Fat Brian

If you want to talk famous residents, James Worthy went to the same highschool as my wife, Ashbrook, in Gastonia NC.

What kind of flat white was it? It sounds paint incompatibility.

That's amazing, it looks really good.

Depending on how old you want to go Kitchen Table Resins makes a Ford 200 straight six that is correct for Mustangs up to at least 68.

Wayne, I think I had those hot rods when I was a kid and yep, they were very typical of Lego design at the time, what I call the four wide period. The great new six wide trucks and things were after my time. Greg, that rifle is so cool. Some people amaze me with their creativity.

You may have to flip the spindles, I seem to remember that they are made to where you can't raise the pin. Either that or make your own from sprue.

A free program I use is Paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net/). It's pixel based but is fairly simple and supports standard file formats.

I recently picked up two Monogram Indy cars of about the same vintage a they were very cheap. I had built one when they were fairly new and I wanted another crack at one.

Wayne, that tractor is awesome. They have so many more specialty parts now than when I had them, I kind of jealous.

It is different from a generator which is more like an alternator in a modern charging system and yes, it is the exact opposite of an electromagnet.

Yep, thats why no one really runs them on street cars. Since you would most likely want the covenience of starting the car whenever you like and having headlights most people run a regular charging system and it isn't cost effective to switch the spark firing to a different system.

By the time you add an alternator and battery there isn't any need for a magneto since you can run a regular distributor. A magneto is a stand alone unit that can be used when a whole charging system would be too heavy or complex like a race car or handheld tool.

That is great Dave, it looks like an ideal solution for quite a few different problems.

The magneto generates the electricity required for the spark plugs once the engine is running. Think about a lawnmower or weedeater, once you pull the string to start it the magneto keeps it running.

That's a nice haul, you got some good stuff.

According to the Lightning McQueen wiki the character was named after Glenn McQueen, an animator who died of cancer.

I agree, by the time you mated together a half dozen kits you could just start from scratch.

From the Lightning McQueen wiki page the design was based on a Miata/Viper/stock car hybrid with no particular brand.

I love pulling stuff, I've got a few things in the works but nothing finished. You might want to contact Sean Stacey on here about engines, he was casting an Arias hemi from a pulling kit I traded him. You might also find this site helpful, http://pulling-reference.com/photo%20gallery.htm

I was hoping other people saw this, I've seen all of the other episodes but somehow missed this one. For all the ribbing he takes Captain Slow is a pretty interesting guy.

My first model was Mark Martin's #6 Folgers Thunderbird, I was about ten so it was most likely 1991. I built it in two days, didn't sand anything, used half a tube of red glue, and then proceeded to barrel roll it down our hallway like some Talladega nightmare. That lasted a couple of weeks until there weren't enough parts left to fly off to make it fun anymore so it was back to Legos for a while.

Go ahead and file while you can still pull up the original listing, that is your evidence. Shoot some pics of what actually showed up and get started.

Maybe you could try sitting the suspect parts on a table or counter and seeing if one corner is lifting.

It sounds like it's time for a revolution down there.

"Epoxy" refers more to how a product works than what it does. An epoxy can be an adhesive or putty or other things but they all have two parts, a resin and a catalyst or hardener that causes the resin to set up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoxy