so waht ya doin today?
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Gary,4198 would be on my short list of must have powders.I've been loading some 4759 over the last cpl days and it is/was a great one but..... ehhh,getting past it.
Headed out to a dear old bud's place in a few hrs. Loading up some .223/4198 serious beer can loads to take,along with a #16 Savage.He'll be grinning at the mild recoil/report......
Headed out to a dear old bud's place in a few hrs. Loading up some .223/4198 serious beer can loads to take,along with a #16 Savage.He'll be grinning at the mild recoil/report......
Worked on a cpl scopes yesterday.Set the paralax on them.... one was a sort of junky 4-12X40 that's on my 7-08.It is a really cheap pkg scope someone donated.Once getting the cover ring off,which was hand tight....doh. The actual lock ring was or had some lock tight,which felt like super glue when it cracked loose,haha.Can we say loose tolerances? Then it was just a matter of setting front lense to 75-100 yds,buttoning it up and send a few jacked up handloads downrange to seat/test.
The tooling on that one was pretty easy to make.The next scope was a tooling issue,older Redfield A.O. with great glass but they definitely have their way about engineering.Polar opposite from "el cheapo" 4-12 above.Will spare anymore commentary on their respective design criteria. Anyway,after spending an hour searching for tooling in inventory had to make one "wrench"..... fixed it for the most part. I'll shoot it for awhile and go back in there for a checkup.
The tooling on that one was pretty easy to make.The next scope was a tooling issue,older Redfield A.O. with great glass but they definitely have their way about engineering.Polar opposite from "el cheapo" 4-12 above.Will spare anymore commentary on their respective design criteria. Anyway,after spending an hour searching for tooling in inventory had to make one "wrench"..... fixed it for the most part. I'll shoot it for awhile and go back in there for a checkup.
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Got some oak firewood from Winelover a couple of days ago, cut it up and brought it home. Log splitter won't run. 
Run on starting fluid but obviously not getting gas. With all the talk of gas going bad lately I figure since it's been sitting since last year and it does have drunk gas in it that's most likely the problem.
Yesterday I tore into the Kohler on the log splitter. First thing checked (again) nope, ain't getting gas. Runs on starting fluid. Take fuel line off at carb, gas runs freely. Take carb off, take bowl off carb, clean as a whistle. No tarnish, no sludge at all, no nothing, not a hint. As clean and shiny as the day it was new, Has fuel shut-off valve mounted on & under carb. Hhmmm . . . Work back & forth, seems fine, can't get it off the carb, tiny little screws are frozen and the tiny Philips head screw driver only wants to round it out. Oh well. Take carb to air compressor and blow air into it through the fuel inlet. Blows through just fine, air exits through valve body, close fuel shut-off valve, doesn't blow air through, duh, open valve and, well you get the idea.
Put it all back together, add a little more gas to the tank cause it of course drained the tank with fuel line off. Spray a little starting fluid on air filter cause the whole fuel system is of course now empty and proceed to split the wood. It purred just like a one banger Kohler.
Only thing I can figure is that it probably had a piece of shit stuck in it someplace. Easy enough to get something in the gas tank when fueling, kind of a dirty environment with chips, sawdust etc. It should have but doesn't but will now get an inline fuel filter between tank and carb.
But bad gas? I've got enough problems, don't need that one. I've never yet had a bad gas issue. Can't figure out what you guys are talking about.
Run on starting fluid but obviously not getting gas. With all the talk of gas going bad lately I figure since it's been sitting since last year and it does have drunk gas in it that's most likely the problem.Yesterday I tore into the Kohler on the log splitter. First thing checked (again) nope, ain't getting gas. Runs on starting fluid. Take fuel line off at carb, gas runs freely. Take carb off, take bowl off carb, clean as a whistle. No tarnish, no sludge at all, no nothing, not a hint. As clean and shiny as the day it was new, Has fuel shut-off valve mounted on & under carb. Hhmmm . . . Work back & forth, seems fine, can't get it off the carb, tiny little screws are frozen and the tiny Philips head screw driver only wants to round it out. Oh well. Take carb to air compressor and blow air into it through the fuel inlet. Blows through just fine, air exits through valve body, close fuel shut-off valve, doesn't blow air through, duh, open valve and, well you get the idea.
Put it all back together, add a little more gas to the tank cause it of course drained the tank with fuel line off. Spray a little starting fluid on air filter cause the whole fuel system is of course now empty and proceed to split the wood.
It purred just like a one banger Kohler. Only thing I can figure is that it probably had a piece of shit stuck in it someplace. Easy enough to get something in the gas tank when fueling, kind of a dirty environment with chips, sawdust etc. It should have but doesn't but will now get an inline fuel filter between tank and carb.
But bad gas? I've got enough problems, don't need that one. I've never yet had a bad gas issue. Can't figure out what you guys are talking about.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
Gas gone to goo or varnish? YEP! Had that one a couple of times. Lawn mower, weed wacker, Dodge Caravan that sat for about 7 years with only a few gallons in the tank.
Rick, I hope you're going to use that oak for BBQ wood.
Rick, I hope you're going to use that oak for BBQ wood.
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Your not here yet but if that ever happens you'll learn. Oak is ALL I burn in the fireplace. Pine, cedar etc will creosote the chimney which then burns (in the chimney) much like a can of gas. Besides, all those trees you saw when you where here, the vast majority of them are oak. Oak is far more common and easier to get here than the creosote trees. Got a few sugar pines around but not in my fireplace. And . . . I don't think this white oak would be all that good for BBQ, split it when wet and it smells more like vinegar than oak. Red oak is great for BBQ but much less common.
I'll fairly soon learn how well that works, got a Honda EU3000 that I serviced about 4 years ago and added Sta-Bill to it. Could very well have a bad gas problem there. Will need to get a battery for it and I'll most likely need to clean out the fuel system. We shall see.
waco
Springfield, Oregon
I'm loading up some Jacketed 180gr 44's for my brothers Ruger semi auto carbine for camping next weekend. I got about 5-600 of these in a bulk deal several years ago and this seems like a good way to burn some up.
I have some family coming over later on for some grilling that the wife is going to do for us for my birthday. She is also making me a German chocolate cake as well!
Dinner is around 4:00 pm Pacific time if your hungry!
I have some family coming over later on for some grilling that the wife is going to do for us for my birthday. She is also making me a German chocolate cake as well!
Dinner is around 4:00 pm Pacific time if your hungry!
But happy birthday . . . .
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Sta-bil has been nothing but trouble for me. Once you get a tank full of Sta-bil molasses jello you'll learn it's not at all what it claims to be- at least with the ethanol gas we can get locally. Non-ethanol is a whole 'nuther story.
RIck, I'd gladly trade you even up. My red oak for your white oak. Red oak is furniture, barbeque and firewood. White oak is for building stuff that has to last outdoors. I got lotsa red oak, but only about 3 white oak on nearly 350 acres...
RIck, I'd gladly trade you even up. My red oak for your white oak. Red oak is furniture, barbeque and firewood. White oak is for building stuff that has to last outdoors. I got lotsa red oak, but only about 3 white oak on nearly 350 acres...
S Mac
Sept. 10, 2021 Steve left us. You are missed.
Around here most of the oak is red oak, we do have some white, which the deer prefer acornwise. I agree with Rick, much better choices for smoking wood than oak. Good for heat but wild cherry, hickory, sasafrass, peach,apple, even walnut tastes much better to me.
I've got one wild cherry tree. Every fall I'm quite tempted to turn it into firewood. Pretty tree but half of it hangs over the cement driveway. Every fall those little cherries turn the cement black. It survived last year cause there wasn't a cherry on it for some reason, maybe cause it was such a dry year.
You could send me the birds if they are still hungry, might save the cherry tree, not a flower on it yet this year. These wild cherries aren't very good eatin anyways, too bitter and too small to make it worth trying to get many. Birds don't seem any more interested in the cherries than I am.
Ian
Notorious member
Just got back in from our annual (usually) A&M sporting clays scholarship shoot, shoulder is fine but the edge of my jawline has a mushy knot on it. Targets were still set from last week's tournament shoot and not dumbed down to make us feel good. Wind was gusting to 25 mph, had a good time and still eeked out a 73 which is good shooting for me not having pulled a shotgun trigger in two years. At least I figured out how to adjust the Nikko to fit me and where I'm gonna have to take a belt sander to the stock.
Stock is cast for a right-handed shooter, and the comb slope is terrible. I ovalled the holes in the comb so it could be dropped all the way on the front pillar and jacked almost all the way up on the rear one. It fits now but that sharp, sloping edge eats my face under recoil.
Stock is cast for a right-handed shooter, and the comb slope is terrible. I ovalled the holes in the comb so it could be dropped all the way on the front pillar and jacked almost all the way up on the rear one. It fits now but that sharp, sloping edge eats my face under recoil.