Oil shortage leads to styrene smuggling

Thus the April Fool's joke have begun. Rob Gronovius Modern US armor at

I *told* my wife that my kit collection would be worth big bucks someday! ;-p

has risen so much in the last few months that they have been forced to turn to non-traditional sources and have even been buying styrene on the spot market.>>

Wonderful, just freakin' wondeful!! Probably a bunch of damn recycled old Starfix and Merlin kits. And you know what happens then--all of a sudden(?) we start getting substandard kits from China, and then that virus will spread to old Soviet bloc countries....where will it end? Fortunately, that won't happen to manufacturers that are still here in the States....oh, wait ; )

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. --Leonardo Da Vinci

I don't think will come about. The Chinese know that the toy/ model industry is a very good money maker. The pellets needed to feed this can be had on the black market, but I think that although prices might rise a little, the quality should reamain. Please don't think that the Japanese aren't thinking along the same lines as well. A unstable condition in the middle east is all that is needed to bring this into the international buisness world. Mike IPMS

Paul Ester? Like the one worn by anyone with a liesure suit 30 years ago?

Cookie Sewell

No; that would be his sister, Polly Ester... ( :-P )

Cookie,

I was wondering how long it would take somebody to comment on that.

Outside of the too-obvious "Polly Styrene" some other possibilities were "Ethel Keytone" and also her friends "Beauty Rate", "Tara Phthalate", Polly Ethylene", "Polly Propylene", "Polly Urethane", "Polly Merr", and "E. Lastomer".

Evidently lots of Pollys work in the plastics business.....

John Hairell

I was sitting back waiting for Cookie or someone to mention the chairs and couch in flight ops made from Nauga hides. The headrest on early ejection seats had the replacement covers made from red Nauga hides instead of regular cow or horse leather.

Rick MFE

I seem to remember ads on the rear covers of comic books for naugahyde. It seemed to include little naugas playing in a rock band. I assume at this late date that they were selling naugahyde-covered amps, but I could be wrong.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Just saw a magazine ad from a company selling guitar amps done up in a retro-'60s style and yep, they look like they are covered in naugahyde.

John Hairell

Nope John, that is for the fake stuff, synthetic crap. I'm talking about the hides of real Naugas, you know the ones that you capture while out looking for Snipe at night. One must be really careful when bashing them with the bat or you will damage the hide, especially the red ones. It doesn't seem to bother the brown or grey ones.

Rick MFE

ah the joys of yout, my 66 electra 225, an acre of naugy and that weeks sacrificial bimbo had at the drive in.

Maybe he meant the one horned Corinthian.Chryler used to pay big bucks for the hides...only for the classiest cars ;-)

My wife has a green Nauga but I am not allowed to play with it, or even wonder if it tastes like chcken... She did say I can shoot all of the esters I can find, especially polys.

Cookie Sewell AMPS

There are real Nagas too, but they're Burmese tribesmen, and taking their hydes is presumably inappropriate.

Mark Schynert

Nay Mark! We're talking about NAuga Hides. The kind used for upolstery. The girls outside Clark AFB used to make good flight publications bags from NAuga hides also.

Rick MFE

i liked polys sister see. she was laid back.

Is it really green or is that just the way the light hits it. ;-)

WmB

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