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    Crowley Lake

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    The strange pillar-like formation emerged after Crowley Lake reservoir was completed in 1941: stone columns up to 20 feet tall connected by high arches, as if part of an ancient Moorish temple.

     

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    But now answers are emerging from a study at UC Berkeley. Researchers have determined that the columns were created by cold water percolating down into — and steam rising up out of — hot volcanic ash spewed by a cataclysmic explosion 760,000 years ago

    “These columns are spectacular products of a natural experiment in the physics of hydrothermal convection,” Noah Randolph-Flagg, 25, a PhD candidate and lead author of the study, said in an interview.

    The blast, 2,000 times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, created the Long Valley Caldera, a massive 10-by-2-mile sink that includes the Mammoth Lakes area. It also covered much of the eastern Sierra Nevada range with a coarse volcanic tuff, or ash fall.

     

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    Threads on Browning Bolt Guns

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    31 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

     

    Based on that info all you need is tho thread pitch gauges one SAE and one metric.

     

    A combo set can be had for under $20.

     

    You could also get by with just a mic.  The only thing that might be close is the 1/2" vs. 13mm, which is .512".

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    can't decide which is more annoying

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    38 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    I read a story this morning about how a guy got highered for a job.

     

    it must have been one of those skyscraper steel worker jobs.

     

    Received pronunciation of Elizabethan "hired."

     

    Or he went back to school to get the doctorate required for the job.

    Threads on Browning Bolt Guns

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    1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:

    You'd have to know my buddy, a superb hunter and tracker, a fine shot and a marvelous Chef, but not a tech guy. Thanks, though!

     

    It really doesn't take much tech to mic the major diameter (OD), or use a pitch gauge to match threads.  Although a magnifying glass might be needed to see the blasted thing. 

     

     

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    Threads on Browning Bolt Guns

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    Thread pitch gauges are inexpensive.  With a set, a micrometer,  and access to a thread size chart you can get close enough since there are only a couple of standard sizes.   Heck,  might be able to get by with just the thread pitch gauges. 

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    can't decide which is more annoying

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    57 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    Oh gimme a brake. Who cares if others hear or any wear spell correctly? One could loose they’re mind worrying about this stuff. If it isn’t embedded in they’re mind by now their prolly not going to learn it. Some folks bearly know how to speech, let alone spell. 

     

    That must have been hard to type!  

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    can't decide which is more annoying

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    37 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:


    Why JOE!!  I never knew that you were into sheep!! :lol:
     

     

     

    Right tasty!  Marinate in olive oil,  lemon,  garlic,  rosemary,  onion, and red wine,  then grilled. 

     

     

    It's also,as @Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 pointed out,  a good alternative to "capon" for describing certain denizens of Sacramento and DC.

     

     

    On a related word,  look up the  verb "tup."   Gives a whole new meaning to Tupperware. 

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