Ace-Garageguy

Solvent glues accessible to the general public don't work on polyethylene. Glues that DO are a PITA to use. Quoting somebody who knows his stuff: "PE and PP are hard to glue because they have "low surface energy". Very crudely, they have little interest in sticking to anything else, including adhesives. One technique that works is to apply a chemical "surface activator" then use cyanoacrylate adhesives ("superglues"). Until recently, surface activators were not marketed for retail, although anyone could buy small quantities from a Permatex distributor like a bearing or power transmission industrial supply house, or from similar sources. Recently, the Locktite brand has started retail marketing of a product called "Plastix" that is a kit of surface activator and compatible cyanoacrylate adhesive. The literature for Plastix indicates it is suitable "even for" PE and PP."

If you use a truck like I sometimes do, the new electric Ford Lightning is probably not for you. But hey...it has a chicken platform.

Uh, Tom...the issue isn't "cotter pins". The issue isn't even the definitions of clevis pins and cotter pins, or the fact that they're entirely different in form and function. The issue is the responsibility of people who use technical terms to use them correctly, and the responsibility of anyone presenting himself as an "expert" or "authority" to self-fact-check prior to publication. I've made my share of mistakes, and when I do, I appreciate being corrected with the actual fact(s). The truth is important, even in small things.

SHRINKFLATION: "New smaller package!!! Contains less !!! Costs more !!!" What a deal.

Good to see you reserve the use of your apparently limited leisure time for the really important stuff, like counting people's posts. EDIT: And now that I think about it, it strikes me as comical that I should be ridiculed for excessive posting by someone who, in almost the same breath, had earlier been accusing me of being "troubled" and "bothered" by technology. See Michael, I have these little magic boxes I carry around that let me take a moment here and there during the day, while having coffee or lunch or chasing parts online for instance, to look in to see what participants in my third-favorite hobby are up to. One final point from me: you say "The world of model car building is not exactly a raging cauldron of activity here in Europe". Well sir, what y'all may lack in quantity, you certainly make up for it in quality. Some of the European builders who post their work on this forum are among the best on the planet. I notice we haven't been graced by any of yours. Why not? This is a site primarily about model cars, n'est-ce pas? It's a curious phenomenon that so many "modelers" who seem to delight in criticizing me personally don't seem to take equal delight in actually building models...or have nothing to show here, at any rate.

Yeah, it's hard to keep cool when stuff like this is rampant...which it is, everywhere. But I'm making a serious effort to not let the constant deluge of incompetence, ignorance, excuse-making, and outright betrayal get to me, at least not to the point it ruins my day. Remember...you can't fix stupid...and it's stupid to let it spoil even a single moment of your life.

If so, he was doing the best imitation of a pizza I've ever seen.

I saw a dead possum.

While we're lamenting the demise of factual accuracy in print, take a listen sometime to what passes for "documentaries" on YouTube. Many of the copy writers have little comprehension of what they're writing about, the voiceover talent has even less, and they don't know words. American "education" has fallen into the toilet, and it's not unusual to see even degreed "journalists" confusing things like materiel and material, ordnance and ordinance, copy writing and copyrighting, and even there, their, and they're. I know a lot of folks think stuff like this doesn't matter, and that only a grammar-Nazi would care, but a person is often judged by how well he communicates. An older and wiser fella once chided a woefully ignorant young hot-rodder with "You want to build a car? You can't even build a sentence." The point being that sloppy use of one's native language often goes hand and hand with sloppy use of other tools, and incompetence in general.

Not to pile on MCM, but the concepts of "editor" and knowledgeable "fact checking" in journalism as a whole are largely things of the much-maligned geezer past. Generations conditioned to swallow whole the FIRST result vomited up by Google for the most part don't care about whether it's RIGHT or not. It can be frustrating going through life actually wanting to know the TRUTH, once you realize you're in a tiny minority.

Whatthehell? You expect people to actually READ the thread prior to posting in it???? Get real.

Here's a lot of info about these things, including importation info, all in one place http://www.volvosugga.org/

I'd buy one with no guts based on the looks alone. I think it's one of the best of the origami school of design. Put a nice sidewinder ICE engine and manual box in the nose, have a real car. Or even cooler, a sidewinder V8 instead of a back seat.

A shipment of parts I've been waiting for, that's been missent in-state THREE times, finally arrived today. Hallefreakinlujah. And a local junkyard found me the interior parts from a '16 Caddy ELR that I needed to finish up the interior redesign in the '66 Chevelle project, and they also arrived today. Double hallefreakinlujah Even more miraculously, the Caddy dealer had in stock the one big '16 ELR interior part I needed to be new, in the right color. Triple hallefreakinlujah.

Lotsa people build things with little regard to form or function. Much more attractive when it was born looking like this:

Indeed. Cool little hemi engine though...

What truck?

Looking good so far.

Hellifiknow. Woman at the PO looked it up, repeated back to me exactly what I told her, said "give it a couple days, if it doesn't show up YOU (me) need to go online and file a parcel intercept". Cool. Now I get to do the postal orifice's work too. America is becoming a 3rd world country...and the local PO looks it: most forms aren't in their slots, never replenished, floor couldn't have been mopped for weeks, posters hanging wonky off the walls, and electrical wiring that used to go to lights in the display cases just hanging loose.

If you're referring to me, I simply quoted the number in the linked article: "Lightyear's Zero is far from accessible for most people - just 946 will be made with prices starting at $263,000."

Yes, be wary of brake fluid. I've had it turn some old parts so brittle they'd crumble if you tried to work on them. Here's another suggestion (that I have NOT tried myself):

USPS again. Package made it to the local distribution center, then got misdirected to the wrong town 30 miles away, went back the the distribution center, got sent wrong to ANOTHER town 40 miles away, came back AGAIN to the distribution center, got sent BACK to the same WRONG town AGAIN. I'm impressed. Going to the PO this AM to see if there's any way to intercept it.

While neatly side-stepping reliance on the electric-power grid, it's still a little pricey. But like all new tech, costs will come down significantly over time. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/video-lightyear-0-solar-electric-car-first-look/ar-AAYT1ts