Ace-Garageguy

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.

"Composition", as in writing coherently, is apparently something they don't teach in school anymore, even if you're a "journalism" major.

McNuggets are supposedly made from top quality ingredients like chicken beaks, bones, eyeballs, feet, and feathers, plus some fascinating space-age chemicals for texture and resistance to spoiling, and it's said there's one entire ground-up chicken added to every 50-gallon drum of the pre-fried glop for that genuine fresh-from-the-barnyard flavor.

Beyond Meat, the plant-based meat substitute, seems about as appetizing to a knuckle-dragging carnivore like me as eating ze bugs.

Beings from advanced cultures marvel at the thought that humans consider themselves "civilized", yet they still have war.

NOS 1/8 scale Williams Brothers Pratt & Whitney Wasp aircraft engine. Complete, sealed internally. I've been looking for one of these to complement my 1/8 Wright Whirlwind, 1/8 scale Le Rhone, 1/12 scale Revellogram Wright Cyclone, and original Revell Allison turboprop engines for a while. I love engines.

Taco Bell. I rarely eat takeout garbage, but every now and then I just go hog wild.

Very nice.

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.

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.

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.

Looking real fine. You got a bunch of other cool stuff on your bench there too.

Backwards house-slippers (on the wrong feet) must be a manufacturing flaw, 'cause it can't possibly be operator error.

Very nice model...especially considering that on my screen, it's blown up at least twice actual size and it still looks good.

Boat floats are made with carbonated boat-juice and vanilla ice cream.

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.

Who?

Maybe you'd like to explain how that can be, considering 78% of "atmospheric air" is nitrogen.

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.

"Free" doesn't happen much in reality; there's always a catch.

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.