I finally drilled out the
holes I needed to on the bottom of the hull. It's amazing how
tricky it was just to put two symmetrical dents in the plastic!
I practiced with several
types of bits for a dremel tool lent to me by a friend (Ed gets deep,
profuse Thank-You's!!) on the Enterprise-D for quite a few days until
I got it perfect. There are many things to take into account,
primarily:
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When you touch model plastic with a 30,000 rpm
grinding bit, it disappears - no resistance, no nothing. If you
sneeze, half the model's gone!
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The rotation of the bit - when you touch the
plastic the hole doesn't appear where you think it should, it will do
it just a skoche south.
True, I could have done this manually, but I traded off the time it
would take to use a circular file to .5mm accuracy, or the delicacy of
using a tool for the job.
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