Ace-Garageguy

Scalp bugs can't hide on a billiard ball.

Majorly cool. Great concept, fine execution.

Fairy dust sticks to everything and is hard to get out of your hair.

Indeed. The SR-71 required a rather more complex solution to achieve Mach 3, even more remarkable when you take into consideration that design work on it began in 1958. https://www.enginehistory.org/Convention/2014/SR-71Inlts/SR-71Inlts.shtml

Count your blessings and throttle back a little on the negative.

You don't have to look hard to find the Dunning-Kruger effect in glorious, unambiguous action.

Beautiful work, great project.

This is American hardware innovation at its best. And for what it's worth, it's happening in the same little desert town where Gene Winfield had his shop.

Leftover parts after doing an annual inspection on an airplane are not a good sign.

Anticipated earnings are not always realized.

One-part putties have acetone or other solvents in them to keep them pliable in the tube, spreadable, and to make them "bite" and stick to styrene. So yes, they will soften thin styrene. And yes, everything should stiffen back up when the stuff dries. For heavy fills you're really better off using a 2-part catalyzed putty. One-part putties dry by evaporation of the solvent, so they're prone to shrinking and/or cracking if used for heavy fills. 2-part putties dry by chemical interaction, and shrink very little.

Department stores have been largely replaced by online shopping where you can't get a feel for the quality of anything, or see if it fits, and I think we've lost something in the process.

Parade elephants like to play dress-up.

AFB can mean Any Freakin' Bozo, and I spend a lot of work-time correcting his messes.

Great thread. Thanks.

"Composition", as in writing coherently, is apparently something they don't teach in school anymore, even if you're a "journalism" major.

McNuggets are supposedly made from top quality ingredients like chicken beaks, bones, eyeballs, feet, and feathers, plus some fascinating space-age chemicals for texture and resistance to spoiling, and it's said there's one entire ground-up chicken added to every 50-gallon drum of the pre-fried glop for that genuine fresh-from-the-barnyard flavor.

Beyond Meat, the plant-based meat substitute, seems about as appetizing to a knuckle-dragging carnivore like me as eating ze bugs.

Beings from advanced cultures marvel at the thought that humans consider themselves "civilized", yet they still have war.

NOS 1/8 scale Williams Brothers Pratt & Whitney Wasp aircraft engine. Complete, sealed internally. I've been looking for one of these to complement my 1/8 Wright Whirlwind, 1/8 scale Le Rhone, 1/12 scale Revellogram Wright Cyclone, and original Revell Allison turboprop engines for a while. I love engines.

Taco Bell. I rarely eat takeout garbage, but every now and then I just go hog wild.

Very nice.

Engine problems left us surrounded by ligers and tigons and bears (oh my!!!) and 12-foot cannibal pygmies armed with automatic dart-guns, every one of 'em just drooling for a big slice of missionary meat, but they had no idea we were actually bitter and disillusioned middle-managers who were supposed to be on an all-expense-paid tour of the New York City sewer system.

Cared about nothing but being the constant center of attention she did, and he was fool enough to stay with her for years, hoping she'd someday rate the pedestal he'd put her on early in the game.

Sometimes simple and easy is exactly what I want Last night was a bowl of Progresso tomato soup from a can, spiced up a little, and a couple of pieces of buttered crusty deli rye. Fresh strawberries to finish.