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Old 07-16-2021, 11:51 AM
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Where in far West Texas? Sheffield? Balmorhea? Sierra Blanca? Ft. Davis? Marathon?Grandfalls?


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Old 07-16-2021, 12:00 PM
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We added Venmo since we had a guy that hauled off old electronics only accept it. It is OK, but it is a Paypal company. Just a different pricing model. The fees are less, since they hang onto your money longer. If someone pays you, and you then go buy something, it does not draw from your account balance. It charges your credit card (or I suppose your bank account). You must handle all transfers from Venmo to your bank account. That float helps them make money, I just don’t particularly want to hassle with it. For me, it is just a necessary evil I’ve had to use a few times.

JAL3, welcome back! Wow, a 1000 kits is incredible. I have around 200, and feel like I need to thin the inventory. There are so many I know will never get built. I donated about 20 at NSL for the raffle, but a number of those were kits that a friend “dumped” on me since he knew he would never build them. My inventory numbers still seems to creep up.

We are the point in our lives that a smaller home, with less yard to maintain, is looking very desirable. Besides all my kits, I have a pretty extensive wood shop and inventory of hardwoods. Sometime I think we ought to just liquidate everything, buy a monster RV, and hit the road for a year or so.


I was aware of the Venmo PayPal connection and the delays. It's just that the bad experience with Paypal dating back to the mid 2000s still hacks me off. They kept going into my back account for unauthorized funds. When I called them on it, they apologized and refunded the money but then it happened again... and again... I finally closed the account and opened another one but somehow they got access and it continued. To stop the problem, I had to go to a different bank. My family had been dealing with that bank since it first opened and the current president was a high school classmate of mine. His wife's father worked for my dad. It hacked me off.


I'm doing a lot of downsizing too. I'll be unloading a table saw, band saw, drill press and a lot of my tools.
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Old 07-16-2021, 12:01 PM
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I will be a most attentive reader of your posts. Centuri is my primary collecting/building focus. Let me know if you come across the 1971 'Visible Astro' kit. The only one from the '71 catalog I don't have. But looking for another Micro Probe and Marauder two stagers, too.

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I know I don't have the Visible Astro. The other two are possibilities though.
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Old 07-16-2021, 03:30 PM
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Ah, you were not far from my old stomping grounds in Garden City. Rankin ain't quite as isolated as Sheffield or Sierra Blanca is though. It used to be a larger town back in the 70's before the early 90's oil patch crash caused the service firms to close their yards there. Over half the town worked the oil patch back then.

Did you take in a 6 man football game or two while there? My old hometown alma mater went back to it in 2003 after over 20 years in 11 man.
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Old 07-16-2021, 06:10 PM
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Ah, you were not far from my old stomping grounds in Garden City. Rankin ain't quite as isolated as Sheffield or Sierra Blanca is though. It used to be a larger town back in the 70's before the early 90's oil patch crash caused the service firms to close their yards there. Over half the town worked the oil patch back then.

Did you take in a 6 man football game or two while there? My old hometown alma mater went back to it in 2003 after over 20 years in 11 man.



I actually liked Rankin but it was sad that the only places not closed down were the Stripe, the bank, the post office, the school, the courthouse and a plumbing supply place that was oil field plumbing supply. Everything else was boarded up.


I did see a few 6 man football games. It felt strange as a Methodist pastor to be rooting for the Devils.
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Welcome Back John! Look forward to seeing you here.

Hope you come across some Estes "Skill-Level" face-card kits and MRI kits.
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Old 07-17-2021, 10:18 AM
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Interested in a Green skill level face-card Astron Trident as well.
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Welcome Back John! Look forward to seeing you here.

Hope you come across some Estes "Skill-Level" face-card kits and MRI kits.


I believe there are a few of each. I know I have some MRI.
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Old 07-17-2021, 06:56 PM
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Interested in a Green skill level face-card Astron Trident as well.


I think I remember an Astron Trident but I'm pretty sure it's a later version.
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Old 07-17-2021, 09:13 PM
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Well, as long as we're doing wish lists: I'm interested in any pre-Beta-Series Alphas, the further back the better, especially those pre-dating the yellow skill-level face card—and one of the elusive Alphas from 1989-1992 that has a blue Alpha III type nose cone in the kit.
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