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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Engine problems left us surrounded by ligers and tigons and bears (oh my!!!) and 12-foot cannibal pygmies armed with automatic dart-guns, every one of 'em just drooling for a big slice of missionary meat, but they had no idea we were actually bitter and disillusioned middle-managers who were supposed to be on an all-expense-paid tour of the New York City sewer system.
  2. Cared about nothing but being the constant center of attention she did, and he was fool enough to stay with her for years, hoping she'd someday rate the pedestal he'd put her on early in the game.
  3. Sometimes simple and easy is exactly what I want Last night was a bowl of Progresso tomato soup from a can, spiced up a little, and a couple of pieces of buttered crusty deli rye. Fresh strawberries to finish.
  4. Looking real fine. You got a bunch of other cool stuff on your bench there too.
  5. Backwards house-slippers (on the wrong feet) must be a manufacturing flaw, 'cause it can't possibly be operator error.
  6. Very nice model...especially considering that on my screen, it's blown up at least twice actual size and it still looks good.
  7. Boat floats are made with carbonated boat-juice and vanilla ice cream.
  8. One and one are not necessarily two anymore, apparently depending on your "perspective", and I'd really like to see how well airplanes designed from that perspective fly.
  9. Maybe you'd like to explain how that can be, considering 78% of "atmospheric air" is nitrogen.
  10. Correct. 100% EDIT: And nitrogen is used because for all intents and purposes in this application, it's an inert gas. So no oxidation (rust) inside the frame tudes from the presence of oxygen in "atmospheric air". FWIW, race-car and light aircraft fuselage-frame tubes have been internally coated with linseed oil to guard against oxidation in the past as well.
  11. "Free" doesn't happen much in reality; there's always a catch.
  12. After looking at the configuration of the blade in the original post, I don't see any reason why it couldn't be sharpened using a whetstone, like blades have been sharpened since there have been blades. Though I realize we live in a disposable-everything society now, old-school solutions can have some very real value when replacement parts are no longer available.
  13. Yeah, 3:51 AM here. Can't sleep either so I figured I may as well make a cup of coffee. That ought to fix it.
  14. "Included angle" has a specific meaning for machinists.
  15. "Parts for something else" is what I view most model car kits as, having pretty much zero interest in building factory-stock or OOB.
  16. "Prints" sounds like the name of the artist latterly known as .
  17. "Perspective" is a term frequently misused to describe willful ignorance.
  18. Appealing an apple and appealing of bells are both verbal nonsense.
  19. Have a nice day.
  20. Golly gee. I've been painting real cars, aircraft, and models for over 50 years. Sure wish I'd known all that primer sanding I've done to get as perfect a finish as possible was a "waste of time". I guess all the real-world paint manufacturers that specify final sanding of primer prior to color with 320-600, depending on the specific topcoat, have it wrong too. Good to finally know the truth.
  21. I wetsand it with 600 to 800 until it's slick...which means zero orange peel. Depending on how good your eyes are, you may need magnification or a "guide coat".
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