so waht ya doin today?
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CZ93X62
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I have never been in that position myself. No, not me. Not ever.
Ian
Notorious member
The engine project sounds like fun, actually. Model steam engines are cool too. The practical side of me is thinking "But but Brad, you could learn to mill receiver blocks and barrel vise inserts, grind square thread form tools, profile a barrel, ream a chamber, cut a shoulder, file (or mill) extractor grooves, crown on a lathe, file (or mill) sight and mag tube dovetails, bottom-tap blind 6-42 holes, and master the hot-water rust bluing process all at once with the Marlin project". Hell, if I can do it on a 7x14 hobby lathe with almost no prior experience you ought to be able to nail it.
You could also build a small propane blast furnace for cheap and sand-cast a puck of scrap cartridge brass to make your flywheel, just think of the money you'd save....
You could also build a small propane blast furnace for cheap and sand-cast a puck of scrap cartridge brass to make your flywheel, just think of the money you'd save....
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CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
Oh, I'm good to go here.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Working hay, dealing with troubles, just another weekend in paradise!
WQ- a garage floor so clean and unstained you put greasy stuff on rags to protect it! The mind boggles!!! My envy is showing. My "garage" floor is dirt mostly. Nice stands, over built is good!
WQ- a garage floor so clean and unstained you put greasy stuff on rags to protect it! The mind boggles!!! My envy is showing. My "garage" floor is dirt mostly. Nice stands, over built is good!
Pretty much. My wife was shocked I hadn’t taken on this project sooner.
fiver
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you know when those leaves are gone that blue shirt will blend right in with the sky.
wish I'd seen this earlier.
I could have mailed you some frost off the,, well,,, off of everything, and sent you some froze dog water, you could have sprinkled the frost all over everything?
wish I'd seen this earlier.
I could have mailed you some frost off the,, well,,, off of everything, and sent you some froze dog water, you could have sprinkled the frost all over everything?
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Got all the hay done! A minor miracle, but it's all 1st cut. Any more haying, should the weather cooperate will be 2nd cut, the stuff people pay big bucks for. Doubtful we'll get much of that. But everyone else is in the same boat, so I don't feel too bad. At least it's in the barn or rolled up into tight, fairly weather proof round bales. Next on the list is fixing the 10,001 things that need to be done before snow hits, which could be a month from now or less. Have 2 broken tractor that need attn ASAP, the barn needs cleaning, my foundation I scheduled for work last spring seems to have slipped my contractors mind and I still need to put a basement door in to get the new furnace down there!
Spotted a car parked along one of my meadows yesterday. Some dude with binoculars looking out across my fields I thought. Turns out they are 2 elderly, ex- college prof types doing some sort of bumble bee study and were scoping out my clover blossoms for bees. Why? That's the same question I asked. 'Cuz apparently there are several types of bumble bees! Didn't know that, now I do.
Spotted a car parked along one of my meadows yesterday. Some dude with binoculars looking out across my fields I thought. Turns out they are 2 elderly, ex- college prof types doing some sort of bumble bee study and were scoping out my clover blossoms for bees. Why? That's the same question I asked. 'Cuz apparently there are several types of bumble bees! Didn't know that, now I do.
fiver
Well-Known Member
heh.
yeah I see at least 3 and sometimes 4 different types of bee's out in the garden.
right now there is a fuzzy black one with an orange band that is all over my raspberry's
the artichokes are covered over in hornets.
I don't know if they are eating them but they get right down in the leaves and fruits towards the main stem and just hang out face down like they are.
I don't see any holes from it, and they are really docile for hornets, you can swat them or walk right through them with no problems.[like you would a honey bee]
I wonder if it is like some kind of dope to them because they are there every day all day long and only on the two big ones with the flowers.
yeah I see at least 3 and sometimes 4 different types of bee's out in the garden.
right now there is a fuzzy black one with an orange band that is all over my raspberry's
the artichokes are covered over in hornets.
I don't know if they are eating them but they get right down in the leaves and fruits towards the main stem and just hang out face down like they are.
I don't see any holes from it, and they are really docile for hornets, you can swat them or walk right through them with no problems.[like you would a honey bee]
I wonder if it is like some kind of dope to them because they are there every day all day long and only on the two big ones with the flowers.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
This is a very bad year for hornets and wasps. Been stung twice, minding my own business. Had a near miss, today, with a yellow jacket. Prior to this year, haven't been stung, since I was a kid..............and I use go out of my way to catch them! Building their nests everywhere, including on the exterior doors. Taking your life, in your hands, just opening a door. 
Cindy's finding nests in her cherry tomato and string bean plants. WTF, they don't eat vegetable matter unless its rotten.
Cindy's finding nests in her cherry tomato and string bean plants. WTF, they don't eat vegetable matter unless its rotten.
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freebullet
Guest
Awww geez, Brad. I have to go pay the machine shop about 1400$ & NOW you decide to start on an engine. Sheesh.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Now that I'm thinking about it............we have more flavors of wasps/hornets/ bees than Baskin Robins has ice cream.Like the song.............we have big ones, tall ones. Short ones, small ones. Skinny ones, fat ones. Black ones, red ones, yellow ones, etc..............ya get the drift.
Yeah we got them big black wasps that enjoy stinging Winelover all over the place. John pretty much leaves them alone but I don't tolerate them around the house or the out buildings. Chemical warfare has been declared. I don't go out hunting them but any that even look like they are looking to build a nest around any of the buildings suffer the consequences.
fiver
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i was doing some house repairs a couple of years back and had borrowed a ladder from my FIL.
it was a bit bent and twisted before I got it and not what I'd call safe more than 10' up but it was the only ladder I could find tall enough to all but reach up to the peak. [35' up]
anyhow I climb up there and hang on for dear life and start banging on the piece of trim that needs nailed back in before painting, when about 50 hornets come flying out from under the metal roof.
all I got is a shaky ladder and a hammer to fend them off.
hammers are not real effective in this situation so I try the fireman slide to the bottom which works out for the first section.
not so well for the second half when my feet catch on the changeover and the hornets are following me all the way down.... to the grass.
where I lay there feebly waving the claw hammer around trying to get my wind back.
it was a bit bent and twisted before I got it and not what I'd call safe more than 10' up but it was the only ladder I could find tall enough to all but reach up to the peak. [35' up]
anyhow I climb up there and hang on for dear life and start banging on the piece of trim that needs nailed back in before painting, when about 50 hornets come flying out from under the metal roof.
all I got is a shaky ladder and a hammer to fend them off.
hammers are not real effective in this situation so I try the fireman slide to the bottom which works out for the first section.
not so well for the second half when my feet catch on the changeover and the hornets are following me all the way down.... to the grass.
where I lay there feebly waving the claw hammer around trying to get my wind back.