A while back I decided to do a conversion involving the top half of a squig hopper. I mentioned that I was going to be separating the rider from the squig with my newly aquired dremmel.
Well... everyone and their brother on these forums had to put their two cents worth in on safety. \"That\'s too much metal for a dremmel to cut through,\" you said. \"A dremmel bit can break!\" you said. \"Wear your goggles,\" you said. \"My friend lost his arm and his left testicle in a dremmel accident,\" you said.
Well I said \"Fooey.\" Ok, I didn\'t say fooey, but I was fully prepared to say \"FOOEY!\"
After a couple of months passed I was finally ready to get to work on said conversion. I had my squig hopper. I had my goggles. I had my mask. I had my dremmel. The kids were in bed. I was ready. So I clicked the dremmel on and put it to the squig. After about ten seconds of lead dust filling the air and tiny bits of pewter zinging into hyperspace by my ears I clicked the dremmel off. I removed the bit, then the battery pack, then I packed it away where the kids cannot reach. See, I had this unmistakable vision of a chunk of squig leg flying into my face and burrying itself in my tender flesh. Naturally the pain would cause me to drop the spinning dremmel into my lap, and a real-life humpty dumpty story would ensue.
So, where does that leave me? After about 5 hours of hacking away at the squig with wire cutters I have finally managed to remove 80% of it from the hopper. Unfortunately the last 20% will not be so easy. I will have to whittle away at the rest, shard by ever-lovin\' shard of pewter, with my exacto knife, until I have just the goblin I want. Curse you safety freaks! Curse you for ruining my fast conversion!
My hands hurt so bad from squeezing the wire cutters. At one point I actually stood on the wire cutters to get through the squig. Then I had wire plyers to sqeeze the metal end of the cutters while my sore hands squeezed the handle end. These damn squigs were not made to cut easily. Why can\'t they be hollow? Chocolate Santas are hollow. My high school girl friend was hollow. Why not squigs?
barkel
ps. I\'ll post the pics of the conversion when I\'m done next year.
Well... everyone and their brother on these forums had to put their two cents worth in on safety. \"That\'s too much metal for a dremmel to cut through,\" you said. \"A dremmel bit can break!\" you said. \"Wear your goggles,\" you said. \"My friend lost his arm and his left testicle in a dremmel accident,\" you said.
Well I said \"Fooey.\" Ok, I didn\'t say fooey, but I was fully prepared to say \"FOOEY!\"
After a couple of months passed I was finally ready to get to work on said conversion. I had my squig hopper. I had my goggles. I had my mask. I had my dremmel. The kids were in bed. I was ready. So I clicked the dremmel on and put it to the squig. After about ten seconds of lead dust filling the air and tiny bits of pewter zinging into hyperspace by my ears I clicked the dremmel off. I removed the bit, then the battery pack, then I packed it away where the kids cannot reach. See, I had this unmistakable vision of a chunk of squig leg flying into my face and burrying itself in my tender flesh. Naturally the pain would cause me to drop the spinning dremmel into my lap, and a real-life humpty dumpty story would ensue.
So, where does that leave me? After about 5 hours of hacking away at the squig with wire cutters I have finally managed to remove 80% of it from the hopper. Unfortunately the last 20% will not be so easy. I will have to whittle away at the rest, shard by ever-lovin\' shard of pewter, with my exacto knife, until I have just the goblin I want. Curse you safety freaks! Curse you for ruining my fast conversion!
My hands hurt so bad from squeezing the wire cutters. At one point I actually stood on the wire cutters to get through the squig. Then I had wire plyers to sqeeze the metal end of the cutters while my sore hands squeezed the handle end. These damn squigs were not made to cut easily. Why can\'t they be hollow? Chocolate Santas are hollow. My high school girl friend was hollow. Why not squigs?
barkel
ps. I\'ll post the pics of the conversion when I\'m done next year.
