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J.D. Daily

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  1. The face covering may be an Arab version of a fly mask. It also blocks the horse's field of view which could calm the horse. As a former owner of Arabian mares & having friends who owned Arabian mares & one gelding Arabian's temperament can be described as "a horse on crack". By the time the misses & I hit 60 we switched to quarter horses.. When the short quarter horse mare my wife had for 15+ years died two summers ago, my horse a quarter horse gelding decided he didn't want to live without his long time herd mate. A couple of weeks after she passed he decided to lay down & not get up again. I got him up twice and each time he refused to walk.* Laying down again each time. We called a friend who euthanized the mare to do the same for my equine friend. This the 1st time I've witnessed an animal that loved an animal companion so much that they lost the will to lived. *He didn't have colic because he'd been there done that a couple of times. I had to to feed him psyllium for one week every month to flush the sand out of his intestines..
  2. The question How many football teams in NY? Is a trick question. I'd have to reply with a couple of questions. 1) Do you mean the state or the city? and 2) Do you mean play their home games in the state? Like the District of Colombia I am don't know if someone means when they say "Washington" unless followed by DC or state. The same goes for New York.
  3. One of our two blind cats sleeps on our bed 5-6 hours each nite sharing it with our 11 year old doxidor. Our Korean rescue likes sleeping in a crate that is in our bedroom. When we 1st got him we placed the crate in our living room. Besides crying he bent the bars until a couple fell out which allowed him to squeeze out. He was an escape artist in the rescue shelter in Korea.
  4. I have seen that hack used on Gold Rush.
  5. Wow! They must be busy. The longest outage was due to an equipment failure at the Lahontan substation.
  6. If a tire filled with ether is exposed to fire run like your life depends on it. It does! Evey if the ether/air mixture in the tire is outside the ignition range when the tire explodes the pressure wave will be worse than just that of an an air or nitrogen filled tire.
  7. There is a oil fields gas compressor manufacture who uses in-line gas engine long blocks.
  8. I lived in San Ramon CA from 1974 through 2003. The utilities were underground including MV switches located in vaults. The subdivision was built in the late 1960's and the MV connections to the switches & pad mounted transformers were Elastimold elbow connectors. The problem with the original Elastimold connectors is their insulation failed after a few years. Until all the connectors were replaced we had power outages every other week. After PG&E had fished replacing the bad connectors the power almost never failed. Except for on weekend when there were intermittent drops in voltage where lights would flash. I happen to be in the front yard and heard intermittent loud pops coming from down the street. I walked down the street to investigate. I determined it was coming from the vault at the end of the cul-de-sac. It was more of a bang from a 9mm. The heavy vault lid moved up with each bang. Worrying about possible electrocution I quickly walked home & called the utility. 7 miles outside of Fallon we have frequent outages. After one that lasted almost 24 hours I installed a manual transfer switch & 30A 4 wire NEMA twistlock inlet to plug in my 6.5 kW dual fuel portable generator.
  9. That was then and since the 1970's I do Mexican restaurants and Taquerias. I wish I could find a Mexican restaurant that does Mexico City food. When spending a few days in Roserito Beach to load up on artisan outdoor items when at Senior Frogs tried a dish they called molajetes. when trying to find the equivalent in SF Bay Area I eventually bothered to DuckDucGo it finding out it is a stone mortar. By chance by watching a PBS cooking show I found out what Senior Frogs called molcajetes was a Mexican chapino., chicken fish & prickly pear cactus leaves. The host was a Chicago restaurateur from Mexico City. P.S. In 1980 & 1981 I made two field engineering trips to Colombia & liked a anus liquor they called Aguar Diente. Could find it US and again watching a Thirsty Traveler program found out Aguar Diente is what the locals call their local spirit.
  10. On vehicles with catalytic converters using one cylinder as a compressor may overheat catalyst & destroy it. It would be prudent to unplug the injector for the cylinder. If you have a pre-charged pneumatic rifle and a 12 volt air compressor rather than a hand pump to charge your rifle buy a breathing air tank, scuba or Scott pack tank.
  11. The 1st time I ate tacos was in the late 60's I forget what fast food place however I probably was Foster's Freeze. They were like the deep fried 1800 version. They were oily. I haven't seen them since.
  12. All the services required were done by a corporation that specializes in eye surgery in Reno. I wish I had known I would receive a VA 70% disability rating a year after I had it done so I'd have $5,000 in 2021 dollars more in my 401k.
  13. Beside using readers for close work I use SSP sports eyewear with shooting bifocal lens in left side and std lens in the right side. The magnification is located on the top part of the lens. Prior to cataract surgery I used 3X readers and after 1.25X. My SSP shooting eyewear had 3X lens in the left side. The $5k for the surgery was well spent.
  14. The frequency hopping and random scanning phased array radar is to defeat electronic jamming. Frequency hopping is used to counter jamming of RF command & control. Ukraine uses it in their drones because Russia uses jamming pods to counter Ukraine's RF controlled drones. The Ukrainians and Russians also use fiber optic comms which can't be jammed. P.S. Russian S-300 & S-400 radar systems include VHF (looks like 2 meter band) for long range target detection. These are the ones that have large rotating flat array of folded dipoles in front of a screen.
  15. Depends on where you fall on the scope of 2nd Amendment. Those who support the restrictions on suppressors, forced rest triggers, binary triggers and/or magazine capacity restrictions argue these aren't "arms" in the text of the amendment. Congress in 1934 buy passing the NFA lumped suppressors with firearms. The current SCOTUS in 2023's NYSRPA v. Bruen on page 19 states: "thus, even though the Second Amendment’s definition of “arms” is fixed according to its historical understanding, that general definition covers modern instruments that facilitate armed self-defense.” Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of “facilitate” is: To make (something) easier. Therefore per Bruen "accessories" like magazines capable of holding more than some arbitrary number and devices that suppress the sound power of a firearm are included in the scope of "arms" in text of the 2nd Amendment because they make armed self defense easier. I hope that the House of Representatives accept the Senate's version of the Big Beautiful Bill so that SBR's & SBS's as well as suppressors are removed from NFA controls. However, it is likely that SCOTUS will eventually grant certiorari to cases re. suppressors, SBR's & SBS's; so SCOTUS will permanently foreclose on government restrictions on the people keeping (includes acquiring) & bearing them. While SCOTUS punted on the magazine capacity limit & so called assault rifle/pistol bans, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh in his statement re. court rejection of the Maryland & Rhode Island cases indicates that the issue will be taken up in 2025-2026 or 2026-2027 court term.
  16. 4D Reamer Rentals is where to rent a 44 Special pistol chamber reamer. 4drentals.com/product/reamer-rentals/pistol/44-special/
  17. Berdoxer? I can't imagine they have any repeat customers unless the the powder is a lot less energetic than powders made in the west.
  18. What you need is a couple mini dachshunds. They are tenacious hunters. I had a pair and one was an alpha female. A tough girl who would wrestle with our 26 lb. king of the hill tom cat. She killed any gophers that popped up in the backyard & even terminated a tree squirrel who made the mistake of coming off the fence into the yard.
  19. The $771 option other than taking up less space on your counter top & in storage why would you not by a electric powered meat slicer?
  20. I worked as a bean counter for the subcontractor who designed and made the antenna which also serves as the structure that supports all the probes systems. The antenna is the 1st that used carbon fiber sheets. P.S. the probe will won't run out of electricity to power the electronics; because, it is powered by the heat of radioactive decay from isotope with thousands of years half life. The probe has two 2 watt transmitters. Because CA Microwave's program to develop the solid state transmitter the required validation testing wasn't completed before JPL needed them; so, JPL decided to use a Varian traveling wave tube transmitter used in previous deep space probes. The program like all high technology programs went behind schedule & over budget. The antenna program had deliverables of 4 units. One to do structural (shock & vibration) tests & the rest for 3 total probes. One of the units was for extensive testing in simulated space at the temperature of liquid hydrogen. Because of the overruns the deliverables was reduced to 3. With one of the antennas the one that failed the structural test due to an invalid the design assumption the engineers used. To minimize overall weight different density Hexcel aluminum honeycomb sheets were used. The assumption was that in the manufacturing process the sheets of different density honeycomb were bonded by glue that filled the void between the sheets. After the antenna failed the shock & vibration test the post mortem inspection determined the ASSumption was not correct. Reinforcements were added to the design and the failed unit was repaired & retested. It became part of the probe that was used for the environmental testing. Which also was the program spare before the launches.
  21. In 1969 I remember watching a defense dept. film that was classified "Confidential" at MB Associates on a Friday. Every Friday during the lunch hour a DD film was shown. On that Friday the film was about a problem the AF & Navy were having with Napalm bombs high rate of failure to detonate in flooded rice paddies. The bombs had one fuse. The problem was solved by installing a second fuse.
  22. A rare sight her 8 miles outside Fallon is a kit fox family. We have a family that dens in an abandoned sprinkler irrigation supply pipe. The adults must have made a entrance by excavating where a hydrant riser was broken off. Beside digging an entrance they had to brake the PVC piping to gain access to the interior. As long as you don't open the car doors they don't react when outside. The local wildlife center identified them a kit foxes which are smaller than coyotes and are cute unlike coyotes. Because we worry about our two dogs interacting with them the naturalist recommended that when we are sure the family has left the den which is when the pumps are old enough to support themselves to block the entrance with large rocks or concrete then fill in the rest of the hole so they can't use it again. P.S. The miss's iPhone home screen is a picture of one of the foxes. While foxes here eat the abundant supply field mice they also eat the cotton tails and the chipmunk sized squirrels which we don't want our dogs to kill.
  23. CBC Global Ammunition is building a new 9mm through 12.7mm ammo plant in Eastern Oklahoma. Eventually the plant will make all the components required to mfg. centerfire cartridges. https://www.mbtmag.com/video/video/22940986/ammunition-manufacturer-announces-300m-new-factory?__lt-lid=68234e29d25cb6e3c6462bb5&__lt-usr=4357H2926923F1Y&oly_enc_id=4357H2926923F1Y
  24. I am not a lawyer however Uberti 1873's barrels are marked 357M so Uberti and Taylors couldn't get product liability insurance if their 1873 rifles couldn't handle thousands* of 357M's loaded to SAMMI max spec. pressures. *As long as they are maintained per mfg's recommendations. That would include checking headspace with a field gauge after X number of cycles of 357M if the mfg. has such a recommendation. If you are feeding a toggle link rifle, Winchester 1873 & 1876 with a steady diet of Buffalo Bore 357M buy a 357M field gauge and check frequently. Safe lockup requires that there be little wear
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