Dave Ambrose

I like that color! It looks great with the flames.

If you really want quiet, a CO2, or SCUBA tank is the way to go. You can do a lot of airbrushing with one, and they're totally silent. The downside is that you have to get them refilled, inspected, and hydro'ed every 5 years. SCUBA shops can be hard to find in some parts of the country. Whatever compressor you get, make sure it has a tank. The diaphragm compressors will pulse when you have the airbrush wide open. It's not a very attractive look. The small compressors with a 2 gallon tank have plenty of capacity for an airbrush, and are good for other things around the house too. I power my airbrush with the same compressor that runs the rest of my shop tools, with some additional filtering and regulation. It has a large tank, so I run it until the tank is at working pressure, then shut it off. That way, I don't get any blips in the paint when it turns on. (It's pretty noisy)

I sent you a PM. As a general rule, please send me a screen shot with the web address (URL). This should help us figure out what's going on. Thanks, Dave Ambrose

There are actually a couple of Aimee Mann covers: I actually like this version better than the original. She also did an awesome cover of Free Man in Paris. She delivered an amazing performance at the Belly Up in Solana Beach, then we went to her performance at the Hollywood Bowl the following week. Unfortunately, I can't find a good recording of her performance, which is too bad. She's one of the few that can do that song justice.

I use this for drilling in plastic. https://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-92-Swivel-Head/dp/B000BQW5XS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518405131&sr=8-2&keywords=general+pin+vise It works well and handles drills down to #80. I recommend high speed steel drills if you're drilling by hand. Carbide drills snap rather than bend, and they're best used in a milling machine or a drill press. That said, they work extremely well.

There should be no limit on attachments, either number or total size. Please PM me if that resolves your problem, but don't go too deep with that purge.

A couple of people, who made a lot of good contributions would delete their constructive and valuable content as a means of revenge for being reprimanded for bad behavior. Being able to delete a thread means you're also deleting other people's contributions, which isn't fair either. If you ever think your thread needs to go, just report it to the moderator with a comment.

I generally use 30 ga kynar insulated wire wrap wire. You can clamp one end in a vise and pull on the wire with pliers until it just gives a little. That straightens it, and you don't get the kinky wire look. Same method might work with the wire you're using.

I don't know how badly scratched they are, but I would try dipping them in future floor polish or whatever it's called these days. If it doesn't work out, you can easily remove it with windex.

This is so cool. Thanks everyone for sharing. Yes, cat hairs in the paint are a constant concern. Thank goodness for microfiber towels. Shasta has gone back to her comfy bed on the other side of the hobby table. It might have something to do with me stacking a couple of model car projects in that box. Once I get done with final assembly on those, I can get back to the Titan IIIc.

Deleting your own posts is a double edged sword, and was getting abused, so we disabled it. If you want to delete a post or lock a thread, report it to the mods with your request in the report. We'll take it from there.

A quick look isn't revealing anything obvious. Are you able to post a short test reply?

Which topic is giving you problems?

PM sent

We're trying to figure out why this is happening. If it happens to you again, please send me a screen shot with the URL.

Very neat. This is an intriguing style. I really want to call this Turbine Punk. But some last vestiges of good taste tell me to keep that to myself.

Can you PM a screen shot to me?

I can't speak to the magazine distribution issues. International distribution and payments have always been difficult and costly, especially for small publications. Digital distribution bypasses most of those problems, but isn't viable for a lot of people. I don't believe the forums will suddenly go away.

I normally run Chrome, so I know this board works well on that browser. We have a a few pending problems: I can't update our theme. Tried that on the last maintenance window, and it failed. Once I can update the theme, the diagnostic should go away. It's strictly cosmetic, and leaving it will cause less disruption than switching to a different look and feel. We're still having the "404" problem. We had reason to believe that it would get better with the new board software revision, but it didn't. The Gallery is completely broken. We'll have to reinitialize the gallery and start from scratch, but the problems above are higher priority. In the meantime, if you do get a 404 error. Please send me a screenshot with the URL, and the time the error occurred. We're still not sure what the source of the error is, and need all the diagnostic information we can get. Thanks, Dave Ambrose

That is correct.

you can post as many pictures as you want. We removed the picture limits some time back as our disk space is now unlimited.

Wow. You were both very fortunate indeed. Best wishes for her speedy and complete recovery.

Sorry, Pacific Standard Time.

I'm going to take the board offline for 30 minutes or so at 9 AM PST to try to deal a few issues tomorrow morning. Shouldn't be long.

My cat, Shasta, normally sleeps on a comfy kitty bed on the other end of the hobby table. Not today. She needs to sleep right in the kit box with a bunch of sub-assemblies. That said, she does make for a cute, if expensive picture.