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All you're filtering with a model booth is outgoing air, taking the particulate paint out of the exhaust. A furnace filter is pretty much all that's required. Incoming air isn't filtered. The bay where the model goes is wide open to the room, so you can get your paws and airbrush in. Making sure YOU are clean and dust-free prior to painting, and that windows aren't open while there's a dust-storm blowing outside, that's pretty much it.
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It's one of those "why not?" kinda things. Hydrocarbon vapors from lacquers and enamels can reach high enough concentrations to present a hazard under certain circumstances. I've seen a fire in a full-scale paint booth caused by a sparking fan motor that had been incorrectly mounted in the exhaust air stream. Fan motors in units like the Pace are mounted out of the exhaust air stream, but who knows about the cheapo Chinese units? Are you likely to have a model-car paint booth fire? Nope. But why risk it? An ignition-resistant inline 12V bilge fan is only $25-$45, and it's pretty cheap insurance against burning the house down. EDIT: You're also likely to encounter warnings on a packaged booth, something like "Not intended for use with Hazardous Materials, Flammable or Explosive Paints or Materials." Their lawyers aren't willing to chance it, so why should you? EDIT 2: Paint booth precautions are a lot like safe firearms handling procedures. Lotsa folks don't bother, thinking excessive safety awareness is stupid, but they're the ones more likely to have things go wrong, and then blame the weapon when they lose an eye, or a kid.
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"Century" was a model name used by Buick from 1936-'42, '54-'58, and '73-2005.
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Cardboard box, 12V bilge fan (USCG 183.410 compliant, ignition protected), furnace filter, dryer duct to outside, duct tape, assembled with common sense. https://ecfr.io/Title-33/Section-183.410 QUOTING: § 183.410 Ignition protection. (a) Each electrical component must not ignite a propane gas and air mixture that is 4.25 to 5.25 percent propane gas by volume surrounding the electrical component when it is operated at each of its manufacturer rated voltages and current loadings
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Auto Quiz #560 - Finished
Ace-Garageguy replied to carsntrucks4you's topic in Real or Model? / Auto ID Quiz
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"Somewhere West of Laramie" was an ad slogan for Jordan motorcars.
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Nilsson did Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy.
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"Nowadays" triggers so many negative responses in my mind nowadays, I'd better just take a pass on this one.
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Tournaments be sumpin ya ties on yo arm if yo bleedin bad.
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Yup, but I still have a difficult time getting my head around why accurate measuring, scaling, and labelling seems to be such an elusive goal. I've got lotsa stuff marked 1/25 that isn't, 1/24 that isn't, ad nauseum...and kits that include parts in a couple of kinda close scales. I'd prefer to live in a world where numbers have absolute objective meanings, and not fuzzykindasorta gibberish. Must be one of those geezer things.
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URP is sometimes used to indicate "Unauthorized Reproduction Prohibited".
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Clean, clean, clean.
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Elephant beer by Carlsberg is pretty tasty, assuming you like beer with character and full flavor, as opposed to Americanized frothy dishwater.
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I dug out the kit. Its wheelbase is 85.73mm approximately, about 3 3/8", or 3.375" The real car's wheelbase of 92" divided by the kit wheelbase of 3.375" gives a scale of 27.26 to 1, or approximately 1/27 scale. No telling why such an oddball scale was used, or why it's labeled as 1/25. Still, it's close enough to be stretched to correct the dimensions with a reasonable amount of careful work.
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Build a self-critical feedback loop, and be brutally honest in evaluating your own work.
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Moon Unit Zappa is an unusual name.
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Lovers, wives, and mothers will try to boss you around if you don't stand up for yourself once you're an adult.
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Plans unravel rapidly once the battle begins.
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Exactly. There are some kits that got so expensive as unmolested virgins, I really had little interest in acquiring them if they weren't real high on my subject-of-interest list, but the very reasonable prices (to me, anyway) for the repops have put kits on my shelves I wouldn't have had otherwise. And having acquired a few skills over the past 6 decades, I don't get frustrated and cry "it's junk, mommy" by any of 'em.
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What Did You Get Today? (Not Model Related)
Ace-Garageguy replied to LOBBS's topic in The Off-Topic Lounge
'64 Peterson (Hot Rod) gearbox and rear end book. Just more tech refs for fast geezermobiles. EDIT: Maybe I'll incorporate that in the sign over the shop door in Az.: Ace Garage...Fast Geezermobiles -
Nice job of making lemonade.
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AMT 1936 Ford 3 window traditional Custom.
Ace-Garageguy replied to alan barton's topic in Model Cars
Clean machine. One of my favorite kits and in full size. Few people get the roof install that nice, and the flippers are perfect for it.