Ace-Garageguy

He will be. There are at least two others for around $90 that haven't moved either. Unfortunately, the free market system encourages greedtards, but there's likely nobody stupid enough to pay those numbers. And Revell will be back. These fools are going to look like real morons when the kits are reintroduced for $30. Patience, grasshopper.

I immediately open and inventory everything I buy. I've encountered short-shots, tire burn, warpage, and re-sealed cherry-picked kits. And frankly, I still find just looking at the parts, decals and instructions in something new to be part of the fun.

WONDERFUL !!

I envy you that, seriously. After I lost the girl that I believe I would have had that kind of lasting relationship with, I made some pretty poor choices in partners later (and I'm sure they all felt the same about me). On another note, I've encountered a great many women who seem to have the need to be the boss of the relationship (among friends and acquaintances as well as personally), and many men who seem to be quite content being whipped. As I've never had the desire to control someone else, I certainly won't accept someone telling me what to do. When dealing with people whose greed and desire for control override other kinder, gentler emotions, it's best to take a very businesslike approach to finances. And it's been my experience that people only get mad about money if they want what they're not fairly entitled to..."what's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine".

Glad you found it useful. I recommend careful mocking-up to determine your exact ride height to get the stance and proportions you want, first. I wanted to go quite low with this one, but I didn't want an excessively tall perch in front of the radiator shell for aesthetic and functional reasons (a very high perch can tend to flex, and is more likely to fail...hence "suicide" mode). I ended up needing to zee the front rails to get the perch to be a reasonable height. Then, after the new tubular crossmember was in, it was easy to mock up the frame, and establish the exact final height of the perch...which will be fabricated as in the previous examples.

The power dynamics vary in relationships, obviously, but I haven't needed to ask my mommy's permission to buy something since I was about 12. With women, I've always found that keeping my money, her money, and our money separate goes a long way towards maintaining peace; even if the girl doesn't like the idea, it's good to establish rules early on.

Using channel stock works very well too. Here I've started making the perch up from 2 sections of styrene channel. I left the forward leg long to get a good idea of the alignment of the perch with the frame rails. I like things that are square and symmetrical. In this shot, the perch has been trimmed to its final configuration. The mount pad is 1.7mm higher than the tops of the frame rails, which is what that earlier figuring told me I'd need.

I usually use a tubular front crossmember, and fab the perch itself out of sheet stock. Model T frame below: '32 Ford Frame below:

Yup.

The Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity : https://qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity/

Very nice. Biggest smile I've had here in a long time.

Looks like the really kool Ardun heads, 3X2 6X1 manifold and (what looks like) old Airheart spot brakes are long gone. Too bad. I like the old Indy-style rubber better, too.

About a half pound of big plump juicy California black cherries.

Actually fellas, it means "Red Head", and is homage to the 1957 Testa Rossa that had a red-painted cylinder head (testa del motore, in Italian).

Probably nobody here knows or cares, but there are some inaccuracies in your terminology. When one presents himself as an expert, it is incumbent on said "expert" that the facts he pronounces are indeed correct, and that correct inferences and implications will be drawn from the presented "facts". This is to avoid others going away and repeating incorrect information that they "heard" or "read" from an "expert". The world today is full to overflowing with wrong information endlessly repeated because many people just aren't careful about accuracy, or think they understand things they do not, and fail to check their information prior to repeating it. 1) PVC is NOT a "monomer". It is a polymer, made from the vinyl chloride monomer, which is itself made from products derived from salt and oil. 2) Moreover, PVC is NOT a "plasticizer". It is a thermoplastic that, in rigid products like plumbing pipes, is referred to as "unplasticized". 3) Plasticizers are an entirely different group of chemical additives that make PVC and other compounds more-or-less pliable. Phthalates are one group of plasticizers that are now known to have some dire environmental effects, including causing fluctuation in hormone levels and birth defects. Because they can function as an estrogen "mimic", they are thought be part of the cause of the global decline in the male hormone testosterone. Phthalates are being replaced with other plasticizers for this reason. 4) When heated, PVC may release immediately toxic levels of HCL (hydrogen chloride, which is hydrochloric acid gas) and carbon monoxide, and depending on the exact composition of the PVC compound, may also release dioxins...another group of highly toxic chemicals. In 1979, an incident resulting from overheating in a plant fabricating PVC components is related in this link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1009017/ And here is a 1983 overview of medical research and conclusions (going back to the 1940s) relating to the health risks and possible carcinogenic effects of the vinyl chloride monomer and PVC dust : https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/52/ehp.835261.pdf On the basis of these results, the IARC (29) in 1979 concluded "Vinyl chloride is a human carcinogen. Its target organs are the liver, brain, lung and haemo-lymphopoietic system." Perhaps you meant that vinyl chloride was the "PVC monomer", but that was not clear, and extreme accuracy is required when discussing or relating chemistry. PVC remains as the third most widely used synthetic plastic in the world.

Actually, it's mostly because the world is full of people whose net contribution to life is negative: greedy landlords and relatives, phone scammers, thieving companies that produce and market dangerous "safety" equipment, "engineers" who have no right to the title, friends and lovers who lie and take advantage of you, etc. When you've been on the planet a little longer, you'll realize that greedy folks, cheats, liars and just plain IDIOTS are always ruining everything, and at some point, it gets hard to keep smiling (unless you're an idiot too).

Thank you, gentlemen.

Try search terms like "1974 McLaren 16C", and "159 cu.in. Offy turbo 1974", or combinations and derivatives. Somewhere, there's an article that will call out what the brand and basic number of the turbo is, and from there, you can search the specs for that particular unit. At least, that's how I'd approach it.

This really says everything necessary there is to say. Idle speculation, complaining, "other" group bashing, and even acknowledging (repeatedly) what the problems are facing the hobby really accomplish little, if anything, constructive. But let's say you want to change the way things are? Really? Then build something cool that has a "wow" factor. Get people's attention. MAKE a difference IF the "future of the hobby" is REALLY important to you. And LEARN some new skills. Download that FREE Google SketchUp program and get started on the road to designing YOUR OWN 3D parts. Or learn how to do photo-etch. It's not hard, and the market is crying out for LOTS of things...like dragster and vintage car wire wheels. Or learn to do silicone molds and resin parts. It's not looking like anyone is stepping up to fill the voids left by some of the well-known casters, so BECOME one. Several other fields of modeling are doing well, apparently. There are HO scale locomotives bouncing off the $1000 mark, and people are buying them. There are 3 HUGE Gundam stores in Japan, Taiwan and Korea. People are building almost unbelievable flying model aircraft. The point is, "building things" hobbies are far from dead worldwide, and there are infinite opportunities for those who'd rather DO SOMETHING than whine incessantly.

I also fail to see why there's so much "us vs them" between younger and older modelers always being bandied about. Form MY perspective, ANYTHING interesting is fair game as model fodder, and though I love old iron and hot-rods, some of my favorite long term projects involve "tuner" cars...like a RocketBunny-bodied Nissan S14 Silvia, and a hot-rod CR-Z. One of the trickest real cars around here is a gen-one Z-car with a hot turbo'd Yotota JZ, putting down about 700 rear-wheel horsepower. And the engine out of my own gen-one MR2 is going in behind the seats of my Geo Metro convertible, with the space vacated in the Mister Two slated to be filled by a Taurus SHO unit. Fast cars is fast cars, as far as I'm concerned, whether flatheads from Michigan or 4-cams from Asia and Europe. Why limit yourself to cars you remember from your youth?

It's not the "heat", but the exposure to high-intensity UV for a few seconds. It's like staring into the sun, but worse. The effects should dissipate in a little while, I hope, but UV exposure is known to cause cataracts, and can actually make dead spots on the retina. This is what it feels like, trying to see normally.

Boy, do I agree with that. While not the product of an "apprenticeship route" over here, when I was at Tech, we HAD to go in the shop and make some things we'd designed on mills, lathes, etc. Having at least SOME hands-on familiarity with the capabilities of various machine tools and fabrication procedures was considered mandatory. In the mid-90's I hired a Tech ME senior as an intern, and was appalled to learn that the "shop" hours were no longer required, and some of the fine old machine tools were sitting outside in the rain. Anyway, the kid in question was GLAD to have the experience he got working for me, actually MAKING things, and he taught me some computer skills in return (I'd had some programming in school, and an intro to using CNC, but CAD as we know it didn't exist yet). BOTH the computer AND the hands-on skills need to COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER, to make the BEST engineers.

I coughed up $350 for a good auto-darkening welding helmet distributed by Lincoln, with a 3-year warranty...after having the cheap piece of Harbor Freight "Chicago Electric" excrement I'd got to use for ONE fab job failed in the middle of running a bead, badly "flashing" my eyes. I've been using the old-school hoods for decades, and they work just fine...as they have for decades for everyone else...and was holding off buying an expensive auto-darkening unit until the prices came down and the tech matured. WARNING TO ANYONE WHO VALUES YOUR EYES: DO NOT BUY A CHEAP HELMET.

Chinee Harbor Freight auto-darkening welding helmet failed in the middle of running a bead, badly "flashing" my eyes. I stupidly thought the cheap piece of excrement could get me through ONE fabrication job. ANYBODY WHO VALUES YOUR VISION: BUY A REAL HELMET FROM A KNOWN RELIABLE INDUSTRIAL SOURCE.

And I'm curious why you don't know that they've always dumped the photos after 30 days for just that reason. Leaving them available for a while is a simple assist to somebody who's SERIOUS about buying a particular item, and might actually need to legitimately check exact condition, completeness, etc. of a "sold" item they were watching. The new retard-SOP of redirecting a user to some not-relevant substitute is ludicrous.