Ace-Garageguy

Think for yourself; it really doesn't hurt.

Thanks. It keeps me a little saner than I'd be otherwise.

Better, beater, bettor, boater, bloater, beeper, booper, bleeper, blooper, and bleater are fun to say, 'cause I'm a moron.

Really enjoyed reading your blog post on this.

NEW RULE: IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE ACTUAL LAST POST, JUST RESPOND TO ANYTHING

Blobular chassis trimming and cleanup almost complete. First new rear axle test fit. Unit is for 6-bolt wheels mentioned earlier, from Revell '41 Chevy pickup. Spring spacing is spot-on. Interior underside with trans tunnel is now visible. Interior opened up and disassembled. Interesting design, as door cards are molded flat, integral with floor, then folded up and glued in place. I'll be opening the rear deck, and as the casting is quite thick, there's no easy way to save the decklid, so I made a fiberglass mold of the area. When the mold is cured, I'll make a copy of the original deck. Those familiar with my earlier work will have seen something like this many times. To get acceptable strength in a part that's only about .020" thick when finished (the mold is about twice that), I use a very high strength aircraft epoxy that HAS to be mixed on a gram scale.

Vivification may be hampered by vivisection.

Box-of-rocks shouldn't be what you're reminded of by the intellectual capacity of leaders.

Those bugs sure look tasty, little Greta, but you eat 'em first, okay?

Here's a secret most people fail to understand: if you can lock the wheels consistently under normal use with the rubber that's on the car, you don't need any more brakes, and all the fancy Brembo calipers and big rotors won't stop you any faster. Brake fade is another story though, so if you drive the car hard enough, using the brakes frequently enough to induce fade, then discs will be of some benefit, even with narrow tires. Cars equipped with larger diameter tires, or with a wider contact patch, will also benefit from upgraded brakes. Of course, on a long downhill grade, or in a car capable of high speeds, you may fade your "adequate" brakes on one stop, but this doesn't happen much on the way to Caffeine and Octane and home again. 90% of the time, typical owners never experience what their cars are capable of. Even a gutless old 2-liter Neon with a manual gearbox is way more car than the vast majority of drivers can use to its full potential. Over the course of my career, I've taken multiple clients for "demonstration" rides in their own cars, probably never exceeding 85 or 90% of their cars' capability, and almost without fail, the passenger seats needed cleaning afterwards.

Perfect-It paint finishing products by 3M for real cars work well for me on models, and I have unlimited access to it.

If ya just drive it at the legal speed limit to shows on Saturday or Sunday, why not? The brakes were adequate for its intended purpose when it was new, and if they're working properly, they're still adequate for the vast majority of average drivers.

"Mutable" is an adjective applied by some people to the concept of "truth", and absolutes like 1+1=2, or A is A.

I do use a remote hosting site for some photos, I keep them all on my own drives as well, and I use this site for photo hosting for this site only. But my reference to "billing cycle" was to ME billing MY real-car clients when sufficient work on either current project has been accomplished on one or the other to justify ME billing MY CLIENT. My billings include highly detailed written documentation of the work performed, with supporting photographs. I currently use the same camera to document my real-car work and my model work, and I only load batches of photos from the camera to my in-house computer storage and photo-editing suite when there's enough work completed on the billable real-car work to justify all the additional work it requires to prepare billing documentation, including photographs. A real-car billing cycle typically represents two hundred or so photos, and there'll typically be 10 to another hundred model photos sprinkled among them. Therefore, I don't load small batches of model work as I do it, but wait until there's enough photo-documented real-car work in the camera memory to justify ME billing MY client. So...I'll upload more photos to this site after I've completed enough real-car work to justify loading the camera storage into the computer at my home.

With the number of ignorant fools in the way today, everything becomes unnecessarily difficult, but some folks chose to deny reality.

Yup. Even a custom or hot-rod built from the ground up, from junk, should have some kind of certificate-of-origin and an ID number that's traceable. And if the seller gets pissy, walk away.

That bites. I hate vandals even more than thieves. The wood chipper is too good for someone who destroys somebody else's property just out of malicious hate.

Wow. 1/87 and really nice detail and proportions on the cars. Great electronics to run the lights so believably too. Impressive.

Yesterday can't be changed, but looking back can help us have better tomorrows

What I don't understand is why AOL and Chrome becoming inop made you purchase a new computer. Search engines and web browsers are NOT integral parts of your computer. Did you try another free browser, like say, Firefox? Or possibly you have old versions of AOL and/or Chrome that just need to be updated. What operating system were you running on your old machine? I have a Win7 dinosaur that still functions fine as long as I keep my browsers up to date.

Teachers would do well to stick to the subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Use the right tool for the job if you want superior results.

Un-wedged heads are not as much in evidence as they once were.

Today is a golden opportunity to get your head un-wedged.

Project your misunderstandings, failures and prejudices on your enemies, and you can be a "leader" too.