What’s a good gauge wire to buy for 1/48 ejection seats?

[Breaddy-Stack]

I had an Aires seat that came with the pull handle broken off and I also have a few kits with lackluster seats as is. I saw a trick on YouTube that uses wire to make a handle, I just don’t know what gauge should be good to buy! I’m working in 1/48 scale if that helps!

Edited July 10, 2020 by Breaddy-Stack

[A-10 LOADER]

Not really sure of the gauge of the wire but, I use copper wire that fits a #77 ( .0180" ) or a #78 ( .0160" ) drill bit. It all depends on what seat your doing and picking a wire that looks to scale for that seat as well.

Hope this helps.

Steve

[Breaddy-Stack]

1 minute ago, A-10 LOADER said:

Not really sure of the gauge of the wire but, I use copper wire that fits a #77 ( .0180" ) or a #78 ( .0160" ) drill bit. It all depends on what seat your doing and picking a wire that looks to scale for that seat as well.

Hope this helps.

Steve

Ahh this definitely helps! For the seat in question was an SJU for an F/A-18A in 48th scale! I’ll check those out though!