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glue-it.com is a model making blog that has been online since 1998. 22 years of writing articles, assembling data and sharing information with people from across the world. We started with simple hand coded html [more…]
“Trustee from the Toolroom” by Nevil Shute was first published in 1960. Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sister’s boat is [more…]
Coronavirus has given me time to think and my thoughts have been around the models that are half built and what it means to complete and get to the finishing touches. Firstly though, how do [more…]
For some time I’ve been thinking about moving away from the drawing board and using CAD. OK, it’s 2019 and there have been a lot of perfectly good CAD packages out there for a number [more…]
Another year and a visit to the Midlands Model Engineering show 2018 on the Fosse Way just outside Leamington Spa. I thought it might be nice to share some images of models and link to [more…]
A really small digital caliper will be the prize for the best article that is submitted and used on glue-it.com in April 2018. This is a brand new 3″ digital caliper, in a case with [more…]
I was wondering what I could run off grid and wanted to start with an off-grid phone experiment, not really that radical, but more something for me to test the latest technology and to do [more…]
If you’re about to buy your first rotary tool or replace one that has failed then check out Rotary Tools Guy There are a lot of tool manufacturers covered: Black and Decker, DeWalt, Dremel, Hitachi, [more…]
I was wondering what some of the major highlights would be in the timeline of model engineering….so I thought I would do some digging and list them out: 1880’s Bing’s first model trains hit the [more…]
Autumn is here and it is time to plan for a model to make over winter. Lots of weekends and cold dark evenings in the workshop. So lets have a look at the different plans, [more…]
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