In a Boston slum. Gotta love this guy and his genuine concern for the family members he wrote about in his book, huh?
Slow posting due to VOLUMES of refinish work and a BSOD issue on the home computer that I have not fully tracked down yet.
I am stunned at the number of first time gun-buyers that are looking for advice these days. Anyone else getting that?
:-)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Cocktails for Two
Me & a firearm, of course!
I can't do yummy recipes like Brigid does, but I can make a list.
So here is a PARTIAL list of the chemical goodness that goes around on an average shop day:
1) Simple Green.
Its stinging stinkyness is a refreshing smell that means grease and grime are going on vacation.
2) Kroil, like Simple Green for rust and elderly loc-tite.
3) CLP Breakfree- when you absolutely, positively have to decrudify something leadded and powdered, and don't want to wreck nickel (ammonia BAD on nickel substrates.)
4) Sulfuric acid-to remove that annoying blue color some guns have.
5) phosphoric acid-part of the wonderful Parker family of recipes!
6)Aluminum Oxide- either glued to paper, or @ 125 PSI, it stays crunchy in milk.
7) Acetone- great thinner, hygroscopic, and FLAMMABLE!
8) Xylene and Tolulene- the Wonder Twins! Wanna wreck plastic? Shop here!
9) Campbell Hausfield Compressor Oil- DO NOT MIX with aluminum oxide. Compressors no likey.
10) Mineral spirits- gooey tape residue, you are OUTTA HERE!
11) DuraCoat and hardener (DUH!)
12) Various pigments (adds color!)
13) u-235 ( I have a vaseline glass marble on the counter.)
14) Coffee
15) Arturo Fuente 8-5-8 Maduro smoke (does that count?)
16) "extra" lead
17) brass
18) green or blue loc-tite
19) 2-ton epoxy
20) Flitz! It rocks, and maketh dullness SHINY!
I can't do yummy recipes like Brigid does, but I can make a list.
So here is a PARTIAL list of the chemical goodness that goes around on an average shop day:
1) Simple Green.
Its stinging stinkyness is a refreshing smell that means grease and grime are going on vacation.
2) Kroil, like Simple Green for rust and elderly loc-tite.
3) CLP Breakfree- when you absolutely, positively have to decrudify something leadded and powdered, and don't want to wreck nickel (ammonia BAD on nickel substrates.)
4) Sulfuric acid-to remove that annoying blue color some guns have.
5) phosphoric acid-part of the wonderful Parker family of recipes!
6)Aluminum Oxide- either glued to paper, or @ 125 PSI, it stays crunchy in milk.
7) Acetone- great thinner, hygroscopic, and FLAMMABLE!
8) Xylene and Tolulene- the Wonder Twins! Wanna wreck plastic? Shop here!
9) Campbell Hausfield Compressor Oil- DO NOT MIX with aluminum oxide. Compressors no likey.
10) Mineral spirits- gooey tape residue, you are OUTTA HERE!
11) DuraCoat and hardener (DUH!)
12) Various pigments (adds color!)
13) u-235 ( I have a vaseline glass marble on the counter.)
14) Coffee
15) Arturo Fuente 8-5-8 Maduro smoke (does that count?)
16) "extra" lead
17) brass
18) green or blue loc-tite
19) 2-ton epoxy
20) Flitz! It rocks, and maketh dullness SHINY!
Optional Chemistry (task dependent) may include, but is not limited to:
a) Oil of Santalaum Album
b) lignum vitae resin
c) Outers gun oil
d) various cold blues
e) brass black
f) aluminum black
g) gold
h) nickel
i) silver
Tomorrow will be an easy day. Just need to clean up and ACU an 870 slug barrel for resale, and polish some new S&W lignum vitae grips. Piece'o' carrotcake.
ACU Remington 870 Blast-O-Tron
I had fun on this one. I've done dozens of 870s, but this one was just, well, special.
It got micro-abrasive blasted end to end (the non-parked bits, anyway,) and redone in the most frequent pattern I get any more, that wacky US Army ACU. Topped off the front sight with a blaze orange DuraCoat dot; impossible to miss from the user's perspective, and it was ringed with glow-in-the dark phosphorescent. Kinda tricky on a bead sight, but it works.
The colors will be WAAAAY off from the actual fabric unless you hand mix and adjust them, and for those of you who are foolishly ignoring the DuraCoat Mythbusters and "trying this at home," make sure you use only UV-resistant hardener with your matte clearcoat, so that the colors never fade, and make any final adjustments to color by mixing DROPS (not buckets or spoonfuls) of Coyote or MagPul FDE to your final UV-proof clearcoat.
Air-cure for a couple of days, lube, and fire liberally to taste.
As this was a brand new shotty, I was kinda disappointed that Remington QC did not catch the GIANT burr (about 1/16th of an inch!) that was sticking out of the ejection port, off of the right slide rail. God bless the guy that invented diamond bits and files.
Guess I can't fault Remington too much; the dealer hadn't caught it, and neither had the distributor that got it to the dealer, or the customer that sent it in. Woulda been a nasty skin snag the first time a finger went in the port for anything, and at the very least a partial FTE.
Still, I kinda wanted to keep this one, with the snazzy little 3-rail fore arm. Needs a side-saddle and red dot, though, really, to be mo-funner.
I really need to get a Saiga.
It got micro-abrasive blasted end to end (the non-parked bits, anyway,) and redone in the most frequent pattern I get any more, that wacky US Army ACU. Topped off the front sight with a blaze orange DuraCoat dot; impossible to miss from the user's perspective, and it was ringed with glow-in-the dark phosphorescent. Kinda tricky on a bead sight, but it works.
The colors will be WAAAAY off from the actual fabric unless you hand mix and adjust them, and for those of you who are foolishly ignoring the DuraCoat Mythbusters and "trying this at home," make sure you use only UV-resistant hardener with your matte clearcoat, so that the colors never fade, and make any final adjustments to color by mixing DROPS (not buckets or spoonfuls) of Coyote or MagPul FDE to your final UV-proof clearcoat.
Air-cure for a couple of days, lube, and fire liberally to taste.
As this was a brand new shotty, I was kinda disappointed that Remington QC did not catch the GIANT burr (about 1/16th of an inch!) that was sticking out of the ejection port, off of the right slide rail. God bless the guy that invented diamond bits and files.
Guess I can't fault Remington too much; the dealer hadn't caught it, and neither had the distributor that got it to the dealer, or the customer that sent it in. Woulda been a nasty skin snag the first time a finger went in the port for anything, and at the very least a partial FTE.
Still, I kinda wanted to keep this one, with the snazzy little 3-rail fore arm. Needs a side-saddle and red dot, though, really, to be mo-funner.
I really need to get a Saiga.
Spam Email of the MONTH!
You know you aren't supposed to click on them, but I have email filtering at work, so I can see the text and the rest is "saf-ti-fied."
How do you NOT read the text when the email is titled:
China Sausage- Delicious Woman.
It was even politely signed:
Sincerely, Mollie Gray.
Of course, they were trying to get me to look at a website with "All Natural School Girls Video,"
whatever the hell that means. Probably nothing to do with organic gardening, I would guess. Still, it had me wondering exactly what "China Sausage" is all about...since the email came out of France.
Sigh. Humanity...
How do you NOT read the text when the email is titled:
China Sausage- Delicious Woman.
It was even politely signed:
Sincerely, Mollie Gray.
Of course, they were trying to get me to look at a website with "All Natural School Girls Video,"
whatever the hell that means. Probably nothing to do with organic gardening, I would guess. Still, it had me wondering exactly what "China Sausage" is all about...since the email came out of France.
Sigh. Humanity...
Monday, October 6, 2008
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Blast from the past:
Forgot I had some old Queesnryche loaded in the itunes, and it came on this afternoon....
For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on
Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I'm tired of all this bull$hit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam
They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale
I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on
Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I'm tired of all this bull$hit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam
They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale
I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Civilian Pardon...
Know that for today, the following Senators have my admiration for DOING THEIR JOB-that is, voting AGAINST fiscally raping our nation's children and grandchildren (to the 10Th generation.)
llard (R)
Barasso (R)
Brownback (R)
Bunning (R)
Cantwell (D)
Cochran (R)
Crapo (R)
DeMint (R)
Dole (R)
Dorgan (D)
Enzi (R)
Feingold (D)
Inhofe (R)
Johnson (D)
Landrieu (D)
Nelson (FL) (D)
Roberts (R)
Sanders (I)
Sessions (R)
Shelby (R)
Stabenow (D)
Tester (D)
Vitter (R)
Wicker (R)
Wyden (D)
Barasso (R)
Brownback (R)
Bunning (R)
Cantwell (D)
Cochran (R)
Crapo (R)
DeMint (R)
Dole (R)
Dorgan (D)
Enzi (R)
Feingold (D)
Inhofe (R)
Johnson (D)
Landrieu (D)
Nelson (FL) (D)
Roberts (R)
Sanders (I)
Sessions (R)
Shelby (R)
Stabenow (D)
Tester (D)
Vitter (R)
Wicker (R)
Wyden (D)
The rest of you Senate BASTARDS need to be held accountable for letting it come to this, and then accelerating its awfulness.
Personally, I'd like to see each of you KELO'd, for a start- and living in cardboard boxes under bridges, pension less.
Sonsabitches. Burn in hell.
Apparently, only 25% of the Senate is worth redeeming, and the rest want to counterfeit for a living.
Washington DC would be a nice place, if it wasn't for all the freaking vampires.
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