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Airbrush compressors are pretty quiet, my neighbours when I lived in a 1 bed flat never complained.

Aldi still have them sometimes with their other tools but not always, you could go for this which is similar but upgraded with the tank, which will mean it fills less and is less annoying noise wise

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I got an airbrush setup a while ago and it's been really useful.

I bought a cheap compressor from Aldi for something like £34 and a Neo for Iwata airbrush which i found at faversham hobby shop cheaper than anywhere i could find online.

You also want to get an airbrush stand / cleaning station to go with it to make your life easy.

You probably want 245 or something no?

Probably a bit like this

What tyre / size / profile?

Did you order LMs?

I thought you'd ordered TE37s from driftworks or something

It’s a small company in Germany, I paid via TransferWise which might give me some protection, I’d have to look into whether that was via my credit card or not.

I did manage to send an email to him last night without it bouncing back though so maybe there’s hope yet

Maybe someone has some advice with an issue i'm having:

I bought and paid for some parts for my rally car from a company in Germany. I've bought stuff off them before, it's always been a bit slow because it's made to order but they have always delivered.

Something i ordered was delayed, they had been in reasonable contact up until just before christmas but recently their website has gone down and any emails i send them bounce back and the main proprietor has removed me from facebook, where i'd tried messaging him.

I'm starting to get a bit worried that i'm about to loose the best part of 900gbp

That's how you adjust caster - wind the front adjustable link of the wishbone in/out, do the opposite to the rear link, effectively pulling the wheel forward and changing the angle of the hub in the vertical plane. You then re-adjust the toe angle to suit because the tracking will have changed wildly

That setup has Caster, Toe and Camber adjustment which can really give you infinite adjustment.

In theory you can add track width with those adjustable bottom arms, but with it being 4WD you start messing with the plunge depth of the drive shafts so it can be easier to pop a shaft if you wind those out too much.

The intention is probably to give you caster angle and camber angle adjustment without messing with that.

This is one of the reasons I dislike black wheels

my experience of the BG insoles is that they don't last - when i was riding a lot, the shape would go to shit after 6 months

Keep an eye out on the Aldi offers, they some times have airbrush compressors for about 35gbp.

It's ok as a starter one, it doesn't have a tank so it is constantly refilling, the noise can be a bit annoying if you're using it a lot. I'd also get a decent gravity fed airbrush - you can get the Neo by Iwata for sensible money. Also get quick release hose coupler too to make your life easier

tbh for home mechanic-ing (in the UK) you can't go wrong with the halfords advanced range.

I would keep an eye for the sale as it's regularly heavily reduced, i bought their top range 2T trolley jack for £84 delivered and the stands were £24 a pair.

Torque wrenches can be spendy though, might be worth looking 2nd hand, maybe one from Sealey, or Norbar if you can find one for the right price

I will probably make the gearbox mod to satisfy my OCD.

in my quest to not look at a screen outside of work as much as possible i have done a few plastic model kits recently, including a Tamiya 1/72 spitfire, airfix 1/72 Hurricane and a 1/32 Revell Spitfire.

I have a 1/72 Lancaster bomber on the shelf and was planning to also build a Victor and the new tooled Vulcan when it drops, however i have sort of decided i'm going to abandon war planes and switch to race cars, because brexit

Cool. I didn't bother putting the roof racks on mine yet.

Gearbox is really cool.

Next I have to re-build my GT3 RS as well after moving house

That reminds me of having a terrible Citroen hire car in Mallorca that had horrible speed sensitive steering, and would suddenly change the amount of assistance in the middle of a corner if you went above / below it's speed thresholds

The seat post was the main thing that ruined my CAAD12 for me in the end, and hence it went to a new home.

I feel your door bar pain.

I decided I’d have to get a quick release steering wheel

I have been on the look out for this set for ages having seen them come out in the uk a few weeks ago, only just got them in stores in NZ.

Saving it until we’ve moved house.

You can paint most plastics if you prep them right - basically a rub down with some scotchbrite, a plastic specific primer and then any normal acrylic aerosol, and you'll be right.

If you want to use Plastikote from a DIY store i think they now do a suitable range but avoid any of the Enamel based paints

#toomanywatts

in contrast I use the gold KMC X11-SL on one bike and have never snapped one

We use Zap in large quantities at work, the pink thin one is a right pain to handle in a controlled way.

The workshop manager exchanges me a personal supply of it on occasion for non-rc models i've been working on in the name of "mindfulness"