggles... |
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Post by TRM on Apr 14, 2013 7:25:40 GMT -5
Nice little tip there Tobi!! Thanks for sharing!!
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Post by Leon on Apr 14, 2013 8:10:08 GMT -5
LOL could have used that tip this morning  .Carpet monster almost swallowed one of my parts.  |
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Post by ironhand6 on Apr 14, 2013 9:48:42 GMT -5
ive never heard of this, thanks for the tip.
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Post by Tobi on Apr 15, 2013 11:05:04 GMT -5
LOL could have used that tip this morning .Carpet monster almost swallowed one of my parts.
Knees on floor searching... 
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Post by Leon on Apr 15, 2013 15:57:37 GMT -5
You got it fella.
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Post by Teabone on Apr 15, 2013 17:48:42 GMT -5
I have done three must do things that might be old school or might be my discovery to get away from the carpet monster.
The first is I bought a Jewelers Apron which for those unfamiliar with the term is a short straight apron with a loop the goes around your neck and a second loop which connects where one would normally tie an apron and it also goes around your neck. on the end that would normally hang down i put a strip of Velcro across it and the matching strip under the lip of my workbench. The result is a pocket shaped area that catches all the little parts one consatinlty drops. The only one I could buy was plastic but I had my lovely wife find a seamstress that made me a duplicate out of a heavy cloth material.
www.micromark.com/parts-catching-apron,8108.html
The second thing I did was place white tiles, which can get dirty, under my workbench which most of the time allows me to see the part that went astray or allows my wife to sweep it into a dust pan where I can save it.
The third thing I do is in defense of the little parts that want to fly off when cut with a knife or scalpel from the sprue on the work bench for support. I buy a roll of 2 1/2" wide masking tape and roll a loop of it in reverse around my hand such that the sticky side is out all the way around. I then stick it on my work bench and stick the sprue on top of it and when I cut the smallest part cleanly from the sprue it remains stuck to the tape. This also works well if you are making rivet heads from round styrene rod.
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Post by Tobi on Apr 16, 2013 0:13:08 GMT -5
I can confirm wearing an apron (even if it's only a regular) is also a big help and protects the cloths from glue and such stuff! What really bothers me is when I handle a tiny part with my extra fine tweezers and then, because of a little twist, it springs of and flys somewhere to Nirvana! One doesn't even know where to start searching...  Sometimes I use a toothpick with a White-Tac tip for this, but seldom. |
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Post by parkadge on Apr 16, 2013 4:40:31 GMT -5
The plastic bag method would be too tedious for me  besides it's generally when I'm removing seam lines from small parts that they dissapear. Recently working on the Skoda RSO I was bending the tiny PE tie downs, There are 14 of them- I think.  rso 001 by parkadge, on Flickr Three of them pinged off, I thought never to return because I spent 10 minutes searching for each one but later they inexplicably showed up with the rest when I counted them. They must have hit something and ricocheted back -I'm sure at one stage I counted 15  -at that stage I had to take a little rest. My search method is to switch off the light and place a torch on the floor and search along the beam- generally I'll spot the shadow. The jeweller's apron is the way to go I think. |
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Post by Teabone on Apr 16, 2013 13:35:35 GMT -5
advin
I have to agree with you comments on the tweezers still being a problem that likes to send the little stuff into orbit.
parkadge
What you are doing in the picture is made for the masking tape to hold them, I congratulate you on your effort there it is something I could not do.
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Post by DeafStuG on May 11, 2013 14:04:24 GMT -5
LOL could have used that tip this morning .Carpet monster almost swallowed one of my parts. LOL !, Advin, Great Idea ! Dyson-less |
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.Carpet monster almost swallowed one of my parts. 
besides it's generally when I'm removing seam lines from small parts that they dissapear. 
-at that stage I had to take a little rest. My search method is to switch off the light and place a torch on the floor and search along the beam- generally I'll spot the shadow.
