Flyinfool

Just a tip on your shop crane, I have the same one. I replaced the 2 bolts that hold the vertical to the base with the same size as all of the other bolts, then I welded all of the nuts to the crane. now it can be quickly assembled or disassembled with just one wrench. Mine has to be stored in a corner of the basement but then hauled up the steps and outside to use. This makes it a LOT more convenient. I also replaced the bolt for setting arm length and bolt for chain attachment with pins and clips like what are on the folding legs. This also makes it a lot more convenient to use. I then made a holder for the pump handle so that it has a place to live.

For hand gun deer hunting my first was a Colt Anaconda 44 mag with 8" barrel, all stainless and a red dot scope. After a while that got upgraded to a Desert Eagle in 50AE, and that finally upgraded to the 7mm-08 that I showed earlier in this thread. Unfortunately when times were really tough I had to sell the Colt and the Desert Eagle. I really liked that Desert Eagle a lot, a replacement is back on my wish list. It was also my favorite sleeping buddy while camping in bear and wolf country. That 50AE could launch 325 grains at 1800 fps.

It could even be that some docs will prepare you for worst case and then you can be pleasantly surprised latter on. Or I am sure that there are some that will do a complete reinstall needed or not because it will pay more and vacation time or Christmas is getting close.

I am also a reloader. Reloading can save you money. I can often buy cheap factory loaded ammo for less than I can buy empty brass. So when I get a new gun I buy a buy a couple hundred rounds of the cheapest ammo I can find. By the time I have used up that cheap ammo to break in the gun, I will now have a small pile of empty brass for reloading. I almost always use the trigger puller to get bullets out of the cases. With reloading, premium rounds are very expensive, I can hand load using premium components to create a round that is tailored exactly to MY gun. If you are loading for just cheap blasting ammo it is hard to actually save any money. The savings come from making quality rounds. If you buy something like the RCBS Rock Chucker Starter Kit, it will come with nearly everything but the dies to get you started. Then you can upgrade pieces as you learn what features you would like on things. After 30+ years I still use that rock chucker press. I have accumulated dies for ~15 different calibers. Start out by buying one or more reloading books, (the rock chucker kit comes with a Nosler book so get different ones) you will need then anyhow to have safe recipes to load, most of them have a wealth of info in the beginning of the book explaining exactly how a round works and WHY you need to do all of the steps that you do. You will want an area that is cool, dry and free of distractions for your reloading area. cool so that it is comfortable, dry because you do not stuff to rust and the powder and primers do not like humidity, and free of distractions because mistakes can be VERY dangerous, you do have to pay attention to what you are doing. Many rounds have room in the case for a double load of powder, firing this could blow the gun apart right in your face. If you forget to put powder in a round, the primer will move the bullet out of the case and into the barrel and the next round would be going into a plugged barrel, also not good for you or the gun. It is not hard, but you do need to pay attention to what you are doing. I also make it a point to NEVER remember a loading, I have all of my favorite loads written down, If you remember a load and mix up details from 2 different loads, bad things can happen. It is easy to mix things up as you load for more different calibers that use similar amounts of powders with similar names.

It only looks a bit like a 1911, they are very clear that there are only like 3 small pieces that are interchangeable with a 1911 and it can NOT be converted to any other caliber.

Now just for giggles I did download the installation manual and setup manual for my tuner, the ones made for the doc. In that manual it does say that for battery replacement the entire unit is to be removed and returned to Medtronics for evaluation, the leads are to be tested and can be reused if they test good, and the ends are compatible with the new tuner, then the new tuner is installed in the existing pocket and the hole sewed back shut. This also agrees with what my Doc told me. Of course each person has their own unique situation and your requirements may be different than mine.

I also wondered about making them rechargeable thru the skin. The tech is certainly around and many products have cordless recharging, like tooth brushes, cell phones and such. BUT then the engineer in me wakes up and the only reasons that I can come up with is that rechargeable cells have a much lower power density than non rechargeable cells. In other words the single use cell that is in the tuner may last 10 years, but a rechargeable one with the same electrical capacity would be sever times bigger, or a rechargeable that is the same size as the non rechargeable would need to be recharged a lot more often, like every 2 or 3 years. The whole pacemaker would also have to either be made bigger to accommodate the charging circuitry, or the battery be made even smaller. Rechargeable batteries also have a useful life. There are not many that will live much more than 10 years before they need replacement anyhow. Then there is the charging its self, A phone that uses wireless charging can take over night to charge and has to be very close to the charger. SO to charge the tuner you would need to wear something that would hold the charger tight to your skin for many hours. Another issue is that the new tuners like mine, are immune to strong magnetic fields like an MRI. The wireless chargers use magnetism to transfer the energy wirelessly. The magnetic shielding of the tuner would prevent that. Now that I have put this all in writing, I can see where it may just not be practical to to make a rechargeable tuner. As for replacement time, I was told that the new one will go into the exact same spot and the old one. When that time comes. AND in many cases they will reuse the wires that are already installed in the heart. So far the score is 2 awake and one sleeper.

WAY BACK when I was racing stock cars, at the beginning of the season during the tech/safety inspections they always checked the thickness of the tubing used to make the roll cages. They did this by drilling a 1/8 inch dia hole and using a short rod with a hook on the end to reach in to hole and hook the back side of the wall and then measure how mush rod was sticking out. This may be a way to check to see how much internal corrosion you have in that area. The frame can rust out from the inside and still look wonderful on the outside until it fails. I never looked close at a naked frame, As long as it is out and naked how hard would it be to completely seal it so that there can be no internal corrosion. Whenever I build something structural I always seal weld everything to prevent corrosion from disassembling it over time. If it is not appropriate to seal weld everything air tight I will at least fully caulk it to get as close as possible to the same effect. If no Oxygen can get to the bare inside metal then further oxidation is not possible.

Well ya know Puc, I can not make changes to the nozzles right now since they are way up at the top of the machine and for the next month I am not supposed to raise my arms above my shoulders. That means that the IMP CYL choke tubes will have to stay in and they will have to remain pointed due east. But I will at least see what I can do about the part of "let her rip". Hey Puc (and others with tuners also). When they did mine I was wide awake thru the whole thing, just a local at the site where they were carving. So I got to make comments all the way thru the procedure. There was 5 or 6 times that I had to tell them to use more numbing because they were starting to cut outside of the numb area. (DANG those scalpels are sharp:scared:) The docs were also quite surprised when I said "I felt that" as they were screwing the wires to the wall of my heart. The heart is not supposed to be able to feel anything. It was not pain that I felt, It was a sensation like you would expect from a pin prick but it was dead center in my chest. I am just curious how common it is to be wide awake while someone is carving on you and messing with your ticker.

Well I am feeling better today, The insertion site is still really tender but at least I can move my left arm around. For the next 4 weeks i can not rise my left elbow above my shoulder or lift more than 10 lbs but at least I can move it. The last 2 days I could barley move it at all. Sylvester, The nozzles are pretty heavy and high up, with being unable to raise my arm and the 10 lb limit I do not know if I can turn them away from due east. I am not sure if @cowpuc will like just firing up the www and forgetting about it.

My SKS also came with a 1000 meter sight, It may be able to lob a bullet that far, but I would be surprised if you could hit the broad side of a barn literally. and if it did hit the barn, there would not be much energy left in the bullet. Kind of like my 22LR will only make dents in a cardboard box at 300 yards.

My bracket is still perfect. Or is that just cuz I never filled one out????

I am back home now. Still quite sore. The whole procedure was done only under local anesthetic, I was wide awake thru the whole thing. There was a few times that I had to tell them that the local was wearing off. DANG THOSE SCALPELS ARE SHARP!!! This morning they came in to take a download of the first night on the new tuner. It was having to pace me 98% of the time.

If it is already broke you're off the hook somebody else already got it

no one won the big part because I've been a little bit preoccupied the last few days, lots of counting the holes in the accustic ceiling tile in my hospital room. That jackpot is waiting for me to get out.

if you don't miss so often the gas won't have time to melt the plastic bag

Well I seem to have survived the surgery with only a few minor complications but at least I'm still around to harass you guys and keep the infamous www running.

If the gas is to bad to dump into my truck, then I fill ziploc baggies with the gas and place a small container of Tannerite in it. and take it to the rifle range for spectacular disposal.

I don't know what size you need, but here is one size. https://www.jbugs.com/product/N203501.html?utm_content=shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI87z4jJmS4QIVCAVpCh2Sag4IEAQYBCABEgIRGPD_BwE

C'mon now Puc, You don't want all the goodies all at once do ya? I has gots fer ta spread them out a bit, I don't have an unlimited number of unusual toys appropriate to share in this thread.

I see what looks like it would be a sight glass, but if it is a sight glass it is located below where the hose is connected so it would not do much sighting.

That made my poor eyes hurt........

I also am not a mil surp guy, this one just looked like fun to play with, it was cheap, and ammo was cheap (at the time) so I had some fun with it over a cold snowy winter back 15 years or so ago. I figure that if I burn it up doing a lot of rapid fire out of it, who cares. I am surprised at just how well that chromed bore is holding up. Many cases of ammo thru it and it still looks like a brand new bore. Back when I first got this gun it was a period in my life where I was single and so I had everything delivered to my place of work so it would not get stolen off my front porch. It just so happened that I just had 2 cases of ammo delivered for this gun when my job was getting downsized out of existence. The company upper management knew that I brought home a deer every time I went hunting and knew that I spent a lot of time at the range honing my skills. All of upper management was in the front office drawing straws for who would have to tell me I was being laid off permanently. I was also always the one at almost every place I worked at that was always voted most likely to go postal. Because everyone knew that I had the skills and the equipment to do so. AHHHhhhhhh........ The good old days.......... Wait till you see the next one from my collection of unusual guns waiting for me to do a wright up about. It is also treading on the edge of fun and Mil.

But it is not an AK, it is an SKS. I do not yet have an AK or an AR.

I do not buy guns as collection pieces, all of my guns get out to play regularly. This SKS is no exception, It regularly gets out, it was set up for fun and the paint was part of the fun, I had just bought my first airbrush and this was the first thing I ever painted. No it is not great and has a lot of flaws, but it was fun and I still have fun when I pull it out at the range. It had to have some kind of a paint finish since I added about 2.5 inches the butt of the stock to make it fit me better. I am a bit bigger than the average Chinese kid that it was designed to fit. The wood that I added of course did not match the wood that was already there so it did require an opaque finish. The bayonet mount was also permanently removed to make the removable mag mod legal at the time. Fortunately those laws have gone away, but I do not think I will ever have a need for a bayonet so I have no plans of putting the mount back to functional. I also do have a scope mount that fits this gun, but it really did not help accuracy at all so I took it off. The gun its self is just not real accurate. But it will make a lot of bangs in a hurry which is fun too. If you hold the gun just right you can simulate full auto with no attachments, cranks or bump stocks or any other weird stuff needed.