Using the Dremel tool to chop a top?

[Jon Cole]

I plan to soon start only my second chop top in 18 years, I hope it goes better than the scale one-foot thick roof my first chop had!

The boys are having a model kit get-together Saturday, and I was thinking of trying something there I have been thinking about. Someone (maybe here?) suggested using three Dremel cut-off wheels sandwiched together, and ‘zip’ the roof off Revell’s new 5-window deuce.

Will this work? And more importantly, how do I get all six pillars to line up?

[randx0]

It works if you have a steady hand but I prefer to use a saw and work slowly. try it out on a junk body .my fear would be if you don't get that cut straight and even on both sides it could all go horribly wrong.

[Art Anderson]

I plan to soon start only my second chop top in 18 years, I hope it goes better than the scale one-foot thick roof my first chop had!

The boys are having a model kit get-together Saturday, and I was thinking of trying something there I have been thinking about. Someone (maybe here?) suggested using three Dremel cut-off wheels sandwiched together, and ‘zip’ the roof off Revell’s new 5-window deuce.

Will this work? And more importantly, how do I get all six pillars to line up?

[Steven Zimmerman]

I do this all the time,but I lay out my cuts with masking tape,and use one of those .010 thick flexible steel blades that are sooooooo hard to find these days. I've probably chopped close to a hundred tops this way.....