Now I am not all that mechanically inclined, and I have no machining tools, so making something out of metal or die cast greatly exceeds my capabilities. However, I have seen some incredible work in here using styrene (which inspired me to play around with it some) so I decided I would see if I could make a repair in that manner.

I got really lucky in that the missing piece was the ring finality (female end) of the pendant, as the other end would have been substantially more challenging of a repair.



I selected a strip of styrene that was the same thickness as the finality ring, I then traced the piece on the styrene, and finally cut out a workable size piece. Then I proceeded to sand away everything that didn't look like the ring finality. At first I glued the metal ring to the styrene piece and tried sanding that way, but that experience didn't go as well as expected as the metal part wouldn't adhere properly (you want to be able to separate them later). So I ended up just sanding the piece freehand. However, tack gluing two pieces of styrene together to form identical pieces does work very well.




Obviously, the next step is to create the ring opening which required some drilling to get started. Of course, more sanding is required to get the opening correct. I used a rat tail file, but found that using a small piece of folded sandpaper is a pretty powerful tool for this process. Of course I checked the fit often with the male finality.




After getting the ring piece completed, I merely attached a small piece of styrene tube to the ring to complete the finality (I sanded the bottom of the tube to sit flush on the ring piece). You can see I made a FUBAR on my first attempt because the smallest diameter tube I had was 1/8" and you can see it is oversized. So I picked up some 3/32" styrene tube at the local hobby shop (which was a better match diameter wise and still allowed enough space for the pendant thread to pass through) and started over again.

Last it is just a matter of getting out the Musky Master and replacing the pendant line to the correct length, and now there are two pendant lines instead of just one.

Great work Don L ! Welcome to the club. Just shows what you can do if you really try. Now that you got bit by the bug, I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Nicely done!

Hah, Basketball Man. I have seen the high quality level of your work, so I am not falling for that one. Thanks for the reply.

You would have to be happy with that as an end result , job done !
Thats a fairly small piece your working with , but for something a bit larger would starting with a bit of rod rather than tube be viable ?
Drill a hole in one end to suit the thread , file a couple of flats and shape the other end..same end result just a different way to get it done.

It probably would Marty. I basically just used what I had and tried to make the part look and function like the original part. In a perfect world I would have preferred a metal part instead of a styrene part, but it is what it is.

Take care.

But Jason, your missing a set of shines on that boom head!!! Looking good though, where to you have that jib pendants lined too, the regular boom pendant lines toward the head???

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Dain

I'm a kid at heart, so I will play with any model construction vehicle from 1:87 scale to 1:1 scale!!!!

Age is a state of time NOT a state of mind!!

Sweet, pendants for me aren't much of an issue, I make my own. I have made single lines to go from the equalizer to the boom head plus made the separate ones that correspond to the boom segments. I use either fishing line leader or beading wire and jewelry crimp tubes to make my lines and I also have a jig set up for them.

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Dain

I'm a kid at heart, so I will play with any model construction vehicle from 1:87 scale to 1:1 scale!!!!

Age is a state of time NOT a state of mind!!