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  1. VERY NICE. ALWAYS good to have more options. Question: How well dies the fingernail resin really adhere to small areas like the ends of broken pillars and such? I typically use a very high-strength aircraft epoxy for similar repairs, as it's the only thing I've found so far that is at least as tough as the original plastic. If your material really stands up to sanding, filing and post-paint polishing, I'll certainly give it a try.
  2. Always worked for me. I've always been intrigued by the logic employed by women who say that letting themselves get snookered by Raul-the-pool-boy or Tony-the-bartender was somehow MY fault, and not down to the simple fact that they apparently were just lying when they said that stuff about "forsaking all others" and "for better or for worse" and "oh-baby-baby-you're-the-best". None of the marriage vows I've ever heard once said "forsaking all others unless a business trip takes one of the partners away from home", or "unless you're drunk".
  3. Yeah, and it reads just like what a lot of HS grads vomit up today. What's THEIR excuse?
  4. I like it. What shouts out at me though is what a good-looking car this generation Eldo really is. I'll always think it's one of the best designs to ever come from Detroit, and even as a post-apocalyptic 4WD beast, its elegant proportions and lines shine through. I was lucky enough to find a decent kit of this fairly cheap some time back, and I'll be doing a very mild custom...mostly just de-chromed, lowered a little, with trick wheels that look like they're derived from some obviously FWD originals. Anybody who's really concerned about these disappearing forever ought to get busy and make a set of molds for resin repops. It's not like Johan will sue...
  5. Yeah. All the above. Ho-lee cow.
  6. I assumed they're resin because I couldn't see any runner attachment points anywhere with the parts in the package. I looked carefully with the parts out, and there appears to be the smallest sprue attachment point I've ever seen anywhere, on just about anything.... So...I tested them with solvent and you're right; they ARE injection molded styrene. Man, that's even better.
  7. Not for the next three months, anyway. Then all bets are off.
  8. In my continuing quest to insure I'll have enough kits to keep me busy () evenings during my upcoming "official" retirement, I snagged (cheap) two of the Garlits front-engine dragster kits. Probably won't build either OOB, but as generic representatives of period cars. Also got a set of relatively correct wide steel stock-car rims to do a '64 Merc...and man these are some of the best resin injection-molded styrene parts in the universe.
  9. The final documents on the deal I just closed are coming "through the mail" printed on very hard-to-forge watermarked stock. Ever had an issue with electronically transmitted documents being corrupted, altered or forged? It's more common than you probably think.
  10. Just after 1/32 day, and before 1/64 day. 1/350 day is much later in the year.
  11. I made the sarcastic crack about land-lines being obsolete because I'm tired of the attitude that anything other than the newest, hippest, hottest technology is useless, and anyone sticking with anything old-school is a hopelessly past-it mouth-breathing troglodyte. I just TODAY...20 minutes ago... completed a lengthy deal involving multiple parties 2000 miles apart, and business was facilitated by my having access to email on my desktop, hard-copy capability from my own printer, fax capability over the land-line, and the cell phone that made it possible to engage in voice and text communications while documents were being faxed in both directions. I saved all the 100+ pages of documentation both on a hard drive, removable media, and (OMG !!!) HARD COPIES IN THE DAMMED FILING CABINET. My butt is covered even if a drive crashes, or somebody drives by with a portable EMP device. TOOLS don't become obsolete as long as they help us accomplish our goals. Information storage formats don't become obsolete either...just unfashionable...but I've never given a damm about doing what everyone else does. I have music on acetate, vinyl, cassette tape, reel-to-reel, 8-track, CD, and multiple digital formats. My playback equipment for every format works, and I'm perfectly happy...and competent...using tech that's 80+ years old, or brandy-damm-new.
  12. Yeah. They're obsolete. Like faxes. But there are some people on the planet who still use faxes, and I sometimes need to communicate with them via the ancient tech they still use. And I maintain caller ID on the same line, and voicemail. I know the concept of accommodating clients is obsolete too. AND...if the incoming call has the number blocked, or comes in as unidentified, and if your cell carrier or phone isn't set up to reject all unidentified calls, you can "block" them till the cows come home, to no avail. There's no number to block. And if it's a spoofed number, if you "block" it, they'll just call back using another spoofed originating number. PS. I don't get ANY BS calls on my cell.
  13. I CAN'T BLOCK A NUMBER IF IT COMES IN AS "UNIDENTIFIED" ON MY LAND LINE (WHICH I MAINTAIN TO FAX) OR IF IT"S A SPOOFED NUMBER. THEY JUST ORIGINATE THE NEXT CALL FROM A DIFFERENT SPOOFED NUMBER.
  14. YEAH...I'VE BEEN ON IT SINCE THE BEGINNING. YOU THINK I'M A MORON? A LOT of these scamspammers JUST DON'T CARE about the DNC list.
  15. Excretory orifice marketing dwerps whose robodialers call from spoofed numbers, making it effectively impossible to block them. I wish there was a button on the phone that would melt the equipment on the other end of these calls. THAT'S an app I'd pay HUNDREDS for.
  16. Though these are Wilwood master cylinders for a Kirkham replica (the most accurate replica out there), they are very similar to the real ones. They live on the front of a box bracket under the floor... The pedal box under the driver's floor looks pretty much like this from the underside. You can just see the master cylinders sticking forward from it, and nubs on the sides that represent the pivot shaft for the pedals. This is the Kirkham pedal box installed. On REAL Cobras, the pedal box was not removable, nor was the bottom of the thing. It's a nightmare to work on one while you're wedged in under the steering wheel. This shows the master cylinders bolted to the pedal box / bracket. You should be able to figure out what's going on from these shots.
  17. The real 289 (and the 427 I believe, but it's been a LONG time since I worked on one) located the brake and clutch fluid reservoirs at the front of the LH footbox (on the left-hand-drive cars, obviously), which fed the master cylinders (through flexible lines) mounted down low on frame brackets. This shot shows the reservoirs visible just above the air filter. I haven't been able to find a good shot of the REAL master cylinders mounted. The kit replicas mounted them all over the place, with a variety of different brackets and pedal geometry.
  18. Yes. The AMT double-dragster kit is mentioned above, and the shot of the Hemi engine by Landman actually shows the AMT parts-pack version, NOT the Revell version as stated. Good points. To elaborate: Lathams supply very low boost pressure at low RPM, and the Allison engine is limited to about 2500 RPM in its original military aircraft use, somewhat higher in racing planes, boats, pulling tractors, etc. A Latham would be useless. The Potvin-driven GMC blowers would provide around 8-20 PSI of boost depending on the size of the blower and the over-or-under-drive ratio. But you have to also remember that a single Potvin-driven blower only provides enough VOLUME of air for roughly a 400 cubic inch engine, and the Allison is 1710 cubic inches. And most of the Potvin rigs were 6-71 blowers anyway. As the centrifugal supercharger that's represented with the AMT Allison kit was used to increase high altitude performance (air gets thinner the higher you go, and to maintain sea-level power you need boost at altitude), different drive ratios could be used to alter the output of the supercharger for various conditions. You can seriously raise the centrifugal blower's output for sea-level use without resorting to any additional means of supercharging...and avoid having a Rube Goldberg / Mickey Mouse cobbled up Potvin-style setup. Or you can use a couple of BIG turbos, and blow their output into the existing centrifugal supercharger for even more boost.
  19. A couple of different methods have been posted in "tips and tricks" right here on the forum.
  20. There ARE, and I posted links to some of them. Last time I looked, however, all the sizes 1/25-1/25 dragster builders could use were out-of-stock.
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