Start the hole by spinning a blade tip in the center.
Enlarge the hole using a small rat tail diamond file. By using a file to open it up, you'll end up with a rounder hole.
Careful, it's easy to make the hole too big. File a little and check the fit.
Glue the dish using liquid plastic cement.
The "ball" at the end of the dowel tip is a drop of white glue. You might have to build up the diameter of the ball using a few applications of glue.
Hrm... the probe end (i.e. the dowel) looks a tad long to me. I don't recall it projecting as far out when I built the model.
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DeleteYou are right! A correction will be made in an upcoming post. I don't know why I cut it long - Thanks!
The instructions call for dowel to be cut to 5 1/8" long, then have forward 1/2" sharpened to a point (with the 1/2" length indicated on the diagram). A possible misinterpretation could be that 5 1/8" is the section that's not sharpened (resulting in total length of dowel being 5 5/8").
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