ScottsGT

I absolutely love mine…for certain things only. I have the fan attachment and use it for larger all over paint work. Smaller work, the Iwata is used.

Oh man, I forgot about that video. 🤣🤣

Na man, it seems around here in my area that all Ram Truck drivers act like their mental ignition timing has been turned back a few degrees. I guess all Ram owners here have some kind of pass from LE where they’re allowed to go 20 over everywhere and tailgate those in front of them. It’s a nickname for Ram drivers in my area.

Oh noes! Martin has joined the Ramtard Nation!

I was curious as well.

Thanks! Yea, I still need to take some better pics of it. I’ve been so busy getting things in order for my surgery and recovery it has just slipped my mind.

Order sent!

Since I shut down the modeling bench to get projects done before my surgery, I’ve been going non stop. Pressure washed the dock due to the flood. This was not a planned project. It had an 1/8”-1/4” of mud covering it. Hung the new 65” on the wall. Our son in law hung their TV over the stand and my wife liked the look of it. Gee, thanks. I got into the leaking truck axle and replaced the hub seal and of course had to do a brake job since they were oil soaked. No pics, but also had the wife driving the zero turn around in case she has to take on mowing chores in the spring. Oh, and yesterday was spent troubleshooting the gas logs where the pilot wouldn’t stay lit. I completely disassembled them, drove over an hour to the gas supplier for them to tell me it was just dust clogging the flame port. He blew it out with canned air and now they’re perfect.

That’s my wife as well. Of course if she has too much she’s a non-stop chatterbox I cannot get to shut up. She goes into narrator mode telling the invisible people in the room what she’s doing all day and what she needs to get done. And if that isn’t bad enough she launches into me because I’m not acting like I’m on a cocaine fueled chore frenzy getting things done. I have literally grabbed the last bit in the pot to just keep her from getting it and launching into orbit.

Boo this man! Wrong scale.

Thanks for posting that Maru. I never realized it took that long to get one in the air.

You saved about two hours of work fixing those kit tails, and the kits exhaust is under sized. You did good!

Baxter is the supplier. Did some reading after this post. Apparently they just shut it all down for people to tend to their lives and the disaster. Sounds like the plant is okay. But you’re correct Peter. While distribution of goods across the country has made it easy to get products moved it has also created a situation where lack of competition or facilities in different areas are seen as an expense that can be cut back to increase profits. No one ever gives a second thought about the “what ifs” in life. I remember a few years back when Texas was hit with a major freeze during winter. The nations only paint pigment plant was shut down long term. You couldn’t find paint for months for new construction.

Looks like a possibility of a delay to surgery. I still haven’t had my follow up appointment yet, but now due to the loss of the major supplier of saline IV used all the time with patients, hospitals all over SC are starting to limit surgeries to emergencies only. The biggest supplier in the nation was in the Western NC area. Haven’t heard yet if it was a total loss or just shut down due to infrastructure or employee issues dealing with everything.

One of the issues I’m reading now is big hearted people and churches are showing up to help with supplies and they’re getting turned around and asked to leave donations with them. Makes total sense to me. I was there for Hugo. People came in droves. The biggest difference was we had the room in the low country of SC. Everything in Western NC is narrow roads, smaller areas and half or more of the roads washed out. Everyone online is acting like it’s a conspiracy theory, but they need to realize they will just be in the way of the officials. They did put up a webpage directing people to check in with the coordinators to see if they can use them or just where to deliver supplies to.

I’m starting to hear stories of bodies piling up in rivers in NC but they don’t have the resources to retrieve them since they are still trying to rescue those that are alive. Power grids down for months because the entire power station was wiped out and no spare parts because they were sent to another country. Now they hope manufacturing can go into overdrive to produce more but of course now we have dock workers on strike and how many of these transformers are built with imported parts? I’m all for the US providing assistance around the globe, but we cannot be taking the shirt off our back. We just need to give them one hanging in the closet.

It’s absolutely horrible what happened to that area of NC. I was in Chimney Rock on August 21st. It’s so hard to believe it’s all gone now. My sons future wife had friends on CNN that list everything but the clothes on their back and their two cats. A guy on another forum lost everything in 30 min time in Boone. The creek next to his condo overflowed by 8’ in minutes and 30 min later he was standing in waist deep water inside. The website has a fund raiser for him I’ve donated to. A little mud and sticks on my dock is nothing! Once again, we’re counting our blessings.

Get ready for those daily emails now!

Nessie stopped by for a beer!

That thing is so odd looking I’d have to have one if it were 1/32.

Great news on our end here. We peaked last night at 106’ and water is already receding! We’re down to 105’ at this moment. We never lost the one side of the floating dock over the pole nor did it hit the roof of the main dock. And water didn’t hit the electrical on the lift. But now we gotta get out there and get the brooms off the top of the pole the wife attached if it did get too high. They may become permanent. LOL!

Any timeline mentioned? I need a lot of pre planning time to smuggle one across the border.

We got power restored this morning at 5:41. How rude of those linemen waking me up to go shut down the generator, plug the fridges back in, closing all the windows and turning on the AC! But it was exactly 48 hours almost down to the minute we were out of power. On a bright note, the prediction of water rise was lowered by almost a foot. This morning we woke to what looked like an island of grass/weeds and debris floating down the main channel towards the dam.

Rog, looks great man! You did good on your color choices. Are you planning on an epoxy finish on the parking area?

You know, the airbrush cleaner is the same thing as their glue you bought? I quit buying the glue and just refill my glue bottle with the cleaner. There’s a YouTube video where a guy looked up the safety data sheet. It made up of two chemicals. The only difference was the glue has something like 2% more of one of the chemicals than the cleaner. Like cleaner is 50/50 and glue is 48/52. But I’ve never had any issues using straight cleaner.