crazyjim

I've done it a feww times and it looks really cool. I forgot to mention that if you're doing red,white, blue, to have the body primed in white and then just use the red and blue for the dip. I usually use one of those plastic/vinyl wash basins you get when you're in the hospital. If you decide to spray the paint on the water and dip the body, you have to make sure that you skim the left over paint off the water before raising the body. The article I referred to was the "Moonwind" and it appeared in the March 1972 issue of Car Model maagazine. I'll bet everybody has a copy of thatlaying around.

You have to put the body into the water first - right side up. Then you spray the paint on top of the water. Just spary the different colors around. Don't try to mix the paint because it will just adhere to whatever you stir it with. Lift the body slowly out of the water. Let it dry for a few days and then start with several coats of clear. There was a magazine article about the process maybe twenty years ago. The car they worked on was the Moonwind as I recall. I have the magazine in the shop.

Anyone have a source for an alternative to the Flex-i-Pads, Flex-i-Grit, etc? Those pads are $3.00 each and I was looking for something less expensive.

I polish 3/32" aluminum tubing to be used as the distributor shaft (about 1/2" long), polish 1/8" aluminum tubing for the distributor cap and super glue to the shaft. Then I cut 8 pieces of distributor wire (Scale Dreams) that are 2" long and 1 piece 1" long (8 for the spark plugs and 1 for the coil). Put some plastic glue in the cap and stick all 9 wires in. Bing, bang, done!

I thought this forum was just for model cars - and then I saw the Memorial Day messages. I served with the Marine Corps in Vietnam 1969-1970 and want to say thank you to all who relpied in a postive manner. Every year I travel to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC to say hello to my friends who came home in flag covered boxes. There are now 58, 260 names on The Wall - each one is my brother or sister. I WILL FORGET THEIR SACRIFICE! And thank you for not forgettine them either.

I make distributors from aluminum tubing and ignition wire from Model Car Garage and/or Scale Dreams. When I use "super glue" to glue the wires into the tubing, the lower part of the wires turns white. Am I using the wrong type of glue?