Ace-Garageguy

When I clicked on it and it enlarged about 50%, I still saw the red...but if I got right up on the image, the red went away. PART of the way it works is that you're really seeing is gray as your brain blends adjacent black and white, but because we're wired for pattern recognition, and "remember" patterns we've seen previously and interpret things that are similar as being the same, your brain inserts the red where it's "remembered" it's supposed to go. I was looking out the window the other day and swore there was a huge hawk sitting in a tree, but when I got the binocs out it was only a pattern made by leaves that my brain had interpreted as "hawk".

Because all that subliminal product-placement over the years has programmed your brain to see Coke cans in random patterns? Just a thought...

Have Gun, Will Travel is still a most entertaining old TV show...assuming you can follow a plot and do without gratuitous horizontal activities, pandering to special interests, car chases, and things blowing up.

Purposes of some tools may not be readily apparent.

"Clothes make the man."

Lover problems like lying and infidelity and emptying the bank accounts to run off with Raoul the Pool Boy no longer affect fat old broke geezers.

Nope. Not even close. It's a GMC Roots-type "positive displacement" supercharger with a Potvin-style front-drive and manifold setup. The Latham unit is an "axial flow" supercharger that works entirely differently. POTVIN HERE: https://www.mooneyesusa.com/product-p/potvin2009.htm AND DISCUSSED IN THE THREAD BELOW:

Yes...as far as I know. Mark would most likely have the definitive answer though.

Well, I used it when I was a kid and that's all I had, but man it takes a LOT of rubbing to clear 600 grit sand-scratches.. I see guys trying to just rub their orange peel with some 1500 for a few seconds, and then go straight to polish...which they wipe on like wax or glaze and wipe off...and then wonder why they still have orange peel. The absolute bestest "trick" to getting good looking slick shiny paint is to learn how to shoot it slick in the first place...on real cars or models. I can't ALWAYS shoot my models this slick every time, but man, when I CAN it really saves a TON of work afterwards.

Some days I feel 25. Some days I feel every bit of what I am. I prefer the former, and I've found that exercise, eating right, and consciously limiting how much I let stressful stuff affect my mood, the younger I feel consistently. But it ain't easy. It can be disappointing to see how slowly years of accumulated fat go away, and how long it takes to get back to where I'm even as fit as I was at 55. I've let myself go to total pot several times for a variety of reasons, and every time I decide to get back on the stick, lose the lard, and get fit again, the more it hurts and the longer it takes. But getting to the point where the exercise has quantifiable results as far as vastly reduced joint and back pain go, seeing the weight go down slowly but consistently on the scales, and looking in the mirror and not seeing a slab of overhanging-gut-lard makes me think this time, I'm going to keep with it. It's a whole lot easier to maintain a really healthy weight and fitness level than it is to get back to it if you've let yourself go. And it's a WHOLE lot easier to just chill on the couch pounding down chips and dip and beer. Life is choices.

At my ripe old age, I've known many people who have had cataract surgery, and they all, every one of 'em, experienced the same thing. Hang in there. Everything will be much better in not too long.

Drove my new-to-me '96 Blazer up to Blue Ridge just because. Booming touristy town now, much more developed than 3 years ago (last time I was up there) and the traffic was like rush hour most of the way. It used to be quite a peaceful drive into the mountains, but the yups have found it and now it's a constant stream of idiots in jacked up trucks and Lexi and Mercs and Audis going nowhere very fast. Blazer ran great, gets almost twice the highway mileage of my '89 GMC pickup, but there are a few small things I need to address prior to driving across the country. All in all it was a good little shake-down trip, but it made me sad for a variety of reasons I won't go into any deeper. EDIT: That thing that looks like a train in the middle of the shot below is in fact a sightseeing train (pulled by classic EMD GP units) operated by the freight shortline that runs past my house.

Went out this AM to feed the ferals and saw the mother of the abandoned kitten I'm taking care of dead in the street right in front of my house. She wasn't there last night at 11:00 PM when I brought in the food bowl so the raccoons and possums wouldn't get it. The street I live on in very lightly traveled, especially at night, and only by neighborhood folks and a few shortcutting between two major streets, so whoever hit the thing could have easily swerved or braked to avoid it...but I've seen some recent "new demographic" residents actively TRY to hit animals around here. In 60 years of driving, mostly too fast, I've NEVER hit a cat. I hate careless evil stupid people.

Vehicle dynamics is misunderstood or ignored completely by most self-described "car guys"...especially the donkers and Carolina squatters and nosebleed-high-front-end gasser crowd.

The AMT coupe is quite reasonably accurately scaled. It fits the Revell (Buttera sedan delivery and derivatives) tube-frame correctly. If the Lindberg kit is in the ballpark...which I don't know because I don't have one here...you're golden. Remember...a T is a little car, significantly smaller than an A-model or a '32.

"Show me the mommy" was my SOP back when I was looking for a lifetime companion and wanted to have an idea of what the girl in question would look like as she aged.

True...but there's a pretty decent one in every issue and derivative of this kit: There's an even better one in the Johan '70 (and later) Eldo...but the cost of the Eldos is getting up there. Still, the odds of the Eldo kit version actually getting used are kinda slim, so parts-sellers on feePay might be a good bet.

Most excellent. Thanks. Maybe I'll cast a few "Culver City" Halibrand back plates to fit a late-model Frankland or one of the other currently available QC rear ends...

I had one about a bazillion years ago, molded in light blue with hard plastic tires. Decent place to start from if you just use the body shell and fenders. EDIT: Found one...

Two biggest problems with the Latham were 1) it was very expensive to make the impeller with all those little vanes that had to be quite accurate and 2) they just didn't make much boost at lower RPM. Otherwise, they're pretty cool.

I figger that's why they calls 'em "smart" phones. You musta had a dumb camera...

"Disaster Management and Remediation" is my middle name.

Yup, I bought one new way back when. I liked it so much that years later I bought a couple of 'em used to keep in the big-car shops. My billing for clients includes extensive photos of work performed, in excruciating detail, to justify the exorbitant money I charge them.

Well, that right there ought to tell you something, right? Apparently the temps are high enough and the humidity low enough now that your paint is drying and literally turning to dust before it reaches the model.

Holy moly. That thing is beautiful. I had to go back and look more carefully to overcome my initial thought it was a real car...and I build real cars for a living. Man oh man, that is one sweet build.