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They use the same belt, the only way to get there is to have pretty exact component locations and pulley tooth count. It's incredibly hard to get within 1.5mm on accident :lol: :shock: That's fuc*ed. It's not like they didn't have the resources to make a novel solution. It's one thing to run you ou...

....and basketball shorts were really short

Just bought it two weeks ago Resized_20250302_180804.jpeg :lol: That looks very familiar. I have repaired worse. Not because I am good but because I had a LOT of practice. The cool thing about foamies is that all you need is glue and occasionally part of the original foam packaging to repair just a...

coxbros1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:11 am we got pissed a d stomped on it and thru it in the trash!...our flying career is over

Turns out that the entertainment industry pushed for copyright protection and ended the era of being able to record with a VCR, which turned them into players only, or VCP. This reminded me that we used to put a tiny piece of duct tape over the hole on the back of a music cassette so we could recor...

I have to vote for hair spray. It just seems like such an appropriate use of beauty products. I have a 4 barrel, magneto ignition potato gun that's been sitting unfinished for 26 years or so. Really, that coincides with when I no longer had access to a suitable firing range. Back in the day, I purc...

I'm thinking I see the best 4wd ever made in Blue there by AE, cough, Yokomo. :lol: So in the case of the RC10 4WD, AE is not doing a re-re of a kit, rather they are doing a re-re of a concept. That concept being the marketing of someone else's 4WD buggy as their own. :lol: AE 4WD buggy designers: ...

Frankentruck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 4:53 pm Is there anything that would be considered a Factory Works box art paint job?

I would consider an RC10 4WD painted like this to be FW box art:

Frankentruck wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 6:24 pm
Or, I could put it on a shelf back where a motor used to be...
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Doesn't that partially defeat the purpose of moving the motor forward?

I never found any of the designer pizzas to be better than the basic ones. More pepperoni and more cheese are the only deviations that improve the original. Everything else is a distraction. PB and turkey sandwiches are surprisingly good. It only works with slices, not Thanksgiving leftovers. Probab...

22.jpeg Which reminds me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJb-czNC_ls Tab! :lol: I accidentally grabbed one of those as a kid; I thought I was going to die. :lol: Was that the product that had the "pinch an inch" commercials? The idea was that if a person could pinch an inch, they were fat...

Frankentruck wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:01 am That's fractionally different!

0.014 inch That's practically an entirely different buggy! No similarity at all...

I feel for you guys. The AE re-re community really deserves better from their favorite brand. AE charges a pretty big premium for their stuff, but they fall short on quality, content, accuracy, and now ethics.

Halgar wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:21 am Couldn't decide if I should post this here or in the Currently Playing thread. Decided that you had to be an old fart to get the references. 1741766503956.png

Oh no! I've been Rick Rolled!

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 9:48 pm Got robbed here. Total sham. Or, I go to bed too early.

We got a pretty good view from ~2am to 3am. Curiously, we saw more "red" with the naked eye than through our (cheap) telescope.