Electric cookers and model making!

In my inevitable butterfly manner of working today saw the four pieces of track for the Italeri SU-100 assault gun joined together. No glue required! The method of joining entails two pins at one end of the track and two corresponding holes at the other end. in each. The pins at one end go through the holes in the other track piece and then using a suitably heated instrument of some sort, the pin is melted to form a sort of rivet to keep the two parts together.

With the inevitability of getting into trouble with Mrs. Woody, a ring on the electric cooker was used to heat the tip of a screw driver. This was then used to melt the pins.

This rather poor photo just about shows one pin melted and the other awaiting melting.

Having melted 8 pins I ended up with two finished tracks. I am not sure how strong the joints will be but I will find out when I eventually put them on the tank.

In the meantime I better make sure that screw driver is put away and then there will be no evidence of the use of the cooker - apart from this blog!