What size tube do I need for 3/64" Brass rod?

[Doris]

As the question says above.

I've been using this size rod for a while and now need a brass tube that's a close fit that I can then solder in place on the rod. I tend not to work in imperial measurements and the metric size given is 1.19mm which makes things more tricky. Also the sizes given online seem to be outside diameter usually.

I would usually go to a model shop and just compare but all the K & S packets are sealed up.

Can anyone help please? I don't mind it being a bit loose to allow for some solder to run through

 

[ChaiLatte]

If you can find out the wall thickness of the tube, you can use that in combination with the outside diameter to calculate the inside diameter.

For instance, this listing says 0.2mm wall, so you would need 1.6mm OD to achieve 1.2mm ID.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156174785747

 

[Jameshow]

What are you making we're intrigued!!

 

[Doris]

If you can find out the wall thickness of the tube, you can use that in combination with the outside diameter to calculate the inside diameter.

For instance, this listing says 0.2mm wall, so you would need 1.6mm OD to achieve 1.2mm ID.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156174785747

Thank you! That link you posted also lists the inside diameters of the tubing which makes things much simpler. I must have been looking at the wrong listings elsewhere as they all said the outside diameter.

 

[Doris]

What are you making we're intrigued!!

I'm not really sure how to label this one, I suppose kinetic sculpture maybe. It works off of an old barometer mechanism I found at a boot fayre this year. The boat rotates with the changes in pressure and the pointer protruding from the bow will point towards a brass plate on a wooden base (both of which are missing in the photo I've put up here as it's not finished). It's been working perfectly well with all the changes in weather we have been having lately.

The boat, figure etc I made. The boom was soldered together and a postage stamp sewn onto it with a fine gold thread.

I need the tube for the end of the pointer so I can solder it in place.

 

[Fergie 307]

If you can modify the design of whatever it is then using metric rod etc is often cheaper and easier to find than imperial sizes.

 

[Fergie 307]

Nice idea. How big is the pointer?

I only ask as another way of doing it would be to hammer the end of the rod flat, then file it to shape to make the pointer. You could make a nice arrow head, but probably no wider than about three times the width of the rod, depends if that would be big enough or whether you think that would fit in with the rest of it.

I like this sort of repurposing, clever and fun.

Please do give us some pictures when it's finished.

 

[imageel]

@Doris - check out Albion Alloys - they do a huge range of small bore tubes and are not too expensive for hobby quantities

 

[Fergie 307]

Out of interest why the tube, can you not just solder the pointer straight onto the rod?
I'm intrigued

 

[Jameshow]

I'm not really sure how to label this one, I suppose kinetic sculpture maybe. It works off of an old barometer mechanism I found at a boot fayre this year. The boat rotates with the changes in pressure and the pointer protruding from the bow will point towards a brass plate on a wooden base (both of which are missing in the photo I've put up here as it's not finished). It's been working perfectly well with all the changes in weather we have been having lately.

The boat, figure etc I made. The boom was soldered together and a postage stamp sewn onto it with a fine gold thread.

I need the tube for the end of the pointer so I can solder it in place.

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I used to just a tight fit rod and tube for rudders on model sailing boats.

 

[Cabinetman]

Very nice Doris, I love work like this, my thing is - (will be) Automata built into pictures, turn the handle and parts of the picture move. Using the barometer was a good idea.