so waht ya doin today?

[freebullet]

Haven't seen that much of my bench since the wood was cut....

I just imagine all the projects I could permanently clutter that with

 

[Pistolero]

On day soon, I plan to sort out and relocate the top couple of layers on my reloading bench.
I think more than three layers is a problem.

Bill

 

[Intheshop]

My loading bench "stays" pretty durn clean.

If walking in there right now and had 1 thing that needs a home..... there's a 1/2 dz rifle barrels behind the powder hopper carousel.Just haven't figured out what to store them in? I think the reason it "stays" clean in there is,it's dedicated to loading vs being part of a broader reach shop environment. If a gun needs working on,it sure as heck ain't gonna be in there. Maybe taking a rifle bolt apart or other very minor operation.....

The cabinet shop stays cleaner than the machine shop. Sawdust bugs the snot out of me..... literally! Swarf in the machine shop dosen't. Got a small,but nothing nerve racking.... mess on bench in the assembly area. Race shed is organized chaos..... but not anything a cpl trashcan runs to dump won't fix...... which may get done today. Might make that part of the Coco Hilton project... which really isn't. Poke 3, 6X6's in the ground,build the "suite" in panels,in shop. Pre make metal roof,shoot the cornice on.

Sure would be nice to have the race shed cleaned up before/during so to sort of self motivate. Give the wife less eyeroll ammo.... which pretty much seals the deal. NOTHING beats building some shop/loading rm cabmet and seeing her speechless. But leave one beercan(don't drink.... illustration purposes only) on the ground after major car surgery and it's like racking an 870.....shuckshinka. "You been drinking BEER in here"! ..... "No Coco found it"

 

[Bret4207]

Been busy pumping my garage out this AM. Nothing like wading through water to get the wifes car out of the garage at 5:45AM. You guys worry about clutter, I'll worry about drowning! I'd guess the outlet to the floor drain in frozen solid.

Just miserable here this AM, windy, freezing ice pellets/hail, 34F with about a 30mph steady wind. Not going to be a nice day to be out and about. Yuck.

Youngest boys room is on a back part of the ell of the house. The interior of his room stinks of skunk. Not his clothes, not one of the dogs he has in there with him, not his boots. All I can figure is a skunk got in under the house under his room. Wunnnerful, wunnerful.

Hope to take a look at that leaking transmission cover today.

 

[Intheshop]

This is Old Salem NC. All mom's family were Moravian which is what this preserved,AND active community bases it's history on. Think Czechoslovakia..... S.E. exposure to the mnts. Same thing down in NC,facing the sun in winter. Anyfreakinway,besides family roots in the area,the architecture has quite a few elements that are stand alone. Here's one example of how to minimize water intrusion on the top of a masonry wall.

I used(stole) the idea on a cpl projects...... this is the idea for the top of the Coco Hilton "walls"...... by "breaking" the vertical line back twds inside at a 45* it will help as a sort of "whaler" to the top and also be a head knocker every time the dog goes to jump the fence.

 

[fiver]

you guy's go ahead and knock on that dog run all you want.
but I have had a couple of professional escape artist type dogs that used all of their waking hours figuring out ways to go out and see the sights around town.
I had one dog that broke out of a house I was renting just so he could lay on the front porch. [that and chase the mail man, keep the neighbor pinned in his car for an hour, and attack the garbage truck]
he broke out by tearing the curtains and blind down, then chewing through the window sill and opening the wood framed window by breaking it.
we had a whippet hound here that got her exercise by running across our yard and jumping the 6' wood fence, then going over the other one in the neighbors yard, and the next, and the next, all the way down the road then coming back and going the other direction to the big field.
this pretty much pissed off all the other neighbors dogs that couldn't/wouldn't do it and got a crew of those that could/would going until we had dogs scattered up and down the street in the wrong places, and a bunch of barking and howling and dog fights going on everywhere.

 

[blackthorn]

I had a big Akita (29 inch neck) who decided he could dig out under the chain-link fence. I got a bunch of broken single-cut band saw blade from a sawmill and buried it points down along the bottom of the fence. After the dog dug a few holes at varying intervals and pinched his toes a few times, he abandoned the digging idea.

 

[358156 hp]

Man, if my bench looked like that there would have been a tornado or a robbery.

I feel better now. Me too.

 

[smokeywolf]

I watched my horse-herding border collie chase the neighbor's cat from ground to the top of the neighbor's 6' fence and from there onto the neighbor's roof. Told him to get down. He came back down the same way.

 

[Intheshop]

"I'll take that".... H vs "I" 4198. Been shooting hunting loads.

The H is a touch slower than the IMR 4198 we got on inventory. Once that was accounted for.....

3 shots,with the H flavor....... about,.3 g more of the H than IMR puts H right in there. 1st shot was a 10X....2nd shot,no horizontal and 3/4" vertical. 3rd shot right in between.

This is my new ADL223. It loves IMR4198 @2800 fps. As a test,bought some H 4198....

The H looks real good,just needs a touch more juice than the IMR. Now we're back on schedule.... just using H instead of I. I'm saying about 2950,it all goes to heck.

 

[Bret4207]

Turns out the leak in the tranny was not as bad as described. It's not good, no, but it's fixable I think. Basically a pin hole the size of a mechanical pencil lead. We'll see how JB Weld Marine Grade works. Had to help it harden with a hot air gun. Not many epoxy types compounds like to harden at 35F.

 

[Intheshop]

Gotta add.....

For the record,I deep cleaned the factory brrl.... just before shooting the last 3 shot group. Run several wet patches with shooters choice.... then dry mopped till all was clear.

Then did Remington 10X on a tight arse patch.... two complete relays.

So,effectively the group was shot coming off a dead clean barrel.

 

[Intheshop]

Sorta edit #2....

Was feeling there was something left on the table with seating depths IMR4198....

I added .010 "jam" on the H flavor. Just sayin,was trying to regain ground made in or with the IMR4198...... pressure wise

 

[Todd M]

And all those empty grey bins?

I believe we have a poser amongst us. A complete fraud. No caster in his right mind has empty anything. Or a clean bench.

Wait a second, does Oregon allow recreational herbs?

I've actually got a bunch of empty oatmeal/sour cream/vitamin containers. Only because we've been staying at my mom's through the cold and white rain and haven't spent enough time in the workshop to fill em. It bugs me every time I walk in and see the stack of large, clean, empty "organizers"!!

 

[Bret4207]

Huh. Okay, this isn't going good so far. Turns out that cover is over the pump. I have a feeling that there is a lot of pressure in there. So far the epoxy isn't doing any too hot. I've searched around a good bit trying to find out what is behind where the hole is and I'm still not sure. I think I could get it clean enough to braze, but the heat would probably kill the pump. I'm almost at the point of having nothing to lose. Oh, and I'm not the only one with this problem and the CD4e tranny. Who in the world would design a cover to hold slat and sand against a steel object?!!

 

[Brad]

Bret, it was designed for ease and cost of manufacturing. Once it leaves the plant who cares, that is YOUR problem.

 

[S Mac]

Don't think you would want to braze it in place, don't forget there's fluid in there. Might just put the Escape out of it's misery, in flames.

 

[uncle jimbo]

Huh. Okay, this isn't going good so far. Turns out that cover is over the pump. I have a feeling that there is a lot of pressure in there. So far the epoxy isn't doing any too hot. I've searched around a good bit trying to find out what is behind where the hole is and I'm still not sure. I think I could get it clean enough to braze, but the heat would probably kill the pump. I'm almost at the point of having nothing to lose. Oh, and I'm not the only one with this problem and the CD4e tranny. Who in the world would design a cover to hold slat and sand against a steel object?!!

OK, this is just a thought.
You already have a hole in it, so take a thin piece of wire and stick it in the hole and see how far in it goes before it hits something. Straight in and side to side and up and down.
Once you know this, drill out the pin hole to a size that will get the hole into good metal all around it.
Find a fine thread sheet metal screw that you can screw into the hole and not hit anything behind. Screw it in just far enough to to get the threads made into the hole and not pulled tight.
Take the screw out and put Permatex #1 on the threads and the underside of the screw head and screw it back in the hole as tight as you think it can handle.
Let dry for 24 hours or longer and try it.
I really don't know what I am talking about or if this will fix the problem or anything else as I understand it.

 

[Ian]

Been a long time since I heard mention of Permatex #1. Might just work because it will resist the ATF and not care about temperature.

 

[462]

First day in three weeks, or longer, that it didn't rain even a small amount, it's been sunny all day!, and the next rain is not scheduled till next week.