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This is so far "off topic" but here goes. mid afternoon yesterday the wife & I were enjoying a movie she had streaming when i looked outside and saw about a dozen deer ( all does or this yrs fawns that have grown up) had entered the yard about 150 yrds from the house and were milling about...

Every once in a while we encounter a situation that requires an unorthodox "field expedient " fix of one thing or another...and great satisfaction can be had when finished...but pls boys- remember that someone may have to re-fix the item somewhere down the road so make it refixable. I just...

One for the kitchen table gunsmiths onboard. I dont know how to "link" but I think a google to "How to make barrel rifling from old steel bolt" will get you to the Utube vid. Interesting but very much a "Kyber Pass" type operation ...but I bet it works in a pinch.

Morning fellows, I have started a farm yard clean up in a yard that was used for the last 60 yrs as a bit of a junk collection site for construction & farming equipment. I dont know what will roll out of the grass yet but so far I have found some wear resistant ground engagement pieces (hay...

Four or five yrs ago my ophthalmologist started to mention I would need a cataract operation in the future. That condition progressed until last spring i notice a significant difference in sight quality and it continued to get worse over the summer. Mid summer I had to quit driving and...

buddy of mine is entering the world of tig welding. He has 3 options that he is considering so far ...converting his existing wirefeed with some sort of high frequency upgrade or purchasing a new purpose built on-shore name brand outfit for $ 3200 or one of the Amazon off-shore outfits for...

So, I aint no A.C. lectrical engineer, like all truck drivers ever born i can re-wire any 12 V system to perform better'n any engineer ever thought of but AC aint my cup-o-tea. I expected there to be 4 wires inside the hard cover but there are only 3. two white and a black. I will be...

Not a Kijiji find but a phone call from a very considerate neighbor should land a very old lathe in my shop next week. I havent seen it yet but he describes it as "in pretty good shape for its age". It has 2 patent # on it that date 1892 and 1894. Pretty sure it started its life as a...

Well we got Jim's compressor issues pretty much hashed out so on with another one. I said in one of my post's that the topcic has renewed my interest in acquiring a small machine capable of "severing" 1/2" mild steel. Most of my cutting these days is 1/4-3/8" but if the need arises "better...

My first day at my computer in 3 weeks. Well, 21 days ago I was the object of interest of a knife happy surgeon for 6 hrs...while he seems to have done his job quite very well, even a modest recovery will take a month or so yet. Through a comedy of errors at the hospital office level...