so waht ya doin today?

[S Mac]

Back a couple of years ago I saw big cat tracks, two different sized animals down the side of a long hayfield. The larger were as wide as my hand. I took a couple of pics, sent them to our local Conservation agent, who sent them to a biologist who works for Conservation. Despite there being no claws in the tracks he declared to be BIG dog tracks. Ok.....

 

[Brad]

Loaded a couple hundred 38 special. Accurate 155K sized .358 over 3.5 gr of Titegroup with a WSP. Assorted brass.

This morning I unloaded 200 9 mm with the CZ 75B. New trigger springs still amazing me. Shoots very well for me now. New magazines fed flawlessly as expected.

 

[JWFilips]

Still opening garden beds by Hand with a spading fork! Have one last one to finish! Planted Tomatoes and Chillis in the medium rectangle garden!
I decided to try the black ground fabric I was given a few years ago...Not a fan of it! Too hard to dig the holes for the plants through the small X cuts
But it does heat the ground And keeps critters from digging in the dirt so We shall see! If I don't have to weed and cultivate for that bed It will be great! I think the Scotch Bonnets are going to love the heat!
Finally got my TroyBilt Horse tractor back in action ....Been near a month since I was put through a comedy of errors! Ordered a muffler for the Kohler Courage 22 HP Engine & they sent One for a Brigs and Straton 16 Hp for the Pony! The person on the garden store on amazon said he thought that was the one I needed! Returned that and asked for the Horse Version...don't have one!

Ok Found out that the 2009 horse Part numbers have been all updated! Finally got the correct one from another vendor on Amazon and It took forever to arrive because I chose economy shipping!....Then I find out I needed a Exhaust Manifold Gasket!...Amazing The gasket shows well on the engine parts diagram however it is the only part with out a part # !!!..
Back to ebay and Got one for the proper engine! ...Not!

Everything was correct except for hole placement! Glad I kept the junked original!
Dremel cutter to the rescue! Just extended each hole...And probably inhaled Asbestos dust in the process!
Put tubes in the rear tires..... Have not experienced that since the mid 1960's A lost art!
And got my Horse up and running again!

 

[Brad]

Put a new blade on the band saw. Old one was cutting way slower than when new. The 14 TPI was a bit fine for most of the cutting I do.

Went with a bimetal Starrett 10-14 variable pitch. Will be interesting to see what difference I notice.

Replacing the band was actually easier than I expected. A third hand would have been nice but it wasn’t too bad. Maybe 15 minutes?

 

[JustJim]

Got word this morning the armored prairie dogs are back, so went over to do some plinking. I clearly need to practice more with the 44 Special, only hit 9 of 20 at 150 yards. Best guess was that the 32-20 was going to take at least 24" of holdover, but I need more practice to know the sight picture instead of just guessing. Got 4 of 20, but no knockdowns. A couple of friends are starting to refer to it as the "32 Atomic" due to the muzzle blast.

Despite shooting silhouette loads in the short barrel, the old 357 Blackhawk hit 14 of 20. After the first shot, folks did stop complaining about the noise of the .32.

As expected, the guy with the .357 Herrett cleaned up, I think he missed only 2 shots in 50. With any luck, we'll have a couple more good Spring days for this before the grass gets too tall to see the silhouettes.

 

[popper]

On the dog walk, stopped to talk with guy working on IH scout. New springs interfered with tie rod. Opps, tie rod ends in upside down!

 

[Ian]

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Put a new blade on the band saw. Old one was cutting way slower than when new. The 14 TPI was a bit fine for most of the cutting I do.

Went with a bimetal Starrett 10-14 variable pitch. Will be interesting to see what difference I notice.

Replacing the band was actually easier than I expected. A third hand would have been nice but it wasn’t too bad. Maybe 15 minutes?

I tried to do that very thing to mine but dumbasses stuck an 84" label ON TOP OF Starrett's 7'9" label. I got shorted a week on the return time (bar code expired), the replacement I ordered got lost at my local post office, so Jim is going to get to try it out on his 93" saw and I got another brand of bimetal 10-14T in the 84" length for my 12" Craftsman.

 

[Ian]

On the dog walk, stopped to talk with guy working on IH scout. New springs interfered with tie rod. Opps, tie rod ends in upside down!

Dafook? They're tapered. How does one screw that up?

 

[smokeywolf]

Went with a bimetal Starrett 10-14 variable pitch. Will be interesting to see what difference I notice.

Starrett bandsaw blades were used almost exclusively in the studio machine shop. I think you'll like that 10-14 variable pitch blade.
Oh, and be careful.

 

[462]

Took my wife to the foot doc for a follow up visit of her neuroma surgery of last Tuesday. He praised her fast healing genes and removed the stitches.

Though it's rained only a bit over 7" in the last 10 1/2 months (normal is 18" to 20"), I took advantage of the opportunity and fixed a downspout. Mounted hanging pot hangers to the new fence. Lubed a bunch of bullets.

 

[fiver]

picked about 3 lbs. of spinach this morning, got enough flowers for half the box out front,,,, yeah I can't count.
then went and checked the green house which is apparently too hot on the back side for the eggplants I have on a shelf there.
didn't think that was even possible??

think tomorrow I'm pulling out the brussel sprout back there and letting the one that's really flowering go since it's about 6' tall now, and sliding the cuke-melon over to that spot and seeing how it does for a couple of days then maybe just planting it there and dropping some yarn down off the rafters for it to climb.

should have a guy lined up to buy 8 lbs. of powder, and a guy that wants to buy 4 flats of factory shells with the provision I get back the empties.
I'm selling them to him so he can shoot the Idaho state shoot next week.
he keeps trying to talk me into shooting it, but I'm not really into the whole competition thing anymore and I reminded him he'd have to shoot the same class as me if I did shoot it.

 

[Mitty38]

Dafook? They're tapered. How does one screw that up?

You can make anything fit with a big enough hammer. LOL

 

[Joshua]

I have an W.F. Wells A-7 horizontal band saw.

I bought it twenty years ago. It was missing a motor, motor mount, and the correct pulley. The Navy had auctioned it off when Mare Island got shut down. So of course it was slathered in cosmoline when it came to me via a Craigslist ad.

Over the years I have run about ten of these metal cutting band saws. Both horizontal hinge saws and vertical carriage saws. The biggest problem with these saws are the idiots that run them screwing up brand new blades (sometimes I’m the idiot). The second biggest problem are brand new blades that break for no reason at the factory weld. The most recent broken weld on a new blade that I encountered was on a Starrett blade.

Fun Fact: bimetallic band saw blades that break can be TIG welded back together with 308 filler. Clamp the blade along the length of a straight edge, a piece of copper underneath the blade helps you avoid welding the whole mess to the table, last step is to carefully grind the weld flush.

I now buy blades 2-4 at a time and reorder when I get down to one new blade on the shelf. I stock them like this at work and at home.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I have a Grizzly band saw. Had it for about 15 years. Got it from work mostly brand new cause it wouldnt cut and for some reason was never returned. I took it cause it literally was unused and they was scraping it! I put into storage. Some five years back I took it to my then new job for light work ta help things run smoother. Went out and had blades made and installed and damed it it wouldnt cut! I mean it just aint right. Im thinking bad motor as blade appears to have good traction. No smell or slowing down just very poor and worse on hard materials. Its a wood band saw.
CW

 

[L Ross]

I the process of getting ready for the shoot this weekend I had to pull the Super 88 Olds out of the shed to access the patio furniture and the wall tent in the shed loft. I turned the key to power the electric fuel pump and surprisingly, the Olds fired right up first try. I let it limp and lope along for a maybe two minutes and gently blipped the pedal and soon it was idling. I backed it out into the driveway and left it idling. I asked Sue if she wanted to ride along to town for gas, a 28 mile round trip. She said sure and I went to close the shed. The Olds leaks oil like a sieve and I thought the floor looked plenty wet. I grabbed a quart of oil to add a pint. I had pulled the dip stick and knew it was a touch low.

When I opened the hood with the engine running I saw gasoline spraying out of numerous pin holes in a rubber fuel line where it bends beneath the generator. It was really spraying bad. I looked under the car and there was a lot, I mean a lot of gas on the gravel. I moved the car away from the pool of gas and shut it down.

I shudder to think what would have happened if we had driven away and that gas would start getting blown back on the exhaust manifold. It is fixed and running now, but there is just always something that takes more time than you plan for.

 

[Winelover]

Was same predicament with the 50 year old Chevelle but it was the accelerator pump on the carb that was spewing gasoline on to the intake manifold. A new Edelbrock carb, took care of that.

 

[Bret4207]

Dafook? They're tapered. How does one screw that up?

Come on Ian! Think back to some of the stuff you've seen over the years. Morons breed...

 

[Bret4207]

Put in about 6 striaght hours fencing in the 80F plus heat with the 60% humidity. I'm NOT used to it yet this year! Happily the real heavy work was done in the afternoon under some shade. Still only got about 100 feet up and only half a corner in. More of the same today...

 

[RBHarter]

Dr for the kid , then off to cap ball sneaker rondy . Rain off and on all day but I think we'll have a sun shade thingy . Note to self , western AR has no off monsoon season .

 

[dale2242]

Got out the 'Big Chief" smoker.
I smoked a batch of cheese Tuesday.
I smoked a batch of beef jerky for my son yesterday.
I am going to put a batch of trout on to brine this evening.
I will put them in the smoker tomorrow.
Finally got an appointment to get my left hip replaced on June 21.
This getting old isn`t all what it`s cut out to be.
With a new hip, I`m hoping to get more shooting done.
Walking out to the 50/100 yard targets is a nono now.