Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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!
As your sister demonstrated, they can be used in ‘artful’ uses, too. I recall seeing more than one Ozark home with them in the windows and on picket type fence tops.
Congrats, nice snag. Honest ‘precious’ snag.
That is a happy water garden! We saw a gorgeous Bonsai garden when we were in Montreal several years ago. It was in the Japanese area of the Botanical Gardens. They also had an enormous pond that was chock full of koi; those suckers were HUGH! I don’t know what they do in the winter. It does get a mite nippy in Montreal.
Heh, good for theboy!
We had about 8” of snow yesterday. It fell steadily from about 4am til about 10pm. Thankfully, the additional snow that was supposed to have fallen today didn’t materialize. It’s sunny tomorrow and 36 or so, and the forecast is for more snow, mixed with rain, later in the week. But the daytime temps are all above freezing, so that’s a good thing!
Bunnies show up real well against the snow...
Everything was okay until I stumbled across the GG&G ad in the "Dillon Blue Press" (my greatest source of inspiration/temptation after Brownell's). GG&G has developed some "why didn't Eotech do that in the first place" accessories. Here's the setup, right out of the box:
The first item was the one I was most interested in, the lens caps. It was only after I opened the bag that I realized the caps were part of a single rubber piece that went between the "roll bar" and the sight itself. It required removing four Torx screws to get the roll bar enough. Then a couple of minutes of pushing the flexible assembly inside the roll cage, and then rotating it until it was in the correct position. It may not be easy to see, since everything is black, but here it is inside the roll cage:
Here's the project two-thirds done, with the lens caps and the throw lever installed. Installation of the throw lever was so easy, there's nothing worth commenting about it.
GG&G was also thoughtful enough to include a stick-on rubber bumper for the top of the roll cage, to muffle the sound of hard plastic against aluminum when the rear cap is opened. Elapsed time so far, about 15 minutes.
Then came the smallest, and most difficult, item, the "improved" battery box latch. As you can see from the picture above, the latch compresses the battery box against a thick rubber gasket, sealing everything shut. With batteries in place, it takes quite a bit of effort to snap it shut. Due to the mechanical disadvantage of the closed lever, opening it takes even more work. Even if you can get a fingernail under the lever, you still need a screwdriver blade to give you enough leverage to open it.
GG&G's improved latch has a slight bend in the latch, to let you get your fingernail underneath it.
This part of the project took about 15 minutes, because I was working with a roll pin that holds the lever in place. Even with roll pin tools (everyone who works on guns should have them), it was a four-handed job to hold everything steady while knocking the pin in and out.
Unfortunately for me, I still need the strength of a gorilla to defeat the mechanical disadvantage I'm working against. Part of the problem, I think, is the short lever length you're working with on the N-size battery box. If you have an Eotech that uses AA batteries, the box is longer, and so is the lever. That gives you more of a torque moment to work with. It's not a total loss for me, because it's easier to get that screwdriver under the tab now. But it sure isn't the one-hand-no-tools-needed solution. But at $7, I'm not complaining (much). You just can't beat the laws of mechanical advantage.
Here's the completed project, all buttoned up:
And open for business. I really like those lens caps, even if they're not totally waterproof.
As an experiment, I tried to see if I could photograph the holographic reticle image, and got this:
The reticle is fuzzy because it's a holographic image set out at infinity, while the camera's auto-focus got the rear of the sight, instead. Looking through the sight, you see a nice, sharp red ring and dot, complete with the usual laser specular effects.
Thirty minutes of mostly-pleasant, non-cussing work, and the Eotech is closer to perfection with this upgrade. If you have one of these sights, I rate the lens caps as a "must", and rate the throw lever very highly. With the "improved" battery box arm, your mileage may vary, but it's the cheapest item in the lot.
WOW !
Great first hand report Sir !
Thanks for the information.
In news here.... sometime in the night.... duckie tried to make a run for it...
Morning Gents - based on current skilz level 30 minutes of Winmag time equals about 60-90 minutes of OB time. YMMV is quite true.
Those parts look like they go in the ‘OB EBR shopping basket’. It’s getting to be quite a full basket.
Morning ALL - well, too much wet snow to leave in place, it’ll just sorta melt and become ice. Would be good for a Calvin and Hobbs snowman, though. Blue jays been by for the peanuts (in the shell) and Gypsy has made her snow angel.
Hope the sleet/freezing rain wasn’t too bad, G’nad.
Suziq - another 8 inches, sheez, you guys have been getting fonked on.
The duckie darn near made it too. Better luck next time.
I think one of the ferals musta done it. All mine were inside... :~)
The snow covered up some of the peanuts the blue jays didn’t get last night. This morning I found a bunch of peanut shells in the bird bath, figured we had been visited by a racoon or two. LSA
Hmmm... I find some shells in the birdbath sometimes... sunflower seed shells too.
I think we got at most an inch of the stuff. Nevertheless I heard snowplows scraping last night.
Racoons are everywhere! We occasionally see huge racoons coming out of the storm sewers; they live in a drainage area south of us and visit the garbage bins around the downtown area.
I’ve never seen one here in the yard, but we did find that poo in the back forty that turned out to be raccoon poo.
I’ve thought the proximity of the dogs has kept them a little wary about coming in the compound.
Probably the dogs have kept the racoons at bay, except for those few times when they really get a craving for peanuts or sunflower seeds :)
So that's a bummer.
To compound the bummer, I'll be away from my computer during the Academy Awards. It is such fun to heckle the Hollyweirdos and their pancy-pants dresses. Ah well. Mebbe next year.
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