So...is this a dolphin-safe airgun or not? Inquiring minds want to know.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
No doubt this practice is highly encouraged by the new car dealers.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Why is Michigan such a hotbed for old airgun collectors? Or should it be "collectors of old airguns"?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
yeah, with friends like that...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Saw that one with the giant nozzle squirting out mortar, makes some pretty elaborate ring forms and such. By the time they stack them all up it does look pretty castle-like. Personally, I'd be a lot happier with some wire mesh or rebar in there somewhere, the structure they built is not going to be very strong.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
THERE you go Gary, just start making ornate stamped AK receivers! I'm sure there's no paperwork involved... In actuality, you CAN produce "flats" without registering as a manufacturer, it's only when they are bent into shape and finished that they officially become a firearms receiver. The problem, of course, is that everyone else is selling them for twenty five bucks, not much profit margin iby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Well, now that you live in Florida you can just go wash the road salt off by driving it down along the beach.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
No co-pilot when you're flying most EMS contracts, they're too cheap to pay two pilots when one can do the job. Add in all the off-airport work, night operations, unpredictable weather, and the perceived pressure of knowing that every time you get the call it means that someone usually NEEDS you to go, and the industry has one of the worst accident rates of all helicopter applications, go figure.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Sometimes if the in-tank fuel pump is still working you can empty most of the gas out with it. The problem is finding a place to tap into the fuel line without having to fiddle around in the shoe-horn tight engine compartments that all the trucks seem to come with these days. Most of them use a hard line almost all the way from the tank to the high-pressure fuel pump, no easy hose clamps to unfasby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I once watched an ER doc pour about an ounce of superglue into .45 caliber hole in a mans palm. Wanna guess how it got there?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Doesn't take a genius to figure out which pressing is the higher quality, that original is a nice looking piece of work. The giant phillips-head screw is a particularly graceless touch.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Gonna have to include a small first aid kit with all knife purchases. Of course, this would be the Gary-style first aid kit: a half-used bottle of super glue, a one-inch square of paper towel, and a toothpick.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I've always wanted to be pen-pals with a Nigerian Prince.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
It's a good looking piece of work for sure, the curls sort of remind me of fiddlehead ferns when they're still curled up. If you laid that down on the forest floor up here it'd disappear in a heartbeat.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
That gal has some curves on her for sure.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Didn't mean to turn out a depressing diatribe, but reading it again I can see how it might be interpreted that way, even by me. Thing is, I can't really see how I'd go back and remove all the parts that I think are really off base, other than my speculation as per the final paragraph. I'm quite willing to admit that my crystal ball is neither perfect nor infallible, if it were otherwise I'd haveby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hello Gary and all, Interesting that you should bring up this topic now, as similar issues have been on my mind lately. My sons middle school class has been discussing some of the issues connected with world overpopulation, and there's definitely some connections here. In the last thirty years or so we've gone from a planet with roughly 5 billion people to one with a bit over 7.5 billion, a fby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Durn, had it all planned out too. Admittedly there is always the problem of the kids who want to poke the captive artist with a stick, but I was gonna charge extra for that.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
boy...that poor pirate ship sure didn't last longby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Well you ARE in Florida after all, right there in the same exact state as the Kingdom of the Evil Mouse, practically right next door to Orlando. You could put out some brochures, get your operation on the list of tourist attractions. "Go see Didknee Land, swing on by Universal Moovieos, then when you're done with all those low-budget amateur operations you can come see BARNES PNEUMATIC SOUTH!by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
When you open up your commercial operation doing tours of the shop, you can carve out your own dies for the obligatory "penny squisher" machine. Stick it right between the snow cone vendor and the cotton candy booth.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
So...it's built FOR barbarians or BY a barbarian?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Up here the tide ranges quite a bit, 15-20 feet per day difference between high and low, more in the spring tides. It's pretty common in the smaller fishing communities to have a "grid" attached to the dock, where they've got timbers that can support a heavy boat set just above the median tide range. You pull your boat in at high tide and tie it up to the vertical pilings so it won't fall over whby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hmmm...now that I look at it more closely, one of the skeleton pirates might not have his boot properly buckled. Might be a tripping hazard, they'll report you to OSHA since his work environment isn't safe enough.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
That thing's half sawblade, cutting some rope next or going straight to chunking up downed tree trunks?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I especially like the way Gary can hammer in that finish around the printing and engraving, takes skill. And a teeeny, tiny little hammer.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I'm just a couple years behind ya Kurt, but it doesn't look like I'm catching up. That's the best part about getting old, we're all in it together.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
sweet! they look...rugged.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
The way our demographics are going, we're well on our way.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
In a way it's a bit like a life-long hangover that you get from a momentary indiscretion when you're young. And yes, if they could put "20-year-old-knees" or "gymnast-flexible-back" into an ointment they could charge whatever they wanted for it. In a perfect world it'd be over-the-counter in the discount aisle, right next to the little bottles of "5-hour-toddler-energy". Actually, the latterby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum