Ace-Garageguy

Thanks. I have a couple, but packaging an inline six longitudinally in a Prius won't work for what I want to do. Sideways just ahead of the rear axle centerline is another story...

Thanks, gennelmen. Found one in the US, not anywhere near as spendy as most of 'em. He's on the way. Thanks again.

Yup. "Hardeners" for enamels usually contain isocyanates. Bad, bad, bad to inhale, not great to get on your skin either.

That's the point I was making in the third line of the post, though I didn't spell it out. Naturally, for every part or material or process that goes into anything that flies, there are very exact written specifications. Suppliers and subcontractors are expected to comply with the specs, and have to provide documentation attesting to the compliance. But unscrupulous suppliers may very well lie in their documentation, to save a few bucks. Certain "offshore" manufacturing countries are notorious for this, and some years ago (though it was never really publicized), container loads of "aircraft spec" fasteners were found to be of barely hardware-store quality, but shiny and cad-plated so they looked OK, and accompanied by all the necessary documentation. This is why quality-verification is absolutely necessary in the aerospace industry, and overlooked at times by people who naively rely solely on the paperwork as proof, or don't understand there are cheats out there who just don't give a holy damm about anything but a few extra rice-grains of profit. This is also why price-shopping for aftermarket automotive parts is a false economy. Something that costs a small fraction of the cost of an OEM part, but is advertised to be "just as good" or "exact replacement" will never be.

You couldn't make this stuff up. The Starliner has been postponed indefinitely because...wait for it...electrical tape used in the wiring harnesses is flammable. And probably (my speculation here) from a low-bidder "offshore" source that failed to comply with the written specs, and zero quality-verification PRIOR to assembling the vehicle with the stuff...both becoming SOP in a variety of industries...absolutely unforgivable in the aerospace sector. The fix? Dissemble the entire thing and re-wire it. EDIT: Oopsies on the parachute system design too, apparently. Guess nobody bothered to look at all the successful systems built previously, but instead opted to reinvent the wheel using oh-so-mo-better CAD/CAE with "engineers" whose shiny little degrees didn't teach them much about reality. Once one of the finest engineering companies on the planet...but hey, I bet they're totally on track with DEI.

Anything...production car, race car...what's out there? (It's going in a 1/24 Prius)

Looks great. One of my favorite vintage race cars...based on looks alone. EDIT: It's kindof a shame the Cheetah never got the development that could have made it a world-beater. Its frame wasn't stiff enough, the suspension geometry needed fine tuning, and the cockpit heat issue needed to be addressed with more effective insulation...all relatively easy to deal with effectively..

I usually use olive oil.

Build your skills by challenging yourself and working outside your "comfort zone" as much as possible...or don't.

I'm ready for the next panic, whatever it is...

Nah. Evil old boomers, probably. Everyone knows they're the ones responsible for everything wrong in the world.

Abigail is the name of the daughter of a friend, one of the few all around good men I've ever known.

Cousins, at least first cousins, should probably be discouraged from marrying each other, as the likelihood of their children exhibiting genetic defects can be high...though like much of "established science", there is conflicting data and opinions vary as to the inherent dangers.

Frankly, I wonder if some of the fires haven't been intentionally set by people whose agenda includes adding fuel to the "existential threat of climate change" hysteria. Anybody remember a couple years back when Australia was beset by wildfires, everyone was screaming about "it's all because of global warming", until the truth came out that the vast majority of the fires had been intentionally SET by humans? Climate and weather are complex, and probably way more complex than the current crop of climate rebleaters are aware of. The snowpack in the watershed for the Colorado river was at record levels this year, and Lake Mead, Lake Powell, and others are actually rising...defying all the "expert" predictions. The snowpack in California's mountains was also at record levels, and many of Cali's reservoirs are overfull. And there's plenty more evidence that the "crisis" is nowhere near as dire as the hair-on-fire activists are claiming, and that the "crisis" may very well be the result of misinterpreted research data, and questionable data collection methods. There is enough real data available to anyone intelligent enough to interpret it to at least make us question what we're being sold by the media and the powers-that-be.

"Boat" is what sports-car guys used to call huge, softly-sprung, wallowing American cars.

Accounts like dis: wun, too, tree, fo, fibe, sis, seben, ate, niin, ten, zee-row.

"Important information is important, especially if it's important to someone it's important to, which is really important to us as we examine the very important overall scheme of evaluating what is important and what's not so important, and it's important to remember that you can't overstate the importance of importance" said a well known public figure of spectacular intellectual ability.

YEARONE is a major supplier of vintage muscle-car parts. https://www.yearone.com/

Well, like, nobody knows how to turn it on 'cause there's no app for it. ?

Pretty cool. And there's enough info to scratch-build one for those so motivated. Thanks.

Looks good to me. Lotsa these things live in a salt-spray environment, and that doesn't do much to keep 'em pretty. The munitions look clean and new, the canopy's clean and clear...pretty much on-target.