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So here I was racking my brain on where to get 5mm posts. I googled, called hobby shops, but the largest Plastistruct styrene posts was 4mm. So I got out my calipers and went shopping, measuring products off the shelf. In Walmart's soda aisle I came upon Silly Straws. They're exactly 5mm and only a $1.50 a package. These are solid, really strong straws made of ABS/acrylic or something similar that won't bend or squish.

To cut them roll the straw on the table while rolling the edge of your knife along the top the same way you'd cut a Styrene rod, then snap at the score to make a perfect break. They're hollow and octagonal inside so you can insert a screw/post into the weapon for added strength. I recommend prepping them with Loctite's Plastic 2-part Superglue system. Just drill a hole in the weapon you want to add the post to, use the primer, then glue! Now anything can fit into a mech-tech port or hand, our search for 5mm posts is over!

this is a brilliant! amazing discovery!

I'm getting right to work! this should be front paged it's so useful!

Good idea. I've taken to saving about anything I think can be used in this hobby. I collect the plastic sucker sticks after my boys finish with them. Not big enough for gun pegs, but good enough for details, panel pinning, and custom gun barrels. I plan on using some for Rodimus/Hotrod arm cannons. I even gone as far as soaking several suckers in hot water to remove the candy just to have the sticks.

nice find maybe i need to find an alternative one here in my country but thanks for the idea

sweet find, gonna have to do some shopping now

I saw this last night and got some of them this morning. Just wanted to say thanks for posting this info. An affordable fix to the problem I had of finding post material. Let the weapon kit-bashing begin!

grinkrystal wrote:nice find maybe i need to find an alternative one here in my country but thanks for the idea

hey kabayan! try Tamiya's 5mm plastic tubes. one set of around P150 can go a long way

KaiX wrote:

grinkrystal wrote:nice find maybe i need to find an alternative one here in my country but thanks for the idea

hey kabayan! try Tamiya's 5mm plastic tubes. one set of around P150 can go a long way

thanks pards! ill go check at sm mega

I was just doing a Google search for 5mm posts! This is genius! With this, my TFs will have so many guns!