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Published: 2012-08-20 19:19:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 3934; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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I am currently building a model of a steam locomotive. The model uses matchsticks (without the red phosphorus)This is page 1/39.Here is the company that makes the kits. [link]
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Nicely coming along... I am a little shocked to see that the matches adhere when placed end to end. again, it would help to see something of scale to size this (or just state how long that top section is)... matchsticks are usually 2-3 inches long. What you have here is either a very small scale print, or these "matches" are ginormous!
Did you have to scrape off the phosphorus or did they come pre-scraped?
Getting the "sticks" to adhere end to end, is one issue I am having with my toothpick model concept. I am rethinking (and rethinking) my choice of materials, considering what the end result is supposed to look like... Maybe I should get a block of wood and start whittling!
(looking at your plans helped me in forming a strategy of what I had in mind for my project, but the two projects are so foreign in comparison...
How is the can-pulse jet project coming along? back burnered for now??
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the train on the bottom left hand corner is 1 1/16".
Pre-scraped.
toothpicks have small ends. These matchsticks are 3/16 in width and come 2 1/4 inches in length. They are easy to glue together. The that comes with the kit, is plain old white glue, nothing fancy.
I think I need the Methyl Alcohol.
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aha. Okay so if that's about 1 inch long, then the section on top is about 7 inches long? Meaning the vertical matchsticks in that section are about 2-1/4 to 2-1/3 inch long? Hmm wow, it seems smaller a scale locomotive than I originally thought.
lol Don't laugh! It was a good question.
hey! my guess was right then! woohoo! (No! I didn't cheat by looking at the end of your comment first! 
Well isn't methyl alcohol the stuff you would use in that lantern you refurbished? No, wait that is probably that paraffin stuff. Better to not experiment with what could burn in that... So, are you going to try to find a place that sells that heet (yellow container) stuff? I think it is pretty inexpensive... relatively speaking.
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Yup.
It is a kerosene alternative. My lamps used to use kerosene. I will get it when I am by a auto store.
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