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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Which is why I love my simple-as-a-brick '80s vintage gas oven in the new place in Az. It has a standing pilot that ...GASP..."wastes" about $5 of gas per year (yes, I'm selfishly contributing to the impending global extinction event ). No chips, no apps, no microprocessors, nothing that beeps or buzzes, no LEDs, and it won't take voice commands or text me to let me know the roast is burning. But it cooks food beautifully. Though...OMG OMG...I have to actually turn it on, watch the clock and what's cooking, and...OMG OMG...turn it off. What a concept.
  2. Thanks for the interest, gentlemen. Probably won't get back to this until after Christmas at the earliest, most likely well into 2022. Moving, etc. Agreed.
  3. " "built kits"... Sorry, I'm not familiar with the concept.
  4. I don't get it at all. For the same money...or less...you can build a real offroad vehicle that will go damm near anywhere. With a jell of a lot more than a 25-mile range before it quits.
  5. No shortage of relatively "high paying" jobs for machinists, fabricators, welders, carpenters, mechanics in the automotive or aviation fields, etc. Or mechanical and aerospace engineers. But sadly, the public has been brainwashed to look down on people in the hands-on skills group...conveniently forgetting that all the phone apps in the universe won't help you when your plumbing is dumping excrement in the basement, or your brakes fail because the dealership thought they'd be able to hire competent "technicians" for $15 per hour. Another thing about what the competent physical-world guys do, however, is their stuff has to actually work reliably BEFORE it goes out the door. Not so much the case in software development, is it?
  6. Well that settles it then. Everyone knows that everything on the internet is 100% true.
  7. Especially if said advertising is accompanied by an endorsement from any random past-it celebrity, or an unidentified "scientist", "doctor", "researcher", or "expert". "Follow the science".
  8. While I agree with you generally, in my 5+ decades of storing automotive and aircraft finishing materials, as well as a wide range of composite resins, my experience indicates that repeated thermal cycling of some of these things does them no good at all. Many automotive paint products, non-water-based, have been specifically marked "protect from freezing", and some hardeners will become grainy and unusable. And you kinda never know what's gone to hell until you open it, only to find your $250/gallon magic elixir is now useless. While "probably" not necessary, creating a relatively temperature-stable storage environment for this stuff makes sense from the "better safe than sorry" perspective.
  9. It's always necessary to evaluate and consider every paradigm that may influence marketing philosophy, where the throughput of ideation is focused on eliminating disruptive tech synergies, and highly responsive brand awareness can be leveraged to encompass a robust alignment with driving societal and lifestyle factors.
  10. Excellent. However, if the environment the fridge is in will experience prolonged sub-freezing temps, the interior will eventually cold-soak. Insulation can only maintain a temperature differential for so long. If it's gonna get really cold in your storage area for days on end, I'd strongly recommend something like a low-wattage light bulb inside the thing, just to keep trickling a little heat into the system. A small thermometer will let you know exactly how much you need to increase or decrease the bulb wattage. Just for rough reference, a live (resting) human body gives off about as much total heat as a 100 watt incandescent light bulb.
  11. You must be my long lost twin brother...
  12. For all you fellas who were sleeping through high school science class and tend to believe in baloney... As in: A fool and his money are soon parted. "A Rusty 1969 Beetle covered 2,096 miles on a single tank using a simple device!" "A secret that car companies have been keeping it for more than a decade...." https://getshopovia.com/pages/kuxsxsngzk
  13. Perfection. Go to the head of the class.
  14. Well sir, now we know where you stand in no uncertain terms. As an aside, I wouldn't throw wastewater on Bezos if he was on fire. But there's a lot of that around. And his best engineers are leaving to join Musk's team, in many cases precisely because he doesn't "bully" people.
  15. Lotsa cool '32s coming together. Glad that frame zeeing thing was of value to you too.
  16. Everything is first rate. Initial impression is of a real car. And that's the absolute best pinstriping I've ever seen in 1/24 scale. Just beautiful craftsmanship, pure and simple.
  17. Right on. It disgusts me, how much of today's motivation seems to be the result of envy and hatred of those who have more, earn more, are smarter, more attractive physically, etc. Life ain't fair. Nobody ever said it was, and wallowing in resentment of what-somebody-else-has only gets in the way of making the best of whatever gifts each of us was given by a random and uncaring universe.. Anybody with an IQ above 85 is pretty much responsible for making his own way in life, and where any reasonably intelligent adult is now is primarily the result of a series of conscious decisions...or a refusal to put forth the effort to make conscious decisions. God knows...I've made so many stupid mistakes due to just not paying attention, bitterness, or laziness, and missed so many golden opportunities, it's a wonder I even made it this far. But at this point in time, I'm just glad that there are men like Musk (and to a lesser degree Branson and Bezos) who have the ability and the interest to fund the kind of research, engineering, and development that may ultimately help to divert mankind's unfortunate tendency towards endless squabbling over insane trivialities, and focus humanity's collective energy instead on the greatest adventure we, as one race, will probably ever undertake.
  18. Obviously that definition was written by someone who had no clue as to what "craftsmanship" means. I constantly fix things that were done by hacker chimps "who practice a trade or handicraft as a job". 5 decades of undoing garbage "craftsmanship" will give you some real perspective on what it actually is.
  19. Mmmmmm. Are those capers I see hiding there too?
  20. Bingo. The only way you'll learn exactly what works for you is to do it. You can, however, get some highly relevant experience by primering smallish soda bottles, and painting them as you intend to do a model. When you're satisfied with the finish, paint your model exactly the same way.
  21. It's a real shame Tim Boyd got dumped on for trying to be helpful to the forum, but it's hardly unusual behavior here. It's also a real shame that people blame those who point out shortcomings in a kit as the bad guys, rather than those who actually have the responsibility for avoiding said shortcomings in the first place. It is their JOB, after all, for which they're PAID. Personally, I rather like the "chopped" look of the little Nova gasser, and whatever the discrepancy between the model's dimensions and stock reality, it sure as hell won't stop me buying a couple. Confused yet?
  22. Yeah, there's not much that's cooler than a little mild-custom shoebox with a Y-block sporting three twos. Those rounded hood corners, frenched headlight tunnels, rounded rear wheel cutouts, and custom grille opening are pretty slick. Wonder where she is now?
  23. Add mine too. It doesn't take "thousands of dollars to fix a problem to sell a few more kits when the majority is happy with the product". All it takes is to get the measuring right BEFORE the tooling is cut. It's called "professionalism", AKA "competence".
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