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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. "Park anywhere" seems to be the SOP of a particular breed of entitled driver...or maybe they just don't understand what all those confusing lines everywhere mean.
  2. Rewarding animals with treats when they do what you want them to results in fat, manipulative animals.
  3. Neighbors who respect fences and privacy are less likely to wind up buried in the back yard.
  4. Year after year, no matter what I do to combat it, I get older.
  5. Anybody who knows this one got it via a Google image search.
  6. Fascinating little cars, with cotton-fiber/phenolic-resin composite body skins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duroplast
  7. Film of the bio type growing on your teeth can make them look like they're wearing little sweaters.
  8. Those are all mold parting-lines, as described above, period. No "cheater lines" about it. https://sealectplastics.com/news/what-is-the-parting-line-in-injection-molding/
  9. Be yourself.
  10. "Sorry" is usually used to express regret for getting caught.
  11. "PLACE YOUR ORDERS TODAY, KIDS, BECAUSE THE PRICES MAY GO UP TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!"
  12. I missed this one earlier. Sweet little truck rod. Geez. I need one.
  13. I'm applauding so enthusiastically, you can probably hear me if you stick your head out the window.
  14. "Safe" is apparently why people believe they need 3-ton crash-mashers to drive to the grocery store.
  15. Frankly, I just can't understand how anyone anywhere anytime can justify making a mess like that. Yeah, I'm well aware bought headers often have fit issues. I've been building cars for over 5 decades, and I've never let a car leave with even dimpled primaries. And I'll fix interference issues for free if the client can't afford it, because I'll never be associated with mangled hacking messes. But, you know, that's just me. And I'm so very very glad I'm wired like that. Rant over. EDIT: Probably the same guy, after "learning to weld and doing it right".
  16. Ummmmmm...no. Though I really do love seeing quality work like that performed by highly skilled craftsmen, obviously master car builders. I must be doing it wrong. EDIT: I found the thread that photo came from, and apparently the guy actually thinks he did good...and a buncha other clowns defend him. Anyone who'd post that on the web and be proud of it, and folks who'd defend him...well, kinda self explanatory.
  17. Strong opinions that have no basis in fact are rampant.
  18. Went to the antique mall looking for new HO train scores, happened across a sealed-inside recent issue of this, and couldn't resist the low low low low price. This is really one of my favorite kits...and trucks...but I only had one cherry and a bunch of gloobombs. Same seller had a really good price on this too, completely sealed, and though I already had one just because every car modeler needs an Edsel, I'd kinda wanted another one to do a drag car. Funny...all the other kits he had were stupid-overpriced, including several brush-painted "starteds" missing half the parts. I woulda saved 'em if they'd been cheap...
  19. Mosquitoes built by DeHavilland in WWII were made of a wood composite: end-grain balsa sandwiched between birch skins.
  20. Thing is, fellers, the originating number can be spoofed and you'll never know it. I've received calls from my own number...on the same number. How dumb is that? Thieves may be "tech-savvy", but a lot of 'em are morons too.
  21. The OP's description sounds exactly like one of the phone security ads depicting AI used to clone a relative's voice to ask for money.
  22. Store your models away from extreme heat and pressure on the boxes.
  23. That's the way they go together correctly. Headers aren't necessarily symmetrical in the real world because of cylinder firing order, and trying to get exhaust pulses to enter the collectors in a particular order to encourage cylinder scavenging.
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