Recent content by Ben Ballard

Just a FYI for those who are looking for paint for boats. Coast airbrush Sells small quantities of top paint brands. They will even mix it in 12 oz. spray for $25.00 I ordered the house of kolors purple for my smokin joe build. The HOK rep highly recommended them for small quantities and told...

Sorry I am late getting back, work got me busy again. Soon as I get back to shop I will get that color code. PPG told me that it was a toner color that was discontinued. To match it they would have to custom mix at factory = high dollar. May have to go the neon route. Just didn't want to...

Looking for a paint code for the smokin joes yellow. Don't want to do the neon. Talked to Don, but the PPG code he had is "discontinued" according to PPG. Any help would be gratefully appreciated! Any one know how close the klass kote yellow is?

Rob, in building my kit I raised the sides of the engine well 1/4" inch to fit a zenoah with a qwickdraw 180 pipe. That gives me just over 1/4" air gap between the top skin and the pipe with 1/8" clearance between the engine mount and bottom of the boat. As you have probably seen there isn't...

Looks good! I am building the same kit as 94 smokin joes.

Man it's nice to see a gun topic that nobody has gone off the deep end with! I have to agree with all that was said. I keep a 1911 in close reach at all times. But my old trusty is a ruger gp .357. No jam, no hassle, and with 147 grain hollow points no problems. The best gun for you is the...

Thanks for chiming in Don. I want to try and get this boat right. Figured it was time to get that cowl I bought from you off the shelf and put to use! Better late than never:-). Did that boat always have the white bottom or did they run it yellow at some point?

Thanks Phil! That is exactly what I was looking for.

Building a ML smokin joes. The Newton plans are vague on how the rear tiplets and the rear ride pads should look. Haven't had any luck finding a good picture of the rear of that hull either. If anyone has a good picture of how that all comes together it would be a BIG help! Thanks in advance...

Happy Birthday Ken!

Blendzall makes an additive to help keep it from separating. Never tried it thoe. I have never had a problem with Blendzall separating, but it must be an issue with some mixes for them to make a product to combat it. Hope this helps.

Well, at my first race in mt Vernon. The bud was not behaving itself like it should and missed some valuable time in the water for practice. Thanks to everybody that pitched in to help the new guy out! Lord knows I need all the help I can get!

I respect everyone's opinion... That being said I do carry a weapon, it's my right. I'd rather have it and not need it than wish I had it when the unfortunate time came that I did not. Now, I do agree with the above statements. I know that some people are uncomfortable knowing that someone is...

Yes, sadly I agree... But it sure would be hoot! Ha ha ha! I think what bugs me the most is the ability of these things to spy on people. There are already cases of these thing being used as high tech peeping Tom devices. When will enough be enough? Just make certain to yell " It's coming...

I'm a pretty good shot with a 10 gauge... I consider my property a "no fly zone". If a person is dumb enough to fly over it with one of these things they just might suffer the consequences. Then they can explain to the authority's just what they were doing and how they plan to retrieve what's...