Recent content by tbobcar

Yes, I agree. Knives are good for cutting wrists or throats, both actions lack an evenly matched opponent. Knife fights are rediculus. Knives, however are beautiful pieces of craftsmanship, the best ones are folding knives, they are are always handy for home and yard work. Guns an the other hand...

Excellent advice, most guns are made of different alloys of steel. I think it's remarkable the gun manufacturers achieve such uniform finishes. It ain't easy. If I were wealthy enough to buy a new gun and I wanted a different finish on a part of the gun, I'd sure phone the manufacturer and ask...

Some metal fiinishing shops offer black nickel plating on SS. The plate is very tough, and some electroless-Ni plates are deeply black and very tough. There were a few propritory stainless steel activators that removed surface alloying metals like chromium leaving an iron surface capable of...

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Ouch, I guess my note was not easily understood. I should have mentioned the bad food occurrence was when I was in a Phantom squadron in Vietnam. Nice picture of a P-38. My older brother was killed flying one of them against the Germans in North Africa, in WW2. I'm going to have to stay away...

It has all been said, and touches a lot of memories. Thanks. I would add the incident when our mess tent first started up and the pilots were to eat one hot meal per day. The first meal was a huge pot of chile. It was prepared in the morning for an afternoon meal. However the generators went on...

Ah, a true craftsman.

A simple Bridgeport or CNC?

Sure thing, but don't wait on me. I'll see if any local smiths want the little fixtures, then I'll tool up.

If there is a need in the community I would tool up to turn a few on my lathe for consumption.

Might not be a problem to turn those thumb temp scews, any idea of the demand and going price. See if it is worth tooling up for. Any dwgs or goby parts?

Some of the vinegar is distilled to focus it's purpose. There is a very concentrated form of the acid called 'glacial acetic acid' which is bad news to work with. I think the Jungle Web Site sells tiny bottles of it. It really is what I would call dangerous stuff to work with, I wouldn't...

Down here in South Alabama the evaporation coolers don't work very efficiently if at all. So, I plead ignorance. Perhaps if a water softener were used to reduce the Calcium level prior to the cooler. But of course the cost of softening is probably higher than repair time and cost of...

I always wondered if I could fly a Phantom off the deck of a 1,000' carrier. Right, that's dumb. Well, I was very young, a Marine, a 2Lt, and had a total pilot time of 350 hours which is peanuts in that unforgiving occupation. But bear with me, the later editions of the F-4 had a lot of push...

And that sums up what you are in the Marine Corps, everyone is a qualified rifleman.