ScottsGT

Yea, I’ve realized these won’t fit in my Mustang too. 😱 So I’m looking at getting one of those convertible top kits for my 1990 F-250. It’s about $1200 and you can fold it up and out of the way when not in use. Cheaper than a new car or trailer.

I just cannot bring myself to tossing out perfectly good kits. I was going to list a bunch more on eBay this week and next, but with the holiday rush, I’m afraid to attempt shipping anything through any carrier. It’s all a poop show right now with packages arriving days late, left at wrong addresses, getting lost all together, crushed, etc… I’ve decided to just sell the 1/200 Arizona kit and my 1/72 Gato along with a few others. I bought all three 1/72 Connie kits, G Factor gear and some Fisher corrections for them. I’ll never build any of these. Shipping has gotten so expensive these days I’ll probably have to charge more for shipping than the kits will sell for.

I actually don’t have a plane in mind right now. But anything from something like a 1/3 scale 70” wingspan Pitts Special or a 1/3 scale Spacewalker with just over a 100” wingspan. This was the sport/trainer I had my first one on way back in the day. It has a 96” wingspan.

Toy for my other hobby….

Awesome news on the progress.

Yea, that drives me crazy too. When I sell something on eBay, it goes out the same day I print the label. just two weeks ago I sold the carb I posted in the purge thread. High dollar sale. I had planned on taking it up to the Dollar General on Monday since they’re a FedEx drop off location. Got word on Monday I was baby sitting a sick grandchild Sunday afternoon so I took the box up on Sunday. Come Monday, still at the DG. Tuesday afternoon, still sitting at the DG. I jumped in my car and went back up there and there it sat. In the floor behind the counter 10’ away from the drop off shelf. Apparently it was too big to fit on the shelf and everyone ignored it. Took it back and drove into town to the next DG and the manager told me she would personally handle it and give it to FedEx on Wednesday and call me. She did. it was supposed to be delivered this past Wednesday. Of course it wasn’t. It’s finally out for delivery today. I’ve been in constant touch with the buyer through the whole process since it’s a high dollar sale.

LOL! I’m actually restocking my old RC airplane stash I purged back in 1999-2000 when I got out of the hobby. I’ve bought an out of production new in box OS FT-300 twin cylinder engine with some of the funds. I had one years ago and only flew it twice before getting out of the hobby. One of the best damned sounding engines ever made. Engine is sitting upside down in the pic I’m trying to get a trainer completed by years end and get back in the air. Once I have it done, I’m going to get back on the Duck and other plastics and not touch anymore balsa kits until I’m a competent flyer. I’m going to focus on my flying abilities and not stock piling built airplanes.

Here’s my story of how you better be very careful with your purging. I walked through my garage a few months back and tossed this old carb into a trash bin. I had bought it to do an “Art project” by turning it into a lamp. That would have required lots of cutting and drilling holes for lamp fittings and wiring. I just never got around to finding the time to sit down and start the project. Started thinking about it, pulled it back out and ran the numbers. Holy hell. It’s from a 1966-‘67 Mustang K code with a manual trans. So I put it up on eBay….

My ‘90 only has 59,000. Bought it from an elderly couple that only used it to pull their camper.

I was washing my old 1990 F-250 a couple weeks ago. I found where I’m getting surface rust on the roof where the paint was applied very thin from the factory. I guess one of my spring projects will be sanding down the roof and spraying it with some 2k red epoxy. Reds the closest match to the brown roof.

Got another crazy one out there currently. shipped fro FL. Went to Charleston, SC, then to my regional hub, Columbia, SC center. Next was supposed to be Ridgeway, my PO. Nope. Now it’s sitting in the upstate in Greenville.

I just checked tracking on an eBay purchase I made. Coming from Utah. It went to Spokane WA 🙃 yesterday. I’m betting some geographically challenged moron doesn’t know the difference between Washington state vs. Washington DC area. I have had packages go through the DC area distribution center in the past. yea, the furthest corner in the CONUS away from SC they could send it.

Amazing.

Does the acronym SNAFU ring any bells? We should start a public campaign to change the name from USPS to USSNAFUS.

I live way out in BFE. Out here the local mechanics are guys that fix the old John Deere using baling wire and duct tape. I’ve been asking everyone for years about a good mechanic in the area and I get the same answer. Take it to the dealership. One guy I know took his jeep in to a local shop for a simple sway bar end link replacement. He installed them backwards so my friend took it home and corrected his mistake. Only problem was the bolts that extended through the ends were hitting things. He simply unbolted and turned them 180 and reinstalled so the bolts didn’t have a target.