Or in your washing machine drain sump, having migrated there after bouncing unnoticed into your shirt pocket where you carried it around all day without knowing.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Since we've seen testimony on the other thread noting that challenge coins can and are awarded for laudable achievement, I'll purchase the ~35mm Molon Labe coin, to be awarded and sent off to Jerrys son Tim, of Surefire Casting fame. He's put in the time and effort to learn the secrets of making and selling some excellent quality cast slugs, a service that I really appreciated even if he's movedby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Yup, some units are more into it than others, and some units are WAY into the challenge coin thing! When I was in the 3rd Cavalry, you didn't dare attend a unit dining in / dining out function without at least one in your pocket. At most bases it was dangerous walking into the Officers Club without one regardless of which unit you were with, since the tradition is that if you got caught withoby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Spoiler alert: in the movie Zootopia, ALL the employees at the DMV are...you guessed it.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
it's a beautyby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
$1400 canadian is quite a bit of money even at the current exchange rate, ouch. Not sure where people get the idea that a hammer is the ideal tool for dealing with precision machinery, but I suppose some people have to learn the hard way.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Remember back when waking up was just the prelude to the "good part" of the day? No concern for what aches and pains you'll find waiting for you, just spring out of bed and get started. Nowadays when I wake it's a process categorizing what's going to be the biggest issue today... will it be the bum knee? Will it be the sore neck from sleeping on it "funny"? If yesterday was a heavy lifting day itby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Sounds like quite the project. Fortunately, this kind of project actually works to complete itself, as the pup grows into a dog.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Don't worry, it'll turn up. Probably just a few days after you spend way too much time fabricating new tools. I think there must be an alternate dimension where tools disappear, right now it seems to contain all my tape rules except the one with a notch in the blade that hangs up retracting. Oh, and all those little 99-cent rolls of teflon plumbing tape that I needed yesterday of which I'm Sby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Ah, Gary, you've touched on one facet of the 'classic old vending machine' issue, but disregarded another couple. While it's true that some collectors will spend ridiculous amounts restoring an iconic old Coke dispenser, the truth of the matter is that this special treatment only applies to a handful out of the thousands that are out there. The vast majority of those old machines are slowly rustiby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Zootopia, just went to see it, thought it was a good movie. Try to see it if you haven't yet, use the grandkids as an excuse if you have to.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hello Gary, At the risk of seeming flippant I am going to say that while we might work in very different fields, you are not alone. As a pilot, I can definitively tell you that accumulated goodwill and reputation carry little weight compared to the right-now when dealing with the flying public or bosses or (Lord forbid) an insurance company. We are always being judged by our last flight, and iby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Don't look like much...yet...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I think these guys found the "lost skeeter graveyard". Actually, this is supposed to be a salt mine in Sicily. Looks familiar though, doesn't it?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
She's got some curves on her, this one.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Ha, I've got all y'all beat! When I took a community-ed class on TIG welding, purty much ALL of my welds looked gorgeous on the outside yet broke like a saltine cracker when bent in the vice. Top that!by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Classic looks and the scales are quite thin, must be strong stuff.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
It's a beauty, but it's beastly sharpby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
ought to polish up real pretty!by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Rain...you do get tired of the stuff, till it's gone for too long. Can't live with it, can't live without it.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
" dump anyone exuding negativity ...." hmmm.... Wouldn't that include the entire slate of political candidates currently bloviating on every media channel out there? I'm fer it!by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Yup, Gary...you NEED to be loading multi-hundred pound chunks of left-over pier sheeting into your truck. Build up some core strength or something like that. If it's the stuff they use for docks and berms up here, it'd only take a couple dozen feet to weight more than your truck does. So Kurt, there's a guy installing something like those here. He's got a big Takeuchi rubber-tracked excavatorby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
The human spine is a pretty kludgy design, but it's the only option we've got. Sort of says it all when your options to "fix" it all come with waivers to sign mentioning minor little side effects such as death, paralysis, or "just" a lifetime of chronic debilitating pain. Maybe Kurt is on the right track, you just gotta whip up some sort of middle-ages-style torture rack. Find the plans on the inby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
BTW, back feeling any better yet, I hope?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Sorry to hear that your back is acting up again, Gary. I've had mine go out a couple of times to the point where even breathing wrong resulted in icy daggers of pain, and I've always sort of dreaded the possibility that it might come back some day and just not go away. The fact that these episodes were a couple decades ago when I had a lot fewer miles on the chassis doesn't portent well, but so fby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
They do make some giant ones, don't they? And that company has been making them since before the Civil War, I guess they must know what they're doing! Thanks Kurt, this really has been interesting to see how the hidden bits and pieces (giant ones) that keep our cities running get madeby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
So this whole thing is pretty much a giant basement sump pump (with a backup), except everything is on a grand scale? Does it go into a mine or is it some sort of municipal infrastructure? And how did the thing with the steel-cable macrame go? Did it try to unravel when you trimmed it to put in the steel frame?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Whenever I see a duct-seal creature on the forum, I hear Morgan Freemans voice from that penguin movie..."some of them will not survive"...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Pretty impressive that you guys can hold tolerance to that level given how much metal expands and contracts under variable temperature. Galvanizing is pretty good corrosion protection for steel but it isn't magic, the zinc delays corrosion but it can't prevent it indefinitely unless they're willing to invest in and maintain an active cathodic corrosion control system. Did they want the tapped holby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum