Joe Handley

Before this happened, at least one of my neighbors added solar to their houses, to be honest, ifI were in the position to do something like that, I would probably use Solar, Vertical Wind Turbine(s), battery back up, and a generator like that. Already decided that after that outage we had in November of ‘18, at least if one renewable couldn’t work, I’d have another, a battery backup, AND a Natural Gas alternative to boot!

We just found out a couple hours ago that the power may be out until this Saturday, 8/15/2020! Dad and I are road tripping to Lansing, MI to get a generator, since IL, IA, and WI are sold out as well as parts of IN.

We had the power go out from that Derecho that hit yesterday, still no power and due Covid rules, I can’t work from the office across town since I haven’t been approved go back and work from there! This may be a days long issue from what Dad has been able to find too! Well, at least the weather is decent vs a blizzard like when this happened in 2018.....

Well, for and RTR have already done this...................

Went to shoot some Pactra candy red lacquer (303411) onto the inside of “windows” of an E-Revo 2.0 body I painted for my early brushed E-Revo and had it fog, plus I was dumb and didn’t clean the “glass” before shooting the paint, Think this can be buffed or sanded or something to get it to be clear red like it’s supposed to be? This is how it should be. but this is how it turned out.

Checked my local HL still no clearance items.

Dad and I Just swung by one of my local HL stores, no clearance kits like I was hoping, but I had this stupid idea this week and wanna try it in scale, so this fit the bill...... Dad picked up that blue ‘57 kit as a “throw away” and a ‘68 Charger from Revell. I also got a few R/C related items in from A-Main too.

We had customers at Toys “R” Us like that, many of which had tax exempt forms since they were resellers.....got to the point I couldn’t stand most of them too.

Started shooting another R/C body, instead of the simple single color paint like on the buggy, this is a 3 layer paint in some areas that will be backed by bed liner, then use the candy red from the 1st coat tinting the windows, Gasser style? Wish I had thought of that tape loop on the roof to help hold onto the shell while painting a couple decades ago, though........

Not surprised, with how things are going in this country when it comes to Covid, it would have been stupid not to.

I had heard this, think the same is happening in the R/C side too, between manufacturing and shipping delays and likely more time building, bashing, and rebuilding, there’s a lot of back orders for stuff I’m looking to get.

Got my “Long Armed Bandit” Traxxas Bandit Buggy R/C project I started around New Years up to this point in the last couple days. It started as a pile of aftermarket parts, eBay chop shop chassis and shocks to build something to run against my buddy’s Losi 8ight buggy when we would get together on Friday nights...... but got put on the back burner with all of what has been going on since mid-January. This is what the high powered model normally looks like. Also figured it might be a good idea to finish this before I get the low powered Bandit model and a different set of parts to build one of these out of next....... ?

That is cool!

I found it at a different one that I normally shop at, figured that helping hands would be handy for soldering the battery plugs for the ESC on a R/C project I’ve been dragging my feet on too.

Uhg, forgot how much I hate plain, white styrene when it comes to working on models vs the primer grey that AMT/ERTL used. The details are hard to see unless you have a really strong light, then since I used white putty for filler, I couldn’t see where one started and the other ended? I ended up using a head lamp to get enough light on the subject to see what I was doing.

Uhg, hate that feeling?

Huh, I honestly didn’t realize he had still been alive, or was that young, it seemed like he had just disappeared years ago.

Year’s my main 3, there’s very few miles on the K-5 and I’ve debated about rebodying the truck as a Power Wagon or just trying to sell it as is. The XJ (which is an AX-10 that was turned into a SCX-10) and the Telluride have been beat fairly hard over the time I’ve had them. Also started with a HPI Wheely King That kept the stock frame, though that may eventually become a monster truck once again to match my WK that was built as one, originally from spare parts. Here’s the WK crawler with my SCX-24 Now here’s the monster WK I mentioned.. I’ve also bought and started building a Clod Buster and Lunchbox since this whole Covid mess started.

I talked to a lot of people in the upper half original 13 States, MA in particular this week. Pretty much everybody I talked to in that area was talking about upper 80’s on the cool end and upper 90’s on the hot end BEFORE the heat index, with it’s been over 100 there for much of the last few weeks and may not subside for a little while unless that hurricane ends up partially blowing up that way after making landfall in the mainland.

Picked these up at HL while at the neighboring Harbor Freight picking up some Bits for my Dremel, heat shrink, and a soldering gun for my R/C stuff.

Wow, that looks way better in that blue with wire wheels than the Other iterations if it.

Best of luck to you family Carl, times like these can be difficult on everyone in the family. My Mom was bed and wheel chair bound for the last few years of her life and in and out of the Hospitals and nursing homes much of the last 8+ years and we were expecting that again in January instead of losing her. It’s good you’re so close to the home she’s now to, that makes going to see her that much easier!

I don’t think any of those ever made it to the States when new, but they have to be getting old enough for the Radwood, Japanese Import scene guys, or just odd ball guys like Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinski to import to the U.S. by now.

Wow Pat, just Wow!

Thanks! This will be as low as it’s going, as though it were at a static, driveable altitude for this build. To be honest, I not sure if this model year develops much, if any camber when lowered, and I honestly don’t know much about Beetles in general.