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    What Grandpa Called It

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    12 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    I wouldn't go much by that picture or the terms.

     

    First, you will notice that the springy thing on the back down below the hammer is called a grip safety (which everyone calls it) in the top picture, but is called the safety grip (which no one calls it) in the bottom picture.

     

    Second, notice that the thingy that you can move up and down, above and behind the grip, is called the safety lock - a term no one uses - instead of the thumb safety - the term everyone uses.

     

    Then the caption says that's a 1911 A1, but it's not - it's a 1911. So while that blue jacket manual might be from 1946, that picture is from before 1924.

     

    Most likely that picture was lifted bodily, terms and all, from a Colt advertising pamphlet. Thus this is not the terminology the Navy used but is the terminology Colt manufacturing used.

    Well, you’ll have to read the text that fleshes the whole thing out, but I’m not gonna copy it all for this. Second, you and I weren’t around to say whether the Navy called it a safety lock, safety grip or whatever or not, back in 1946. “…a term no one uses…” implies present tense, which is irrelevant to a manual produced in 1946 or before.
     

    Third, the second, skeleton image is in fact an A1. Notice the rounded mainspring housing. Fourth, your comment was limited to clip vs magazine. The point of my post is that the Navy called it a magazine in 1946. 
     

    If you’d like to dispute the contents and nomenclature of a 1946 manual, you’ll need to take it up with the 1946 Navy. 😉

    weird stuff on YouTube

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    The headline has little to do with the content. I’m betting they don’t actually discuss 9 secret things. It’s just clickbait to get people to watch and buy the product. 
     

    Adding on, “secret” seems to be the latest clickbait buzzword on YouTube for cheesy content, which includes many of their documentaries. 

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    Mead

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    7 hours ago, El Chapo said:

    There is a meadery in Flagstaff that I've been to that is a fun place to hang out.


    I'm not a huge fan of mead, personally.

    I was poured a sample in Flagstaff (or was it Prescott?), but didn’t like it enough to order a full measure. 

    two questions about diesel engines

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    A friend used to collect cooking oil from fast food restaurants for his diesel truck, which needed to be filtered to remove all the gunk from the cooking process like batter and bits of food. He did it with a hand crank device into a big drum, which was really tedious. It was fun for awhile as long as restaurants gave away the used oil, but when they sniffed a buck or two could be made and started charging for it, he quit. Too much work. 
     

    He mentioned a conversion process necessary for the truck, which may have been a heater for thinning it. I don’t remember. Whatever the conversion was, he could turn it off or on to run regular diesel or cooking oil. The cooking oil had a separate tank he had put in the bed of the truck. 
     

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    How to Light an Anthracite Coal Fire

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    Did a further quick search on the economics of this. Kinda spendy. 
     

    The outfit I found that sells the coal charges $829 for 2,400 lbs, delivered in sixty 40 lb bags. Freight runs $300-$1,400 depending on your location from their store in Ohio. 
     

    Chubby stoves cost $1,200-$1,500 for a reconditioned one. I’m sure freight isn’t cheap for cast iron.
     

    According to another site, they consume 40 lbs a day. Of course there’s a wide variable as temperature etc. and size of dwelling has a huge impact. Nonetheless, it’s a lot of coal for a season. 
     

    I think these things are really cool, but there’s no way I could justify the expense. 🙁

     

    Having said that, if you live in area without utilities, it could be a good investment. My son lives in Spain in area without utilities. His house is heated with a high-tech wood stove/furnace that fires  a hot water radiator system that’s pretty efficient. There’s enough wood on their property that they don’t have to buy it. 
     

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    Iowa battleships

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    40 minutes ago, Chantry said:

     

    Closer to 20-25 miles and what are they going to shoot back with that would bother a battleship?

    Missiles and drones. Don’t have to sink it, just disable it. Germans did that with their Fritz-X glide bombs in the Mediterranean.
     

    Like Old Salty said, these things were conceived in an another era. Like mounted cavalry and ironclads that were fearsome in their own day, these ships days are past. 
     

    My last post on this topic. 
     

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    Iowa battleships

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    2 hours ago, Chantry said:

    Accurately deliver large quantities of high explosives in all weather, at less cost, with minimal risk to American lives and do it about 2 1/2 times as fast as TWO aircraft carriers.

    Provided they’re within 35 miles of the target and no one is shooting back. 

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    Iowa battleships

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    When the USS Missouri was decommissioned in the early 90s, it was costing $1M a day to operate. That's over $2.4M today - over $900M a year - for one ship. And that's on top of costs to get the old tub running again. The other big piece is the equipment and expertise to crew and maintain one no longer exists, not to mention munitions. The Iowa has a dead turret after its explosion in the 80s because the ability to repair hadn't existed for decades before the explosion. Think about that. While it might be difficult to sink one, battle damage or accidents that were repairable 60 years ago would now render them useless permanently.

     

    They've been sitting idle now for decades without the thought of bringing them back on line, not to mention they were already well-used over their lifetimes. As seagoing vessels of war, they're now comparatively fragile. Best to let them stay where they are to remind of us a different time.

     

     

     

     

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    Printers Part Deux

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    I have an Epson printer with individual color ink cartridges, plus an extra large one for printing B&W documents. What I hate about the thing is that even if you select black & white only, it won’t print anything if any of the other cartridges are empty. All I want is a B&W copy, so it’s maddening to have to buy a cartridge that isn’t needed.

     

    Do any of you know of a printer that doesn’t perpetrate this scam?

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    CARGO SAILBOAT!?!?

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    There’s no such thing as “knots per hour”. That’s like saying “3:00 am in the morning”. 1 knot equals 1 nautical mile per hour. These writers need to do their homework. Grrr…

     

    Despite the claimed glowing environmental benefits, the bottom line is whether this ship can make money for its owners. I’m betting it doesn’t, due to its cost & operating expenses, and likely has a lot of government money behind it. 

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    Do you tell the other person?

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    14 hours ago, Calamity Kris said:

    Uno is one of those gradual people.  Things gradually get to where they belong.  He will bring something in from the garage. to his office.  When he goes to take it back out, it moves from one desk in his office to the other desk.  Then some time later it will move to the kitchen counter closest to his office.  Some other time, (day, week, month) it will move to the kitchen island, which is closer to the door into the garage.  IT will eventually move to the buffet counter, which is next to the door to the laundry room.  Some time later, it will move to the laundry room sink counter.  At that point, if the item is large enough to be in my way, I will move it to the folding counter in the laundry room.  He will eventually put it on the drier, which is right next to the door into the garage.  "I'm staging it you know."  At that point I will threaten him with bodily harm if he doesn't put it away.  That's how things travel through our house.  It's no wonder he can't find anything.

    I LIKE this man!

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    if you could own a historic weapon

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    1 hour ago, Highwall said:

    My dad, a Marine vet from WWII would go for that! 😊

    He also told me the 30-06 won Okinawa with the M1 Garand and the BAR.👍

    I have a nice Garand, a Colt 1911 and a (repro) M1 Carbine. A BAR would round out my meager collection. 

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