Recent content by special ed

Not a problem. When we put the cursor on the pic, the correct info appears.

Having just discovered this thread, Terry's article is very instructive. Not building plastics for decades, this procedure is fascinating. Way back, just after the middle of the last century, I used a product sold in the hobby shop called Rub N Buff. It came in a tube and was a gooey paste...

One thing I learned early on as a member was to not read the jokes while drinking coffee. Because of many lessons, my keyboard & screen are dry today, where I would normally be cleaning coffee spray.

Great engineering!

Once when hiking, I found a spring and the water seemed OK.

The landing gear retracted into the wing rather than swing to the rear, semi enclosed.

Most of the older, 1940s at least, had a small toggle switch to turn off the dash lights at night to reduce visual annoyance. The newer cars began to have a Rheostat in the switch to turn dash lights down, or off. On much later, GM at least, I found if less than full brightness, the area near...

Note #24 had no star on fin while #32 has a small star with no outline.

I learned that from a guy who used to work on the railroad.

The things one learns here!

I had not seen the light before. An innovative idea. Seems to use the idea adapted later in the reflector gunsight. There was an aftermarket reflector assembly in the US during the late 1930s to mount on the steering column to see the instrument panel on the windshield when driving at night...

Get rid of the J-34s and put in J-57s

All of this Physics makes my brain hurt, but still does not explain why the smallest screw or nut dropped from 3 feet, carpet or hard surface, will be found 9 feet from where it is dropped. It seems very small mass plus gravity changes potential energy to kinetic energy (or vice versa) cannot be...

What type of light is that in the center on the Auto Union?

Way back in the late 1950s a young guy, about 14, flew controline models with us 17,18 year olds. Earl was a big kid, taller and beefy. One weekend he commented, "Well, I cured my brother of peeing in places in his sleep". Earl and his two younger brothers all slept in the same bedroom. Earl...