so waht ya doin today?

[L Ross]

Ran the two engines on the Hover Craft to get them up to temp to change oil. Trailering the HC in Winter gets everything salt encrusted. Washing only does so much. Carb linkage all seized up on the lift engine, but with some Tool Box Buddy and a little patience I got it working smoothly. Gave it and the trailer a bath and now it's ready to use this Winter.

How in the heck those little chores can eat up the afternoon?

 

[fiver]

ate today, stomach is still distended, but getting better.
it looks like I put the 35lbs. back on I just took off.
bet tomorrow I feel a lot better.

 

[Ian]

Mongolian Zilch Disease?

 

[Winelover]

No issues with wifi in this rural 4000 sq. ft. ICF (6" of cement with full brick exterior) house. We stream everything. TV and music. Even outside, on the rear porch, all Summer and Fall. TV will be out on the porch, this afternoon.

 

[Matt_G]

I am an IT guy by trade with a bent towards security.
I just don't like WiFi from a security point of view.
Personal quirk...I can be weird that way.

 

[Winelover]

Not a problem, living rurally, with closest neighbors, hundreds of yards away. Phone service is sketchy on parts of my property.

 

[Bret4207]

Hard frost this AM. Horses are out, deer hunting made coward dog run to hide under the porch which set the Shepherds to barking... gonna be a busy day.

 

[Mitty38]

Well I while back I mentioned that I was dieting. Karyn and I have been very serious about loosing weight as we know how hard it is on your health when your packing a bunch of extra. I started at 207.

Great job. You are an insperation to me.

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Man that’s some seriously white feet. 170.8. I’m going for 165. I’m feeling good.
Got a gun show today, going shopping. A guy I know has been dragging a Savage 99 in 30-30 to his table for 3 or 4 years now and I think I’ll see if he’s ready to lower his price. Nothing special just clean shooter.

Still looking for my feet. LOL

 

[oscarflytyer]

Actually, the BMI test helped a lot of guys like me out. I look fat, always, no matter if I am or not. The Job said "Morbidly Obese" began at 22% and then they could make you go to a doc and do a mess of other stuff. They checked me, knowing for sure, (as did I!) that I was prime candidate. I can still see the look on the guys face doing the test and the retest, and the retest of the retest- 15%. Lots of disappointed people that day as I wasn't the only one that the test saved.

Had to laugh at this one. Back in the late '80s/Army. My weight was always within a cpl lbs of max for my height. I am thick. So I would always be the token officer on the CSM's "weigh-in/tape" list every BN inspection. He always thought he would catch me overweight and get to put me on the fatboy program. Finally, I got tired of it. Knew what my weight was, and within the limits. So, I walked into his weigh-in with a box of a dozen donuts, about 1/2 gone, and kept eating in line. He was pissed, but left me alone after that!

 

[Mitty38]

We have a lot of interference. Receiving transmission stations towers close, and a radar station on the hill. Plus fighting a house trailer with 2 steel stud walls between him and the wi fi. Box.
Also went with CAT6# cost me a whole 2 bucks more then the junk stuff.
It solved all his issues BTW.

 

[smokeywolf]

Not a problem, living rurally, with closest neighbors, hundreds of yards away. Phone service is sketchy on parts of my property.

We have pretty good cell coverage.
I'm a bit persnickety about security and signal latency.

 

[Brad]

Raining steady here. Wanted to shoot so we went to the indoor range. Started off nice, nobody else shooting in our side of the range.
Then the van of idiots offloaded. Only 1 had a 223 AR, the other one had a 22 LR adapter in his AR.
One of them shot 10 rounds or so at a man size target at 25 yards. Then the happy cries of “I got a head shot”.
Wow, hitting a 6-7” target at 25 yards with a rifle once with 10 rounds.

That is when asshole mode kicked in and my target moved back to 25 yards. Yep, the 624 does a nice job of making “head shots” at that range.

I was nice enough to keep the smirk to myself and walk away quiet.

4.8 gr of 700X in the 44 special does have a totally different bark than the 4.5 gr of Titegroup I have been using. Shot well enough to warrant loading a bunch more.

 

[Bret4207]

Had to laugh at this one. Back in the late '80s/Army. My weight was always within a cpl lbs of max for my height. I am thick. So I would always be the token officer on the CSM's "weigh-in/tape" list every BN inspection. He always thought he would catch me overweight and get to put me on the fatboy program. Finally, I got tired of it. Knew what my weight was, and within the limits. So, I walked into his weigh-in with a box of a dozen donuts, about 1/2 gone, and kept eating in line. He was pissed, but left me alone after that!

HAR! Yeah, I getcha. I was on the fat boy list in the Corps. PT every morning. Didn't matter that I maxed the PFT week after week, I was "fat". There were some guys that were body builders on the same list. We're out there doing the 20 pull ups, 80 situps in under 2 minutes and 3 mile run way under 6 minutes per mile and we were still "fat". Okay, whatever! 1st Sgt finally saw us out there one day and asked who had us out there with the drunks and slobs. That was the end of that nonsense.

 

[Bret4207]

4 hours on the hammer drill sinking holes in the rock for tee posts. THERE YA STUPID NAGS!!! That ought to keep them in, or at least lookign for a new "weak spot" to exploit.

Thanks again to Ian for turning me onto the HF SDS Hammer Drill and carbide masonry bits!

 

[popper]

Navy program in 60s, too fat to fit through scuttle? Lose it or get shore duty.

 

[Mitty38]

Have an issue with my sights or me. The other day.
Put a matched set of Ameriglo Trillium night, "Ghost"Sights, on my G19ish build. They were spec for a G19.
Finally took a quick trip to the Range today. Shooting 6 inches low, not right or left but a tight little 3 inch group of 14 rounds 6 inches below the bullseye.At 3 yards or 7 yards. If they landed on the dot I could shoot it out completely. Never shot the gun with sights on it before, so nothing to compare to. So have to figure this out.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I have been battling simular with my G20. It simply shoots low. I re sighted my G29 and it shoots right on slight windage, but easy fix and done. Then my G40 again new steel sights, shoot, drift, shoot bingo, good shooting POA...

But the G20.... I thought maybe I have G17/19 sights. I had a set on Williams metal sights ladled G29/20. NOPE. Same deal shoots low. I have a set of tall suppressor sights I can file the front site to bring the groups up.
Last thing I want to try is different loads. This was all with my 200g cast @ 1200+ fps.
CW

 

[JonB]

a little eye candy for you machinists.

Just listed on FB by a farmer 50 miles west of me

Metal lathe

Vintage metal lathe, needs work. Perfect for a vintage metal shop project. Please message or call 3208947024 as I have hacked my wife's FB account :)

www.facebook.com

 

[JonB]

I lucked out yesterday, while taking a drive around town, there were a couple garage sales and found a broken pressure washer with a good Honda engine for $20. While most pressure washers have a tapered shaft, this one did not. It's a GX200 and is what Harbor Freight cloned for their 6.5 hp Predator, so this GX200 has the correct shaft and mounting to bolt right up to my Troybilt Horse, if I so desire. For a while, I've been thinking I should have a backup engine, in case the 1979 7 hp Kohler with Iron cylinder and Iron case, ever gives me trouble.

 

[fiver]

Have an issue with my sights or me. The other day.
Put a matched set of Ameriglo Trillium night, "Ghost"Sights, on my G19ish build. They were spec for a G19.
Finally took a quick trip to the Range today. Shooting 6 inches low, not right or left but a tight little 3 inch group of 14 rounds 6 inches below the bullseye.At 3 yards or 7 yards. If they landed on the dot I could shoot it out completely. Never shot the gun with sights on it before, so nothing to compare to. So have to figure this out.

back in the old days we called the repair tool for this problem a 'FILE', it was followed closely by a permanent ''magic marker''.


it's been a whole week since we cut up the deer.
the wife is showing marvelous restraint in only fixing IT twice this week.