YouTube Glitches, Further Explained

As said, I had cleared a large portion of my cache, and somehow that threw out the formatting at YouTube when I try accessing their pages. On an FB buddy's advice I ran a virus scan (came through "clean") and defragged the hard drive but that didn't seem to help the problem much. Now, YouTube is a nicety, not a necessity to me. But I don't like not being able to use it like always before.

Shaking My Head...

Dad bought a VCR/DVD recorder combo deck, without telling me he wanted one.

It's an off-brand model.

From China.

Mail-order.

The serial numbers have been blacked over.

I know I'm only his son, but on matters like this I'd like it if he asked my advice sometimes.

FP

Hint For Tochiro

My very crude, five-minute rendering of the solution I've seen done by other model builders as to the problem of packing a (mostly) finished model for shipping.

The Apache shown was taken from the instruction sheet for the Monogram Snap-Tite kit. Now, the idea is that rather than having it sit in the box on its landing gear, it is instead held above the floor of the box by cardboard U-shaped supports, and padding of styrofoam or foam rubber is set between the supports and the model itself. Further foam padding is set in places where damage is possible, such as the underwing missiles, the nose gun and sensors, the rotor heads and so on. Another support could be put around the rudder to keep the model from shifting on its side in the box. Ribbon is used to hold the model down on the supports.

I didn't remove the tail rotor assembly from the picture; if it were my job to pack I'd set the assembly in a little envelope and tape the envelope to the floor of the box. The main rotors and their hub could be likewise segregated and the subpack taped to a wall or the roof of the box.

Hope this helps!