Anyone who has devoted themselves to technical model making without having had any technical training has to painstakingly learn many a trick from the experts.

In this book Kurt Becker shows 50 – actually a few more – tricks that make metalworking in model making easier and better. His tried and tested tips and tricks are sometimes astonishingly simple – but you just have to figure them out! And they enable the model maker to work even more precisely to achieve better results.

So, save yourself the time of inventing such workshop tips yourself and benefit from the wealth of knowledge of an experienced modeller.

From the content:

• Balancing flywheels

• Spark plug spanner for mini spark plugs

• Do-it-yourself tool for clamping circular blanks

• A do-it-yourself edge finder

• A clamping mandrel with internal clamping

• Clamping asymmetrical parts in a vice

• Adjusting the vice with a dial gauge

• A simple do-it-yourself roller burnishing device

• Jet needle for carburettors of model engines

• The light gap test

• Turning pistons

• Eccentric bore

• And much more