Sheesh! Seventy-five bux for a belt? From India none-the-less? I've paid as much for a good bottle of Scotch; now that was a belt worth the money! :laughing:
If I understand your explanation, Eric, you could own Roy's 10/22 Takedown? Could you also have a 25 round magazine for it? The latest round of legislation passed here in Kalifornia will make ownership of ANY magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds a crime, even for my 10/22s. Several years ago the then new law said it was OK to keep what you already had, effectively banning sales in the state. But this one ups the ante, and applies retroactively. I know I've got some packed away somewhere, but since I can't even find the factory ten rounders, I guess I'm about to become notorious.
Huge falling star show just about ending now. Hopefully those getting up early enjoyed the show
Indeed! I stepped outside for a few minutes last night around 10PM and caught one big, bright streaker that made its way half way across the sky. But that was it for the few minutes I watched, so I gave it another shot this morning at about 4:15AM (yawn!). No big ones this time, but little ones in the north and northeast sky every minute or so. There was one cluster of 3 in a minute, then nothing for a couple of minutes, then one, etc. I counted ten in about fifteen minutes, well below the 200/hour touted for this display. That's still far better than in previous years, where the rate was more like one in five minutes. Still, just seeing one or two is pretty spectacular, considering that speck of dust has been hurtling through space for millions of years, waiting for just the right moment to flash across the sky just for you!
Glad the nose is getting better, too, Buppies!
Going to work on a clogged gutter downpipe today. It's plumbed to a pop-up cover about ten feet out in the yard, to get the water away from the house, but instead the gutters are overflowing. Somewhere in there...so I start at the top and start taking things apart.
Had one of those last fall, Drew. Turned out to be a hand full of pine needles bridged across the drain hole in the gutter. Of course I'd waited 'till the gutter was full of ice cold water and it was raining steadily, what better time to be up on a ladder? Only after pulling the plug did I stop to wonder if the downspout and buried drain line could handle the surge without damage, but they held up just fine. Guess that's why most folks clean their gutters regularly, huh?
One if the things I dragged home from Ohio last winter was a huge roll of plastic, because, well, you just never know when something like that will come in handy. So when I started thinking about a spray booth, using that roll was at the top of my list. Dug it out of the trailer yesterday morning, a real wrestling match owing to all the van parts piled on top of it and the weight and bulk of the roll itself, then rolled out a strip of plastic on the freshly broomed driveway. Then another strip right next to it. I'd need six such strips to get enough to cover the framework, so out came the 3M shipping tape to stick them all together. This was all under darkling skies just after dawn with nary a breath of wind, which would have sent the flimsy plastic flying. It involved a lot of scurrying around on hands and knees (the knees were purple by the time the deed was done), and some way of fastening the ends of two strips of wood together to form a pair of 20 foot spools to wind the sheet on. I found some perforated steel strips that were left over from the handy bases under the table saw and shop press, and a few minutes work with the band saw provided just what was needed. A few drywall screws and it was done. Now for some padding to keep the staples from going through the plastic. Hmmm, there's all that foam that Kyle had packed the impact wrench in, I wonder how it would cut on the bandsaw? Like a knife through hot butter, that's how, and a few minutes later I was using the air stapler to attach the plastic to the pole. A long series of tape-roll-tape-roll and I'd lost count of how many sheets had been taped together. :duh: But only after I'd stapled a stick to the other side as well. So I marked each tape joint as I unrolled one stick and rolled up the other (the driveway wasn't wide enough to unroll the sheet all at once), and found that I had the required six sheets. Which was one more than I thought I'd need, as I was thinking (wrongly as it turned out) that the roll was six feet wide when it was only five. So a case of two wrongs making a right, the first time I can ever remember being lucky enough for that to happen. And after unwinding 120 feet of plastic, the diameter and weight of that plastic roll was barely diminished. Good thing, as I've still got more rolling and taping this morning to form sheets for the ends.
TGIF!
. This afternoon more consulting.
