The Watering Hole

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Rhody

Discussion Starter · Apr 17, 2022 (Edited)

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WELCOME TO THE WATERING HOLE

A stress-free place to gather and share whatever is on your mind! A fun place of mutual respect where you can hang your hat, vent, relax and shoot the bull for a while!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate that faith.

To all others, Happy Spring!

Easter symbolizes a new beginning, so it is fitting that TWH has a new beginning as well!
Along with RFC, TWH has been remodeled!

Actually, it can be anything you imagine it to be!

I am happy to announce that due to the increased bandwidth of the new RFC, there is no longer a need for the weekly closing and re-opening of TWH!!! After 10+ years of weekly "flipping" we now get to keep the doors open continuously! My sincere thanks to our moderators, especially Sophia, for making this possible!

I would also like to thank all the members who have kept this boat afloat for so long! We have become like family here, and now have a permanent residence!

While we have many long-time members who have been enjoying the company found in this amazing virtual bar, we also welcome all new folks. Jump right in! The first drink is always on the house and Veterans always have an open bar!
Al The Infidel (Tubby Slayer extraordinaire) is the bar manager.

So, let's get this re-opening celebration going! Set 'em up, Al! Drinks all around!!!

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Rock N TN

· #1,181 · May 6, 2022

aztarget said:
Guess I should update my avatar to one of my biking pictures with full lycra.

Please, NO!

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aztarget

· #1,182 · May 6, 2022

Rock N TN said:
Please, NO!

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Two tickets to Mary Chapin carpenter in Tucson and I won't post the lycra photos.

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W8LON

· #1,183 · May 6, 2022

Al the Infidel said:
Have faith young man.

Hellya Splatz!!!

Last truck didn't come with the front tow/pull hooks like ordered but this one did, and chromed to boot.

Didja go back for the bird and call the DNR for a permit to keep it? Couple years ago one hit the 70mph door on the wife's side and she might've burped out an f-bomb @ volume. Such a sweet talker but a mouth like a sailor.

Blasted p.o. space heater, shick shick! Pilot light would go up n down, repeat, but the main burner wouldn't ignite with mucho nose to floor exercises I really shouldn't be doing. Me getting back up is a pitiful thing to watch. No heat hence didn't fill the water system up but its ready to go. We'll find out Mon when we can get it fixed, hopefully next week by the top gun of our fave plumber/heating repair shop. We're going for an afternoon so I'll have time to test the pipeworks @ 28psi before the guy comes, thataway we'll have a plumber on hand if we've sprung a leak.
Lake's too high to put the dock in but its going down relatively fast.
River had multiple kayakers activity so a line didn't get wet.
Beauty sunny day with a high of 55º.

Oh, clapped slapped my first 1/2 grown skeeter while playing with the heater, the filthy animal.

Generally use a torch head with self igniter with portable tank to light mine. Preheat the thermocouple and no holding it off a minute to have it fizzle out. Now my pilot on furnace never gets shut off for warm weather after spending hours trying to get it to stay lit.

Grouse flew away looking for the next victim to spook no permit needed. Neighbor gramma picking up grandchildren after school had a Turkey fly through her van side glass and right through the glass on other side. Kids screaming and covered with broken glass bits but otherwise unharmed. I heard the crash and screaming while working in my garage and run to see what was going on. A twenty plus pound bird traveling at full speed has a good amount of FPE.

TD1

· #1,184 · May 6, 2022

Caught up with reloading 6.5CM’s and 9mm’s before dinner time, and next will be a bunch of 5.56mm’s. Used moi $5.00 WM fish hook diamond lapping/sharping tool to remove some fine wire like leading edge burrs from a few bolt action receivers. Next will be doing the same on a couple of semi-auto actions. Normal DIY task with mass produced stuff should one elect to do so and very rewarding with a smoother cycling action.

Al the Infidel

· #1,185 · May 6, 2022

W8LON said:
Generally use a torch head with self igniter with portable tank to light mine. Preheat the thermocouple and no holding it off a minute to have it fizzle out. Now my pilot on furnace never gets shut off for warm weather after spending hours trying to get it to stay lit.

It stays lit but somethings goin on with the gas suppler or sumpin. I used to use a torch but then installed an igniter so no disassembly required after. Long n short a few years back a furnace repair guy talked me into new guts for it when I wanted a complete new heater. When he got done the fan wouldn't work I said it sounds like the blade is stuck. Checked it and yup, stuck because of the jostling of the entire log walls mounted unit. The well etc. is another cob jobs affair over the past 70 some years. asterisking grumble mumble.

Only bird I remember in a vehicle is a hummer that must've flown in when the hatchback was open and starved to death before it got used again.

mdew

· #1,186 · May 6, 2022

Wife and I found 12 more morel mushroom, bringing us to 205 for the year. With the weather being cool and damp we might have another few days of growing weather. Went to a family owned garden center in St. Joseph picked up a bundle of sweet potato slips and got them planted before a lite rain this evening.

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Blackwolfe

· #1,187 · May 6, 2022

Al, an inspection mirror may be useful for czeching to see if the pilot is lit when going thru the start up routine. On my water heater, the inspection is so close to the floor, it is hard to see the low even with one's face pressed to the concrete basement floor. Makes it much easier than a bunch of ups and downs.

W8LON

· #1,188 · May 6, 2022

Al the Infidel said:
It stays lit but somethings goin on with the gas suppler or sumpin. I used to use a torch but then installed an igniter so no disassembly required after. Long n short a few years back a furnace repair guy talked me into new guts for it when I wanted a complete new heater. When he got done the fan wouldn't work I said it sounds like the blade is stuck. Checked it and yup, stuck because of the jostling of the entire log walls mounted unit. The well etc. is another cob jobs affair over the past 70 some years. asterisking grumble mumble.

Only bird I remember in a vehicle is a hummer that must've flown in when the hatchback was open and starved to death before it got used again.

Have never had too much issues with crud in natural gas but had fair share of clogged orifices with propane. Can be some dirty stuff or lines not properly purged. Years ago my main source of heat was wood but had a propane wall plaque heater mounted on the wall near wood stove. That thing was efficient as could be and burned clean vent free. Thermostat set at sixty five I could get a couple weeks of secondary heat out of it with a 40lb cylinder. Perfect with the wive getting up at all hours bottle feeding young uns and the little 18" wide heater put out 28,000 btu. heating just the objects in the room instead of air works.
When the kids got older with their own rooms electric oil filled baseboard heaters were put in the bedrooms with a separate wall thermostat switching the 220v. Two six foot electric cost around $30 a month to run when the woodstove run low early morning. Sure beat running the forced air furnace with expensive propane fills.

Blackwolfe

· #1,189 · May 6, 2022

Had trouble with spiders building nest in the wrong places in camper propane heater. Lots of fun trying to work on inaccessible parts at floor level in freezing weather. Camper was borrowed from my FIL and assured me everything was in tip top werking order.

W8LON

· #1,190 · May 6, 2022

Blackwolfe said:
Had trouble with spiders building nest in the wrong places in camper propane heater. Lots of fun trying to work on inaccessible parts at floor level in freezing weather. Camper was borrowed from my FIL and assured me everything was in tip top werking order.

Been there, a tent is warmer than a camper with frozen moisture in the gas lines. Brother and I spent a week in one that was run, tested and working fine until the temperature dipped to 20 below. It was so cold you had to pee in a pop bottle before zipping yourself into the mummy bag and it was frozen solid by the door next morning. That camper after getting the moisture out of lines was used for 15 years at a permanent site without issue.

aztarget

· #1,191 · May 6, 2022

Sandman time.
Goodnight Gigi, Sophia, Jetgirl, Al, Rhody, Don, mdew, wook, blackwolfe, Alum, GF, Sail, TD, Szumi, COW, Wayne, Gobb, Ranger, Hawkeye, Atonic, W8LON, Darkest, pans, efly, Phil, TinCan, Greggie, Mike, Rock, dlong, Gerald, M92, AZ, Tricks, Brent, jnyork, OldDave, nfcracin, GP, JDWin, Whip, RichJ, squirrel, syfr, JVStalin, zenaca, 404, Wade, koonta, acheyj, vlnbyr, rosscoe, arjay, Flys, wr, labratt, RonL, 1917, Carrij, Mikey, JimWY, Johnny, rj, Rick, calibrian, Lt Crunch, Bugeye,Gobbler, LASTSHOT and all the rest.

Sleep tight :sleeping
Those no longer with us. Mayor, Ron, Dean, Marilyn, Noremf and David. We will meet again.

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Al the Infidel

· #1,192 · May 6, 2022

W8LON said:
Have never had too much issues with crud in natural gas but had fair share of clogged orifices with propane. Can be some dirty stuff or lines not properly purged.

Properly purged? Surely you jest. Never knew till a couple years ago how dirty propane is.

Blackwolfe said:
Al, an inspection mirror may be useful for czeching to see if the pilot is lit when going thru the start up routine. On my water heater, the inspection is so close to the floor, it is hard to see the low even with one's face pressed to the concrete basement floor. Makes it much easier than a bunch of ups and downs.

That infernal machine only gets one down n up outa me. Pilot was going cause I can hear it with the good ear as could the Finn. Thats as far as I go playing with gas. Not as dumb as I look don'tcha know.

Nashville is doing better tonight against CO...1/1 end of 2.

Phil in Alabama

· #1,193 · May 6, 2022

A four brick infrared LP gas heater is what I use for primary house heat. Has been since 1998. I have an old four stack 230 volt electric heater that I've had to use occasionally when the gas ran out and there was no money to buy any more. A very few times I have ran both, set thermostats such that they'd run alternating so that I could make the last bit of gas remaining go a little longer. Fortunately I don't live where it stays below freezing three quarters of the year.

I am so sore from yesterday's weed eater operation that it hurts to breath.

Belinda went to dialysis today but the volume of excess fluid they wanted to remove was so great that it was too much for one days session so she to go back tomorrow. The only open spots were on the A.M. shift so I am having to pick her up at 5:15. Bleah... Ashley, Chris and Lucas have gastroenteritis, so I stayed out of there. Be is taking a risk staying with them but Ashley needs help with the baby. So far he hasn't appeared to have gotten it.

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e40

· #1,194 · May 6, 2022

Mornin',

dlong said:
Did you get rid of your run flats?

Was talking to the tow truck driver yesterday as my son had to get his car towed down 3 blocks to our mechanic, his starter died. Guy was telling me more and more cars are coming without spares. He was also telling me about all the cars that have to have the front bumper removed to be towed. 2003 Civic, easy peasy. Hook underneath the front and drag it on the flat bed. Car all fixed with oil change and tire rotation. I think my son is going to drive that car forever.

The tire shop is going to put them on the shelf and offer them at a good price. I also told them that if the situation ever arose, they could be donated to one in need.
I do have a spare, jack and wrench now in the trunk. Need to find just the right strap to tie it all down.

gmd1950 said:
Suppressor number 7 paid for including tax stamp, on back order then they say 90 days or less even adding it on my existing Trust, hopefully have it for fall hunting. Dead Air Primal made for the big 'un's up to 46 cal. and 338 Lapua pressures, perfect for the .450 Bushmaster AR and the .357 Max and .44 Magnum H&R's, also uses the same direct thread ends as the Nomad 30.

Tried to take the Daystate Revere .25 (not a Regal as I've posted, what memory?) and the new to me Marauder .25 to first the old club, where a three man pistol class had the whole general purpose range tied up. That's 18 bays wide and 100 yards deep, its the only range there with electrical outlets so no go for running the compressor so no shooting there. Plan B go to the new club that has power on the rifle range once you learn where to flip the switch to turn 'em on. Both rifles are shooters but the Marauder is a Ruger bolt action and the Daystate is a Anschutz Custom shop, not hugely more accurate but enough that you'll never mistake them. Marauder trigger is a 2 stage breaking at about 2 pounds, the Daystate a two stage breaking at 8 ozs. and soooooo smooth. Marauder was shooting .6 to .75 groups at 50 yards, Daystate .3 to .60 as it came off its tune (below optimal air pressure). I'll be moving the Marauder on and some one will get a nice rifle at a reasonable price. Fun afternoon all in all once I got the logistics worked out.

Yes indeed, Congratulations

Thanks!

Blackwolfe said:
The cop that was first on the scene and disarmed was lucky. The jewelry store that was robbed was litterly around the corner from the station, maybe 300 feet. The alarm went off and he headed for the store. He looked in the window and thought nothing was amiss, just a couple of customers. He walked in, and the customers were the armed robbers. He never drew his weapon, and they took it from him. Same cop, and same place was robbed again, this time he drew his gun, but dropped it chasing the robber.

Don't like to speak bad of LEOs, but this guy probably shouldn't have been a cop. I worked for the city public works department at the time, so was familiar with the local cops including this one. Our PD was called in to assist a nearby community when there was a riot in the high school. He was at the public works dept afterwards talking about it. He took a swing with his nightstick at a rioter and missed. On the follow thru after the miss he struck a gal in the chops that was just trying to get out of the school knocking her cold. He was laughing about it as he told us about his "acomplishment".

Another time he arrested a friend of mine that was drunk and having too good of a time. Nothing real bad, just being drunk stupid. Apparently my friend said someting the cop didn't like. My friend ended up with about 4 or 5 charges against him including assulting the officer. Police report indicated that my friend was treated at the hospital for facial injuries while the cop was treated for hand injuries. In the end, all the charges against my friend were dropped.

This cop also liked to catch couples "making out" in their cars parked down by the beach at night as I knew numerous people that he caught. He would sneak up on the cars on foot with a flash light. He caught one of the public works guys one night that had worked the afternoon shift at PW that evening. There was quite a lightning storm coming over the Big Lake, putting on quite a show. The PW guy got out of work, got a cup of coffee, and parked at the beach to watch the lightning show. The PW guy said he never heard or saw the cop until he pressed his flashlight against the window and turned it on. PW guy said it was a really awkward conversation when he cop realized who he was. Another friend that had previosly been caught by this cop saw him by chance sneeking up on him in his review mirror. My friend decided he was'nt sticking around to get caught, so he put his truck in gear and took off. Looked up in his mirror to see that in his haste to depart he was spraying the cop with beach sand.

It was fairly well known to the younger folks in town that this cop liked to catch those "parking" at the beach, and most thought he was a perv. One of the first really nice spring days I personally witnessed him parked in a secluded, partially hidden spot at the beach. He had a pair of binoculars and was watching the beach a ways down towards the paking lot where some of the early bird sun bathing girls were catching a few rays. When I unexpectedly came around the corner in a public works truck, he threw the binoculars down on the floor and took off in the patrol car rather hurriedly. I doubt that in today's world he would be employed long as an LEO.

No red flags there....

55 and damp, showers are almost upon us. Rain, wind building throughout the day, high of 67 (early). High winds tonight and through the entire weekend along with the rain.

Good dinner with friends yesterday evening.

Rain has cancelled an event we were invited to for this evening at a local vineyard. Going to be pretty nasty weather wise, so not disappointed under the circumstances. May have dinner together anyway, somewhere dry.

I composed a poem for my wife for our anniversary. Feel free to steal it if it suits your relationship:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I can't believe,
I'm still married to you...

Brought tears to her eyes.

Have a great TGIF.

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dbmjr1

· #1,195 · May 6, 2022

Good Morning RFC'rs, et al:

IT IS DONUT FRIDAY

I have a heater. I used it this year a couple of times. It's electric. Not very efficient, but it doesn't see much use.

Stormed last night. I slept thru it.

Range today. Packed are the Trailer Park Trash PT92, a 1911 and the MkIV

Al the Infidel

· #1,196 · May 6, 2022

e40 said:
I composed a poem for my wife for our anniversary. Feel free to steal it if it suits your relationship:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I can't believe,
I'm still married to you...

Brought tears to her eyes.

Have a great TGIF.

Mine just laughed at me when I recited it to her. 😥

A bit extra sore from camp exercises but shlept better than this heathen deserved. 😇

High on the list of things to do is clean the inside of the windshield as it still has the XL install suckshun cup marks and factory smears etc visible when facing the sun. Dirty glasses or a windshield are conditions not tolerated for long. 🤓

Up to 38º here already Wook. 😋

Go Bruins?

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Mike Clark

· #1,197 · May 6, 2022

I cooked tacos for 100 people yesterday. I learned that brown people liked our cooking more than the white folk. Some were a 'tough crowd'. Can't please everyone at once. I'm guessing we got a 95%. Confirmed some other dealing with people stuff for the 100th + time
Between planning, getting food, prep, cooking, cleanup, customer feedback and returning extra supplies I'll probably have 24 hour into it.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of $1000.00 in cost. I did have two guys come in and help, which saved me from failure. One had significant restaurant kitchen experience so I immediately promoted him to head chef. Then I was able to pull in 1 of my shop guys who is good in a restaurant environment. Team saved it. "A's hire A's, B's hire C's".
I did chicken and beef tacos. Esquite corn was the side. Then steak at the end for the in house people.

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wookness

· #1,198 · May 6, 2022 (Edited)

It had cooled off to a nice 67° near 11 P, RH a reasonable 66%, wind N 3 under clear skies. Low got into the high 50's at dawn. Today will be sunny w/a forecast high of 86, then 94 tomorrow and get up to 97 for Mother's Day! We are under an Air Quality Warning [moderate level] from now thru tonight. And also, severe weather warnings and warnings of potential banks of dense fog in many places as the ground steams its wet gift back into the air. We've mosquitos now, that have joined the crane fly's and other emergent critters and crawlers and 'spotters' too. That's a southern enunciation for 'spiders', in some places. Many spiders seem to thrive here year 'round, but some don't survive the cold and leave egg sacks w/hunnerts of their tiny offspring, that come spring, emerge and then they are everywhere. I prefer to avoid them but don't go out of my way to kill them when encountered in the yard or fields. They come and go. I disliked walking into cotton spider's webs, when afield as a boy with gun, a lot. Shot a few of them in those days. Just move around them these days. Find one of any variety inside & it gets stomped or swatted w/prejudice, regardless of species, sex or number of eyes it had. Have yet to encounter one inside the house or cabin large enough to need shooting. Pray it remains so but am prepared... should it prove otherwise. I/we has old-time irons at both places, the non-electric kind that needed to be heated on the stove for use. Need I say more?

I picked up a spent WW/AA 12 ga hull last week that had a spider living in it. It had obviously been there a while, the hull, perhaps the spider too. I was just going to toss it in the trash and did. The spider survived but had to seek new shelter.

'Twas gifted a quantity of scarce and hard to come by 16 ga hulls several years back that had been stored in heavy waxed 'chicken boxes' like they use to move/transport cleaned whole chickens to market in w/their drop on lids not sealed nor tightly secured. They were stored in an enclosed outside shed/barn. Many of them had housed spiders at an earlier time and some were frozen inside behind their seals that had been intended to protect them. It had not, for those unfortunates. Some of those hulls cleaned up well enough with a brush on an electric drill and got utilized, others had to be discarded because the 'seal' in some of them was like a limestone-based cement and it stuck like a barnacle to the hull's inner periphery and wasn't removable. It's just nature's abhorrence for vacuums.

It's rumored, mostly to do w/obscure and kept from the public, werks written in a formerly unintelligible language known as 'Spider Byte' on the inside, AKA, the gubment's 'skunk works', that makes refs to an outer galactic planet ruled and run by large harry beings with mandibles, multiple eyes, eight arms [or izzit legs?] and eight fangers at the end of each w/the outer one's being opposed, sorta like our thumbs, that among other things, are said to be very fast typists and feast on human beans and also have a penchant for certain cow organs. I dunno if they have it all fully ironed out, but I'd not wanna meet one, if true. I'm a 🙀 where 👽 are concerned. "Moma(!), get the Real Kill!"

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gewehrfreund

· #1,199 · May 6, 2022

I sure wish I had a fried cake to go with my coffee on this dreary Fried-day while I ponder why everyone is obsessed with Sophia's whereabouts
(hint- she's a big girl and can probably take care of herself in most situations

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Wayne Sihler

· #1,200 · May 6, 2022

Finished mowing the yard yesterday evening.Now we have three days of cold rain comming.Area is under a flood watch.

Shoot schedualed for Sat.I will not be standing in a cold rain to shoot.I,m now older & wiser....
Think I,ll be like the dog today.pull cover over my head and take a nap.

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