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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
*cough*
*sniffle*
*ache*
*shiver*
Aww...that sounds miserable...and familiar.
So I did manage to pass it on?
*passes Corin the Kleenex*
I don't wanna go back to work tomorrow.
But then, that's always true on Mondays. I'll live.
I'm trying real hard to not think about tomorrow.
I don't think we've got it as bad as you did. Hopefully we'll fight it off.
mmmmm...toddy...
The sun'll come out tomorrow....
Stay good, Rosie... avoid those threads...
Hope you wake up feeling loads better tomorrow. Either that or get the sympathy of a cute young Catholic medical professional guy who takes a personal interest in you. :-)
The coolest part is knowing what something is, when the dealer doesn't have a clue. I got the light and the battery box two years apart from the same catalog. They didn't know that the two went together, or what it was used on.
My latest gunsmithing project just finished up, after considerable bloodshed (my own).
It started out as a "simple installation" of an aluminum quad rail handguard, according to the Brownell's description.
The Midwest Industries handguard was nicely made, but for some reason did not want to fit. I started filing on the front end, where the handguard slips inside the front cap, just behind the sight. More and more grinding (a combination of disk sander, Foredom hand grinder, and hand files) brought the thing closer to fitting.
When it almost fit, my hand slipped, and I raked the top of my tumb against the rail on the receiver. I wrapped my thumb up in a paper towel, and it stopped bleeding after a few minutes. I went back to work, my hand slipped again, and I raked the same spot on my thub, taking out a chunk of meat.
While healing up, I revisited the Brownell's site. This time, the description added, "does not fit Colt uppers". I knew that if I bled less, and filed more, I could make the thing work.
While browsing the site, two new items caught my eye. First was a new tool designed to let you work on AR15 uppers (and their handguards) without having it attached to the lower receiver. Second was a new product by Midwest Industries, a "free float" hand guard that only required cutting off the delta ring, rather than removing the entire barrel, as earlier "free floats" did. Barrel removal is about the only gunsmithing task I don't want to tackle. Cutting off the delta ring, however, would be a piece of cake after what I had already gone through.
The new tool worked like a charm, and allowed me to "mop up" the original project with little delay, and no more bleeding. I now had a handguard that would fit a Colt upper receiver.
With the tool in the vise horizontally, it was easy to cut most of the way through the delta ring with a cutoff tool in the Foredom. Then I stuck the tip of a large screwdriver in the slot, gave a twist, and the ring split in two. A bit more work with the wave washer and split ring, and I had a nice sturdy barrel extension ready to go. The new handguard was solidly clamped to the extension, while the rest of it "floated" free. It's rock-solid, and now nothing touches that barrel that could change the point of impact.
Here's the AR15 now, with about 20 yards of plastic rail protectors (to protect me, not the rails, which seem to do a good job of protecting themselves). I'm not sure Eugene Stoner would recognize his brainchild today.
The rifle now has a single-point sling, and a Pentagon 9 volt xenon light along with the Armson ACOG. And I have more than enough "rail real estate" to hang other stuff on. Although it does look a little odd from the top view, too.
The original aluminum handguard, now guaranteed to fit Colt upper receivers, will be going to a good home.
Mmmmm...sympathy...
The reality, though, is that I get to move a bunch of computers and such like. And no matter how I do it, I'll have done it wrong. It's the way of things right now.
Holy Catz - that beeutiful and 'vey series' rifle you have there.
Pinging Sam. There's a boat rifle for you.
I wondered about the sharpness of those quad-rails. Figures someone would have a product to lessen the impact of the rails on unprotected skin.
Brownells is quite a wish book, doesn't take long to run up a substantial total. The shock usually brings me back to reality.
Good show on finding the pieces and successfully reuniting them.
"Some hand fitting may be required" generally notifies me to keep absorbment materials, hydrogen peroxide and/or neosporin, and an ample supply of cloth backed band-aids handy.
Is there any reason why I should care what she does?
*shudder*
Brownells is the bible of gunsmithing. They have tools to fix problems you don't even know you have yet.
Sometimes a tool pays for itself even if you only use it once. The Remington 700 firing pin takedown tool let me install a high-speed firing pin without injuring myself. Next to M2 mainsprings, bolt action firing pin springs scare me because they're so powerful. The right tools make it almost fun.
The set of roll pin remove/install punches have made working with roll pins fun. I never knew they existed until I saw them in the catalog. It would have saved my father and me a lot of grief on a lot of projects, not all of them gun-related.
If you can familiarize yourself with the gadgets in the Brownells catalog, you're on your way to genuine weapons geekdom, because you learn what's available, how it works, and why you might want it.
As you may (or may not) know, LCS has been "feelin' poorly" for a while now. He suffered what can best be called a "medical perfect storm" in early December; three chronic conditions came together to nearly do him in.
He's better now, though, after two major surgeries and a change of medication. He's out of the hospital and in rehab now; on Tuesday of this week the doctors will be having an evaluation meeting to determine whether he needs to stay at the rehab facility a while longer.
We're also taking up a donation for a small gift (maybe two) for LCS. He's got cable with premium channels --- he watched the LoTR marathon on TBS, and is keeping up with C-SPAN --- but I think he'd like a book or two (maybe Steyn's latest). Or maybe some sugar-free treats (he's diabetic). Or maybe a nice plant.
If you'd like to donate, please click on http://www.rbent.com/HHLCSGetWellDonations.htm.
I'll call him again later this week to see how the evaluation meeting turns out.
Thanks Rose. You gots PayPal. Could you please Freepmail me LCS's address so I can send him a card? Some sugar free hard candies, and a book sound good to send to him, but whatever you decide will be fine.
Thanks for doing this Rose. You've got Paypal and Freepmail.
Weatherness wasn't too bad here. Skuls are opening two hours late. No such luck for Fangorn.
Morning MissRose - that is a great idea and you have freep-mail. OB & LSA
Thank you Rose!! I appreciate the heads-up...will try to follow the request today.
Yes, thank you Rose, so glad you got to talk to him! Call me later if you've got time, I'd like to hear everything! We'll send you some paypal today too...
Yesterday we took the first of many truckloads of downed limbs from our December storms out to the pasture. We're going to have a heck of a bonfire this spring. Cyn found this fascinating ;~)
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