This is a cool RC car crash at 165km/h into concrete!

This is what happens when plastic hits concrete at high speed. Nothing left!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1_0d8oIVDg&feature=related

Homemade lathe from a rotary tool!

Here's a cool tip. Have you ever had to make you own small round parts? Such as, an air filter, wheel backing or other round part? How about a wheel that needs to be a little smaller? Don't have a mini lathe to do such tasks? Got a rotary tool, similar to a Dremel? Do you have a vise or maybe vise grips to hold the tool in place? Then you have a lathe. Take the piece of plastic you need to make round and drill a small hole through the dead center of the piece (you can always fill this later with modeling putty) then undo the screw that holds the attachments to the shaft. Then put your piece of plastic on and tighten the screw. Ever used a cut off wheel with your rotary tool? Well, your piece of plastic has now been mounted onto the tool the same way you put on a cut-off wheel. Put the tool sideways into the vise and secure it. Turn it on and voila, your piece of plastic is now spinning sideways, just like a lathe! Hold a piece of sandpaper up to it and sand it round. Heck you could even take the rotary tool outside and hold it down on pavement while spinning and grind it down that way, but this is more accurate.

My first post to my new blog! Some content too!

Greetings and welcome to my blog! For my first blog I'd like to talk about modeling tips. Ever noticed how unrealistic tires look when brand new in a kit? Want to make them look better? Sandpaper the tires to make them look worn. Many people know this trick already, but there is a way to speed it up. Instead of hand sanding the tires to give them that slightly worn appearance, use a rotary tool (Dremel or whatever) with one of those little barrel style sanding attachments and just lightly touch the spinning tool to the tire (depending on how coarse the barrels are which is usually quite coarse) until you totally scuffed the entire flat surface of the tire. After that finish up the rough scuffing with some hand sanding with a finer grit to smooth out the scuffing. What you are left with is a nicely scuffed tire that is smooth to the touch. It's the same thing as hand sanding the whole tire with fine grit, but doing it with coarse grit on a spinning tool really speeds up the initial scuffing which is the most time consuming part (getting rid of mold ridges and flash). once you finish up with fine grit, it's as if you sanded the entire thing by hand.