Jeb48

A friend did just what you are talking about. They have a near perfect location for solar and have one big system and two small. The big one feeds a 10KW LG power wall. The two smaller ones run other systems in the house when the sun shines but pulls from the grid or the power wall if they want to run those when the sun isn't shining. They generate about half of their total power in normal use but if they went into conservation mode could probably generate 100%. They have a second 10KW wall ordered to have more reserve for cloudy days. Big buck system but they wanted back up for power outages without a generator. I admit it is tempting but I live in the middle of a woods. I would like a power wall as backup.

Once you have invest in a generator I have found that the best way to make sure they start when needed, which. may be months or years apart, is to use the right fuel. I run 100LL aviation gas. AvGas has a shelf life of 10+ year with no needed additives added for storage. I also drain the carb after each use. The worse gas to use in the corn gas most stations sell, shelf life less than 6 months. At the very least use the alcohol free gas, shelf life a year or two with additives added. I keep 5-15 gallons of AvGas in a backyard shed. I also keep 5-10 gallons of alcohol free gas in the shed for other small engines that get run regular. The only corn gas on the property is in our everyday vehicles. I refill each kinds of gas when I open the last 5 gallons. In a long term outage I will burn what's available including corn gas that I syphon out of everyday vehicles. When the outage is over, if I burned anything but AvGas I will drain what's left and fill with AvGas and run long enough to flush the system, then drain the carb and put it away. Using this method, when I have an outage I turn on the gas and either wait a few minutes for the carb to refill by gravity or I do a few slow pulls on the starter rope then a few quick pulls and it is running. A friend went a different way and bought a tri-fuel generator and runs it on LP, it has an almost unlimited shelf life but unless you already use LP and have a big tank it can be hard to store enough 20Lb tanks to last you long. He has a 500 gal buried tank for his furnace that he taped into.

Don't mess with her!!!

1960's Vietnam

Rhodesian Bush War If this looks photoshopped I didn't do it.

Jerusalem, Palestine, on Nov. 22, 1945

Sniper maybe? What country?

Hope this helps. Looks makable. Not sure what fills the big hole in your follower and not sure I want to tear mine apart that far. Looking in the slot it looks like the button just threads into a metal piece in the hole in the follower.

Good day of bird hunting.

Now back to the purpose of this thread, interesting old gun pictures. Here is Elke Sommer with a nice rifle. Name the rifle, and if it is a movie shot what movie?

I skipped the car show this year and headed home instead on Saturday, long walk and threatening rain. For those that don't know about Hershey it is the Fall Meet for the Antique Car Club of America. It is also their largest show. The flea market covers roughly 100 acres and has nearly 10,000 10X30' flea market spaces. I have 3 of them. They usually have around 1400 cars for sale in the car coral and 1200-1400 cars in the Saturday show. These are all 25 year old and older vehicles that are as they left the factory, no street rods. They do allow vintage race cars if they have a documented racing history. My spots are roughly a mile from the edge of the car show and I'm probably a 1/2 mile or so from the other end of the flea market. The car show itself is adjacent to far western flea market field. In my younger days I walked all of the flea market over 3 days, this year maybe a quarter, getting old and the legs are not what they use to be. I have an aerial photo I bought of the 2019 meet, I'll try to remember to scan it and post to give you an idea of the size. Was down a bit on attendance this year because the borders are closed and they usually have a large number visiting from other countries. Most years you an't walk for more than 30 minutes without hearing a foreign language or a strong accent, this year I heard two.

I have great neighbors compared to the stories here. We do have one bad apple but so far has not bothered me. He has turned in two neighbors for zoning violations. Nothing dangerous, one couple, good friends, sold their land and moved because of him. They were living in a 5th wheel longer than allowed while trying to get a house built. They were with in days of moving the trailer to where no one could see it after getting a septic system in and water run back where the house was to be built. Had to move it off the property making them rent expensive campground space. Made them so mad they put the place up for sale and left the area. Other couple he turned in are new and in the process of putting a tiny house on their property and he didn’t like they way they were doing it and zoning has gotten involved and delaying them moving it. I was told our zoning board is pretty laid back on enforcement as long as there isn’t a safety issue but have to enforce if there is a complaint. Needless to say no one on the road likes him. Next time I see the tiny house guy I will stop and tell him the rest of the road has nice people that mind their own business, only one A**hole on the road. On the other hand when some one said they never had a neighbor ask for permission to shoot, that has happened once, but the neighbor was asking permission to shoot his new revolver on my range since he didn’t have his built yet. We took turns for a half a box or so of shells.

Taking a few days off from posting new old photos. Camping in the middle of the Hershey old cars flea market this week, selling some extra ca parts and buying things I don’t need. Decided I didn’t need my lap top and only brought my iPad not thinking about the fact all my pictures are on my laps top. So Reefer and others please pick up the slack. Sold enough today to pay for my spaces, now working on gas money. Would come anyway, but it is nice to come out even and it is cheaper to camp on the our spaces in the flea market than a cross the street in a field.

Bandito

I took early retirement 15+ years ago and always find things to stay busy. Lot of hobbies and such. I took two weeks of planned vacation soon after I retired and came back and just continued vacation mode and never missed work. A few things I used as my guide: I wake up each morning with nothing planned and if I get half done by evening I'm happy. Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished. Procrastination is totally a good thing. You always have something to do tomorrow, plus you have nothing to do today.

Practice makes perfect

A young girl armed with a rifle passes an abandoned Soviet ISU-152 in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Interesting armor