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Elliot's Trackside Diner- MARCH 2012!!
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<p>Good Morning Folks!</p> <p>It is actually closing in on lunchtime over here. Petra is in the kitchen, cutting onions... [:'(]. We will be having pizza for lunch, with tuna fish, onions, cheese and lots of other goodies. We have stacked up on pizzas, as they were on sale some time ago. One $ for a frozen pizza is certainly reasonable, but you still have to add something to make it taste nice.</p> <p>Did some finishing w*rk on the deck of my boat, which is up in the attic, after I gave it another coat of varnish. The hull is completed, and now the fun part starts. As I want to use the boat in a dock scene, I cannot rig up the sales as described in the "instructions", which are hardly worth that name. Will need some time to figure out how to do it.</p> <p>Along the assembly, I have learned a few lessons and a number of new four letter words. Why is a craftsman kit called a craftsman kit? Because it is not a kit with parts ready to assemble - you have to fabricate them somehow out of the supplied material. While doing that, you´ll revert to some "crafty" expressions, which forum policies won´t allow me to state here. I found out, that the value of such a kit lies in the quality of the supplied lumber and the instructions. Both are pretty bad in my case. Most of the supplied lumber was of inferior quality, with a tendency to split when cut. The instructions supplied are incorrect drawings, the text hardly gives a clue how to do it. Best of all, this kit is rated as a beginner´s kit, suitable for children from 8 years and onwards. That´s a joke! Without a lot of experience and a comprehensive set of tools, there is now way to turn this kit into a good looking model. Should there be a next time for me, I´ll just get a set of drawings and start from scratch!</p> <p>End of rant!</p> <p>Have a good day!</p>
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