Joe Handley

My kid sister worked for one not too far from you Harry, IIRC, the constant religious music got tiresome (although the Muzak part was probably more offensive...to me anyway ) Other than being closed Sundays and that Religious Muzak, at the time they weren't really shoving their religion down employee's throats, they did have books on the family's faith and it's involvement in the business for sale at the checkout. Never had anybody try to Exorcise any of us, although the reason my sister left was a crazy woman that did ot like her what so ever and had a tendancy toward acting out fairly violently in picture framing department they both worked in. There were attempts to get her punished for her actions until employees noticed she spent way more time in the office with the store manager that she should have. Mom even called corporate to complain a out this woman and when she got the brush-off from the person on the phone about it, she said something to the effect of "I thought this was a religious company?!", the woman on the phone just laughed at Mom. My sister still shops there, ut between this and their current actions, I won't anymore.

Problem here isn't modeler, it's the perception of the modeler by the general public, and generally speaking..........the general plublic can be complete and utter ignorant idiots.

Found this Tom, old info though. http://www.staffingindustry.com/Research-Publications/Publications/CWS-3.0/Archive/2011/August-31-2011-Vol.-3.22/EU-Drug-Screens

I sent an email to a R/C parts company Monday night nicely asking if they knew if the outter ring of their 2 stage memory foam tire inserts for rock crawlers were glued together and if they could be used with their short course wheels and tires for an upcoming R/C project I've got in the wings while providing the specific part numbers for the wheels, tires, and foam inserts in the email........................ The reposnse I got today said that the foams that come with the tires I plan on buying are stiffer than the ones I asked if the two pieces were glued together and if the outter portion was similar in snape to the foams that come with the tires I plan in using..........kinda knew that already, so I didn't need to waste their time to ask the unasked question they answered as crawler foams tend to be much softer than go fast foams in any go fast application

Lol, that factory one in my Jeep was on it's out for about a year and when it finally gave it up for good, I was leaving for work, so Dad took me in and picked up a new starter on the way home so he could swap it out while I was working. Apparently when he pulled the factory part out from under it and got it in the daylight, the solenoid was covered in semi-circular dents from me beating the tar out of it with the flat end of that hammer.

The Shadow I had was like that. When we figured it out, instead of swapping the part, I kept a ratchet drive with an extention and socket that matched the bolt on the lower pulley in the car, would turn turn wheels full right lock, and put the socked on that bolt and turn it over until I got to a spot with plenty of teeth left. Worked well until I got too lazy to do that much and started to pop the hood, pull the alternator belt towards me, which pulled the engine around just enough in the process to bring the good teeth to the starter. Had a couple coworkers consider the socket and ratchet driver trick "some serious Jedi.....aahhhh....stuff!" Just image how blown their minds would have been by me just pulling on the Alternator belt or when I would take my ball peen hammer to the Jeep's factory starter when it started going bad

I don't mind the occasional small store that specializes on it, it's not that far off of a hobby shop or a craft store so much as I do big stores trying to stretch Christmas season all the way back to July 4th.

How is that a "hot topic".......or should I be afraid to ask?!

Hallmark is already peddling their ornaments via their TV channel.

Funny how that works, huh?

Or at least let us get through Halloween before putting that stuff out, any time after that should be fair game.

Hmmmmm, that Mustang does look good though, is it also a reskinned Datsun Z car?

Any links to that review by chance?

I guess if this was considered survivable, who knows........ Found a news story to go with it! http://newsfirst.lk/english/2014/07/china-crash-victims-miraculously-survive-car-crushed-flat-lorrys-load-pics/46361

Very strong...........

Different meaning for the same word, why the reviewer thought that is anybody's guess........not sure I want to know why they thought that........might have been some sort if ignorant phobia...........

YES, actually a few days ago at work, a young girl about that age grabbed a new Excell brand knife with purple plastic cap off the display by the register and by the time her Mom and I realized what she was doing, had the cap off! Luckily Mom got her to put the cap back on over the fresh, sharp, new blade and had it back in the display quickly!

"Also what do you mean, cruising the place?" I think that this reviewer was accusing all of those guys of being gay and/or pedophiles looking for "companionship".

No, if a teen is spending that kind of money in a hobby shop, it's some sort of R/C product, be it a new vehicle, or parts to repair or modify what they already own.

That just makes you wonder about what kind of person would write that sort of thing and their own perversions, biases, and/or general mentality. edit: People like that to make me nervous about going and running my trucks in public parks alone. I sometimes worry someone might see my pistol style controller as a "weapon", or think I'm trying to "lure kids" in with whatever truck I'm using there, or destroying the environment with it (even though I'm running some sort of crawler, which does less damage than the average toddler, not to mention I'm constantly picking up and throwing out garbage left by people fishing and/or picnicing.....) Probably a good thing I haven't jumped on the multirotor R/C bandwagon yet, not sure how I would deal with the paranoid freaks those tend to bring out of the woodwork.

Actually, anything from his armada of cars and trucks would be perfect!

I think that other than Callium's Mercedes and Astin, Dir. Vance's Yukon, Kedsie's SRX, the current Chargers, the old FWD's, Ducky's ME vans, and Dinozo's last Caddy, the rest of the NCIS cars could be had from existing tooling! Should be interesting to see what's used on the new New Orleans spinoff for cars though.

Price will get better as the parts availability, production techniques, and numbers improve, just like with anything else, it just has to get there. Range will improve as new forms of efficeny are discovered and added, plus with improvements in battery and charging tech too. From my experience with owning a flex fuel vehicle, charging stations will likely be the biggest obstical. You have to have people interested in building places (I give Musk lots of credit for that!), as well as taking efforts to deal with opposing parties (oil companies for example) on the construction of such places. If I had the money or knew the people, I would look into doing an alternative fuel "gas station" that covered the biofuels, ev charging, and alternaive petrolium fuels. I number of those along the major corridors and in urban centers could go a long way to countering those issues for all of us that own these sorts of vehicles.

Wow!