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    Yea, that’s a real “Derp” moment for me. I honestly don’t think I’ve even put 200 rds through mine. I got it about the time I was building my Garand and it just seems “more fun” with the ping at the end.
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    Ugh…billet steel and not forged receiver. Personally I’d pass unless I had a spare Garand receiver laying around to modify. And mfgr says use mil surplus 7.62, not .308. Any kaboom with .308 and I’m betting no warranty.
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    Also, I posted over in the tips and techniques about a minor issue I had cleaning the resin. The old “Bleech White” tire cleaner almost melted my pilots seat. It’s owned by a new company now, no longer Westleys. I’m wondering if they changed formulas. It turned the sides of the seat into rubber.
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    Hubert, I wasthisclose to cutting them out completely and replacing them with some Evergreen stock sanded to a point on the top. The idea came to me as I had just gotten past the halfway point of adding to them.
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    Dang, where did you find a BM-59? I scratched the “Garand with a magazine” itch with an M1-A.
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    I had the screen I replaced last fall in my screen door blow out. I guess I used too small of a ribbon to hold it in. Lake level has risen almost 3 feet since the rains started the other day. Had to go down to the dock this morning and drop the boats Bimini top and raise it up higher on the lift. We finally got power back on at 3:30 yesterday afternoon. The real disaster is my lawn. It’s been raining so much lately (almost 4” within the past week) that I haven’t been able to mow the grass. Hopefully the sun will come out today and start to dry things up. Laundry’s piling up because we’re on septic and I don’t want to use excessive water right now. Crap. Just checked the weather. Calling for rain again around 3 pm. Maybe I can get a cut in before that. I’m slammed with appointments until after lunch.
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    Always read about this technique of soaking 24 hours. I’ve done it in the past with great results. Apparently the company sold off and they might have changed the formula. Last night I put a batch of small parts for my Fisher Cutlass in a small container for a good soak. I have an issue now with the seat. The very thin sides warped up pretty bad and are very rubbery. I’m going to let it air dry overnight and if it firms back up, I’ll see if just some hot water will let me reshape it. If not, I’ll be scratch building new seat sides. This is after massaging back for 10 min after I rinsed it off. It was much worse than this when I first saw it. Be careful using this cleaner! Maybe a quick wash after a 2-5 minute soak is all I would do now that I know this.
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    Wrong scale. 😡
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    5th? So you have 4? Not sure if you need a high five or an intervention.
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    Act fast! Sprue Bros lightning deal. Killer price if you’ve been holding out.
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    Email update from Duke Energy. Off until 6 pm now.
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    Bad storms blew through the south east last night. Power has been off since 4 am. Time to pull out the inverter again for some modeling light. Got my fix in. I feel much better now.
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    Glass! For the empty spaces after rearranging the existing shelves. Added 6 more shelves. Got some empty space to fill up now! Brackets and steel for the 6 was $225. Glass, $775. Yep. A grand just for shelving. There goes the modeling budget for the year. ……Yea, right.
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    Needs these.
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    OK, that’s pretty damned smart to treat the soil before the slab goes down. Years ago I had a termite treatment salesman try to sell me a treatment plan where they were going to go into my perfectly dry basement, poke holes in the slab floor and pump in chemicals. I asked him who will they send in to rip out the slab, install a new vapor barrier and pour a new floor after the basement fills up with water. crickets. Never heard from them again.
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    Well this is a fine mess. Got the intakes painted inside and glued on. Fit was perfect to the outside of the back half of the fuselage. Once my glue set up I slipped in the nose piece. Oops. There’s a .040 gap on either side on the intakes. I did my best to fill it with Evergreen stock. In hind sight I probably should have just cut the bleed fins out and shaped new ones instead of adding stock to them. I could have also moved the intakes in and shaped the rear fuselage to fit the new location. I obviously need to clean things up still.
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    I like the idea of the storm runoff storage soaker tanks. We have a lot of areas here that should utilize that tech. Im completely surrounded by pine tree farms myself. Mostly around here though it gets ground up into pulp for paper mills. There’s very little lumber production around our area. Our local building code doesn’t allow “home made lumber” for licensed structures. All wood has to have a mill stamp on it. Heard of one guy that made his own lumber, kiln dried it and framed up his house. Inspector made him tear it down. Next county over (2 miles from me) you can do this. My old neighbor did it. About the only pre treated lumber we have is a blue moisture barrier. All of our termite treatment is done after the build.
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    That’s an old one! You know the old saying….”Old truckers never die. They just get a new Peterbilt”
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    Very generous! Thanks. But no need since I’ve already got my replacements. And by the time I needed them again in 9-10 years I probably won’t be driving a Mustang at 70 years old. And I’m sure there’s a shelf life as well.
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    Are those septic tanks or cisterns? If septic, that’s one hell of a lid to open for clean out. in the first pic, home with the roof being built, I cannot make it out clearly. Are they building using metal structure or is that wood? I still cannot figure out why we rely on wood for home construction as much as we do here in the states when the metal doesn’t burn. Cost is my only reasoning.
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    I just bought 4 new TPMS units for my Mustang. Had one go out and I expect the other three will go out soon as well. I’ve read the 2015 will auto program, so I’m going to take a chance and get them installed sometime this week.
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    Sexy!
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    Yea, it stings a little. I honestly expected $1400-$1500. And that was thinking on the high side. Compressor alone was like $900 for a Ford OEM part.
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    All glued up! Filling in the gaps with epoxy
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    And the jig will need some course corrections dialed in as well. I probably just need to file/sand the base with some angle where it tightens down on the sliding scale.
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