Ace-Garageguy

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance - David Mamet

Yup, which is where I got the idea. This is what I was building. https://contest.techbriefs.com/2010/entries/transportation/871-solo-urban-commuter-vehicle The bridge isn't in the frame, as this was still during the roughing-in phase. BUT...if you look close, you can just make out the dimensioned tape on the surface of the table, to this side of the shell. 1/10 scale wind tunnel model...

Happily for me, the only time I dropped one, it landed point-down on top of my bare left foot. The limp is almost completely gone now.

Effort is one thing that seems to be sorely lacking these days.

Many years ago when I was building a full scale body buck for something, I made a set of interlocking lowboy 3/4" plywood tables as straight and square as I could get them, bolted them together, leveled them, then made a sliding "bridge" to take dimensions from to keep everything reasonably symmetrical. They worked just dandy, well within 1/8 of an inch everywhere, and they didn't crawl around as the shop was air conditioned. Plus or minus 1/16" probably isn't close enough for an F1 car, but it's close enough for me on a street ride. I have a fairly heavy fabricated 2-axle steel trailer I'm figgering on leveling, then decking with two layers of 3/4" ply when I start on the hot rod frame...which may end up getting built in the carport here, as the AZ deal is pretty much fubar.

Tiki noir...perfect to build badazz surf woodies to. Maybe AI, but I like it.

Kindof a shame more people building real cars don't think something flat and level and stout might be nice to use. It may be hard to believe, but I've seen more than a few twisted and wonky and out-of-square rod and custom chassis. The high-dollar (not-Art Morrison) chassis under the '66 Chevelle I'm finishing had a 1 7/8" twist at the ends of the rear rails, and a 1" twist at the front, and the front rails are offset more than 1" to one side relative to the centerline. We fixed the rear after the chassis builder screamed he built it perfectly on a jig...total lie (his "jig is cardboard and jackstands)...but I had to just fudge the front because by the time I was brought in to fix things, the build was too far along to cut and paste the front rails. The center of the frame is relatively flat, but it's not square. How some of these clowns stay in business I'll never know, but it's part of the reason a lot of folks believe that custom-built cars never handle and perform as well as factory stuff.

Know a man by his actions, not his words.

Theme here being starting a sentence with "album", well, that could have been something like "album photos of other people's kids aren't all that interesting" or "album titles often have zero to do with the music".

To the best of my knowledge, the blades are only sold singly. Seems odd considering the packaging, I suppose, but a whole set would be quite expensive and probably not a big seller. I've had a set for several years now and haven't broken one tip yet. You might want to lighten up on how much force you're using, and be especially wary doing sharp curves. Here's a review. https://scalespot.com/reviews/tools/tamiya-engraver/review.php

Drive or text, but please not both at the same time, because the life you save could be mine.

"Sandy" isn't a good feeling in your swim trunks.

Handy Andy returns broken things to being just dandy.

Evenly spaced blades can actually get to howl like an air raid siren in extreme cases.

I never learned much about Bosch CIS fuel injection because even though I've spent a lot of time wrenching on European cars, the vast majority were either carbureted or had timed mechanical injection. By the time non-timed-mechanical injection was widespread, I wasn't much in the repair end of the car biz anymore. Well, the DeLorean has CIS with Lambda, known as K-Lambda (exhaust-gas oxygen sensor feedback), and it has problems...which it had when it came in for all the custom work. I'm having to wade into it with a vengeance, and have bought all the factory and aftermarket CIS books, including the factory Volvo 760 GLE manual (the 760 used an almost identical PRV V6 as the DeLorean). There's a lot to know, but it's just another machine, and of course it's entirely logical IF you approach it methodically and have all the specs, references, and diagnostic procedures available. I was kinda dreading it, but it's actually a lot of fun learning a complex new (to me) system, and the bonus is that my '74 911 has pre-Lambda CIS, and after getting the DeLorean sorted, I should be competent to straighten out the Porsche as well (even though the plan is still Weber carbs, just because, it'd be nice to be able to enjoy the car a little with the CIS before I do the swap).

Disclaimer: no wildebeests or iguanodons were harmed during the making of this post.

Prospects for snow-skiing weather in Georgia and Florida this weekend aren't looking good.

Pointless activities include playing on the interdwerbs all day instead of actually accomplishing something tangible.

Good looking wood effect. Thanks for explaining the way you got there.

We have a much higher incidence of that sort of thing here now (even 10 years ago, this was a very clean area) along with old tires and busted TVs, lotto tickets, bags of trash, fast-food wrappers, cans and bottles, and poopy diapers galore. EDIT: Googli's AI lists various and sundry "reasons" for "urban decay" as evidenced by illegal dumping, and not a single one of them addresses the reality of the situation...so it's best to just think of it as cultural enrichment. Learn to love looking at trash and waste everywhere and embrace it as part of the brave new world.

Delivery services like DoorDash and Uber Eats and Grubhub seem to me to be favorites of the terminally lazy who have too much money to burn, but maybe I'm just jealous.

Time and time again I think there are actually going to be complete sentences posted from now on, but...nope..

I'm sure the townsfolk would appreciate that...