Dave Ambrose

There’s an interesting book about the Fletcher class destroyers, Typhoon, the Other Enemy. I highly recommend it.

OK folks, enough with the risque name corruptions.

Greg, what topics are giving you this behavior?

He was held out as someone who practically walked on water. He'd commute between France and Japan, getting his sleep on an overnight flight. Now he's in a Japanese jail. The Nissan CEO held a press conference that didn't reveal much of substance, but alluded to some severe misconduct and lack of proper oversight. I was surprised to learn that Mitsubishi was also part of the alliance. My, how the mighty have fallen. And, for the record, I loved our Xterra and I'm mostly happy with our Frontier. But I wonder why they did away with the torsion bar front suspension.

That won't be spring. It will be winter.

Chico and Paradise are big hot rod/classic car towns. We're be hearing about more car losses. It's sad, but nothing compared to the people who've been lost. The missing list was sitting at 1000. Not all of them are lost, but I'm going to be a lot of them will not be found.

I use a cardboard box and a low wattage automotive work light. I call it a bake box. Works great, and is consummately cheap.

That is rough. There are implantable monitors they can use to catch the events, but I would get a second opinion. Maybe find someone up at Northwestern. It’s frustrating when you don’t fit the common signs and symptoms. It takes a persistent doctor, and assertive patient to figure out what’s wrong. I hope you can figure out what’s going on and get well.

I did spend hours looking through the Auto World catalog. Those were good hours.

Folks, please keep it civil. No ad hominum attacks.

That's good to know. I had a Gundam builder strongly recommend Olfa knives to me last weekend. Do they take the Xacto blades?

Derridean deconstruction finally meets popular culture.

Just start a new topic in Under Glass. It's nice if you can include a link to the On the Workbench topic, but not required.

Stopped by a hobby shop we don’t usually visit yesterday; Military Hobbies in Orange, CA. It’s a great hobby shop, it’s just very far away for us. Picked up a Finemolds X-wing kit. These are much better than the Bandai kits. My daughter found several 1/144 tanks for her Gundam dioramas. I especially appreciate how the owner treated my daughter like any other modeler and didn’t talk down to her.

I have several C-cell powered SCUBA diving flashlights. Tenergy makes an actual C-size rechargeable battery. It has a capacity of 5000 mAH. A lot of C-cells only store 2500 mAH, which is the same as both the AA rechargeable cell, and your garden variety alkaline C-cell. You can get a set of good C-cells, and a charger for a reasonable price at the usual outlets.

That's true of battery powered tools in general. When the batteries in my drill die, I generally find it's cheaper to buy a new drill. I suspect part of it is due to the rapid evolution of battery technology in general. They just can't get equivalent batteries for a long time. My shop has one battery powered tool; the drill. I was lucky with this last one. I was able to get new battery packs with different and better technology for a reasonable price. Maybe that will be the case going forward, but I suspect Dremel isn't a big enough market to justify the investment. I just stick with line-powered tools for the most part.

I have a VL and like it a lot. The double action is nice for some effects. But it has an adjustment for both the minimum and maximum amount of paint. That flattens the double action learning curve a lot. Getting the set makes a lot of sense and it gives you all the accessories you’re likely to needs for a while.

I agree. With respect to most models, current economics have little in common with their predecessors from our youth. Kit runs are much smaller now. I believe they're making runs of 30,000 (give or take) kits instead of 700,000. That makes the cost of molds, and the rest of the kit development more critical than the manufacturing costs. It also means you don't need the molds to last forever. Cutting a mold from aluminum is much cheaper than cutting one from steel. And, thanks to advancing technologies, you can use the same CAD file to create a 3-D printed part, or a mold. Over the very long term, 3-D printing costs will continue to decline, and that will further skew the economics at the niche end of the model market. I don't think we'll se resin casting with RTV molds disappear, but the number of parts you need to make to justify an RTV mold will rise over the long term. Now, if we could just make 3-D modeling software more user friendly. That would be a revolution.

I’ve had nothing but coverage problems with yellow paints. Pearl paints must be at least somewhat transparent, and I’m sure this makes it worse. I’m painting Testor’s chrome yellow over white primer this week. Should be fun.

Harry was a good guy. He touched a lot of lives in a positive way, including mine. Thanks, Harry.

I've read that too. Very interesting. Those guys were far braver than I.

Oh so true. It's stuff like this that makes me want to activate a like button.

Thanks. Somewhere in my mother’s pictures is one of a very much younger me and Big Daddy Roth. All of Ed Roth’s cars are cool, but I especially like the Mysterion. It was one of the first kits I bought when I got back into model cars.

Fixed this topic. Someone posted a link to a site that Google now considers toxic. If you were using the Chrome browser, you got a big red page informing you that you were in great danger, and all the elastic in your underwear (pants in the UK) would be neutralized if you proceeded. Oddly enough, Safari and Firefox both realize that a broken picture link isn't going to cause a Phishing attack. I removed the link, and now we're just fine, so I'm putting the thread back. Post away, my friends.

Do the standard stuff when your merchant account gets hacked -- Change your password Turn on Two-step verification Delete your stored credit card Review your current credit reports. Lock your credit reports, and put an alert on your account if you can. This prevents them from opening new accounts in your name. Problem is they probably have your home address, which is an important piece of authentication information. Amazon is usually better than almost anyone about security. Chances are, they got in via your computer, or with information stored on it. I would run several different malware checks. Microsoft Defender is actually pretty good. Malware Bytes has its virtues too.