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    Question on small chain connectors?

    If it were me, I'd drill a plate with holes and insert bar or bolts the size of the loops and weld on the backside (15min). Hold it in a vise. Then just get the right size wire and bend around in a figure "8". Trim, hammer, dress etc. You could make them 'till the cows come home.
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    Flat Horn Flask Project

    I just had a shoulder-vise screw (Lee Valley 70G0151) that I was going to use for something else that I changed my mind on kicking around. Figured it was a good use for it. I'm sure your bottle jack will be fine Keep up the great posts! Flat horns are nice.
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    Flat Horn Flask Project

    FWIW here's one I made for when I get into it. It's made from heavy channel and a screw jack. The channel, where it will contact the horn, is covered with blank PCB material (fiberglass) I had kicking around. The square tube columns are welded to the base and the angle iron top is bolted to the...
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    Gun Lost :’(

    Amen! Images speak louder than words (cameraman probably risked his job for this)
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    Gun Lost :’(

    You said it bother. I got shipped short on a $300 servo-motor kit. Small but crucial part missing. That was back in Oct. After some haranging customer service finally mailed this $5 part in Dec (today's tracking attached). I finally got fed up and I've since gone out in my shop and welded up my...
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    Touch hole diameter.

    Where do you get those?
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    Powder RE packaging

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar (The Leyden jar is a high-voltage device; it is estimated that at a maximum the early Leyden jars could be charged to 20,000 to 60,000 volts) Anything very insulative can build up a charge across it.
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    Sources of treated tinder fungus?

    I'm not sure but if you find it....swipe left
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    Leaving a loaded powder horn?

    Do you have a lawnmower? Do you store gas for it? If so I bet your gas can isn't empty Blackpowder = 3MJ/kg Gasoline =47.5MJ/kg Gas packs ~16 times the energy BP has. I have a shop with eight reserve 5 gal containers full of diesel in it and I'm not worried in the least.
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    Trade whiskey

    The thing most people gloss over is distillation does not produce anything that wasn't already there (in the beer or wine). Distillation is a refining process. Beer & wine making create the "poisons" (& is perfectly legal) and yet most people have no qualms about drinking those. Distillation can...
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    Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself!

    Looks browned to me - God Job! ;-D
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    Cleaning Issue Solved?

    Well I often feel it's like explaining the car to buggy drivers. Nothing wrong with buggies...but.... Another thing I've done to help cleaning is make workbenches to aid in disassembly. Years ago Rob Andrews was making them for Brown Bess's but when I contacted him he had no issue with me...
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    Cleaning Issue Solved?

    This is another reason I like the steam cleaning. The small diameter wands have radial orifices (see pic) which, after having done so for the length of the barrel, blast the combustion chamber clean with hot saturated steam and it just flows out the barrel end. It cleans the inside of the...
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    Had to let her go 😢

    “Indian Chief, “Two Eagles,” was asked by a white government official: - “You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.” The Chief nodded in agreement. The official continued: -...
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    Had to let her go 😢

    I do and I don't like it any more than the next guy (the ol' death & taxes thing) but if he rented those same costs would be passed on to him anyway without any equity growth. By buying (getting his boat in the water), he freezes the house cost at $12,500 and gets the full equity growth...
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    Had to let her go 😢

    You did good. While your wage increased 13.85x by investing in a house your worth increased 28x. It's like my father said, "Inflation is like a river. You can stand on the shore and watch everything go past or get your boat in the water and go with it."
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    Trade whiskey

    I agree. All I can say is if I had anything green with a "snakes head" in it ... it would be up for trade too ... just sayin. ;-D IMHO any alcohol with "living tissue" in it belongs in a lab and not a bar.
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    Trade whiskey

    With all that filtering you're making vodka not whisky. Nothing wrong with that but it's not really whisky. That's why there's negligible hang-over. It's a two headed coin. The flavour but also the hang-over (if you drink a lot) comes from the impurities. The flavour is contained in the...
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    Trade whiskey

    It's funny, you hear a lot about whiskey in re-enactor accounts but never about the ever-popular tavern drink "Flip" - as in he's "flipping out" or "its come to loggerheads". Pic of a loggerhead being heated in a tavern (traditionally heated in the tavern fireplace)...
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    Shiny Balls

    I think it means the 2nd condor needed "change"
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