For a different finish one could DYE them. Plastic dye is readily available from RC-hobby shops. Dark colors tend to look opaque, but the brighter colors stay translucent.
Go down to your local auto joint and get some of the paint that is specially made for plastics. Can't remember who maks it, but you could use it as a base coat and put whatever on top of that. Greg
Jeem, it's funny you should mention the feminine hygiene products.... a buddy was getting ready to prime and paint his TCI chassis for his A Bone pickup and was trying to avoid paint build-up in all the four bar holes. So after some head scratching, a bolt of lightning struck and off to his wife's purse did he go. A trial fit to be sure and before you knew it he had a collection of tampons blocking the holes. Handy thing too were the little retrieval strings!!
Leave it a HAMBer from Colorado to come up with somethng both cool and cheap...... oops, I mean inexpensive. By the way, Colorado is full.
actually, we're overflowing with worthless people, could somebody use 'em? they'd make good landfill....maybe new orleans could use 'en for dikes(dykes?).... i'm still having problems visualizing tinmanns hole plugs....
Tom, sorry, cannot help you there...I haven't kept up on the latest women's monthly technology for quite a few years now...but even I got a pretty good idea how it would work... And BTTT, this is tech week, and it's Saturday...tech week isn't over yet and this is still good reading! R-
ship em off to Utah... raise the collective IQ of BOTH states as for the other thing... you dont even wanna KNOW what my visual was when i read that...
BTTT from page 4...tech week isn't over...yet...if nothing else, this tech sure got the views...gotta be some sort of record! R-
Actually, yes. Hear me out fellas. Pads are thin, easy to store and make great rags (pardon the pun) for soaking up oil, fuel, antifreeze, and even blood (from yer knuckles - geez) and they don't drip all over the place. If you cut yourself bad enough, they make great pressure bandages with some duct tape - you DO so carry duct tape, dont lie - until you get to the medicos for a stitch job. And if you co-pilot's Aunt Flo shows up early, your the hero for being prepared. Bring Midol too. Some for her and some for your aching muscles from pushing your broke down heap a mile and a half to the gas station. That stuff works great for me even when I'm not in touch with my girlie side. That being said, I'm gonna go pick a fight...
I tend to look around the kitchen department looking for baking trays to make an Auburn dash out off.
Years ago I saw a tip where you use half of one of those chrome eggs, that L'eggs pantyhose came in, as center caps for your mag wheels! I think that they even had some colored eggs for that "custom" look! I still look at stainless cooking pan covers for use as an air cleaner top. The cheap ones all have loop handles. I'm looking for ones with a single knob that can be removed for the hold down stud and nut. Hmmm - knobs, studs and nuts - I think this reply is going in the wrong direction!
I bought my wife a set of burner covers that were almost too nice to give her. They are heavy brushed stainless. Bought the set of four for $15 at Target. She keep kinding one out in the garage when I take one out there for "inspiration". Lots of cool chrome and brushed cabinet accessories in the home improvement stores look pretty neat.
yaknow, i do that VERY thing when Mama Fiddy drags me along to the local home store (AKA "cheap usless shit no one needs anyhow" store) . . . kinda had my eyes on a set of four large stainless mixing bowls to use as "bloated" lakes aero hupcaps. . . weld or epoxy em to a set of cheap, shitty beauty rings, and presto change-o! instant fat fender bubble hubcaps
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