Slitherine

There are number of times I wanted to make a hanging banner for Little Big Man transfers.



I use the bit to put the transfer out of thin metal foil from tomato puree tubes - cleaned flatterned and the shiny surface roughed with a wire brush. But I cannot make the cross piece for hanging the banner from.
Any ideas?

Dress makers pins. Cut to length and file/grind a groove in the correct place in the cross piece and main shaft. Super glue together. Bingo!

BrigPaul wrote:Dress makers pins. Cut to length and file/grind a groove in the correct place in the cross piece and main shaft. Super glue together. Bingo!

brilliant

BrigPaul wrote:Dress makers pins. Cut to length and file/grind a groove in the correct place in the cross piece and main shaft. Super glue together. Bingo!

uh? not very clear to me

BrigPaul wrote:Dress makers pins. Cut to length and file/grind a groove in the correct place in the cross piece and main shaft. Super glue together. Bingo!

Thanks for the reply but could I check that you have done this and it holds rather than being an idea?

Yep, I use it when creating Gonfalons and the like. Your're creating a joint for support and then superglueing, it withstands any 'normal' table top abuse - but if you want to give it some serious staying power use a tiny droplet of superglue and a 2 part epoxy and let it dry fully.

Obviously the deeper the grooves on the joint the better the hold - if you've got access to a vice and mini power tool then its simple - by hand its harder but still do-able with a bit of patience.

Paul.

BrigPaul wrote:Yep, I use it when creating Gonfalons and the like. Your're creating a joint for support and then superglueing, it withstands any 'normal' table top abuse - but if you want to give it some serious staying power use a tiny droplet of superglue and a 2 part epoxy and let it dry fully.

Obviously the deeper the grooves on the joint the better the hold - if you've got access to a vice and mini power tool then its simple - by hand its harder but still do-able with a bit of patience.

Paul.

Paul

That's super thanks

It works for my St Eligius on the Varangian Guard. They get some abuse. People occassionally put other troops in front of them, well, maybe for one or two turns

See here

http://www.madaxeman.com/wiki2/tiki-sli ... ref_id=147

halfway down page

Paul

An option that I have seen in other posts is to reinforce the super-glued cross member (once dry) with some thread - wound around to make a ball and then super-glued as well.

Have yet to try this myself!

Garry