so waht ya doin today?

[JWFilips]

Well We had snow over night and there will be a 12 hr break but as of 3 pm tomorrow The odds are not in our favor...Looks like a big storm! and after that very low temps!...below zero for a few days
Getting things ready: got the roof rake out , the snow blower fueled and the outdoor kitties styrofoam condos ready! Been collecting those styrofoam coolers from the side of the road at garbage day from folks that had Frozen meals and beef sent to them! Each one of those coolers makes a condo for up to four kitties in bad weather! Also have to think about my flock of wild Turkeys Got corn feeding stations ready all over my property!
Since I'm just on the outskirts of he suburbs, no need for cutting wood and such Just need to attend to the property and my outdoor friends!

 

[Rick]

Supposed to be an overnight low tonight of 45, was 52 today. But then at 6 tomorrow morning the temp is supposed to start dropping and continue to drop through Sunday morning. Rain tonight turning to snow tomorrow morning and this is all Brad's fault. After all he knows he's supposed to keep the winter stuff in Nebraska where it belongs.

 

[fiver]

I don't even wanna hear the word snow.
only good thing about this storm is it dumped enough wet weight on the porch roof to test my construction skills.
it passed, but I had to go buy a roof rake to get it off.
you'd thing a 16" drop over 8 foot and a metal roof would be steep enough,,, but no.

 

[Brad]

No snow here, just freezing drizzle. Our snow storm was a fizzle.

 

[John]

The best joke I enjoy about Engineers is how to tell if an Engineer is an extrovert?


He looks at YOUR shoes.

 

[fiver]

my favorite way to mess with an engineer is to flip the battery in his calculator around, then ask him a question about a girl.
that's a good 20-30 minutes worth of entertainment.

 

[Brad]

I sorted some mixed brass I had wet tumbled in the fall. I had it in a towel in the media softer I got with my Midway tumbler years ago. Seems someone decided it was a good place to sleep.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

I just got done cleaning todays catch. 4 walleys 4 sunnies1 perch

 

[oscarflytyer]

dorking around trying to figure out how to cobble up 358 Win loads with a partial set of 358 Win dies! And from necked up 308 brass! So, Lee decrimp die (damned used RCBS decrimp pin - already bent - broke on first case!) to decrimp. Then neck up size 308 brass in the original 358 sizer die, sans decrimp pin. Next, use 35 Rem bullet seating stem (orig missing in die set I got with the rifle...) in 358 Win seating die. Last - use the Lee 35 Rem FCD - appropriately length adjusted - to apply a light crimp (even tho the 358 Win is in a magazine - not tube fed!). Kinda like putting together a B&W puzzle - LOL! But, end result - dummy rounds cycled perfectly! And I have a bunch of 308 brass!!!

 

[fiver]

all that and I bet it still shoots well.
I neck size my 358's with a 38 special steel die I had kicking around, then use the flair spud from a spare 357 die.

 

[oscarflytyer]

all that and I bet it still shoots well.
I neck size my 358's with a 38 special steel die I had kicking around, then use the flair spud from a spare 357 die.

Don't know about shooting well - yet. Just got the rifle. and first play with necking up brass. Give me a few weeks and I will know!

 

[RBHarter]

I missed the engineer roast .......
I swear theyve had it in for mechanics since 1946 . I'm pretty sure an engineer caught his wife in bed with a mechanic , "but he's sooooo good with his hands" , been trying to get that nut on a stud in a recess behind a vacuum pump over 2 linkages and under a hard line ever since .

 

[Ian]

The nut behind the vacuum pump is cake compared to what they make now. Remember that picture SMac put up a while back if the 6.7L engine job?

 

[Pistolero]

This engineer is also a mech, and would smack some designer silly if he showed up at the wrong
time.
When I built my airplane, access was a major part of what I had in mind. I made the engine mount
swing out. On aircraft engines all the accessories are on the firewall side, so hard to get to. So,
pull two bolts and swing my engine about 30-45 degrees, massive improvement in access.
And some other things the engine installation designer put in for the convenience of the mech.
Both me.

Bill

 

[Winelover]

but I had to go buy a roof rake to get it off.

Standard operating procedure for my Detroit home, with any measurable snow..................don't miss it one iota. House faces east, with a narrow valley. If I didn't rake it, monstrous icicles would build up and water would permeate under the shingles. Forget keeping gutters in that area.

 

[Bret4207]

We're forecast to have something between nothing and snowmagedon. All I know is it's cold, it's gonna stay cold and the wind has picked up nicely. Fortunately, it's coming from the northeast ( I can never remember if winds are referred to in the direction they come from or are going) and while that means the barn will be that much colder, it means the house isn't bad. Winds out of the west blow right through this place.

Been working on phone lately. My old flip phone has about had the radish. I have a mess of old phones of the semi smart and smart variety that ended up here. So far none work for what I want. The best best was an ancient slider type phone dated 2007, but it's an ATT and I need a Verison as I have a direct line of sight to a tower. Really don't want a "smart phone" but they don't make quality flip phones anymore that I can find. I did look at one mil-spec flip phone but the stupid thing is $300 and change! I'm a $9.00 Tracfone kinda guy. Anyway, sister in law gave me a brand new Verison replacement phone she got somehow and I'm waiting on a battery for it. I'll try the camera (one of my big desires- being able to take a good pic of something I'm taking apart BEFORE I mix up the pieces!) and carry it a bit to see if it's at all workable. I'm used to having a phone in my left front pocket all my waking hours. We're going from something the size of a cassette tape to something the size of a CD case, and just as fragile.

 

[fiver]

my house was built with snow in mind.
the 2" every foot drop, I mentioned for the porch is easily half what the house roof has, it never gets more than about 3-4"s on it.
there is a pile of snow 3' deep all the way around the house after a 3" storm but none on the roof.
I figured the snow off the house would hit the porch and keep going,,,, nope.

I could probably drag one of those big propane porch heater things up and down it melting the snow off, but that'd be just as much work as just pulling it off the roof every now and then.

speaking of snow it's snowing again.

 

[Brad]

Just cast up another 4-500 from the Accurate 155K. Plan is to get at least 1000 rounds loaded so we have plenty of ammo once it gets warmer.

 

[JWFilips]

Went out shooting my Arisaka early this morning before the "Snow"
Not much chance of freshening up before leaving because of this!

Massive hair clog in the sink!
( Pooter our newest little boy! )

The armagedon snow was to start at 12 pm! I'm still waiting!

 

[waco]

Made my first batch of homemade case lube. One part lanolin to ten parts 99% isopropyl alcohol.