Ace-Garageguy

Well, floorboards the gas pedal does I, and the wee car scoots along like a scalded ape.

Well...no matter how good the inventory control software is, it's only as good as whoever enters data into it. It's not as though there's a robot with vision that can actually read what's printed on the label, and somewhere along the line, a human did something wrong, by failing to adequately distinguish between the two part numbers as entirely different products. GIGO rules.

"Sheep don't fail me now" shouted superhero Mutton Man as he tried to rally popular support from his flock.

"Soon" can mean minutes, or when I tell somebody when something will be done, months.

Nice work, important car. Glad to see it progressing.

Last two cans of Duplicolor DAP1688 light gray sandable primer within 20 miles, or maybe the known universe. Everybody's got the sealer, the high-build scratch filler, and other colors of straight "sandable", but not this stuff. I'm happy. EDIT: Funny thing is...nobody knew they had it. Not in the computers at any of the stores I went to, and it rang up as primer-sealer 1699 when I finally found it at O'reilly's, even though the cans are clearly marked otherwise. Sometimes, showing up in the flesh and actually looking on the shelves works better than trusting the infinite wisdom of the interdwerbs. Imagine that.

"Gathering storm" is an accurate way to view world events if one choses to pay attention and live in reality as opposed to la-la land.

From my perspective, it seems to be fairly obvious that the more complex any "kit" is, the more developed and diverse skill set it requires, the less likelihood it will get completed by its initial purchaser. It appears to be just as true for model cars as for model ships, railroad equipment and structures, and even real full-scale "kit cars" and "kit planes". Full-scale Meyers Manx-style dune buggies got completed in high numbers, as all they required was removing the body from a VW Bug pan, shortening same by 14 inches, and bolting the pre-finished (colored gelcoat) glass body on. At the other end of the full-scale kit car spectrum, complex kits like GT40 replicas often languished for years barely started, and eventually got sold on, often multiple times. Same goes for kit planes. This ends up being a benefit to those who, possibly many years on, can acquire virgin or only slightly bodged examples of things long out of production, sometimes even at a fraction of their adjusted-for-inflation original cost. Most of the resin and multimedia kits I've acquired, mostly of somewhat esoteric subjects, fit in the above category. My own slightly irrational continuing to add to a hoard of kits that's already well beyond any possibility of completing in a normal human lifespan, at least ensures that I'll never lack for something I find interesting on any given day, and when I'm gone, as Mark says, the cycle starts anew.

Yes. https://www.roadandtrack.com/reviews/a43380807/2023-dodge-hornet/

Yup.

Yup, absolutely beautiful model. Very inspiring as well.

"Ball" or "strike" calls can often be in the eye of the beholder, and may result in mask-throwing and chest-bumping displays of angry primate behavior.

"Worth" and "value" have somewhat different meanings, but because their definitions often rely on each other, they're also often interchanged.

A yellow hippopotamus. Not bad looking for a sporty crossover or whatever, but all in all...

Away with the knaves, afore it's off with their heads.

Yes kiddies, physics math can get you down...

How's this for a deal? If you don't like it, if it doesn't work well for you, since I recommended it, I'll buy what you have left over.

Apathy is highly destructive, as in "evil triumphs when good men do nothing". [SIDE NOTE: The attribution of that sentiment to Edmund Burke has been challenged by "fact-checkers" who miss the point entirely, and apparently have no purpose in life other than discrediting things they don't like. Does it really matter who states the truth?]

Found it, edited the post above.

I don't think so. That's a paper tape, I believe. 3M makes a green paper "fine line" tape (useless to me except for fixturing, jigging, marking hose to cut, etc.), a blue plastic fine-line tape (too thick for me), also I believe a purple plastic fine-line tape (also too thick IMO), and a very thin green plastic fine-line tape. I'll see if I can find you a product number for the magic green plastic stuff. EDIT: This is it. It's not cheap, but it's always done the job for me. Side CMA note: 3M has had an annoying habit of changing some of their products to perform less well, probably having to do with offshore suppliers, but keeping the same part numbers. If the new stuff doesn't work wonderfully, that's why. https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Fine-Line-Green-rolls/dp/B0065GVEZ8

I like it too. Looks like in-period shots.

Interesting...

Sample question from the new, enhanced, everyone-gets-an-A high school graduation exam:

Speaking of which, I have several old high-end CD changers from the mid 1990s, including two 300-disc units that are exceptionally "smart" and can be "slaved" together to randomly play any track from 600 discs, or be programmed to only play from a particular genre (that has to be entered manually as each disc is loaded the first time). Cool stuff, and the sound quality through an ancient Fisher amp and '80s Fuselier speakers has to be experienced to be believed. Anyway, when one of the 100-disc changers jammed and failed, disassembly revealed an intricate plastic casting had become brittle and cracked. I was able to repair it with a high-strength epoxy, and reinforce it at the same time. It works to this day (ten years since the repair), but now I'm noticing a degradation in the functionality of the control input panel, and possibly the internal logic...rather like the total failure of the heat-AC-radio controls in my 1989 GMC pickup. A lot of this old stuff is repairable for someone who's motivated enough, by means of employing 3D-printing (or physical machining) to duplicate degraded plastic parts, or swapping in programmable logic chips that take over the functions of what's failed, etc....but it's a royal PITA to HAVE TO do it. A friend of mine has a fridge that's been running just fine since the early 1950s, and I have an office fridge my father bought in the late 1960s that's still going strong...but my big main fridge from just a few years back is already toast, and not really worth repairing IF I pay someone else to do it. I wish stuff was built to last, and to be mainstream-repairable. It's not, I understand the "reasons" why it's not, but I don't have to like it. EDIT: Change to make something better is great. Quantifiably, usefully, functionally better. But change just for the sake of change, to enhance something's marketing appeal to those who can't be caught relying on yesterdays tech, is, in my opinion, stupid.