Imperial or Metric tins or jars of paint

Discussion in 'Modelling' started by CL1, Nov 14, 2009.

  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    cross threaded me thinks!
     
  2. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    Can't find any nuts, but a clue here. A spanner from a set I purchased in 1971 (made in Sheffield, Hooray). The distance across the flats is about 0.52 inches, or 13.2mm which is the AF dimension of the most recent 5/16" nut. So for a late 1/4" nut you need a 3/16" spanner


    Have a dad who always ran British cars....then YOU buy a Harley Davidson - and THEN you learn ALL about "reducing" sizes of nuts!!! :)
     
  3. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    I'd never consider starting a plumbing job without my King Dick. Reaches places that other tools can't get to!

    http://www.********.co.uk/WW2talk/kingdick.jpg

    Excellent to stir the paint in a Humbrol tinlet too!
     
  4. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    i have gone digital

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  5. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    ...or is that for the microwave excitation of paint molecules inside the tin??? :)
     
  6. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Excellent to stir the paint in a Humbrol tinlet too!
    No no, its not working. Perhaps I need to download a pdf manual. Can't even get the lid off.

    http://www.********.co.uk/WW2talk/duckegg.jpg
     
  7. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    i have gone digital


    Looks like analogue to me. Good old regen receiver. Some of the simpler spy sets were of this type, which could emit a strong signal and give the receiver's position away. I believe the best spy sets were those designed and built by the Poles. There are some at the Royal Sigs. museum, but when I visited I was more interested in their crypto stuff. Gonna need to go back sometime.
     
  8. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Back to manual

    lid removal
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  9. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    Actually - I've always found that an oldfashioned nail file was great! The little "hook" on the pointy end would fit under the edge of the lid, then the other side levered against the body of the tin....and PING!

    Lid flying through air and landing painty-side down on mother's best carpet...
     
  10. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    patent it quickly
     
  11. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    A carpet wool-friendly paint stripper would be a better invention!!!
     
  12. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    me cleaning the carpet

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  13. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    No no, its not working. Perhaps I need to download a pdf manual. Can't even get the lid off.

    http://www.********.co.uk/WW2talk/duckegg.jpg

    Rats, I have all my stuff packed up, otherwise I'd show you one tinlet from the original batch, the ones coming with a mock yellow and brown camo pattern on the band around the lower tin, where this one has these squares. We used to joke that if we stirred the tinlet well the camo scheme would come right off the tin with one brush pass :)

    At the time these "Authentic Colors" were the only thing to be had, they were a revolution! Before that we had only gloss paints to which we had to add an awful crumbly "Matting Agent", or else apply a coat of #49 Matt Varnish, guaranteed to go deep yellow-brown in the first two weeks. Yuck!

    But nice spanner, I used to have one of those, gotten from my father, but I lost it somewhere long ago.
     
  14. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    or else apply a coat of #49 Matt Varnish, guaranteed to go deep yellow-brown in the first two weeks. Yuck!

    And it wasn't necessarily very matt either! :) The Airfix matt varnish was better...but you had to be VERY careful with it, because no matter HOW hard the paint was you were coating, the Airfix matt varnish could act as a solvent. And it was a COMPLETE bastard on top of gold paint...
     

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