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Some clean Stock and Super Stocks from the Northwest Nationals last Summer. Amazing what goes away when you don't have to pass emissions. Dale

Dudes, the game is over. Time to rub up some baseballs. Dale

Stock and all iterations of Super Stock require full dash and interior including floor covering and matching front seats. The back seat many be deleted if the rear roll bar supports interfere with it. Dale

Super Stock rules require that the engine be factory original same year as body with the exception of accepted heads, manifold and carb. The carb must match the original stock one. NHRA has an Engine Blueprint page for each car eligible for Stock or Super Stock competition, I can find the Monte Carlo for you if you want. Super Stock GT allows you to use any engine ever built as long as it's from the same maker as the body. You could put a new LS out of a Corvette in that Monte Carlo in SS/GT. Someone did that with a '55. Dale

Cubic inches 500. Energy output 10,000 HP (car) driver (unlimited)... Dale

The Internet. It has reunited builders from around the world with a hobby many have not taken part in since their teens. Without it, this site wouldn't be here and neither would most of us. Dale

The story is that he finally quit racing at her request. That says a lot for the bond between them. Rest in peace. Dale

Even though I'm a Seattle fan, I felt sorry for Manning. I don't watch AFC games, so I don't know the caliber or defense over there, but the Broncos weren't prepared for what the Seahawks had to offer them. They call the Hawks secondary the Legion of BOOM. Now everyone understands that. The fight in the team is an extension of their fan base: Joint Base Lewis McCord Whidbey Island Naval Air Station Bangor Submarine Base Bremerton Naval Station Everett Naval Station Dale

Should be cool. I've seen videos of a Pro Mod truck doing high speed burn outs and it's awesome. Finland, I think. Dale

I actually put 2% milk in a mixing cup and studied how it looked and reacted when I swirled it around. The best results I got from mixing came when I mixed it thinner than I thought was thin. Confusing practice. Resist the urge to use the regulator valve as a crutch. Keep it at a constant pressure until you figure out how to thin the paint. One variable at a time. Don't give up. Dale

Thinning jar paints and getting that milk thing right drove me nuts. I decant Tamiya or Testors lacquer and everything is fine. I have an Iwata Revolution and spray at around 15-20 psi. Do a YouTube search on airbrush painting and spend a few hours practicing. Dr. Cranky has good stuff. Get some water based ink from a craft or art supply store and shoot it at paper. A lot... Dale

I don't have experience with photo etch, but I do understand the professional printing process. If I want a brochure printed from my work I send a printing company a computer file and they make all the separations needed to run it on a professional four color printing press. The proof they show me before I approve it would be run on a dye sublimation printer costing many thousands of bucks. I think the same would be true for photo etch. Build the parts for a four-link in a CAD program and resize it to the chosen scale. Export that as a very high resolution TIFF file to another program and duplicate it to fill what they call a fret, Save that file and email it to a photo etch printing house. You would want to print this at home as a proof but no special equipment would be needed. Laser or inkjet. Dale

Dude, you think tooooooooo much! Just go with it. Show her what interests you. Dale

Unless I'm mistaken, photo etch is a specialty process that isn't actually done by any printer alone. The master is just a high resolution black and white image created in software and sent to a company for the creation of the etching plate. It involves a sheet of metal with a rubber backing coated with a material that hardens on contact with light. A film negative created from the master file is contact printed over it and then it's washed with water. The exposed part hardens and the rest washes off. the resulting positive rubber image is washed in an acid bath to disolve the metal that isn't coated. It's not a home process. Folks in the forum that do this can clear this up. Any high quality printer can do decals. Remember that you can't print white, as it isn't an ink color. You have to use white decal paper for that and the t rimming is tricky. Well, you can print white with a high end decal printer. Dale

My process is detailed in post 7 of this thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=78679&hl= The chassis I use is based on the Eliminator frame from Chris Alston's ChassisWorks. Similar frames are found at Quarter Max Race Cars. Someday I'll finish that Merc... Dale

The Dremel Stylus seems to be out of production. It's gone from the Dremel web site and listed as Not Available on Amazon. Dale

The reference drawings are a great idea. Really lets me know what I'm ordering. Will this new run solve the Out of Stock issue with rod ends? Dale

I believe it was issue number 001. They only make around 50 of these cars per year. I saw a '13 COPO Camaro run at Pacific Raceway a few times last season. Guy had a big Mongoose cartoon on the side (Cobra Jet killer?). It alternated between setting the national record for AAA/SA and dying at the 60 foot mark. Monster motor, garbage transmission. Dale

Ummm, is this now a Community Build project? Do I need to build a new workbench every Saturday? Is this really a model car theme? Sounds like wood working to me. Now I'm just confused... Dale

Thanks. Glad you liked the movie, and especially pleased you read the book. I had the original title (couldn't refuse Rocket Boys on the bookshelf) before the movie. I can't really help with paint as I don't remember painting mine. That's something that doesn't stick in my memory for some reason. I have no trouble getting any rattle can paint to stick to paper when I paint a model, so just pick your color. Duplicolor auto paints from the parts store are a good deal compared to hobby paint. I've purchased screwdrivers with warning labels that they are made with chemicals "determined by the State of California to increase the risk of cancer" so I'm surprised Estes ROCKETS are even on the market these days. Dale (Retired Pyro)

I used plain old wood glue for this when I was building rockets in the '60s. Anything wood and paper related from the hardware store will do. As for keeping them straight, use a triangle and straight edge of some sort to mark centerlines up the body at the points where the fins will go. Quarter points for four fins or thirds for three, depending. Stand it on end and put a bit of glue on each surface and press them together. Place a block of something square on either side of the fin for around ten minutes to let it set up and do the next. Let it set overnight. Some rockets are designed to spin for stability and the fins are angled to the centerline, but the Estes rockets launch off a metal rod and everything needs to be straight. The Estes kits I built were very easy and I put them together in an hour not including paint. Oddly, Estes kits were the last rockets I built, not the first. I scratch built everything up to then. Have fun. EDIT: Go find a movie called October Sky based on a true story of the life of Homer Hickem. He was a West Virginia coal town kid who built rockets and became a NASA engineer. The original book title is Rocket Boys. Dale (Retired Pyro)

Internet Explorer just doesn't like this forum. Look around for a thread with a title something like Problems Posting Photos and you will probably find an answer. FireFox is recommended by the Sys Admin around here. Dale

CA is a contact cement and both surfaces must be clean and flat. If they are, just a touch of CA to one surface and a press to the other should do the trick. Vibration or movement during the setting period, were talking seconds, will defeat the bond. Practice on a few pieces of scrap with similar parts. You only need enough to make one surface look wet, a drop is too much. Dale

Stops number one and two: http://futurattraction.com Future Attractions (run by a forum member) http://www.compresins.com/site/751597/ Competition Resins download the Parts section of the catalogue. It's all resin and requires special glue. Dale

Stacy David's Rat Roaster was built on a Brookville frame and body and the show included a tour of the Ohio factory where the stuff is made. Look it up on StacyDavid.com under the Projects link. Very old school stamping dies and craftsmanship. Dale