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Joe Handley

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  1. If you connected them in series then yes, 2 AA's would be 3 volts, but if you wired them in parallel, you'd still have 1.5 volts, but double the run time.
  2. Not sure what the amperage of an alkaline is and I can't find the amperage marked on a pair of Energizer Lithium AAA's I have in front of me right now. If weight and size will be a concern, look at lithium batteries in either form.
  3. Sounds like you'll need ten 1.2 volt, 2000mAh, Nickle Cadmium Metal Hydride battery cells connected to each other in series. If you have some leeway with how many volts you need, you could try a 3 cell, 11.1 volt or 4 cell, 14.8 volt, 2000mAh Lithium Polymer battery pack as well. If you're limited in how much space you have, I'd look at Li-Po's made for "park flier" type RC aircraft since they're small and light when compared to Ni-Cd's and Ni-MH packs, especially at that voltage! BTW, 2000mAh is 2 amps, 1 amp hour in storage is the equivalent to 1000 Milli amp hours in storage if anybody doesn't already know that
  4. The Hell Drivers back, and still using Mopars! http://www.facebook.com/pages/TONNY-PETERSENS-HELL-DRIVERS/281264176843
  5. That commercial and the old AT&T Cable commercial with the black Viper Coupe are two of my favorites. Good job on this Vette!
  6. I'd love to see more van kits in general, hopefully Round 2 see fit to clean up the tooling for the GM G-Van before long, the drip rails needed it bad on the last few I bought
  7. We got one or two of these kits in at work and I've never seen it before in nearly 2 decades of screwing around with plastic and 14 years of working for retailers that carry kits It's an AMT Olds 442 that apppears to be a well detailed, modern tool, made like the AMT '67 Impala's separate frame and all form what the box art shows! http://round2models.com/models/amt/66olds-442 Was this one ever released and I just missed it, was it lost in the shuffle of the Racing Champions takeover and just never released until now under the Round 2 label, or is this a newly tooled kit from Round 2 under the AMT label:blink:
  8. Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like it. I loaded up some Top Gear Demotivational Posters I found and it was a pain to get to work right at 1am!
  9. Possibly both, probably just in plastic. That could be a difficult car to Vacuum form out of lexan.
  10. Is it me, or did the front axle not look right?
  11. I think that was a hold over form the early days of the original car, not too sure if that goes all the way back to Hitler's involvment though.
  12. I'd still rather have a PT Cruiser (turbocharged of course ), but it does look way better.
  13. I thought that's what the TT was
  14. One thing that struck me on this car was that the proportions seemed closer to the original Beetles than the current model. When I showed this link to a couple co-workers, one of more or less said the same thing without me mentioning it in the first place. I found this comparing the Original Beetle to the New Beetle Then found this comparing the New New Beetle to an early Porsche I'll be honest, I kinda like the looks of the the 2012 and think it would probably look really good with fadeaway fenders and some other traditional Kustomizing (yes, I ment to put that K there ) done to it! Maybe kinda like this
  15. I do appreciate at it Pete, if you can PM me your address, I'll send a postal cashiers check right away while I'm there!
  16. It's interesting and clever, but I can't imagine that Shelby and Nissan will be happy with him though.
  17. Let me check with one of my local P.O.'s on that Tuesday, I think I have a can of Moss Green or Crystal Black CC at home that I can take in and ask if they can give me an answer. Thanks Pete, I appreciate it! Luckily, I won't be needing primer for this since it's being applied to the inside of a clear body, but it's nice to know what to use if I want to try it on Styrene at some point ) Luckily the Mopar stuff is one of the best lexan paints I've found, it's just as good as Pactra's R/C and Model Master's 2 stage lacquer lines and is priced comparably to them tooB)
  18. I need something in a spray can, not sure where my airbrush is right now and I'm trying to do it for as cheap as possible so I can paint it then ship it to Indiana for no more than $60...including shipping.
  19. The gal at the dealer I went to gave me this one XBQ and PBQ from the book she had at the counter, I appreciate at you checking though!
  20. Yikes, the dealers don't even want $10!
  21. Model wise, I'm surprised I even got that Challenger done...........RC wise, I've been working on this one for nearly 2 years now.......it's painted and that's about it More annoyingly, I haven't even gotten around to photographing it since painting it <_<
  22. Have you guys run into this color in a less than styrene safe lacquer and in a spray can? It's called Jeep Steel Blue Pearl clear coat and a guy on a couple other forums I'm a member of wants me to paint up a Proline '92 Cherokee body up to match his last one (drunk took it out ) that was painted that color. Problem is that the local dealer doesn't have any and there are two dealers that do have it but can't transfer it to this one and there is a nationwide back order on it on top of it
  23. http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1570/spy-photos-of-next-generation-volkswagen-new-beetle/
  24. I was going to say ugly........................
  25. Anybody else annoyed that it has a Chevy motor in it?
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