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  1. Seems like that may be one of the requirements for "teachers" these days.
  2. I'd go with cheap lacquer thinner. Like the man says, available at Walmart. Also Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, etc.
  3. I've never quite understood the brain wiring that takes pleasure in mindless destruction. Whatever.
  4. Yeah, and those gol-danged kids are out on the lawn again playing on my washer collection...
  5. Nothing looks more like metal than metal. Nice work.
  6. "Blushing" is when a whitish film forms on the surface of freshly-sprayed paint, sometimes close to edges or panel lines, or where coats are overlapped a little too heavily. It's caused by moisture in the air condensing on the surface as solvents evaporate out of paint, cooling it. It's almost impossible to photograph well, as it just looks like a slightly white area. Lacquer is sensitive to humidity, and will blush if it's high...but the white film will usually come off of the paint after it's dry with a very gentle application of polishing compound. Some enamels will blush too. It's usually not a problem with gloss paints, as polishing them only makes them look better. But if a flat color blushes, polishing it will make it glossier than it's supposed to be, and spoil the flat finish.
  7. I'm 99% sure you'll be OK. I'd suggest you try a test of the flat black though, because if it DOES blush, you can't polish the blushing out without ruining the "flat" effect.
  8. If you're shooting lacquer it MAY blush...which will polish off after it's dry. If you're shooting enamel, it may dry a little slower. Generally 50 or 60% humidity isn't a problem.
  9. That's the Riley 4-port I mentioned above. It's not the same as the one kitted, the Riley 2-port, and has the 4 intake ports on the opposite side from the 2-port. You can't make them out in the photo above, but there are 4 intake ports there.
  10. Either. Just depends on the depth of the pockets of the builder, or how good a machinist / fabricator he was. The tall Vertex magneto came out in the late 1930s and could be adapted to just about anything. There was also a Harman Collins mag, and some others. This Riley-headed engine runs a later-model 4-cylinder distributor in the stock location (while the top-right picture in the thread runs a Vertex mag in the stock location).
  11. Entirely different head from the one kitted. BUT... that engine DOES show one of the front-driven ignition setups possible. You could put a mag up front on that housing too.
  12. That engine represents a Riley 2-port overhead valve conversion head on the Ford Model-A and B bottom end. The TWO individual cast-alloy valve rocker covers are the immediate identifier. It can be set up several different ways, using an essentially stock ignition system, to a front-driven magneto. There's also a more radical 4-port with the intakes on the other side. Here's a couple of pix. Google image-search "Riley OHV head" for more.
  13. Hey man, I'm an old fart and I think most of those guys are pretty lame too...with their checkbook rods and restos that live in air-conditioned garages and get to the shows in trailers.
  14. ...while walking to school and back ten miles in the snow, uphill both ways, barefoot, carrying 50 pounds of books and only a hatchet to fight off the bears. And of course the hatchet was also the only tool they had to build models with too.
  15. Awwww...how cute. A baby Bugatti Atlantic. I got nothin'.
  16. Speaking of gorillas, listen to this set of remarks by Rush Limbaugh. If there was ever any doubt about the man being an imbecile, this should remove it. They pay this ignorant clown at least $40 MILLION a year...and a large portion of the US population believes every word that comes out of his mouth. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/confused-rush-limbaugh-thinks-evolution-is-a-hoax-because-cincinnati-gorilla-never-became-human/
  17. No kidding. Most of mine looked more like this. I wouldn't have if I could have.
  18. But it IS molded in only two snap-together pre-decorated parts (white and clear) so you feel the satisfaction of "building something" without having to expend any actual effort, use sharp and dangerous tools, smelly and toxic glue and paint, or have any boring-to-learn skills. It also comes with a free smart-phone virtual-laundry app and a washing-machine-sound ring-tone....plus a downloadable certificate of modeling accomplishment you can print and proudly display. And don't forget to check out the special FB page so you can exchange fun stories and blurry photos of your build with other washing-machine-kit enthusiasts (many of whom, we've found, don't know how to do real laundry) as well as get advice about challenges you may encounter during assembly of the two parts.
  19. Also notice please...this is a "gasser", one of the most famous gassers of all time. See how it doesn't have the nose pointed towards the sky? See how it sits level? Um hmmm.
  20. My guess is that it's a large truck, fenders over the rear wheels.
  21. It's part of the "Jihad Joe" play set.
  22. I missed the "rant about kids today" part of this thread. Please direct me to it. Simple Definition of rant: to talk loudly and in a way that shows anger : to complain in a way that is unreasonable I'm just not seein' it.
  23. I'll betcha they're supposed to be there. (Though I could be wrong...) Why? Because the 'round' sections, like the OP is holding in his fingers, are the runners where the molten plastic is introduced into the die. The actual "gate" is the line along the horizontal round runner section, adjacent to the crossmember. I believe that line is where the part is supposed to be separated from the runner / sprue prior to building. It appears the part was designed this way to maintain the fenders in correct alignment, and provide an easy attachment point to the chassis. Look also at the pins extending downwards from the lower crossmember in the photo. If this were part of the sprue / runner, there would be absolutely no rational reason to have pins there. Machining the die to make these pins would add unnecessary expense...and that's avoided like the plague in injection-molding tool design.
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