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This is like watching a documentary on the SlotCar channel!

Go, Howmet, go!

 

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Thanks, Howmet! Informative and well detailed!

Post-nuclear winter, John?

Perhaps! ... I thought maybe Howmet had shot those here on a typical grey day in February - everything looks like that right now...

Wonderful.... now when I go to the hobby shop tomorrow to pester them about my piano wire, I'll have to poke and prod them to restock the brass rod too!

Ah well... every shop owner needs a cranky customer.... always willing to do my part...

 

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Hey, Howmet, I've been sitting here for 7 hours! You said there would be a test! Oh wait... I get it... that was the test... got me again... guess I failed...

I actually figure the worst part of building that entire car is mounting the body! Been there too often and I come close to a brain hemorrhage every time I use the pin concept on a hard body - takes me ages to line it up and then get the courage to actually drill the first hole. I've tried taping card stock over the tires to get the clearances right, and all kinds of spur-of-the-moment fixtures, even a mirror on a set-up block!, but do you have any method you use that helps get things aligned properly for drilling? Someone's gotta have a better way than me! Or am I doomed to heart palpitations every time I mount one?

 

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Grah, thanks!

Too simple of a solution for me to have ever thought of it!

Should be easy enough to cobble up something similar for just about any type of chassis.

 

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QUOTE Shame no one asked me what my Rockette Morton jet chassis ran on!

My guess would be.... alcohol....

 

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Stick-on beard set?

I went to the doctor today. Young kid in front of me, standing next to his mom, turned, looked up at me, and said "Mommy, that man looks like Santa!" Stick-on? Don't need it!

Hmmmm.... second guess then.... dental floss!!!

Oh... wait... we're back to Zappa, aren't we?.... okay, what the heck is that John?