Ace-Garageguy

Platform shoes were kindof a big thing in the '80s, but I don't see many today.

Me eyes have seen the glory of the starting of a Ford.

Ahha...brilliant idea...just epoxy the bottle to a 3"X3"X1/4" square of lead plate before you even open it. OMG OMG OMG !!!! BUT WHAT ABOUT LEAD POISONING???? OMG OMG OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last time I was in Az., I found one of the now-almost-unobtainable Craftsman radial-arm-saws at a flea market for $75. Needless to say, it followed me to the house out there in the back of a rented pickup. If things go the way they appear to be going, table-saws that will cut hot-dogs will shortly be a thing of the past too. Devastating news to those of us who routinely use our table-saws to slice cylindrical meat.

Same thing as Elmer's, just costs more. They're both PVA (polyvinyl acetate), are water soluble when wet, go on white, dry clear, and will peel off with no damage later.

Good to see you back.Your skills appear to have developed well. Everything about the Corvette looks top notch. Thanks for the idea on the rocket-blast effect too. I'll be building an HO scale steel mill with a blast furnace and coke ovens in the next year or so, and want to do lighting effects to simulate the pour, coke push, and incandescent flue gasses. Your rocket-blast has me pointed in the right direction.

Publishing requires a market that doesn't think everything is TLDR.

There was a 4.9 centered near Chattanooga Tennessee that we felt here back in April of 2003. It hit around 05:00 and freaked my cat out. I went back to sleep.

Looks great. I really wish we got these stateside. I'd buy one for sure. While the styling does take a little getting used to, it's hard to beat a run-forever Toyota van for practicality.

Floyd Clymer was one of America’s leading motorcycle racers in the 1910s and ‘20s, then spent the last half century of his life as a leader in automotive and motorcycle publishing. https://www.mshf.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/clymer-floyd-at-large-2020.html

Whatever gives me the color, finish, or effect I'm after at any given time.

Singer (being the last word in correct order) takes great cars and makes them spectacular.

"Snarky" is employed most accurately when used to describe speech with a specific emotional tone, typically a form of sarcasm and a mild, playful irreverence, but it often offends the habitually thin-skinned who may lack wit, with underdeveloped senses of humor.

Just to add a little info...for my first washes, I tried "The Detailer" pre-mixed black wash and was sorely disappointed. It dried glossy, not at all the look I wanted It also began flaking off of instrument faces after a couple of months.

Does that go for all wives, or only the 350-pound ex lady-wrestler kind?

Best answer so far. A removable repair that leaves no trace is vastly preferable to a half-..... permanent repair. EDIT: One thing I can tell you...an absolutely undetectable repair CAN indeed be accomplished by someone with the requisite skills, including but not limited to color-matching paint for the pillar, and very fine airbrush work. But the cost of such a repair at $35/hr, the absolute minimum anyone having said skills should work for, could very likely run to hundreds of dollars. Considering I've seen an auction estimate of $3000, and a report of one actually selling for $1800 and change, that seems reasonable, but a bodged repair will significantly reduce the potential value.

It can be argued that the $10,000 annual award made by Amazon to recipients of its engineering scholarship is likewise fairly insignificant, when one looks at the vast resources Amazon has to draw from compared to Metal Supermarket, and the cost disparity between an engineering degree and the typical vocational program. I don't know about you, but $2500 would pretty much cover my annual utilities in a small house, and I'd certainly be very happy to have one less expenditure to have to deal with...especially if I were working while in training.

"Went all pear-shaped" is an expression meaning that best-laid plans have gone seriously awry.

Fourteenth-son-of-a-fourteenth-son ought to be twice as good as the whole seventh-son bit.

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness”

Dude likes Cheetos and cherry pie.

Turmoil occurs when idiots are promoted to positions of power in an organization.

Achieve your goals by first defining them, then mapping the actions required to bring them into reality, then doing what it takes.

A dropped Ford front axle will work on just about anything with a transverse front spring as long as it's the right width. Real Ford I-beam axles are frequently swapped around to achieve different track widths and stances, too. You fine-tune the ride height the printed parts shown above will give by filing off spring leaves. EDIT: Shown below is the dropped axle included in the early Revell '31 Ford Woody and all its derivatives, under an AMT '32 Ford with a custom front crossmember. You just have to understand how real suspension like this works.

They've been available off and on in old-school resin just about forever. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jimmy-Flintstone-1927-Ford-Roadster-Resin-Body-175-/200810513421?_ul=IL