Mark Boyce posted:Mike, the painting is looking very good!
Lee, I do not have a steady hand anymore, and even by bracing it on something it seems paint goes everywhere. Your car looks better now than when you started.
LISteamer, the scene is really coming together! The printed piers are great!
Paul, Your buildings are looking great! As long as it doesn't snow a bunch next Saturday, I plan to see them first hand!!
Well what I found on the '87 crane is that the magnet works and both motors wonk but they don't turn anything. I see the coupling between the plastic motor housings and the gears must be little square end shafts, and they both are missing. I took all the cardboard filler out of the box, but don't see them there.
In this photograph, I have removed one of the motor housings from the base. I had a dickens of a time getting light to shine where I wanted it, but the two circles with the line between them shows where the square shaft should go from the easy to see hole on the motor housing and the hard to see gear. The single circle shows where the other motor housing is still mounted on the base and it is missing the shaft also.
If anyone sees where my observations are wrong, let me know. I never saw one of these before.
Hardware store keystock, square wood dowel (craft isle at Wally world, etc) or square ended chopstick? (a bit easier than finding plastistrut here)
Hold it place for assembly with a tiny dab of silicon/caulk (if it's tricky.)
I wanted to chop off my left arm last month, then my right one soon after. Each lasted about 2 weeks; Mid fingers to elbow... I couldn't lift a coffee cup with the left one. Arthritis or CT most likely....It ain't fun; that's for sure.
