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  1. 4 hours ago, Dave G. said:

    Add some pipettes to your order.

    Paasche H #3 needle set @ 35 psi. Beautiful.

    Yeah, get some 3 ml pipettes.

    Lots of folks spray at different pressures. I shoot everything at 20 psi, adjusted with the airbrush valve opened. That's usually about 22 psi closed. I get too much orange peel at higher pressures. But, that's just my preference. I've got a Paasche H that I use on non-body parts and for primer on bodies. #1 tips for touch up work and #3 for everything else. I scribe a mark on each of the tips as a reference point to open the valve/tip the same amount each time. Usually 1 1/2 to 2 rotations. I use my PS-290 for the color coats on the bodies.

  2. Just saw a list of the worst cars GM ever built and the Vega was #4. I had one back in the 70s. It was a station wagon but with no windows in the sides except for the driver and passenger windows. It was a 74 and was dead by 1978. What a POS that thing was. A friend bought a Chevette and it was about as bad as the Vega.

  3. FREE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya gotta live in the south to appreciate that one. At the 4:40 mark, you can't help but push that pedal through the floor and give out an old rebel yell. Thinking about going off into the back straight dip at Road Atlanta, before Panoz screwed it up, with that wailing in my ears makes cold chills run up my spine. WFO baby!

    As a side story, a friend of mine owned an art studio in Knoxville. A customer waiting on a flight out strolled in just as she put this on her vinyl player. This was in 73 or 74. He was from California and had never heard Lynyrd Skynyrd. He asked who that was and where the closest record store was. Went straight out and bought it. Southern R&R comes to the left coast.

    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IGLVMBTIAPE

     

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