so waht ya doin today?

[Bret4207]

Priced some batteries to replace some that are a good 10 years old and not holding a good charge or producing much in amps or voltage. Holy smokes! What used to be a $49 battery just (what seems like) a few years back is now $124!!! I'm going to have to do some checking around as these prices seem stupidly high. I didn't pay that much for the giant sized diesel start tractor batt 2 years ago.

Still not raining here, got sheep moved, wore sneakers, bad idea.

 

[Winelover]

Last Fall, I replaced three automotive starting batteries. A 2006, 2007 and a 2010 vintage. Only the 2007, gave up the ghost. With Winter coming, I figure it was time. None were under a hundred dollars.

Need to replace two Marine/RV (trolling motor) batteries on the pontoon......they are over three years old. Last season they were struggling to push the barge.

 

[RBHarter]

2002-4 batteries took a huge jump in price most about tripled in price .

It seems to vary by region also . Last fall we gimped mom's diesel out west with a failing battery because it was $80 less for the same batteries out there than here it takes 2 . As a plus she got 825 amp cold crank batteries instead of 825 standards .

 

[fiver]

well I ain't gonna see 60-F till June.
seems every year we have a nice warm up the first week or two of may and then get reminded we live in the mountains.
I'm okay with the 30-50 temp window, but it sure puts a damper on fishing, rock chuck shooting, plant growing, and anything outside being dry when it's also raining or misting or snowing or hailing the whole time.

 

[Brad]

Sitting at PWM waiting for the plane to take me on the way home.
I miss my bed and my cat. Oh, and my wife.

 

[462]

Nothing better than home. Have a safe flight.

Michael

 

[Rick]

As somebody with a great deal of experience with motels, sometimes two months or more at a time with one after another I can tell you how good it is to get home. Shocking how exactly alike (alike spelled as - Boring) even the upper scale motels are. No place like home.

 

[Hawk]

Ian,
I didn't mean to imply that you had done anything wrong with your handling of the wrong parts situation.
My brother is a mechanic and my niece runs parts for a large local distributor.
She has a few mechanics that try to hold her personally responsible for what she delivers when the parts are wrong.
She just delivers the parts, doesn't pull them.
She's pretty tough and indepenedent and gives as good as she gets. Explains that she doesnt pull the parts and tells the mechanics to call the distributor directly, as she cant really relay the full message to the manager without getting fired.
She's sort of in no man's land. Has pretty interesting stories though.
Not to be sexist, but being blonde and cute doesn't hurt either. Just a fact of life.

 

[Ian]

I glanced at my left front wheel when I got to work this morning and guess what? One wheel nut is missing. I'm certain it was on there yesterday when I got back from the tire shop the second time. Good thing I kept my center caps at home and out of their hands because the loose nut would not have been apparent due to the plastic thread-on nut covers attached to the center cap. I checked the other five and they are tight. Sighh......

 

[Pistolero]

I think the EPA did some stuff on handling lead that made batteries jump up. I first noticed it about
7 or 8 years ago. Nowdays a $100 battery is the bargain one.

A HS classmate is in town from Fla, will be getting him some KC BBQ for lunch and a short visit
before he flies home. Just passing thru on business.

Working on car rental in England.....not so easy to figure out what you will actually get, almost all are
"or similar' which I have found are often not very similar, and I need room for 4 adults. It would be
so cool to actually talk to a person, but apparently that is entirely impossible these days.

Bill

 

[Brad]

Room for 4 adults is a subjective term.

Sitting at O’Hare waiting for flight to Lincoln where my wife will pick me up. Will be good to be home.

 

[Pistolero]

Looking at cars which are purported to hold 5, so HOPE they are OK for four not huge adults.
Nobody over 5'8" and 185 lbs. Still, would really appreciate talking to a person.

Good luck on your final leg, weather looks OK, one small ball of thunderboomers in the middle of Iowa,
and a bigger ball at Sioux Falls. Looks good.

 

[RBHarter]

Learned a new thing today .
Why do installation manuals hoard one little bit of information like it's a 6 pass code , 4 key , retinal scan national security item , but it's actually a kindergartener with a crayon deal when you finally get it ?
I've never been so derpy derp , relived , how simple , why the hell would they hold out on something so simple pissed off in a happy way since the last time I slammed a car door on my finger an didn't break it .
Stupid electricity !

 

[462]

"Stupid electricity !"

It was sometime back in the early '70s when I determined that electrons have minds of their own, and that their sole purpose is to drive us far past frustration, rather than do what we expect of them.

They are very rascally.

 

[Brad]

Home

 

[fiver]

dang only 11 hours.

went to Pocatello and watched 3 guys take 32 [okay only 2+ real] hours to put 4 new tires on my truck today.
I could have milked out another 3-4K miles no problem, but after looking at the tread depth I started with, and how many miles I put on the old ones I figured I better get them now, while I have the money, and before something does happen.

 

[462]

As mentioned in another thread, I shot the .38 Special Uberti 1866, this morning, and load development can officially be called "good enough for buckhorn iron sights and my funky vision". I've settled on Lee's 358-158 RNFN and 5.1 grains of Unique. With the same loads, the RNFN profile is magnitudes more accurate than the SWC design, which put holes all over the target and its backer.

The poor mans's trigger job -- a two-ply beer can shim under the trigger spring -- was a very noticeable and much appreciated improvement.

 

[Brad]

I tend to find a load that works in a gun and just keep feeding it that load. Might be why I don’t have many moulds?

 

[462]

My experience has been that rarely is the load quickly discovered, but it is all further development ceases.

I had to say, though, that in the case of the 1866 and 158-grain jacketed bullets, load experimentation stopped within the first six test loads. Cast bullets took a bit longer, mainly because I kept testing semi-wadcutters, but once I switched to the RNFN design it was only a matter of five experimental loads.

Quick Load probably pays for itself by not wasting primers and powder while pursuing an accurate load, but it's too late in the game for me.

 

[Winelover]

Quick Load probably pays for itself by not wasting primers and powder while pursuing an accurate load, but it's too late in the game for me.

Where's the fun in that?