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Drilling a neck hole in a resin head. |
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Posts: 2 (06/18/09 14:24:19) |
Okay all you experts out there. I have a 1:6 scale Bruce Lee head, and no way to attach it to a body. How do I drill a hole so that it will fit onto the
Enterbay body I'm getting?
Mind you, I am a fumble fingers and have never done this before. Can anyone here help me out? |
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bitchin |
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Posts: 562 (06/18/09 17:39:00) bitchin's babes |
You gotta get a dremel and the appropriate dremel bits. It will turn a very difficult and potentially dangerous exacto knife job into a quick and carefree
job.
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rogerbee |
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Posts: 1602 (06/19/09 00:25:38) I Really Should Email MVolkJ With My Custom Title |
Actually, if you keep checking here:
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/elpapadavis_W0QQ_advZ1QQ_dmdZ1QQ_in_kwZ1QQ_ipgZ50QQ_sopZ12?_rdc=1 You may not need to do any drilling! He does vinyl recasts of Enterbay heads and they are excellent. He doesn't have anything up right now, but, when he does, grab what you can. I'm sure he's done a Bruce or two. CHEERS! |
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AllanDW.wolfslair33820 |
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Posts: 52 (06/19/09 00:32:15) |
It depends whether you want an open neck or not. If the neck is covered you can just attach it with blu-tack or similar.
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ffolkes75 |
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Posts: 816 (06/19/09 04:48:09) Plastic Frivoliteer |
I agree with bitchin...get a dremel. I'm not familiar with the Enterbay bods, but I've put resin heads on a couple different types of bods and I dremel
em out. Its a slow process, grind away, check the fit, grind some more, check it again. On and on.
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Island Of Toys |
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Posts: 1131 (06/19/09 06:01:19) Plastic Castaway Do not PM me for help Click here for help |
Anyone know the exact bits you need for the Dremel? ie - what are the easiest bits to use to adapt a resin head for mounting on a DML or HT neck connector? I
have 4 or 5 resin heads sitting around that have no holes in the bottom of the neck for mounting and I could probably hollow out the neck, but I don't want
to risk damaging the sculpts if someone has an "easy mode" for this.
"This space for rent."
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ffolkes75 |
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Posts: 817 (06/19/09 08:51:16) Plastic Frivoliteer |
Well IOT...don't have any particular ones myself. Several of my heads sit on Dragon bods. I usually dremel out the head prior to painting so I won't
damage any paintwork in the process. Since I use dragon heads, I first use a circle template to rough out the size and placement of the intended recess. I then
start in the middle and work my way out. Sometimes I'll start out with a larger drill bit in a cordless drill, it removes a reasonable amount of material
quickly. I have some rough grinding bits that I picked up a long time ago that I use to start out. As it gets closer and the neck wall thickness gets thinner,
I'll typically switch to a sanding drum bit to refine recess. I've done this with Dragon fits and Volks Neo Guys, which require quite a bit of
modification.
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HoloSuite |
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Posts: 4327 (06/19/09 09:00:24) Lord of Latex |
When I've had to make neck post sockets in my cast resin heads, I've used a two step process.
First, I use a standard drill bit and drill to get a pilot hole started. Then I use a Dremel grinding drum bit to enlarge the hole as needed. The grinding drum allows creation of a lip around the bottom of the hole if I want. Note that the resin will not be flexible like the vinyl heads, so that lip around the hole will not spring out and snap back over a neck post. The lip can be used to capture a rubber washer attached to the top of the neck post. The washer flexes out of the way and then snaps back above the rim around the resin hole. Mostly I just make a cylindrical hole, and press fit the neckpost into it. It's worked for various style resin heads that I've bought or made. 
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auret7 |
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Posts: 1485 (06/19/09 17:08:20) The Dude Abides... |
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