Airbrush BasicsWritten by Andre McFayden
The airbrush is one of best tools for painting a variety of craft and hobby items. When equipped with an air compressor as air source, it becomes like a never-ending spray can, with added benefits of control of air pressure and of paint amount. An airbrush can be used to paint plastic models, rc airplanes, t-shirts, nails, and many other items.How does an airbrush work? Like anything that delivers a fine spray of paint or solvent, it uses Bernoulli’s principle. Air moving at higher velocity has lower pressure. If this air stream happens to be near but above a solvent (e.g. paint), solvent will be drawn upwards, towards fast moving air. When it gets to that stream of air, solvent gets broken up into fine particles, and is blown in direction of airstream. The basic principle is very simple, and spraying itself is not hard. Choosing right equipment and paints, as well as learning correct spraying technique, does require a bit of study. It does take some practice to turn out finely painted masterpieces.
| | Playing Ace-King in Texas HoldemWritten by doug tomlinson
Everyone who plays Texas Holdem knows that Ace-King is one of very best starting hands. But, it is just that, a starting hand. It’s only 2 cards of a 7 card equation. In nearly every situation, you want to come out firing with A-K as your hole cards. (The exception would be when faced with a big raise from an early position bettor.) When flop comes, you need to reassess your hand and think things through before you just assume your overcards are best.Like many other situations in Texas Holdem, knowing your opponents will help you gauge your situation when you hold A-K and see a flop like 9-8-2. Since you bet preflop and were called, you assume your opponent is also holding good cards and flop may have missed them as badly as it missed you. Your assumption will often times be correct, but they could be holding a pocket pair and be leading in hand, or worse yet have pocket 9s, 8s, or 2s. Also, don’t forget that many poor players wouldn’t know good cards if they tripped over them and could have called with A-x and paired board. If your opponent checks, you could check and see a free card or make a bet and try to pick pot up right
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