Dave Ambrose

That would be my maintenance window, but I don't do major maintenance all that often. Most of that is taken care of by the hosting company, which may be running backups in that time window. If I'm doing heavy maintenance, I'll let you know in advance, and take the site offline. I'm glad you're enjoying the forum.

I'll add a third vote for experimenting on spoons. Costco has them in large quantities for a reasonable price. I've been using the Testor's Airbrush thinner on my enamels and like it a lot. It seems a little more volatile, and perhaps purer than the hardware store variety paint thinner (aka mineral spirits, or paraffin if you're in the UK). It goes down nicely, and I found I can spray several coats in a session if I let them dry 10 minutes between coats. It takes a while to dry tho. I put my models in a box with a low-wattage light because I'm cheap. Other people use food dehydrators to speed drying. The California compliant lacquer thinner is a different beast that the stuff used by the rest of the country. If it contains toluene and xylene, then it's the real thing and will aggressively dissolve paint. I've had mixed results using it to thin enamels. Not sure if this was due to very low humidity, or the goofball thinner we're forced to use in California.

Yes, indeed. Happy birthday Harry!

Thank you. Not knowing is the hardest part, and they often have to run several tests to rule out certain conditions. I'm a dyed in the wool technologist so all the instruments and what-not are interesting. I ask a lot of questions. Stay with it. They won't give up until you do.

A lot of our picture content comes from PhotoBucket, and lately they've been more like PhotoBucketOfFail. I see they're back online again. It seems reasonably fast for me now, but we'll have to see how things develop. If you experience slowness, please PM me or post here with the date and time (with time zone!). I want to try to correlate this with server activity and load. Thanks, Dave Ambrose

Better to be over the hill than under the hill. This seems to be my year for having health issues fixed, or managed. It culminated in heart surgery 6 weeks ago. Gotta say that I feel better than I have in years. Some of this stuff just sneaks up on you.

Folks, please let me know if things are acceptably speedy for the rest of today.

Thanks. I saw some slow-down the other day, and wondered whether if were weren't just heavily loaded. We do get slow periodically, and I have to go in and do some database maintenance that seems to help for a while. I'll plan to do that this weekend.

This post should have them as attachments. Let me know if you can download or access them directly. 1968_Drag_Rules.pdf 1958_Drag_Rules.pdf 1958_Operation_Drag_Strip.pdf 1959_Drag_Rules.pdf 1960_Drag_Rules.pdf 1961_Drag_Rules.pdf 1962_Drag_Rules.pdf 1963_Drag_Rules.pdf 1964_Drag_Rules.pdf 1965_Drag_Rules.pdf 1966_Drag_Rules.pdf 1967_Drag_Rules.pdf 1968_Drag_Rules.pdf

I'm 61 as well. A couple months ago, I felt 71, but now am feeling 50-something. A little medical attention will do that to ya.

I, for one, would love a '66 Dart. That was the car I learned to drive in.

I understand your pain. Hang in there. Things will get better. I had the RF Ablation procedure for afib 6 weeks ago. Knock on wood, the afib is gone, and staying gone. The discomfort wasn't that bad, and I recovered quickly. The great thing is she'll feel better immediately, get back to a much better level within a few weeks, then get off the drugs in a few months and back to her normal energy level. Assuming no complications, but the complication rate for this procedure is only 1 in 200. I wish you the best of luck.

Regardless of where it ends up, it's an awesome looking truck.

This sub-forum is the best place for usage questions. There are a lot of people here that will help you, and a hearty thank you to anyone helping another user. You make this place great. If you need to contact me, please send me a PM. I'm not on the board every day. I have a day job, and a consulting company, and sometimes I even build model cars. My time isn't as free as I'd like. The PM will put an alert in my mailbox, which I will see on a timely basis. If you spot a content problem, please flag it. That also generates an email alert, and I'll usually get to those the same day. If something isn't working right, the first thing to do is clear your browser cache. Sometimes we don't get all the requisite pieces to a page. It looks OK, but it won't work right. Those broken pieces can persist a while. Clearing the browser cache causes them to reload. Thank you everyone for your cooperation.

I don't see anything odd about your member profile. Try clearing your browser cache, and see if that doesn't clear up the problem.

Pinning it seems like a good idea, so I pinned it.

Thanks, Xingu.

You know, if I had that in my collection, I'd use it for batting practice.

How classic a car? I talked to Herb about using some of his parts for a '29 Chrysler, and he told me they wouldn't work for that era car. Their wheels were too large in diameter.

I ran into this problem with Duplicolor primer on an AMT Double T build. I sanded it out and reshot it with Model Master primer. I now use Tamiya and Mr. Color primers, and haven't had any problems. Plastic composition can vary with heat and pressure needed to mold, and I doubt it's very well controlled. After my one bad experience, I don't use Duplicolor any more. I also decided it obscured too much detail. As far as I'm concerned my current primers are much better, albeit more expensive.

I think you're doing extremely well. Keep going!

I saw a 1:1 of these at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They are, dare I say, works of art.

So....this is for anything but a car, right?

There are young people building models. They're even doing high quality builds. But, they're building Gundams, not cars. My daughter builds Gundams, and we go to the Gundam Guys show in Fullerton. I'm usually the oldest guy in the room. I think if we made a place for the science fiction modelers, they would come. We'd probably get a lot from each other too.

Yet another great build, John. The scratchbuilding and paint detailing is superb.