Darrell

Those old boxes are pretty cool! Some collector might want them.

I've been very happy with Progressive, which does my cars and motorcycles. You can apply on-line with them.

Maybe the trick is to set up shop in Vietnam inside a couple of shipping containers. No big problems with permits or hazmat requirements. No problem with keeping the floor flooded, at least for most of the year. Shipping containers are easy to replace as they're blown up.....

My wife thought the seat of my race bike would look a lot better with Armorall. Or maybe she was looking for insurance money.....

Wow, that looks interesting! Too rich for me, but still interesting. I wonder how the firing mechanism works.... Looks like there are a couple of YouTube videos featuring this revolver. Gonna check them out. This is a pretty good, quick discussion of the revolver:

Mine is a 2002 7.3 Powerstroke, and yes, it needs the plugs. I've seen starting slowly deteriorate over the past year and with the current cold weather it's reached the point of needing new plugs. But given that the truck is 20 years old with over 100K miles on it, I shouldn't complain.

Just ordered a set of glow plugs for my Ford diesel and the set, including the wiring harness that runs through the valve cover gaskets, comes to $350. And I'll do the labor. Everything is more expensive....

You wouldn't think it would be all that hard. Primers are simple devices, just a couple pieces of pressed metal with some chemical compound. But the licensing, hazmat etc. might be a nightmare. Great question, though, and something I'll bet has been considered by people who could make it happen. This is a brief explanation: A primer cap is a stamping made from rolled copper-alloy sheet. The sheet is fed into a small stamping press where a multiple die set produces more than a dozen caps on each stroke. The caps are often nickel-plated. Primer caps are made in different diameters for different applications. In manufacture, the primer caps are filled with primer mix using a method called "rubbing." This process begins with a thin steel plate containing several hundred holes. The plates are placed on shaker tables and primer caps broadcast over their surface. The shaking motion causes a cap to fall into each hole. Next, the plate is sent into the primer "rubbing room," a heavily built and spotlessly clean room where plates sit on a metal table and wet priming compound is hand-rubbed over the surface to fill each cap.

I needed to cut a small amount of lumber, and I bought an Alaskan Saw Mill to do that. It worked really well, but it's fairly labor intensive and it can't be great on the ol' chainsaw. But I ended up with enough large-dimension lumber for the project I was working on and it more than paid for the tool. If you have a lot to do, though, it's probably not the way to go.

I suppose I'm with the NSSF on this one, I have no objection to making "smart guns" available, but would never want to see the technology made mandatory. I believe in the KISS principle, and think that firearms are among those products that need to be stone-axe reliable. The worst thing, in my opinion, about this technology is that it's certain to be followed by a push to mandate it for all firearms.

The only cigar I ever tried to smoke made me sick for two days. The first puff I thought this isn't so bad. Second puff I thought maybe I was making a mistake. Third puff was the last. My dad smoked the Dutch Masters, and they killed him twenty one years ago. So that box is pretty old and filled with hand-cast 357 wadcutters. The Thug is a pretty cool cat, but he has had no bad experiences in life and thinks the whole world loves him. He'd walk right up to coyote to say hello if he ever got outside.

My little buddy, The Thug, keeps a close eye on me when I reload.

I somehow managed to break the rear sight blade on my Ruger GP100. There are plenty of rear sight blades to be had, but this is an adjustable rear sight. I think I can just tap the old blade out and a new one in. Do any of you have experience changing out the blade on an adjustable sight? I think the entire blade holder moves left and right, and I can just tap out the blade, but thought I'd ask before tapping.

I'm small potatoes compared to some of you. The Colt 1911 was my father's. I'm 65, and I remember him bringing it home when I was 8 or so, and how heavy it was then. I keep waiting for the Mustang to grow up.

Guilty, I guess. I moved here from Washington, does that count as "Yankee"? WA didn't become a state until 25 years after the civil war.

She should be charged with reckless endangerment! Holy Crap! Her career is definitely over, there is no way that another cop could ever work with her.

Me too!

And I was just in Knoxville yesterday. So it goes...

That situation exists in Japan, too. Not because the Japanese fear harsh punishment, but because they value their good standing in society. We have a saying here that the squeaking wheel gets the grease. The corollary saying in Japan is, "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down," Of course there are honest and dishonest people everywhere. A friend went to Tijuana with me to shop for a pair of cowboy boots, and she left her purse in the store when we left. The store-keeper chased us down two blocks away to return it, and that after I'd done my best to haggle the price of the boots down. I was impressed.

A little off-topic here, but it reminded me of a story one of my coworkers told me years ago. He heard some noises in the wee hours, went into his daughter's bedroom gun-in-hand and found her boyfriend coming in through the window. I guess they had a man-to-man discussion while Rich held a gun in the young fellow's face. THAT could have ended badly, but didn't. I imagine it left a life-long impression on the lad, though.

Just a quick update. "Katy" was pretty much hands-off for five or six weeks. But in the last week she's decided that she wants to be petted pretty darned often. She sticks right to my side on our walks in the woods, and pushes her wet nose into my hand every ten steps or so. She's figured out that her kennel and house are hers, and she'll go in there whenever she wants a break. I fly model airplanes and helicopters, and she REALLY wants to eat one, but so far she's respected my "no's" on that. She's still lean but one can no longer see her ribs and spine sticking up, and the flea collar has done wonders for her biting and scratching. Off to the spay clinic as soon as I can get an appointment, and she's due for a full set of shots. But I guess she's family now and we'll do what we can for her.

Probably fair. Consider becoming a Benefactor and listing them for sale in the "Gear" section of the classifieds.

Once a month Google sends me a little map that shows where I've been. (I live in a small world!) I rarely carry a phone with me, so Google doesn't know all, but it's still creepy.

Thank you all! Just shows to go ya that a fellow can learn something everyday.

Ah ha! You are probably correct. The fellow I bought the cases from said there were 300 Blackout in the lot, and I didn't recognized them Thanks!