That’s what I was thinking too... someone’s homemade canvas pop up.

That’s a huge premium for a car only those in the know can tell from a 308.

Not when I had asked early in the thread.

thanks. looks about as I figured.

Any photos of today’s miata next to an ‘89 miata?

A body panel is just stamped sheet metal. no need to repair a tear unless its no longer being made. A torn removable steel body panel is just replaced. Nobody tries to weld the tear to fix it if they can buy a new one. Not worth it at a $100/hr or more labor cost.

Motorola two-way radio is or used to be in florida. Florida is also an extreme environment good for testing a wide variety of products that are used outdoors. But other than that I can’t think of any engineering or manufacturing use for the state.

That species isn’t native to the USA and never found at cheap gas stations.

Aluminum isn’t a bitch. Been using it for many years in products. Extrusions, die castings, sand castings, and sheet. Not autobody panels but for all sorts of other things. Generally anodized or powder coated for finish. Sometimes just mill finish. I get aluminum parts powder coated on a production basis for very…

Is this a serious question?

If it’s that expensive for a body shop to do it, it would be cheaper for to simply carry spare panels from the manufacturer in all the factory colors. Brand new swap it on. I can say for a fact it would cost no where near that to paint on a factory level.

All I see for the next 8 years is “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos” no matter who wins.

The cops never arrested TC or H.M. Murdock for flying like that.

Prototypes can be and often are very crude things. You use what’s around, what you can get easily. Tooling is expensive. Rapid prototyping isn’t cheap and can only do so much.

It is the nature of government to allow its friends to exploit the commons. Even true in the USA today. I couldn’t get permission to dump into lake michigan what the BP refinery does.

If government has to do special deals to get companies to locate there then the reason there weren’t thriving businesses there is…

Backroom globalism refers to the fact that the people are not party to any of the trade deals, the politicians don’t even read them or care to. In many cases their access to reading such things is highly restricted. (there are some troublemakers in office) They are hashed out by the NGOs, the deep state, and others.…

Pick and place machines and reflow ovens have been doing soldering since before zenith went under. It is the nature of manufacturing to have more for less. Without the financial sector using monetary policy to rake off a cut things would be cheaper yet. If the dollar weren’t being gamed a dollar today would buy more…

Deciding to open an economy somewhat (they haven’t embraced capitalism, they’ve embraced something closer to it, but it’s not capitalism) and being able to make things are two very different things.

China’s manufacturing powerhouse came about because of backroom globalism and the and political systems we live under. There are many people who successfully compete with China and it doesn’t mean being leveled with someone who lives under crony communist rule.

Once upon a time a product I worked on was manufactured…

The EPA has no power to prevent registration. It would have to coerce the states into doing it. Under present law that should take an act of congress.