Hi all'
here in Riyadh fishing line is a rare commodity, being 400 miles away from the nearest coast and being stuck right in the middle of a desert, its not an item that shops generally stock.
So I ask if anyone could please recommend a suitable alternative with regard to antennae wire for 1/72nd aircraft?

Many thanks
Cheers
Peter

You mean to say there is no ponds or lakes to fish in anywhere around where you live, cause if there is a place to fish there has to be a place to buy fishing line, cause I live over five hundred miles from a coast, but we have lakes and ponds to fish in, and even our Wal-Marts have fishing line here. Hope this gives you a little more insight

Thanks straightedge,
but the nearest we get to fishing here is dangling a line in my next door neighbours aquarium. Tetra neons don't put up much fight at all and they hardly make a fish fry supper.
Cheers
Peter

How about real thin thread stretch it tight and apply some glue to it to make it hold straight, cut it off the length you need.

Industrial sewing thread works great... the high grade stuff they use to sew heavy vinyl is what I normally use. It doesn't have ANY little fibers sticking out around it like your normal clothing grade threads have.

There is some stuff they call invisable sewing thread. I think Arznek beat me to that one. It can be found in any sewing section of a store.
HTH

Paul

Another possibility is guitar strings. IIRC, the high E is around .007-.008 in diameter. It worked for me on the rigging on a biplane I did recently.

Thanks Guys,
a few things I can try.
Thanks a lot.
Cheers
Peter

Why not just use stretched sprue? If you're building a model, you'll have the raw materials there...

Mika

I use the invisible thread. Goto your local sewing or fabric store and ask for invisible thread. It's also called monofilament. One spool of it should last for years.

If you do use stretched sprue I found a cool way to make it taught in a Verlinden book. Make sure both ends are secure, heat up a toothpick or something similar and blow it out and hold it under the stretched sprue so the smoke hits it, don't hold under to long or the sprue might break, it doesn't take much, just a thought, Wingman out.

Cześć Peter ,

I think a TinCan - gave a good and cheap solution = I bought a thread at the same profile shop - with cotton and threads for dressmakers/tailors work - besides of invisible thread I also had a black one - bouth had a posibility to shrink after use of a little heat ( hot knife ) - so You could use it without stretching it - I make a little hole in plastic part ( pole/mast ) and another in a tail - drop of super glue and in the end to strech it I used a heat source ( a hot blade of knife ) it shrink and voule-a ( remember a Spitfire Mk I )

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