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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Interesting how there are an infinite number of possible negative interactions between different manifestations of "technology". Imagine if cars from Georgia wouldn't run on gasoline purchased in Vermont. With each new layer of technical complexity, built in the name of making things "easier", there's a concomitant increased propensity for unsolvable glitches. The KISS principle is long forgotten.
  2. Good tip for a relatively easy trick that can be adapted to a wide variety of models.
  3. Yup, good idea, well executed.
  4. I'm in. Beautiful pieces, both.
  5. Ve vill be haffink none of zat...
  6. A while back, I inadvertently did something similar. The Chrome screen positioned itself so far to the right that I lost the scroll bar and the capability to X anything to stop it. I tried everything one normally does to no avail. The only solution was to completely uninstall Chrome and then do a clean reinstall, including adding all the extensions like AdBlock one at a time. It's a PITA, and has to be thorough. Good luck.
  7. No need when one only has to tap certain segments of the news media for a never-ending supply of hot air...
  8. Maybe it's actually a giant crystal, grown in one piece. Now THAT would be groundbreaking.
  9. I'll never bother with anybody else's Weber downdrafts again. Finally, something good enough to complement my HRM Cheetah and Cobra Daytona Coupe kits.
  10. Looks like something built from F117 kit leftovers and Lego wheels. But whatever. At least it'll be easy to find in a parking lot.
  11. They both look great...and I can certainly identify with your frustration with foiling. It's about the last major skill I need to master, and it's doing its darndest to defeat me.
  12. I'm just lucky that way. Makes me a lot of fun at parties, too.
  13. Just to make sure credit is given where it's due...I did NOT master the fastback model you have, but I wouldn't be surprised if whoever actually DID the master ended up using the cuts shown above. After having studied several attempts at building a fastback Olds from these two kits, I developed what I found was a superior method of achieving same and posted it to help anyone contemplating the mod...but I never finished either car. One thing that was remarkable was that the measuring and scaling of these two kits, done decades apart, was close enough to make the swap pretty straightforward...as it should be. Measuring and scaling done in the 1960s or '70s should yield the same numbers as when done in the 2000s, but it often doesn't.
  14. You're 200+ miles from where I'll be, but after I get something running that's fun to drive, I'll take you up on that.
  15. 10:32 AM EST. By using multiple edits, I was able to insert abbreviated text explaining the photos.
  16. OK. We'll use a different tool...
  17. I'm willing to bet the aqua-haired creature isn't a plumber.
  18. UPDATE Nov. 23, 2019. Sorry, no text. 404d multiple times, and I'm fresh out of patience. EDIT: After multiple edits, I was able to insert abbreviated text explaining the photos. BELOW: Grille shell with addition of flange to accurately align hood panels. BELOW: Grille shell showing additional flange added inside to support PE grille insert. BELOW: Radiator getting coolant inlet and outlet repositioned for Olds engine, and modified for hidden fill neck under hood. BELOW: Front axle required filling and re-drilling one kingpin hole to match camber on both sides. This is very obvious on a fenderless car. BELOW: Much improved hood fit. The brown mockup piece is dimensionally identical to the parts that will be used at final assembly. BELOW: Another problem. I'd intended to have the tie rod run in front of the axle, just forward of the grille shell. After final fitup, it's obvious I'll need to reverse and shorten the steering arms, putting them behind the axle where clearance is very tight between the wishbones and frame rails.
  19. 10:42 PM. Build thread upload. 404. This is really getting tiresome. I'm losing patience with things that frequently don't work. EDIT: Tried loading just pix, no text, and it went through...with the pix scrambled. Now I'll waste more of my own life trying to compensate for somebody else's problem functionality.
  20. It's also similar to GMC / Roots style blowers made by several other manufacturers for a variety of industrial and military applications by companies including Roots itself, the Pesco division of Borg Warner, Schwitzer-Cummins, and a variety of aftermarket manufacturers (like Penco, a GMC 53-series knockoff designed by an ex-GM engineer, that used GMC rotors and that had drive snouts very like the unit shown on the instruction sheet above) that have come and gone. Here's one made by Melee-Dexter:
  21. I'll see your aspirin and raise you a hammer to the head...
  22. According to theoretical physics..."we can extract angular momentum from a black hole. By dropping material into the event horizon, we can remove energy and slow its rotation. We can even bring it to a stop. So we can slow down its spin, but that won’t make it go away. So, is that it, are we out of options? Good news, we have one last strategy, and it’s so crazy it just might work. According to Stephen Hawking, black holes can actually evaporate over enormous periods of time. Virtual pairs of particles are constantly popping into existence all around us. Then they recombine in a flash and disappear from the Universe. When one of these particle pairs appears right on the edge of a black hole, one particle falls into the black hole, and the other is free to fly off into space. And here’s the amazing thing. This might actually reduce the overall mass of the black hole. So, over an incomprehensible period of time, even the most supermassive of the black holes will have evaporated away into a harmless soup of particles. It turns out, in order to defeat the black hole menace, all we need to do is ignore them, and they’ll go away all on their own." SOURCE: https://www.universetoday.com/109994/how-do-you-kill-a-black-hole/
  23. The much higher than expected level of Xenon 129 in the Martian atmosphere suggests to some scientists that it's evidence of devastating thermonuclear war, and reaching a bit, that we may be descendants of a much earlier civilization on Mars.
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