Ace-Garageguy

I don't know where you got this, but it's hydrogen embrittlement that's usually associated with chrome plating. https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/hydrogen-embrittlement-electroplating-what-you-need-to-know/ Nitrogen embrittlement is something else entirely. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982MTA....13.1939B/abstract

Here's a kit. You choose the voltage, whether warm or cool light, power supply, etc. https://evandesigns.com/collections/hobby-leds/products/lights-for-your-die-cast-1-43-or-slot-car-1-32?variant=40682873749552

LED circuits for head and taillights in model cars are among the simplest known to man (assuming nothing flashing). Great opportunity to do a little research and learn something about low voltage DC electricity. I got my start in electronics working with model trains over 60 years ago, and It's helped me immensely in my career. Here's a place to start. https://www.instructables.com/LED-Lighting-in-Plastic-Models/ Ebay has loads of cheap pre-wired LEDs with integral resistors that will work for you just fine. All you need besides the LEDs themselves is a power supply (depending on the LEDs you choose, you may be able to use tiny batteries) and a hidden switch.

The migration path of the endangered snail darters?

Being in the biz, and being the one where the buck finally stops, my favorite customer quote is always "it's been in 3 shops and they fixed everything, so there's nothing wrong with it...it just won't run". That is, of course, when we exorcise the car demons with the magic wrench...

Johan did the '69 AMX in two versions, stock and a racing thing. Then a later AMX...'72 maybe...again as a stocker and a funny car. Also several years of Rambler Americans, the earlier '61-ish body and the later '65-ish body in coupe and convert, and a racy thing on the later body style. And a Marlin. Also a '59 wagon...

If you've ever worked on cars for a living, or know someone who has...or just have a little common sense...you'll appreciate these:

GREAT stuff. Thanks !!

7:28 PM Fri., Feb. 3, 2023 Early promos. In lots of cases, the bodies have turned to dust...literally.

Entirely reasonable (and my surmise as well), considering things like the Peltier effect, the Crookes radiometer, the Petri dish, and the Kelvin temperature scale...all interesting but somewhat obscure and not often encountered by normal people in their daily lives...are all easily found by even the worst search engines. But the "spittier port" (not capitalized) is a part of hundreds of thousands of hydraulically boosted braking systems on trucks and other vehicles. One would think something so ubiquitous would also be easy to find a definition and a history for. (I'm pretty sure it's in the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) historical archives somewhere, but I've not searched there yet.)

Worse, in my opinion. Much worse for what I primarily use searches for. Example for all of them: I defy anyone to find a definition of "spittier port" on any of the usual search engines (yes, I spelled it right: S P I T T I E R). You can find listings selling fittings and adaptors, listings that ignore the spelling and try to stuff unrelated results down your throat, etc., but not one single articulate reference as to exactly what it is and why it's named as such. You can find results that allow you to infer what it is and follow the rabbit hole if you have sufficient technical knowledge to do so...but no specific definition or why it's called "spittier". EDIT: Just to be very clear, I know what it is and what it does. What I want to know is WHY it's called "spittier".

This is a quote from the comments on the video below. My sentiments exactly. Anyone who tries to find technical info now will have experienced something similar. I've felt that ever since somewhere between 2015 and 2018, Google search has become completely unusable. It is not only the fault of ai generated content and a wild growth of unsearchable platforms like Facebook and Twitter however. As the years progressed I've felt more and more that Google actively ignores part of my search words. When I search something that's three words or longer, I now only get generic results for one of the words I filled in. Some of the words are actively missing. Or I get a lot of store results where to buy something vaguely related to my search query. When searching something very specific, it's just not possible with Google anymore

https://www.amazon.com/plastikote-spray/s?k=plastikote+spray PlastiKote was removed from most US parts stores (replaced by the Duplicolor line) after having been reformulated to semi-uselessness last time I tried any of it. Their primers in particular were once the go-to for many modelers because of their ease of handling, good coverage, and styrene-friendly solvents...but in recent years many users, including me, have given up trying to do anything with them. There have been many reports of the online-available products being nothing like what we remember, and often having spraying issues to boot. Maybe it's time to test some again, but I'm of the opinion "why bother".

OP specifically asked about the gearboxes in original 427 Cobras. The BW T-10 was used in the smallblock cars, plus a few C4 automatics (20?). To the best of my knowledge, all 427 cars came with the Ford "toploader", except for four 427 cars equipped with the C6 automatic.

9:38 PM Tues. "Toploader"

Cool stuff, very creative, advanced for the time. I still have some drawings from way back then, and it seems to me that dinosaurs could still be seen occasionally out my window.

Cool project. I remember these well from my misspent yoot when there were still a few in military service prior to their replacement by the M34/35. Bought the Wespe kit some years ago, muchly interested in watching your build.

Amt '53 Stude or Avanti would be suitable chassis donors...

Yes indeed! Adding that one to the "squirrel" list immediately.

"Model Factory Geary"

Thanks for the link. That's one I'd never seen before.