24-06-2011, 09:45 AM
Hi,
Many thanks for your kindness and encouragement David; it is much appreciated.
Also thanks for the tip about cutting thin metal with the saw used at an angle; this is very important as it is so easy to strip teeth from a blade. Using a hacksaw to cut directly across thin steel sheet will easily strip teeth from the blade and once this happens the result can be felt as the saw becomes uncontrollable as yet more teeth are stripped. I'm very careful in particular whilst using my large bandsaw as I don't use it to cut thin metal because blades cost around £38 each. Oil tempered hardboard is also aggressive on blades and actual sparks can be seen during cutting.
Whilst at our local post office yesterday morning I bought a tube of powerful super glue described as a glue ideal for sticking metal to metal.
Yesterday afternoon I successfully glued all the lettering into place; this took well over an hour of extremely fiddly work to accomplish but once the last letter was in place I felt very pleased with the job and could look forward to the finishing stages.
Letters attached with super glue.
I let the glue cure for five hours and last night decided to cut the nameplate from the large sheet of brass and set to with the fret saw. I clumsily dropped the sheet onto the workshop carpet and as I picked it up half the letters remained on the carpet. What a disaster and what a total waste of time it had been using the super glue; the remaining letters were easily slid off the sheet.
The instructions on the super glue tube stated that both surfaces must be clean and dry; this is brand new clean brass sheeting I'm using and I had taken the trouble to sand the gluing side of the letters.
The AVO brass logo though remained securely glued in place and I had used the glue (Unibond) Bron kindly gave me on this. Unfortunately this glue is uncontrollable as the tube is not supplied with a reducing nozzle; using this glue was like trying to glue miniature items with a fire hose as the glue merely oozed from the tube getting everywhere.
What appeared to be a most simple project has turned around and bitten me. To be let down by the super glue in this manner is totally frustrating.
This nameplate has now declared all out war on me so it's time for me to dig in and gather my weapons; I'm far from beaten yet!!
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks for your kindness and encouragement David; it is much appreciated.
Also thanks for the tip about cutting thin metal with the saw used at an angle; this is very important as it is so easy to strip teeth from a blade. Using a hacksaw to cut directly across thin steel sheet will easily strip teeth from the blade and once this happens the result can be felt as the saw becomes uncontrollable as yet more teeth are stripped. I'm very careful in particular whilst using my large bandsaw as I don't use it to cut thin metal because blades cost around £38 each. Oil tempered hardboard is also aggressive on blades and actual sparks can be seen during cutting.
Whilst at our local post office yesterday morning I bought a tube of powerful super glue described as a glue ideal for sticking metal to metal.
Yesterday afternoon I successfully glued all the lettering into place; this took well over an hour of extremely fiddly work to accomplish but once the last letter was in place I felt very pleased with the job and could look forward to the finishing stages.
Letters attached with super glue.
I let the glue cure for five hours and last night decided to cut the nameplate from the large sheet of brass and set to with the fret saw. I clumsily dropped the sheet onto the workshop carpet and as I picked it up half the letters remained on the carpet. What a disaster and what a total waste of time it had been using the super glue; the remaining letters were easily slid off the sheet.
The instructions on the super glue tube stated that both surfaces must be clean and dry; this is brand new clean brass sheeting I'm using and I had taken the trouble to sand the gluing side of the letters.
The AVO brass logo though remained securely glued in place and I had used the glue (Unibond) Bron kindly gave me on this. Unfortunately this glue is uncontrollable as the tube is not supplied with a reducing nozzle; using this glue was like trying to glue miniature items with a fire hose as the glue merely oozed from the tube getting everywhere.
What appeared to be a most simple project has turned around and bitten me. To be let down by the super glue in this manner is totally frustrating.
This nameplate has now declared all out war on me so it's time for me to dig in and gather my weapons; I'm far from beaten yet!!
Kind regards, Col.
