A brass strip 25 mm wide and 0.6 mm thick for building parts, stiffeners and straps of your own. The material can be cut, bent and soldered.
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For a modeler brass is the material that begins where plastic ends. It does not spring back, it holds a shape after bending and it takes load, so it is used for hinges, brackets, clamps, the retaining straps of tanks or the frames onto which plastic skinning is then glued. This size is twenty-five millimeters wide and six tenths of a millimeter thick, which puts it among the stronger flat stock in the range.
Working with it needs no workshop. The strip is parted with sheet metal shears or a saw, the edges are trued up with a file and the bends are made over a sharp edge or in a small bending jig. The joints take both cyanoacrylate glue and soft solder, which gives a stronger and more durable result.
It finds use in railway structures, ship models and military vehicles, where the missing fittings and brackets are made from it. Heavier brass strip is also used as a weight or as stiffening for long plastic beams, which sag with time.
Before painting, degrease the surface and roughen it lightly with a fine abrasive, or the paint will hold badly on smooth brass. The surest procedure is an etching primer or a base paint meant for metals; only then comes the covering shade.
Brass darkens in the air and covers itself with a dull film. That does no harm to a finished part, but before soldering or gluing go over the area with a fine abrasive or steel wool. Keep the stock flat: a piece that has once been bent will never come back to a perfect plane.
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