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    Glass! For the empty spaces after rearranging the existing shelves. Added 6 more shelves. Got some empty space to fill up now! Brackets and steel for the 6 was $225. Glass, $775. Yep. A grand just for shelving. There goes the modeling budget for the year. ……Yea, right.
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    Needs these.
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    OK, that’s pretty damned smart to treat the soil before the slab goes down. Years ago I had a termite treatment salesman try to sell me a treatment plan where they were going to go into my perfectly dry basement, poke holes in the slab floor and pump in chemicals. I asked him who will they send in to rip out the slab, install a new vapor barrier and pour a new floor after the basement fills up with water. crickets. Never heard from them again.
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    Well this is a fine mess. Got the intakes painted inside and glued on. Fit was perfect to the outside of the back half of the fuselage. Once my glue set up I slipped in the nose piece. Oops. There’s a .040 gap on either side on the intakes. I did my best to fill it with Evergreen stock. In hind sight I probably should have just cut the bleed fins out and shaped new ones instead of adding stock to them. I could have also moved the intakes in and shaped the rear fuselage to fit the new location. I obviously need to clean things up still.
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    I like the idea of the storm runoff storage soaker tanks. We have a lot of areas here that should utilize that tech. Im completely surrounded by pine tree farms myself. Mostly around here though it gets ground up into pulp for paper mills. There’s very little lumber production around our area. Our local building code doesn’t allow “home made lumber” for licensed structures. All wood has to have a mill stamp on it. Heard of one guy that made his own lumber, kiln dried it and framed up his house. Inspector made him tear it down. Next county over (2 miles from me) you can do this. My old neighbor did it. About the only pre treated lumber we have is a blue moisture barrier. All of our termite treatment is done after the build.
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    That’s an old one! You know the old saying….”Old truckers never die. They just get a new Peterbilt”
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    Very generous! Thanks. But no need since I’ve already got my replacements. And by the time I needed them again in 9-10 years I probably won’t be driving a Mustang at 70 years old. And I’m sure there’s a shelf life as well.
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    Are those septic tanks or cisterns? If septic, that’s one hell of a lid to open for clean out. in the first pic, home with the roof being built, I cannot make it out clearly. Are they building using metal structure or is that wood? I still cannot figure out why we rely on wood for home construction as much as we do here in the states when the metal doesn’t burn. Cost is my only reasoning.
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    I just bought 4 new TPMS units for my Mustang. Had one go out and I expect the other three will go out soon as well. I’ve read the 2015 will auto program, so I’m going to take a chance and get them installed sometime this week.
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    Sexy!
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    Yea, it stings a little. I honestly expected $1400-$1500. And that was thinking on the high side. Compressor alone was like $900 for a Ford OEM part.
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    All glued up! Filling in the gaps with epoxy
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    And the jig will need some course corrections dialed in as well. I probably just need to file/sand the base with some angle where it tightens down on the sliding scale.
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    So just an update on progress (now back to our regularly scheduled program) I leveled my bench as best as I could. Somehow either I built it with an arch in the middle, or it’s the weight of the paint booth pressing down over time. I think eventually I’ll build some adjustable feet for the jig so I don’t have to worry about the table droop. But I reset everything and this time I taped the vertical stabs in place and checked everything with the laser. I think I’m ready to break out the epoxy.
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    Yea, I got hit with the astigmatism around 32 years old. I started aging early! 61 now. I’m enjoying all the arthritis, tinnitus, ED, 5-6 bathroom trips a night, aches and pains associated with joints wearing out, muscle atrophy, slow to heal after an injury, prostate drip, eyesight degeneration, lack of stamina, etc…..Oh, and let’s not forget the spinal stenosis from surgery and back injuries 25 years ago. But it beats the hell out of feeding worms!
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    Dang it. Tried to add a comment and it timed out on me. But I learned years back to never trust my eyes again for straight lines. I was building RC airplanes when I got my first prescription glasses. All of a sudden wing spars and leading edges had a curvature on them. Laid my straight edge up there and it was straight. Stood back and my straight edge was curved. Damn it! It hit me like a ton of bricks. It was my lenses causing the curvature I was seeing. I use to have a perfect eye for straight lines. When I was a paint and bodyman it was almost a requirement when it came time to fixing panel lines or taping off a car for stripes. When I painted my ‘66 Mustang’s rally stripes I had to do it without wearing my glasses. The curvature was driving me insane so it was easier to look at it a little blurry while taping it off. And to make it more complicated, the ‘65-‘66 rally, or Shelby stripes are tapered from front to back on the hood and I think the back end of the car as well. Seriously, it took all day to tape those stripes out.
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    Yea Peter, I think I sometimes over think things. 🤡
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    Wow. They really cram those houses together. If one caught fire, how many would go before the fire department could put them out? I guess the upside is you don’t need a lawn mower. String trimmer and you’re GTG.
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    So let’s start with some pics! Since I’ve just started, not much to see. The build starts out by cleaning up the clam shell rear fuselage top and bottom and then sliding the wing halves into a spar. Getting it level is the trick. I assembled my Hobby Zone jig just for this and got a great idea to put my new laser level to use. This is just a basic mock up. Playing with the laser I discovered my bench isn’t even level. Gotta start there before I build leaning models!
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    Posted up the start of this in another thread, but figured I’d do a dedicated thread in the right place. Thought about putting it in the Twins Build, but I highly doubt I’ll have it wrapped up by the deadline.
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    Wow. What a headache.
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    Rog, I’m green with envy over that A-20. I’ve been patiently waiting for it to arrive here in the states. Super Hobby in Poland has it in stock as well.
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    Thanks Hubert! The first thing I did was work the “clam shell” fuselage before starting to fit the wings. Took a good bit of shaping. But fair warning, now you done done it! I’m gonna be bugging you for advise along the way!
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    I found it at Super Hobby in Poland. Cannot remember the price though.
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    Cybermodeler article on jig. https://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/tools/hz/tool_hz_aj01m.shtml
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