Ace-Garageguy

Yup, absolutely fantastic. Definitely one of my favorite builds on this forum since I've been here. That's one of the rare ideas that would be worth building full scale too.

Kinda interesting to see that sleep "experts" are weighing in mostly in favor of permanent Standard Time, as it's in closer alignment with the natural human circadian cycle...which is why it got to be "standard" in the first place (you know, when people invented "time"?).

Looks like the future's here...almost. Great stuff.

Do you have these?

Absolutely beautiful.

I'm thinking the closest you're probably going to get is these that appeared in several Monogram kits (and may be repopped my Modelhaus):

You seem to fail to grasp that making Daylight Saving Time permanent will make an extra dark hour on winter mornings when people who actually WORK for a living are trying to get to their tax-paying livelihoods. Any imaginary accident prevention from the proposed change will likely be offset by sleepy winter morning drivers in the dark. Weather is typically worse in winter...you know, that stuff called snow and ice?...so let's compound that by making winter morning darkness last an extra hour. Brilliant. EDIT: I think it's a GOOD idea to scrap the time change, but do the rational, non-moronic thing and make STANDARD time permanent...LIKE ARIZONA ALREADY DOES (and one of the factors involved in my decision to move there).

Yup.

The way things are going, I wouldn't bank on that over the long haul.

The issue is that the morons want to make Daylight Saving Time the PERMANANT time, with no seasonal changes anymore. Why not leave STANDARD time as the permanent time, like it's been pretty much since the beginning of time? More clueless idiots thinking they can reinvent the wheel 'cause "round" just isn't cool enough.

Being the skeptical, grumpy SOB I am, I can only wonder about these "supply chain" issues the BMF guy (and everyone else and his little dog) is blaming these days. If my remembry is correct, people have been complaining about the garbage BMF has become...for several years. As in...it ain't nuthin' new.

Very fine indeed.

All I have to say is you sure as jell can tell the fools thinking that making Daylight Saving Time permanent is a good idea have never been the ones leaving at 0-dark-30 to go to work in the middle of winter. Making "standard" time permanent, like in Az. would make sense... ...but this is idiocy.

Looks GREAT !! Looks SO good, I'm convinced I need one.

Entertaining guy, 53 years actually fixing cars, tells it like it is.

Exactly...and people who know little to nothing about how cars operate are at the mercy of every moron, jackleg, thief, and shyster who calls himself a "mechanic". In the days prior to electronically-controlled everything, it was a helluva lot simpler for the average car owner to understand enough of the basics to at least have a clue as to whether he was getting hosed or not, but not so today. And it's just going to get worse. Couple that with idiot designers who do insanely stupid things like "internal" water pumps, and unnecessarily running EVERY vehicle system through the central ECM...jeez. After 5 decades, it's hard for me to believe how bad things are in the car biz now...and everyone wants to argue about how wonderful all the late-model stuff is. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss.

I really appreciate your interest and wish I could show some progress, but it's exactly the way it was in my last photo post. I'm spending every minute I can finishing up two real-car builds here, and getting packed and ready to move the rest of my stuff to Az. ASAP. Every now and then when it looks like I might steal a little bench time, something real-world comes up. Maybe by Thanksgiving.

One Chinese container load.

I feel for you. 3 years after I bought my place in Az., largely because it was far enough from town to be pin-dropping quiet at night (important to me, 'cause I sleep with my windows open), the industrial park down the road expanded massively, including some company that sounds like it's shredding boulders all night...and a water treatment plant that has droning pumps going all night. It's nowhere as bad as my place in Ga., where the interstate traffic moans constantly in the background, but it's not what I was expecting to retire to. I hate some people's mindless need to encroach on the rights of others in the name of "progress".

Most of the plastic tanks can not be repaired anyway...at least using technology available to most shops...though there are cost-effective ways. The tank almost always has to come out though, so it's simpler to replace and insulate your shop from lawsuits when the chimp does the repair wrong and babies get incinerated. Yup. There are a very few shops here that can, and even one that can make up a gorgeous custom aluminum unit, but boy, are they rare. In general "twow it away, mommy; it bwoken."

How do we do it? Volume, volume, volume.

Funny, but in actuality it's a poor comparison. Hearts are routinely stopped for valve-replacement surgery. And an argument can be made that it should be quite possible to replace the valves in one head of a V-type (or other multiple-head) engine when it's running (with support equivalent to what a surgeon has), but why anyone would want to do it (maybe on a combat vessel at sea?) is a good question. ALSO...when I was in composite aircraft repair, one client was an orthopedic surgeon. He was interested in understanding the processes involved in repairing the structure of a plane he'd be trusting his life to at up to 7 G. After watching complex structural reconstructions requiring multiple, precise techniques and steps, his reaction was "you do pretty much exactly what I do, but in my case, all I have to do is get the parts stabilized in the right place, and they grow back together; you have to create and complete the "healing" of everything, from bone to skin". Nice to be recognized by someone with intelligence that some of us do more than smear goo or bang on tools while we breathe through our mouths and drool.

Or maybe if you'd gone to a competent independent. Up until fairly recently, OEM-level technical info and diagnostics have been available to any independent smart enough to access and use it, and it's still available for a whole lotta stuff...but OEMs are increasingly adding "security" features to the computer interfaces to lock out non-factory-authorized repairers (which we've touched on before here).

And the cost of a new tank plus labor, because repairing them safely is WAY beyond the capability of most shops.