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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. As mentioned, "suicide style" uses a particular type of front spring perch, fabbed and welded to the front crossmember. As some fellas welding was a little on the sketchy side, the highly loaded weld joint at the crossmember is prone to failure if not done correctly. I particularly like the ride height options this style of axle mounting allows, and use the design frequently on models.
  2. Learn from your mistakes, or you'll find yourself in an endless loop of failure.
  3. And stewing in your own sweat from the heat.
  4. The low bidders weren't "offshore", and they didn't get their bids lower by substituting hardware-store-grade parts. The American subcontractors FOLLOWED THE SPECS, and the people at NASA at the time DOUBLE CHECKED EVERYTHING.
  5. Embarrassments like showing up for a calculus exam unprepared, and with no pants to boot, can make your college experience memorable.
  6. Yes. It's on the way. Thanks for posting the destructions too. Looks like it's well detailed.
  7. To the immediate left of the leaf springs. It doesn't look exactly like the illustration.
  8. That bites. No shortage of rear-ends in the world.
  9. Dumbguy double post. Looks like I might have the cred for a job at Boeing.
  10. Yup. Interesting how many successful leaps and bounds Mr. Musk's people have made towards renewing the space program, far more cost-effectively than anyone ever before (except for Burt Rutan), but one of the old line major players can't seem to get all their ducks lined up. There are some scary things concerning a subcontractor on Boeing's 737 fleet that haven't been widely publicized too, the older 737s NOT affected by the MCAS software/sensor issues. Major structural stuff resulting from just awful tooling that wasn't anywhere even close to as-specified, but parts were accepted anyway, and incorporated into the aircraft (anybody see a pattern emerging here?). Supposedly it's a non-issue at this point, but every time I board a 737 I kinda wonder if I'll get home. ?
  11. Cool stuff. I like your wide variety of interests. Muy OK. Like that panoe too.
  12. It's a spacecraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Starliner
  13. I have the Boomerang kit, and it bears as much similarity in line and proportion to the real one as these two do to each other. I suspect the rest of the Airfix kits are just as bad. Cool kits to have anyway, but if you want reasonable representations of reality... Sorry to rain on your parade, but all is not lost. I have a link somewhere showing how a very skilled builder corrected the Boomerang body to actually look like the real car...and it's not insanely difficult. If you're interested, I'll dig it up and post it here. The Silhouette and the Jalpa are really the same car with a few styling differences, mostly. Correcting the Airfix Silhouette should be similar in concept to doing the Maser, as the hard-edge styling is relatively easy to modify. And good luck on the Lambobeemew. ?
  14. Nice work. And you must have the patience of Job.
  15. We see this a lot these days. Well...but check our DEI score. Nah. Only MORON engineers. And morons in general.
  16. Interesting idea to build a widened canyon carver over Shelby S1 guts. Years ago, a German rodder did something similar in 1:1, widened a VW Rabbit (Golf), dropped it over Porsche 928 mechanicals. Drivers on the autobahns were surprised to be overtaken by a Rabbit flashing its lights, then see it blast by them like they were stopped.
  17. Part of your problem might just be that it's Rustoleum. There's a tread elsewhere about the spotty quality and other issues with what USED to be a quality paint line.
  18. I use real engine paint, usually Duplicolor. Over Duplicolor primers. Never a problem...though it can take a while to dry hard. Try to use no more than 3 coats. Two lighter ones to build up the color, then one nice wet one if you want gloss.
  19. Yup, but I still see modelers saying the stuff is no big deal, and if you paint outside or hold your breath or whatever other idiot advice they vomit up, you can forget about the hazards. Okay, little fellas. This is you.
  20. Yup. DEI is the work of dwerps who couldn't figure out which end of a hammer to drive a nail with if their lives depended on it, and who think anyone who can is a knuckle-dragging moron not worthy of their exalted spit...so they think (and I use the term loosely) that ANYONE can do actual work as well as anyone else in their irrational world view. So hiring by gender-ethnicity quotas is all that matters. Relative competence? "What's that?" Skill vs. ruining-everything-you-touch? "Why...OMG...no!!!...bigot !! ANYONE CAN DO ANY JOB AS WELL AS ANYONE ELSE." And they really believe it. The Devil? Yeah, pretty much...and bent on the destruction of anything like a meritocracy, which is ESSENTIAL for a technological society to continue to function. But try to explain that to 'em. Nope. Can't be done. And part of it's the influence of the ingrained everyone-gets-a-trophy mindset. PS: Anyone who responds with a is probably part of the smug, delusional, self-satisfied but inept-in-the-physical-world horde too.
  21. I use multiple browsers for different things. Lately I've been having problems with DuckDuck, not allowing logins on trusted sites and screaming hysterically "YOUR NEWORK'S NOT SECURE!!!!!" when trying to access others. No amount of fiddling with settings will correct it, and I have NO similar problems with at least one other browser I use frequently. So if you're running the big quacker and having issues, it might be time to try another browser before you take a hammer to your device. Frankly, it's a miserable search engine too, which seems odd, as it piggybacks search results from other search engines.
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