Ace-Garageguy

Really inspiring seeing all these different new and old scratchbuilding techniques combined in another project of yours.

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"Feet don't fail me now !!"

Man...that was an image I didn't need in my head.

Just as long as he doesn't eat it...

"Too soon" she said; "not for me" I said.

There is historical precedent for that. Some postwar Japanese automotive engines were part-for-part copies of British engines, and except for the fasteners being metric on the Japanese parts, many things would readily interchange.

I had completely forgotten about this body style. Your inspiration shot looks great. I'll enjoy seeing this one come together.

Firemen were the official government book-burners in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

"Go soak your head" was a kid's expression of where to go (that wouldn't get your mouth washed out with soap) way back in prehistoric days.

From the day...first thing in the AM Hiking later...

Mascara may contain asbestos, so do your due diligence before applying your makeup.

Wow. Signed, eh?

Not necessarily...though as long as a dented can isn't swelling, it's probably OK. Contaminated or improperly processed canned foods, even in airtight cans, can harbor clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacteria that produces both the gas that causes can swelling, and the botulinum toxin that causes potentially fatal botulism. Never even try to taste food from a swollen can, or one with a top that "oilcans". Ingesting even a small quantity of the toxin can be deadly. Interestingly, it's the self-same toxin that people have injected into their faces to reduce wrinkles. Botulinum toxin is a potent neurotoxin that inhibits release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction. Injection of minute quantities of botulinum toxin into specific overactive muscles causes localized muscle relaxation that smooths the overlying skin and reduces wrinkles.

Yes...however, a dented can with a split seam could conceivably vent the pressure and not bulge. One would like to think that people are smart enough to not eat something from what would probably be an obviously leaking can, or that stank as badly as the contents probably would...but you know...Tide Pods.

Orbie is an awards program for technology executive recognition in the United States, a line of hair products, a cartoon character (or several), and probably a dessert topping/floor wax too.

Experience doing something professionally for decades is no match for unfounded opinions endlessly rebleated on the web.

Game changers are the guys who come out of left field, tackle new problems or move the goalposts, and cause other players to drop the ball...which is as many sports-related metaphors I could squeeze into the sentence.

Snack time (in the morning) comes between second breakfast and elevenses for Hobbits.

"Drunkards" is no longer PC, having been replaced by "ethanol affected persons".

Nothing but a box of strawberries.

I first saw the glass-bead-blaster method used by a European heavy truck modeler, and have been very happy with it. Doug Whyte's method is also tops. And I've used a paste made from Comet and a toothbrush to dull sidewalls for many years, and sanded drag-slick treads with 180 since I was a kid. Real tires aren't shiny unless they've had Armor All slathered all over them, and new ones are definitely "glossier" than older ones, and recently made tires, when new, are shinier than old bias-plies from the '50s were when new. So it's every-job-is-different for me.

Elephants in clown cars is what I think of when I see really big people driving T-buckets.

Around my house that's pretty much the full extent of the interest.

Superbowl always holds the promise of another wardrobe malfunction.