Ace-Garageguy

Never judge the payload capacity of anything by its size.

Nothing about the hobby itself "pisses me off". Really. I got past the point of getting mad at inanimate objects some time back. Challenges during building are part of the process, and if you make ANYTHING, there are going to be mistakes and setbacks and unexpected problems to solve. Deal with it. I'm occasionally disappointed that my lack of sufficient development of a particular skill interferes with my ability to achieve my vision, but I've been encountering that sort of thing my entire life, professionally as well, and all it signals is that it's time to put in a little more effort or learn something new. There's nothing anyone could say, no comment or remark, that would in any way negatively impact my enjoyment of this hobby or any other, but I do get tired of know-nothing internet experts endlessly offering their useless opinions and often just-flat-wrong advice about every topic under the sun. Again, there's nothing anyone could say, no comment or remark, that would negatively impact my enjoyment of this hobby or any other...but there are comments that completely turn me off of specific individuals, and make me wonder sometimes why I bother with social media at all, here or anywhere else.

"Mouth" in some circumstances can getcha in a heap of trouble.

Could you maybe use a camera instead of a potato? EDIT: Though I suppose those are internet-sourced photos, taken at the dawn of time when images were still recorded on potatoes.

I got tired.

Time me while I make some stuff happen.

"Anymore" and "any more" are frequently interchanged, though they mean entirely different things.

Nice stuff. Beautimus.

That really is pretty much a forever car (mechanically) if it's cared for. I'd buy it in a NY minute for $1500, just to have a dead reliable backup piece.

"Anymore" isn't a popular sentence starter apparently.

Well, that's something.

I know these got kinda spendy, but if you watch feePay, every once and a while one comes up for reasonable money.

END ELDER ABUSE is a bumper sticker I need, being a useless, past it, shouting-at-clouds geezer.

That right there puts you way ahead of a lot of fellas. And I can count on one finger the shops I know locally that can set up and machine a part on manual equipment. Don't get me wrong. There are wizards out there who can do and know WAY more than I ever will, and thankfully some of them make great YT videos. But I don't know but one within reasonable driving distance from me, and he's probably not going to be around that much longer. Middle schools need to be teaching this kind of stuff if we're at all serious about bringing manufacturing back to the USA, but that's a whole nother can of worms.

Yes sir. I got into machine work in about 1996. I backed a fabricator who had the best design for a built-up Ford 9" housing for drag racing I've ever seen. Long story short, things didn't work out, so I kept the stuff I'd paid for, a Bridgeport clone (Taiwan made, but decent, with 3-axis DRO), a 16" lathe, a nice water-cooled Miller TIG rig (pre-digital, so it'll probably run forever), 2 bandsaws, etc. A friend at the time was an old wizard machinist who could make anything, quick, he taught me a lot, and I've been making stuff and learning more ever since. I would not call myself a real "machinist" but I haven't come across anything I've had to farm out yet (other than crankshaft work and balancing). I bought a used but perfect Unimat a while back (wanted one since the 1960s), have been collecting tooling and accessories for it too, and making model car and train parts. Finally sprung for a Sherline lathe and mill, used, with tons of tooling, a couple of years back. The big lathe is just too big and the Unimat is just too small to do some things, and the Sherline is the perfect in-between machine. If I'd bought the Sherline first, I wouldn't have needed the Unimat, but the little machine is a joy to use and fits in considerably less space than the Sherline. Only thing I've done with the Sherline so far was set it up, make a few cuts to verify its condition, and then re-pack it. Machine work is some of the most fun I've ever had. Turning a raw piece of metal into a functional, machined part gives me more satisfaction than just about anything else. If I had it to do over, I definitely would have taken metal shop in high school. We DID have to learn basic machining operations at Tech, but back then it was something "engineers" were expected to understand.

"Way cool" is an expression I used to detest...like "totally tubular".

Falling in love is something I'll most likely never do again in this lifetime.

I got a haircut, got the '89 GMC started, gassed, and hauled some trash, got my lawn mowed (exercise doing something useful instead of a hike), and got two vehicles titled and tagged. Back to work on the Chevelle tomorrow.

That's purty.

Really like the concept.

Protein from ze bugs we're told is the future, but the tree cows say "eat mor chikin".

Tree cows are not a species I've ever encountered in the wild.

Gained some lard around the middle over the winter, as always, but it starts coming back off today...'cause there's nothing I can do about being an old man, but I can change being a fat old man.

I never even considered that as an option. Maybe someday, 'cause there are a few cars I really would like to have box-stock replicas of. Edit: Nah, probly not. I can find all kinds of ways to complicate even the simplest snapper.

Got two vehicles titled and tagged in person at at the office in less than 15 minutes. One thing about this state...they have done a great job streamlining the process...assuming you have all your docs in a row.