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  1. Excellent idea, I'm going to harvest the fan out of a recently departed laptop after I leave here. Two filtration ideas one outgoing air and one incoming air. (1.) One of the videos mentioned an activated charcoal filter to absorb paint fumes. What about the activated charcoal water filters for the Mr. Coffee coffee maker? They come in a package of two for a couple of bucks, not certain how they would flow air, water molecules are larger than air so it should work. (2.) For the air filter what about some sort of automotive air filter, could be something as simple as the paper filter element sandwhiched between two pie tins with the fan inside and mounted to the top of the box. (Not the aluminum kind, way too thin.) The top and bottom of the air filter could either be "glued" to the element with a bead of silicone or 3 or 4 short sheetmetal screws directly into the rubber top and bottom of the filter element.
  2. After using the spray Zap Kicker with CA Glue for ages and always worrying about contamination to soon to be painted surfaces I hit on this idea. Found these empty needle tip bottles on Ebay, the guy that sells them also sells them filled with oil for trains, slot cars and stuff. I pour a small amount of the kicker into the needle tip bottle then once the CA Glue is applied just hit it with a tiny drop of the kicker. It's far better and less of a mess than the spray bottle. I've been using this for some time now and it works great. Question: (I searched but can't find the post I think I saw on here some time ago.) Does anyone use Super Glue and Baking Soda for body filler? I've used Thick Super Glue on larger areas sanded it smooth then top coated with thin super glue with good results in the past. Any one have any problems with this as a filler in the past?
  3. Hope I'm not dredging up one that's too old. If so flip me some cr@p and be done with it!! Daily (Commuter) Driver and occasional Auto-X'er 2001 New Beetle Turbo nothing fancy gets me to work and back. My other car is a 1973 RHD Mini, imported from UK in 1998 got it on the road in 2000 modified from front to back. Added Sportspack Flares (Arches) , 13 inch Mini-Lites, Engine out of a late John Cooper Works Mini, lumpier cam, head has been ported, polished and flowed, roller rockers, dual SU carbs, dyno's out at 81 HP on rollers, Adjustable suspension on stock type rubber cones, interior has been worked over starting with addition of Webasto electric sunroof, Cobra Classic Clubman seats. Color is Black on Flame Red, (stock color combination). The only drag with it being "not stock" is when we Auto-X it gets bumped up to run with the New MINI's, New Beetles, Honda's, it holds it's own there though. We got the Mini after a string of US made Iron, a few air cooled Bugs (Oval Window and Convertibles), Camaro's, '65 GTO which were fun cars. Then decided to do something really different and get a Mini which has been an absolute blast. One of the first things that I did right after importing it was swap it over to LHD then two years ago I swapped it back to RHD which adds a whole lot to the whole "Mini experience"! We got looks with our Muscle Cars but we weren't prepared for the attention that this gets at the car shows. We had a guy at one of the local cruise nights actually move his then brand new Camaro away from us because it was attracting far more attention than his! Like Hot Rod touted in the '80's "Dare to be Different", this is really different. Thanks for Looking.
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