Ace-Garageguy

P-61 is coming along nicely. Keep her goin'. I have a fair few aircraft and armor models to get to...someday. Not too far back I got back into HO-scale model trains, and started buying all the stuff I missed between being about 16 and now. It got to the point where I realized I was going to need the entire house if I ever used it all, so I had to put on the brakes. And then...oh look...a giant squirrel !!!

Bingo. PM'd

Pretty miserable dinner tonight. Not-so-great refried beans and chorizo smeared on a flour tortilla, with lotsa cheese melted under the broiler, and some kinda spendy salsa that I'll never buy again. Oh well. Some meals are better than others, and it was still better and cheaper than most of what I can get out. EDIT: Nice couple handfuls of fresh raspberries for dessert, anyway.

Pretty much any QC center section can be made to work with independent rear suspension. Different side-covers / bearing carriers are used (different from the usual solid-axle "bells" that carry the axle bearings on their outboard ends). The side covers for IRS also often include mounting "ears" and / or suspension control-arm pickup-points. Inboard disc brakes are often part of the package as well. Below is one fairly typical QC-IRS setup. It uses suspension geometry copied from the old Jaguar IRS popular in years past. Below is a Winters QC diff set up with IRS side covers and stub axles. Note the differences between it and a similar center section with solid axles and side-cover "bells" and tubes, set up for outboard disc brakes. There's all kinds of trick QC stuff available these days, including complete subframes to convert IRS Mustangs to run quick-change diffs.

Very interesting.

Yes, very nice indeed. They remind me somewhat of Ken Dallison's illustrations, featured in Car and Driver magazine back in the late '60s-early '70s.

Now THAT is impressive.

Gumby used stop-motion clay animation, sometimes called "claymation".

No matter how good and decent a person you are, no matter how hard-working or accomplished or kind or honest or brave or loyal or generous...someone will hate you for it, and talk trash behind your back.

Double post, first it failed to post...

Wow.

"Eye for an eye" is a logical philosophy for determining punishment, but not terribly practical when it comes to implementation.

Dynamite is probably overkill for removing stumps, but it sure is fun.

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come” Wm. Shakespeare

"Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you" Benjamin Franklin 1773

Keep It Simple, Stupid KISS

Matter dan a vett henn I vas ven Sven vas late mit der rent again.

EDIT: There are some glaring flaws, but overall I think it's beautifully done. Far as the women go, they're all fully clothed and are a lot less --------- than what young people are constantly exposed to on the web, so hopefully nobody finds anything here offensive.

Yup. Battery in my '89 GMC quit yesterday. It was due, as it lasted an incredible 11 years. Happy it quit at the house too, instead of 50 miles away in the middle of nowhere.

Things that go "bump" in the night here are usually cats playing.

“A is A”

Subjective judgements often ignore objective reality.

A N A L O G D Y N A M I C S T A B I L I T Y Priceless.

Hurricane winds often take down power lines, and electric chainsaws with nowhere to plug 'em in are of limited usefulness.

Children probably shouldn't be entrusted with real chainsaws.