Ace-Garageguy

"Weekend" doesn't have a whole lot of meaning if you have long term projects hanging over you that require serious thinking-through.

Shaping up very nicely.

Briefcase contents include made-at-home sandwiches for those office drones who'd rather spend money on vacations or other cool stuff than on $30 lunches every workday.

Too many cooks spoil everything they get their little "me wanna help too, mommy" hands on, with a lot of modern car designs being prime examples.

PM'd.

Geraldine was truer than Maybellene, and their cousin Mustang Sally never did slow down.

In my day, horses knew their place and didn't talk back.

"Reside" is what I had to do to my truck after the numbnutz passing me took out the LF fender, door-skin, and bed wall.

The European Escort from this time period wasn't a bad little car, nimble and fun to drive even if not blazingly fast. The US version, that shared almost nothing with its European counterpart, was one of the least inspiring econoboxes I've ever driven, feeling cheap, heavy, and slow.

Good news indeed.

Scalp bugs can't hide on a billiard ball.

Majorly cool. Great concept, fine execution.

Fairy dust sticks to everything and is hard to get out of your hair.

Indeed. The SR-71 required a rather more complex solution to achieve Mach 3, even more remarkable when you take into consideration that design work on it began in 1958. https://www.enginehistory.org/Convention/2014/SR-71Inlts/SR-71Inlts.shtml

Count your blessings and throttle back a little on the negative.

You don't have to look hard to find the Dunning-Kruger effect in glorious, unambiguous action.

Beautiful work, great project.

This is American hardware innovation at its best. And for what it's worth, it's happening in the same little desert town where Gene Winfield had his shop.

Leftover parts after doing an annual inspection on an airplane are not a good sign.

Anticipated earnings are not always realized.

One-part putties have acetone or other solvents in them to keep them pliable in the tube, spreadable, and to make them "bite" and stick to styrene. So yes, they will soften thin styrene. And yes, everything should stiffen back up when the stuff dries. For heavy fills you're really better off using a 2-part catalyzed putty. One-part putties dry by evaporation of the solvent, so they're prone to shrinking and/or cracking if used for heavy fills. 2-part putties dry by chemical interaction, and shrink very little.

Department stores have been largely replaced by online shopping where you can't get a feel for the quality of anything, or see if it fits, and I think we've lost something in the process.

Parade elephants like to play dress-up.

AFB can mean Any Freakin' Bozo, and I spend a lot of work-time correcting his messes.

Great thread. Thanks.