Ace-Garageguy

12:00 PM in what time zone?

"Therapeutic" is definitely what I can say my recent, though limited, bench time has been.

Gang connectors of different configurations and numbers of conductors make my custom wiring harnesses somewhat idiot-proof if/when serviced by chimps in the future.

You seem to have failed to grasp the meaning of my original assertion, so there's not anything I can say to refute an argument to something that wasn't part of my assertion. Try thinking it through again, using precision.

Logic by the numbers: 1) The EU and Britain are pushing for people to buy electric vehicles. 2) Energy and food costs are skyrocketing, so there's a very real chance people will have to choose between food and heating their homes. 3) That leaves them no money to purchase electric vehicles. 4) The cost of fuel for existing ICE vehicles wasn't even a part of my original assertion, and is totally irrelevant. EDIT: 5) BUT, as you chose to try to make it a part of the discussion here, if a household can't afford fuel for an existing ICE vehicle, it sure as hello can't afford to buy a new EV.

Straw man much? Before you can charge an electric vehicle, you have to BUY an electric vehicle. See how that works?

A quick overview of California's energy policy, including proposed plants under review for future construction, those few already under construction, and the recent energy bill passed into law, indicate Cali is in no way prepared, nor will it be, to cope with the coming mandated-electric-vehicle recharging loads. https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-power-plant-deal/

Britain's winter energy cost to citizens is now predicted to be SIX TIMES what it was just earlier this year. Yeah, go get that electric car when in reality you have to choose between heating and eating.

Bench time has been hard to come by the last couple years, but what I've managed to squeeze in over the past few days has done my head a world of good.

Got in a box of beautiful stuff from Model Builder's Warehouse, including one each of the 3D printed transaxles Randy announced recently. After I load the photos in the computer, I may post some here.

VERY nice. I'd been contemplating going something similar. You've sold me.

"Form should follow function" is a design philosophy that will never let you down.

"Trait" adjectives include taciturn, tactful, tactless, talkative, tame, tasteful, tasteless, teachable, temperamental, temperate, tempestuous, temptable, tenacious, tender, tender-hearted, tenderminded, tense, tentative, terse, testy, thick-headed, thick-skinned, thick-witted, thin-skinned, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoughtful, thoughtless, thriftless, thrifty, tidy...and that's just some of the words starting with "T".

Say what you will, saying nothing when you have nothing to say is quite a rare virtue.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Most operating features on models aren't really very well engineered, and manufacturing limitations often preclude the kits coming with precisely-operating hinges, and panels that fit their openings closely.

Matters of state should be in the hands of mentally competent, knowledgeable people.

Alas and alack, Shakespeare is being ditched by the destroy-Western-heritage brigade, who by and large seem to lack adult reading-comprehension skills and thereby misunderstand or misinterpret pretty much everything.

Illustrative examples, like photos, factual videos, or links to technical articles or studies, go a long way towards giving credibility to internet advice and opinion.

Yeah...when CNN was a news organization, and not a propaganda outlet. Anyway, he was a good guy, a real news guy, and a credit to the profession.

Onion makes everything better...except for the things it doesn't.

Outstanding.

Discourse of the public kind is somewhat endangered, as reality is often shouted down by folks who have an agenda.

My favorite is USC Icing, but the containers it comes in are way more than the average modeler will ever use, so there's a lot of waste. But no worries, as the Bondo Professional 2-part polyester glazing putty is available at most car parts stores, in modeler-friendly sized tubes. But BE SURE TO GET THE "PROFESSIONAL" STUFF, PART NUMBER 801, as they also make a one-part conventional lacquer putty that WILL shrink badly if used too thick, and the packaging looks similar. All the custom bodywork on both the Z-car I posted above, and the thread below, was done with the Bondo 801.

Problem is...that's really disgusting.

Funny thing is that you can run a diesel on carbon-neutral bio-fuel made from feeding algae the CO2 that would go up the stack when you burn coal to generate electricity. Though I've been told on this very forum that "there's no such thing as clean coal", and that "you can't remove carbon dioxide from coal flue gas", that's just wrong, and I know one fella who holds patents on doing just that. But the naysayers get on their virtue-signalling I-watch-CNN-so-I-know-it-all soapboxes, and shout down viable technologies that would most likely be vastly more cost-effective than building hundreds or thousands of wind and solar farms...and would allow the USA to cleanly burn our 200+ year coal supply without being energy-dependent on anyone, and eliminate the cost of doing business with (and dependence on) China for all the battery components and solar cells. Like any emerging tech, it still needs work, but the promise is unmistakable to anyone with sufficient understanding of the technical issues.