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Sometimes this hobby of turning your own wrench can just be cheap as hell.
This weekend, I put two new discs, with bearings and grease seals, two calipers and new pads on my 77 firebird.
Total cost, Plus a jug of DOT3?
less than 90 clams. AND I still have $$ coming back for the caliper cores.
now THAT is CHEAP!
Yep, I was just saying that to myself tonight as I gathered up all the receipts from Speedway, Total Performance, Summit, etc. that were all over the shop. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: What a cheap, cheap hobby. :LOL: :LOL:
(But I guess it beats owing a plane :eek: )
Don
True, Don. Very.Quote:
Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
cheap hobby? i almost died laughing when i heard that!! sometimes yes alot of time...no.
Cheap hobby??? Only if you park it and not drive it.:LOL: :LOL: Then again if the upfront costs are cheap, it's possible that the end result won't be.:eek: :eek: :LOL: :CRY:
I think this is the wrong forums... You may want the web address to the car model forums. Mattell is it that makes car models? I don't know...
I don't think it's cheaper, I have more in my models than in my car.
The red,white & blue plane has a 24" prop, and 62cc motor, 6' wingspan
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Oh! You mean only one model car :)
Pat
".....Yep, I was just saying that to myself tonight as I gathered up all the receipts from Speedway, Total Performance, Summit, etc. that were all over the shop. What a cheap, cheap hobby......"
OH yeah, .....but compared to paying the markup on parts and labor it does beat paying someone.
A guy complimented my on my 57 the other day and asked me if I did it myself. Told him "yeah....I can't afford to pay someone like me to build one" :eek:
Nice model planes. Loons like it cost a lot for those. I knew a guy when I was little that built them all the time, I think it was a friends father or a friends friends father but I still have the image in my head of a yellow and red one he hung from the ceiling in the garage. They were pretty big and had gas powered motors. Pretty cool. I always wanted a helicopter remote control one when I was little haha. I heard that are HARD to fly.