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My brother many years ago painted an egg with AMT model paint... mom said nope to him eating it...

This was on my Bird Buddy the other day. He hopped up off a cart I had too close to the feeder. Now that is moved, I only have birds.

Nice! I was thinking of getting one. Does it come with an engine?

Mine wouldn't hold to US measurement, it kept reverting to metric. I found it easier to go metric than fight it..

Those old brown tapered boards usually have an aggressive grit, I'd say 100 on one side and 180 on the other. Again, Sally's has the best assortment and they last. I like the Tropical Shine ones. Dry sand, wet sand, they are my favorite.

Radio Shack used to carry spools of WW wire. I'm still using some. They had this great almost metallic blue that looks great.

I see this with many stock car tires and wheels. I'll file and sand the wheel outer diameter, roll up sandpaper to open the tires up. Now I wrap the wheels in tape before I prime and paint. Even that small build up will make assembly difficult.

I bought an intake and carb set on eBay from a popular 3D print source. The carb itself was small, more like 1/32 scale than 1/25. I'll have to dig it out and take a picture. One of the guys in my club does some printing, he says that scaling is something that can be difficult.

I think it was ABC, in the early 1970s that experimented with 45 minute shows, back to back. One was called The New People. It was about a group that was stranded on a deserted island from the Cold War era. The island was set up as a nuke test site that was never nuked. It had everything, less people. I don't think it went as far as 26 episodes.

Instinct, they do it quickly and quietly. They take the kittens to the safest place possible. Sometimes you can catch the momma cat doing recon. Usually she goes out right after they are fed, quiet and sleeping. If there is a lot of people looking and touching them, they sense a threat and will move them to more secluded digs. Once they become mobile, all bets are off.

I have slowly realized that there are many 3D printed parts sellers who are not modelers. They merely sling parts for sale. I thought that most designed their own parts.. wrong again. Some will give credit to the file's originator. I see many of the same parts from a variety of sellers. Some are nicely done, some are not. One thing that irks me is distributors with too-small wire holes that are also too shallow. Try to carefully drill out them out and the part shatters. There is also zero regard by some for attaching things like wheels and mufflers for example. For mufflers it would be convenient to be able to use a stock-size aluminum tube, or even plastic rod. Wheels are the same issue. I see hubs that are not concentric to the rest of the part. So there are puppy-mill sellers out there, I'm learning who is to be avoided. I store my parts with notes in them, who it came from, what some dimensions are.

I know one collector-kit vendor, he has some ancient stuff. He knows a little of the history too. The oldest un-builts I have are AMT kits that date back to 1961 and 1962. I knew one guy in my club, no longer with us, he took pride in building up kits from around 1958.

The machine shop I worked in, we made tiny parts. The floors were old asbestos Ken Tiles and you could eat off them. A crew came in each night and when we came in, the place was mint. Myself included, drop something small and look all over for it... finally bite the bullet and make a new one. A couple of times I would come in... the part would be in plain sight on the clean floor. I busted off a piece of a 3D printed chassis, a sizeable piece that would be difficult to replicate. I don't recall hitting it on anything. I spent time off and on looking for it... BACK IN THE BOX! About a week after, looking for something else on the carpet.. 8 feet away, I saw the chassis piece all by itself.

7 mm was what old Accel yellow wires were advertised as. I have 9 mm wires on my 1:1 cars, I've seen 10 mm wires advertised. I agree that .020" or .5 mm wires may look too big, .016" to .018" is a good compromise and is easy to find. Smaller wire kinks a lot easier. Walk around at shows and you see who uses what.

Thanks. I have been poking around on cults, very hard to find things so far. I'll check out that seller. Being spring, I'm hesitant to dive into 3D printing right now. I have 1:1 car stuff coming up, beach, pool, yard... maybe in the fall.

I have to move my dining room table back 2 feet soon... and start looking for small items I have dropped for a while. I'm at the point where it is easier to make the item over rather than crawl around. I'm getting smarter. If I have to make 4 of something, I make up 6 of them. Need 8, make up 10 to 12. I lost a piece of 1/8" aluminum tubing about a month ago, part of a magneto I was making a run of. Not really a small part... but GONE. Yesterday, I see the part under the table as I walked by... the sun coming in the windows revealed it like a searchlight.

What does the wire measure up as? The ones I like are. 016"-.018", 30 awg Kynar found on eBay

Keep an eye on the Orange Sherbert one. I had only one...but it was by far the most adventurous kitten I ever had. It was all over the place by 2 weeks old.

Awesome, who had the file? Was it hard to set up on your printer?

I got into machining after recovering from a serious car accident. I needed something that was easier to do physically. I'm lucky to have gotten into an incredible model shop, then a true R & D shop. You had to be fast and accurate. I saw many older guys come in with "20 years of experience" that did not make probation. It was almost all manual, with one NC Bridgeport mill. It was great to rough out multiple parts. We had a huge Van Norman Universal mill, with cabinets of accessories, all mint condition. And 2 large Regal-LeBlond lathe with overhead cranes to change chucks and faceplate. I learned to EDM on a small Charmilles machine. We had a separate room for surface grinders. There was a large sheet metal shop next door, these guys could make anything.

I've been watching a ton of old movies on TCM and some on my old westerns cable channels. One guy keeps popping up, Fred McMurray, as in the dad in My 3 Sons. He plays quite the bad guy. Double Indemnity from 1944, I just saw part of a western from 1957. Starts with a Q... He plays a desperato type, running with some other bad guys, heading to Mexico. Of course every one of these has to have eye-candy in it. This had Dorothy Malone

I'm a classically trained machinist, served a 4 year apprenticeship too. I did all sorts of similar repair jobs like that on old car parts, race cars and boats. FYI a telescoping gage is not that accurate, it may get you in the +/- .001 ballpark. Intra-mikes are much more accurate. I have a Bridgeport mill and a Clausing lathe (not working right now..). I am in the market for a Sherline lathe. I struggle quite a bit without one. I retired from everything between 2016 and 2020, I used to have precision lathe access at my job. I still have a cigar box with all my homegrown lathe bits, mini boring bars, etc. I have one cut-off tool that I can turn, face and use to part off finished parts.

I built one as a kid, no issues I can recall.... of course if something was troublesome.. it was left in the box.

I just run metric conversions in my head. 1 mm = 1 scale inch. I have tricks I use to get close quickly. Example, if you want to convert 1.2 mm to inches, just go with significant digits, 12 x 4 = 48. Shift the zero over 3 places to the left yields .048". I use the metric system quite often over the US system.

They do grow fast. These are great looking kittens. I never had a cat birth more than 5 kittens. Usually 3 to 4 was the norm.