Ace-Garageguy

"PLACE YOUR ORDERS TODAY, KIDS, BECAUSE THE PRICES MAY GO UP TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!"

I missed this one earlier. Sweet little truck rod. Geez. I need one.

I'm applauding so enthusiastically, you can probably hear me if you stick your head out the window.

"Safe" is apparently why people believe they need 3-ton crash-mashers to drive to the grocery store.

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".

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.

Strong opinions that have no basis in fact are rampant.

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...

Mosquitoes built by DeHavilland in WWII were made of a wood composite: end-grain balsa sandwiched between birch skins.

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.

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.

Store your models away from extreme heat and pressure on the boxes.

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.

"Arts and Crafts" was an architectural style that had its beginnings in the late 1800s, and was in part a rebellion against effects of the industrial revolution.

I don't know about where you are, but the vast majority of industrial / office parks near me are going belly-up, businesses that were going strong for years just gone, and most properties for lease. 'Bout the only endeavors that seem to be healthy and even expanding are government and medical facilities. I drive around every month or so to get an on-the-ground idea of the reality of the current economy, and frankly, it's scary.

Sentence rulebreakers to compulsory remedial English classes, with whippings.

Fence posts can be whittled down to make baseball bats if you have more time than money, and you can use the leftovers to make matches.

And that, boys and girls, is one of the ways motorsports facilities become strip malls and car lots and fast-food joints and ticky-tacky housing developments.

Unfortunately, all the contractors I've talked to so far want more to move it than I paid for it, so there may be some delay...

I figgered I'd be able to close out my roof-tarping project today based on this AM's NWS local forecast: Today Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 4pm and 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. South wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. The live NWS radar, however, has been tracking a large thunderstorm coming this way since dawn, and I'm just now hearing the thunder. Oh well. Guess I'll do laundry instead.

Unfortunately, the trend in hardware engineering is towards "zero prototypes", where items, even complex and highly-stressed things like automatic transmissions and engines, would be "tested" in simulation and then taken directly to production with no physical prototypes ever. What could possibly go wrong? EDIT: Actually, it would probably be just fine if the simulation software and metrics were all perfect. But as this latest incident proves conclusively, GIGO is alive and well. The early failures and particular failure modes of many of today's engines and gearboxes should be a red-flag to manufacturers that there need to be more greasy hands in the automotive development process, and more stringent real-world testing procedures. Oh well. It's not my dog, and every time I bring something like this up as it applies to vehicles, I'm shouted down by the "how much better everything today is" crowd.

Exactly. But there are millions who won't heed the message. Stuff happens, whether deliberate or through incompetence. Best to be prepared.

Summer nights here have been rainy lately.

I'd like to have it, but I don't have anywhere to put it, especially after I just spent all my money on the Brooklyn Bridge.