peejman

Having been a band geek all through school, I learned that the sounds that comes from the instrument is 90% player, 10% instrument.  Can a super quality instrument make a superb player sound that little bit better?  Absolutely yes.  If you give that same instrument to a hack like me, I'll still sound like a hack.    My experience with the accuracy of guns is similar.  However, I still find the "tolerances no CNC machine can match" line in the Les Baer commercials quite amusing, mostly because it's complete nonsense. 

Unfortunately all that technology requires capital investment. With a $250M debt hanging over the company and a current inability to make the interest payment, that's not going to happen. Bankruptcy followed by restructuring might be the best solution at this point.

Thoughts and prayers for you and your family. Hope they've got their arms around this soon enough for a speedy recovery.

I completely lost respect for and interest in nascar during the fallout from Dale Sr.'s death. Now that they're fighting in the pits again (which tells me they care more about winning than sponsor money and image), color me curious.

Here's my $0.02... Generally bigger and heavier than I expected. Not razor sharp, but sharp enough for most things. I haven't tried to sharpen it. The flipper doesn't do much other than open it about 1/2" so it does need to be pushed open. Might loosen up with use, and maybe I'm used to my Kershaw. Fasteners seem good enough and the blade is centered in the body pretty well. Looks to be completely metal. All in all, a perfectly fine knife to be used and abused or tossed in a toolbox. $5 well spent.

Interesting indeed. Looks like it would be a good choice for "dangerous game" like Cape buffalo, etc.

Had to go to walmart this afternoon anyway, so I picked up a couple. As stated, it's hard to go wrong for $5.

I think I'm about to have to do this in my kids bathroom. The whole room smells like pee and it's driving me crazy!

Only our government could come up with something so confusing and stupid.

If you can still see the rifling from the chamber to the muzzle, it's fine.

Looks like the guy from Fast'n Loud.

So during the process of building my TGO AR, the complete 16" upper arrived and was installed before I received the stock. So technically I built a pistol, then made a rifle when the stock was installed. So I can legally turn it back into a pistol. Had the converse happened and the stock been installed before the upper, I'd have "once a rifle, always a rifle". Correct?

Exactly. I've got a cheap knife in the console in both cars, bikes, first aid kits, tool boxes, etc. None of them are particularly nice but if I get in a jam and need a knife, they'll work and I won't care if I bugger them.

    Clean it?  Nearly impossible.  My previous house had that crap.  Best we ever came up with for cleaning was one of those swiffer duster things.  It'll knock off lots of little pieces of the stuff.  Well.... it does that if you're me and pissed about having to do it in the first place.  Painting it isn't easy either, use a heavy nap roller and be prepared for little pieces of it to get stuck in the paint and roller.    The guy who thought textured ceilings were a good idea needs his peepee whacked.  :stick:

If you're changing the color, forget about "1 coat coverage".   I painted my whole house when we bought it with the Lowes Valspar brand paint... 23 gallons of it.  We painted everything but the ceilings and I wish we'd painted them too.   It was fine paint and has held up to 2 little boys pretty well.  I went with Lowes because I had about $400 in gift cards saved up.    edit... I did not prime the walls, we just cleaned them with windex and a rag and painted over the existing paint.  I only primed a few areas where I had to do some sheetrock repairs. 

  I hope they're covered with a couple feet of dirt.  Bullets bounce off wood. 

Solidworks is easy to learn and was my favorite, but there's some things it just doesn't do very well.  It guesses and/or approximates sometimes and doesn't tell you that.    DraftCAD2001.... heh... I was using GeoMOD in 1993.  There's a reason it was founded by a guy named Dr. Lemon.  Seriously.

The sad part is that AutoCAD and Inventor have been updated numerous times.  They make it look like other programs, but its still way too complicated and cumbersome.  Inventor is incredibly powerful.  If you know how, you can create (quantified and precise) 3D geometry in Inventor that's simply not possible with other packages.  That becomes important when you're working with quantitative analysis models, but not everybody does that.  Plain ol' 2D AutoCAD is what I use more often than not when just sketching stuff.  And that's only when it's too complicated to draw on a sheet of paper.  :)

I have a somewhat confused opinion on this subject....     Bow season should be long bows and compound bows.  A crossbow with a scope?  Nah.  Other than visually resembling a bow, it's a completely different skill set and more akin to a rifle than a bow.   Muzzleloaders... Somehow the modern in-lines seem too "high tech", like they're not "in the spirit" of something like a flintlock.    That said, go hunt with whatever you've got.  The regulations are WAY too complicated and licenses are too expensive.  You can only shoot this many of this sex in this area with this weapon during these days with this license...  sheesh.  KISS, y'all know what that means. 

In addition to what prag has posted.... Go see your local Red Cross.  Most everywhere offers a (typically free) first responder training class.  While not specific to gun shot wounds, it great general info on what you should and sometimes more importantly, should not do.    http://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/program-highlights/cpr-first-aid     I took one specific to motorcycles a few years ago from these folks: http://roadguardians.org/

I've done my fair share of actual "drafting", even had a class in college for it.  I've also used several different CAD packages and AutoDesk Inventor is by far the least friendly.  I keep threatening to get a t-shirt made for our tool designer.  It would read.... "I don't have tourettes, I use AutoDesk."  :)

    Yes, just hand mark up the drawings with the changes you want.  I'd make a copy of the original paper and mark them up neatly (use a straight edge, etc.) using a RED pen.  Sign and date the changes.  Unless they're really extensive, I wouldn't worry too much about getting the actual drawings re-done.  Any competent builder should be able to deal with that.  It's normal for stuff to change during the building process anyway.     And yes, without the original CAD files changing the drawings electronically is going to be very akin to doing so with a pencil.  I'm quite sure the architect knew that when they told you.  I'd bet the CAD files are significantly more expensive than pdf's.   

I'm in.  Regular blade #13 if available.   Merry Christmas to me. 

I'm not sure that modifying an architectural blueprint that's in pdf format is going to work.  If they look like what I'm accustomed to seeing, you'd likely need the drawings in CAD format to do the editing.  I've got full Adobe on my work computer so I can edit pdf's, but Adobe isn't really set up with the tools necessary to do proper drawing changes.  It can be done, but it'd be somewhat of a hack job... something that could also be done using MSPaint or similar software. 

Mustaches on guests?  That's awesome!  I'll have to remember that.