Posted on 09/23/2009 6:19:16 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
IOC iz Racist!
“Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble,
when you’re perfect in every way.”
Ha-ha!
Heh, DE-NIED! I guess he, Michelle, and Oprah didn’t make that big of an impression on those folks. As SirKit said, “He’s got plenty of time to go schoomze the IOC for Chicago’s Olympic Bid, but he hasn’t got the time to talk to his Generals about Afghanistan?”
That’s great!
The NiCad batteries on my 12-year-old Sears drill motor can only hold enough of a charge to drill about two holes before running down. So I decided it was time for a replacement, since you can't even find replacement batteries for this first-generation motor. So I went with Makita.
Aside from the size difference, the Makita has 18 volt LI-ion batteries with a 3 amp-hour capacity, a half inch chuck, as opposed to 3/8ths, and tons of torque.
The first project involved gunsmithing, so I thought it was appropriate to introduce my latest tool.
There are small Mom and Pop shops that refurbish batteries on these things 300 !
One we use over in Amarillo is called Batteries Plus . All the contractors and such bring their cordless tools in there and they get original power back. I had a very old cordless drill that was in same condition and they made it like new for very little money .
But I can never argue with yer line of thought that gets a new power tool in the arsenal !
The newer rechargable power tools are NOT the tools of 20 years ago! I remember those! My son has a recharchable DeWalt that will wrench itself out of your hands if your not careful! I “think” it’s an 18v. I’m not sure. I was using it to countersink 1” holes with a spade bit on a fence that I didn’t feel like dragging a generator to. I had NO idea that the drill had as much torque as it did! As I remember, Makita made some of the first battery powered tools...back in the 1980s.
Mmmmm. More Power..
Morning All. Feels a mite like fall, a bit of leaf color, the walnut trees are dropping their leaves, still having blossoms on the tomato plants, may have some more canna blooms. early midwestern fall all right.
I wussed out yesterday and turned the heat on. It’s time to bring the basil inside.
We LOVE Makita power tools!! We have a pneumatic nail driver that we call "Sting". We also have a 14v. drill, and last Christmas, SirKit bought me (ha) a set of cordless Makita 7.6v tools, that we saw one day as we were walking through Home Despot before Christmas. He had the kids wrap it up for me. ;o) One is a drill, the other a screwdriver, and they're small, lightweight, and fun to use. They're also grey and black, not the signature teal color; don't know why. Great for indoors, screwing on drywall, etc, cause you don't get so tired using them overhead.
Yeah, we had to break down and do that earlier in the week. We'd gotten down to 38 the night before, and in the morning it was cloudy, but not too cold. So we opened the front and back doors, and ran the furnace for a few minutes, to get the burnt dust, just starting up for the season, smell out of it.
SirKit set up the thermostat for it to turn on just before we get up in the morning, keep the house at 68, and pop down to 55 at night, so we're not heating the downstairs when we're not there.
The man is such a fraud.
Heh, we fired up the portable heater in the bathroom, but not the boiler. We may have to have a fire tonight to keep warm. Gypsy really enjoyed her walk today. Been to Tractor Supply and ate lunch at Habenero’s.
You listening to the Nascar pre-race? Sounds like they have a good sized crowd there. Heard on the news that the Kansas Speedway will sell individual tickets next year instead of just season passes.
I was listening to MRN over the interwebs.
I was going to plant today but it’s been on the cold side so I’ve been catching up on the housework and doing laundry...put the ceiling fans on their winter settings. I think Miss Cat is happy about the heat being on.
For its inaugural job, I used it to ream the bayonet mount to take the bayonet lug. The circular fixture on the bottom of the gas block takes the bayonet lug, which is pinned in place with a roll pin. The hole is several thousandths undersized, but fortunately I found a reamer that would fix that. That's where Makita-san came in. Here's the front end of the Sig, ready to take the Victorinox bayonet, along with a typical Colt-marked M16 bayonet for comparision.
And with the cold steel actually affixed, for the first and only time, to the rifle:
The bayonet is not the forged-steel work of art of earlier Swiss weapons. Instead, it's made like a blade for a large Swiss Army knife. It's stamped out of sheet stock, and then ground on one side. In its current state, the point and edge would give a standard butter knife a run for its money.
Just downloaded & watched “lock’n load , history channels Gunny’s new show on “knives”. Covered bayonets etc over the history of blades with the usual gunny watermelon carnage of course !
Never carried a bayonet shy of a modified M7 as you have pictured that we modified for use as a cheap fighting dagger that was no expensive wait’a minute custom drop knife like my Randall 14 or 16’s. We would grind off the barrel ring on the cross guard , drive out the pin and remove the bayonet lug butt on the tang and then reinstall the original plastic grips and some folks would slide a section of bicycle inner tube over the grips. We then used a serrated grinding wheel we had in the shop and serrated the short edge from tip to the flat edge. Sharpen the other edge razor sharp and it was a fighting knife we liked. Took all our old M7’s and ones that were turned in to salvage when the M9 came out and we had a 55 gallon drum of em we kept at the shop and our go bags an fly away pallets always had a few more inside as replacements if we lost those.
Very good , cheap, improvised fighting knife / tool we could well afford to abuse, use and lose.
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