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I'm OLD school! I love my books. Only have my phone because I feel like I have to.

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A great antique mall score! The Duster is really a nice kit. My first one. The Chevy takes me back to a kid and that Bugatti has Rat Rod written all over it! ?

I look at it like this. Skill. No damage to any other car except the two. Are you guys saying you've never wanted to do this to one of the idiots mentioned above? I know I have! But that's coming from a former Firefighter. ?

Ron, hang in there. The road may not be a short one. My grandfather lasted 7 years with Alzheimers. And like some have said, they regress in their mental state. Grandpa was talking about things as if he were in grade school again. My grandmother knew of these details and said he was accurate. It's amazing what the memory can reveille and saddening knowing it's the disease that brings it to us. God bless your father and God bless you for being a good son. My thoughts are with you both.

Absolutely! And I don't think I've ever thrown out a used toothbrush!

Thanks again! Just ordered some to try.

Awesome! Please let us know how it works. Thanks again.

Steve, I just received two shipments from ST in the last month. I'm in Cincnnati so guessing it wouldn't be too far off what you may pay. One package was 4X4X2 inches and $10.50 shipping. The other was 6X6X2 and was $17.41. Not wonderful but not out of this world. Let's just keep our fingers crossed they do continue the Scenes item!

Jason, thank you. I'm going to give it a go tomorrow.

Thanks Dusty! The tree parts were my testing items. I had to look up what PET was and now it makes sense. As for the lye not removing the under coat, I got mixed up. Peter, PETESKI, made mention that the lye would remove it. Maybe his is a different brand. Anyway, I want to thank everyone for the info!

Jason. I'd like to pick your brain too. I did go ahead and picked up some Easy Off to try. What is the process that you use?

OK. Peter. Help me out. I found a crystal drain cleaner that claims 100% lye. Filled a plastic container, about 4X6 with about an inch of water. Added about a tablespoon of the crystals. Swirled it around then added some chrome tree cuttings. It started working right away. I did not realize how hot it would get. My first container was one that fresh mushrooms are packaged in. Thin Plastic. It began to collapse. Poured everything into a container of thicker plastic. The chrome was coming off but then it stopped working. Repeated the steps only this time doubled the amount of crystals. It got hot enough that it was not possible to hold the container at the bottom. It did remove the chrome, but it took two try's, an hour and the yellow coating was still there. Where am I going wrong?

Awesome. Thanks Dusty!

Well, as usual, I'm proved that there are more ways to skin a chrome plated cat. All because of the awesome knowledge here at The Forum. Dusty, I looked for the product you use but seems hard to get. Jeff, pricey, but thanks. Peter and Jason, 35 years of firefighting my nostrils are not thrilled with harsh fumes. I found a product called Crystal Lye drain opener. Available at Home Depot. Hope a mask is not needed! Gonna head out tomorrow to pick some up. I'm hoping it works like Dusty, Peter and Jason said Lye works. Thanks guys. Your knowledge and this forum has advanced my building incredibly!!!! I'll let you know how it goes.

Hello everyone. Hope I'm not wasting anyone's time and hoping I'm not repeating a post already out there, but I thought this may be useful info. I stripped chrome from plastic parts last week. The kit the parts came from was an AMT Ford Snowplow kit. From reading in the Forum, it sounds like AMT's chrome is the toughest to remove. I used several products. Here are the results. Brake Fluid. Soaked parts for 48 hours. About a quarter of the chrome was removed. Ammonia. Soaked parts for48 hours. About a quarter of chrome removed. Windex. Soaked parts for 48 hours. About a quarter of chrome removed. La's Totally Awesome. Soaked parts for 48 hours. About 3/4's of the chrome was removed so I let it soak another 48 hours. Almost all chrome was removed. Maybe 90 percent. Zep's Industrial Purple Degreaser. At 24 hours all chrome was removed. So, I rinsed all the parts that still had chrome left on them and put them in the Purple Degreaser. 24 hours later all chrome was gone. With all the products, the glossy clear coating remained. This was my first attempt at removing chrome. It was because of the info I found in the Forum that I was able to add another tool to my model building hobby. THANKS EVERYONE!

Wonder how many know what that bolt flange was for.

https://www.vcgresins.com/shop/engine-kits Scroll to the bottom. Looks like they are coming soon.

Search 'Old Fire Truck Car Hauler'. You will be amazed at what guys can do to a Jem picked up at a city auction!

Like the weathering! And you are right about the instructions. That is what got me looking around on the forum today. The placement of the engine and trans is a bit sketchy in that kit.

Looks like someone else was thinking along those same lines. I love that art deco stuff also!

Glad I saw this thread. A lot of neat ideas! Figured I'd share mine too. Just wish I would have made it bigger. I had to laugh. The date on the newspaper is Feb 6th, 2000! (I didn't see the dang cobwebs until I looked at photo!)

Hi fellas. Hope this is appropriate. I came across two YouTube sites that you may be interested in. B & R's Northern Horse Journey and Small Cars. They are both into trucks but in different ways.

Hello, Lewis. This is the kind of truck that interest me the most. Heavy trucks that do specialized jobs. Can't wait to see this one evolve. That winch is really nice. Can I ask where you found it?

Holy Cow! Thank you so much!