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The Hobbit Hole XXXVIII - There and Back Again!

Posted on 09/23/2009 6:19:16 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!



TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: corinnumber1; firstkeyword; jrgotanewjob; secondprecious
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To: Ramius

you’ve started down a long slippery slope, my friend...


1,201 posted on 01/01/2010 4:51:10 PM PST by g'nad
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To: osagebowman
it is piled higher at the stop signs than a sedan can see over

not a speck of snow left on the ground here... you guys got hammered...

1,202 posted on 01/01/2010 4:54:42 PM PST by g'nad
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To: osagebowman

Is AlGore in town?

This car I saw yesterday had snow plow snow piled up almost to the windows and it’s going to be below freezing for the forseeable future. Perfect Village is pretty good about plowing.


1,203 posted on 01/01/2010 5:03:39 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: All

One Title to Rule Them All: Peter Jackson, Patrick Stewart Get Knighted “http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419127/posts

Sir Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy starts tonight at 8 PM EST on TNT.


1,204 posted on 01/01/2010 5:07:52 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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To: 300winmag; osagebowman; Ramius
you rescued a pretty nice rifle... prettier than my 917V in .17HMR, even with the kewl paint camo job.... the HM2 just ain't enough gun round here...

I spent the first day of the new year doin' a couple of honey-dos, including a rifle rack the I installed on the inside of our bedroom closet right above the doorway... that way mrsnad has access to a loaded EBR that's out of sight and out of reach of chillenz...

the afternoon was spent in a weapons maintenance mode... me and theboy broke down and detailed 4 EBRs... have 4 fer next weekend... after that, bolt guns...

1,205 posted on 01/01/2010 5:13:59 PM PST by g'nad
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To: g'nad; 300winmag; Ramius

Evening G’nad - GMTA, been at the workbench cleaning up a few of my own. Did component inventory, sufficient for a few more rounds anyway. :-) The 45ACP taper crimp sure works nice.


1,206 posted on 01/01/2010 5:53:06 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman
The snow plow saw our relatively clean driveway, and pushed about 2 feet of snow into it, just to reduce the amount of snow piled around the stop sigh. Grrr. Now, it is piled on either side of our driveway.

Digging out the end of the driveway is always the hardest, because it is not only snow, but salt-melted slush as well, and if it freezes before we can get to it, we sometimes have to employ an ice chipper.

Grrr, indeed.

1,207 posted on 01/01/2010 7:38:55 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Got the movie on in the background whilst I do stuff at the desk. They edited out Gimli’s little tirade in Lothlorien.

Must’ve been a censorship thing...


1,208 posted on 01/01/2010 8:02:51 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (ONE season. ONE reason.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Coming up on Boromir’s betrayal and heroic exit.


1,209 posted on 01/01/2010 8:13:50 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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To: SuziQ

Yeah, I know what you mean. We were kind of lucky in that the City totally forgot our street, no salt, no sand and no plowing, so the snowcrap in our drive was pretty much just packed snow, and I got the part OB needed cleaned before he got home, then he got the rest. It was very, very heavy!


1,210 posted on 01/01/2010 8:48:18 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman
Evening G’nad - GMTA, been at the workbench cleaning up a few of my own.

Same here. Either clean up my bench, or work on a weapon. Cleaning could wait, my late aunt's Beretta Jaguar instead got it's first detail strip and clean since it left the factory sometime in the late 1950s. Of course, since it had fired only one box of ammo in all that time, cleaning wasn't much of a problem.

However, I did tweak the action with a few strategic droplets of Nanolube. Talk about smoooooth. Getting the slide lock back on was a bit tricky, but it was only about half an hour of muttering under my breath.

Then I disassembled one of the magazines, and wiped a lot of dry black dust out of it. Putting it back together, the looong coil magazine spring launched the floorplate lock somewhere onto the bench, among a number of boxes. I heard it thump cardboard twice, but it could have fallen into the Grand Canyon for all the good it did me.

I have a few WW2-vintage Beretta .32 mags, and the floorplate would fit inside the .22 body, so I gave it a try. It looked great, until it came time to button it up. It got launched to parts semi-unknown, too. Maybe it will be found when I start looking for another part. I've found those little ball bearings from the Mossberg safety in the middle of the floor, months after I lost them, and after passing over that same spot hundreds of times.

My next fall-back position, to be tried tomorrow, is to adapt the now-surplus plastic spring guide from the Sig P229 to the Beretta magazine. But I decided to quit, because if Plan B didn't work, I'd come up with D, E, etc. until it got done, and I don't want to stay up all night. Not when I have all of Saturday to do it.

Oh, and that CZ452 is almost like having a new baby in the house. All-new Dewey cleaning equipment, patches, etc. Another insanely expensive, but luxurious, leather sling from Brownell's. Another Leupold scope, new type of ammo, Timney target trigger, and other stuff I've probably forgotten. But a class, and classic, rimfire rifle deserves classy accessories.

One pleasant surprise is, according to all the posts on the CZ topic at rimfirecentral, the cheapest .17HM2 ammo also shoots the best. Ely at $65 a brick works the better than other brands costing 5-10 dollars more.

1,211 posted on 01/01/2010 10:41:47 PM PST by 300winmag (Zero to abject failure in under a month. A new land speed record!)
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To: 300winmag

Afternoon Win-mag, your magazine assembly/disassembly and the launching to parts unknown, various and sundry springs onto the workbench hits very close to home. The big worklight has saved more than one spring from the shop-vac.

It’s amazing what ends up under the workbench, course I’m the kind of guy that sifts through the expended primer pile looking for that one unused primer that flipped out of when I was priming. Well, usually find one, sometimes two.

Couple more bags of 45 and 38 brass have been cleaned sorted inspected and returned to duty.


1,212 posted on 01/02/2010 1:33:27 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: Corin Stormhands

And so it begins...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419783/posts


1,213 posted on 01/02/2010 6:18:00 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

Hey, OT, have you looked outside lately?

:)


1,214 posted on 01/02/2010 8:16:10 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: Overtaxed
And so it begins...

I emailed the link to my nephew. He graduated from Michigan, and he despises squirrels because they're the "sacred cows" of Ann Arbor. He said a squirrel is something only a liberal could love, and there are lots of squirrels, nuts, and liberals in Ann Arbor.

Actually, I think he objects to the "squirrel welfare" people more than the critters themselves.

1,215 posted on 01/02/2010 11:56:23 PM PST by 300winmag (Zero to abject failure in under a month. A new land speed record!)
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To: Ramius; g'nad; osagebowman; Lost Dutchman; Squantos; Corin Stormhands; JenB; TalonDJ; ExGeeEye; ...
Tonight's Saturday Night Gun Pron is a quick look at the classic Beretta Jaguar, and my ongoing attempts at getting an almost-impossible-to-find magazine working again after I lost a critical part.

Before we get to that, I'm happy to announce I found the original grips recently in a box containing leftover parts from my dad's projects. When he made the walnut grips for my aunt, he saved the original brown plastic ones.

Unfortunately, for some reason he didn't save the original grip screws, but instead modified some phillips screws, and drilled and tapped the frame for the new SAE threads. It looks a bit out of place on an otherwise pristine plinker from the "golden age".

For some reason, importers in those days weren't required to permanently mark their imported products with their company names. There is nothing on the weapon that says it's imported, except for the plastic grips. The brown grips, the name "Jaguar" (rather than Model 70), and the importer's logo are the only indications that it was imported into the US. Beretta handguns imported into this country usually have "cat names", rather than the official model number.

As far as the crippled magazine goes, it looks like Plan C is a winner. The idea popped into my head a few seconds after I gave up on Plan B, and further work, yesterday. I wanted a fresh start, and it went so smoothly that it's almost embarrassing considering all the sweat I put in it last night. It turns out I can make the now-surplus spring plug, and even the spring itself, from the Sig P229 work in the Beretta magazine.

The spring plug filled up space in the Sig magazine, limiting it to 10 rounds, making it Californica-legal. The new shorter plug lets the follower move down lower, increasing capacity to 15 rounds. It also prevents the spring from "snaking around" and squirting out while reassembling, which is the main benefit.

For a quick test ("proof of concept", as they say on Mythbusters), I just put the Sig spring and plug into the Beretta magazine. It went in, and closed up, without a problem. The plug wouldn't let the follower go all the way down, but I was able to load four dummy rounds, and they all cycled without trouble. I just have to shorten the plug to allow for full travel of the follower.

The "button" on the bottom of the plug locks the base of the magazine on the Sig. On the .22 and .32 Beretta, there is a lock plate (seen with the .32 mag on the far right) that does it. But even without it, there was enough spring pressure to keep everything in place.

This is such a good fix, it even lets me use either the original Beretta spring (now slightly wavy after 50 years inside the magazine), or the slightly lighter-strength Sig spring. So I have a way of using other brands of springs, if I have to. The original Beretta spring actually seems to have too much force, because it was hard to load that mag. Now I have options.

It looks like what appeared to be a major crisis involving impossible-to-find parts has simply resolved itself into an improved product, and more options when it comes to spare parts. Now to just modify the spring plug, and I'm in business.

1,216 posted on 01/03/2010 1:32:46 AM PST by 300winmag (Zero to abject failure in under a month. A new land speed record!)
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To: Overtaxed

So, Richmond’s new minor league baseball team will be called the “Flying Squirrels.”

I swear I am not making that up.


1,217 posted on 01/03/2010 3:41:50 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (ONE season. ONE reason.)
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To: osagebowman

At the squirrels or at the snow?


1,218 posted on 01/03/2010 6:02:37 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Corin Stormhands

So they’re expecting people to cheer for squirrels?


1,219 posted on 01/03/2010 6:04:19 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: 300winmag

Gary Fadden the new guru at Al Mar knives was just down the road from me at the EOD school at Beretta in the 80’s when I was an instructor there at Indianhead on Highway 210.

I own two berettas. 70 an 71S. Contacted Gary for a source of spare mags an parts an it seems they sold all of their parts for the Jaguars to a hammermonkey in the NE area.

I will call him Monday an get the gunsmiths name for ya or you can if ya like.

My 70S has a ops inc can an is a very good tool for getting wax out of a bad guys ear.

My 71 is a plain jane plinker that seems to only like cci mini mags or stingers. The 70 used with the can likes anything treated with a paco kelly tool first as long as its subsonic.

Ely is perfect but expensive in peace time.

Do you own an ASP 9mm by chance ?.


1,220 posted on 01/03/2010 6:45:01 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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