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Had a full day Saturday working with the nephew on his camper.

Last week we had put in some 3/4" Al square tubing to hold up the roof.  I realized during the week that maybe that wasn't the best option.

 

 

Recognizing that the roof had sagged significantly over the years from rain and the a/c and fans mounted to the roof, we backed up and replaced the Al stock with 2x2's shaped with a center crown.  At that point the whole roof assy was a whole bunch better.

 

 

After the ribs were installed we used construction adhesive to attach 1" foam board insulation panels to the roof, and an additional layer of 1/2" foam board panel in the center.  I got a pic of the 1" pink stuff, but failed to get the 1/2" blue pic for some reason.

 

 

We then used the same adhesive and lathe screws to attach 3/16" underlayment to the ceiling.  I am told this will be painted.  By then it was dark thirty and we loaded up the camper for his return home Sunday AM.

 

 

I spent Sunday cleaning up my shop and removing the door between our mud room and garage.

Looking ahead, I want to paint the aforesaid door this week.  Install a new headliner in my Plymouth.  Get final plans drawn up for daughters credenza build and make a run to pick up some baltic birch for that.

A chance of rain all week.  We sure need it, been about two weeks since our last rains.

Tea Olives are in full bloom right now, a great time to sit on the deck or front porch and just enjoy their fragrance.  They smell so sweet, sorta like ripe peaches maybe.  The Eleagnus won't be far behind the rain, another sweet fall bloomer.  My yard will fragrance the whole end of the street when these fall bloomers are in peak.  Five sets of neighbors will wander down off and on just to walk by.  Even the mail carrier takes a bit longer to make delivery and leave when they are at their peak.

 

Oh yeah, one more thing to do this week - likely tonight.  On Saturday the Dawgs put an ***whuppin' on the Arkansas Hogs .  I had the game on and caught a few plays here and there.  But I did record it to watch...

Had a flat on way in to work Saturday.  Heck of a nail huh?

 

Got back from OK yesterday afternoon. 18+ hours drive time. My butt is sore! It was great to spend the week with Phyl's sibs. Sure glad to be home, though. One's own bed is a luxury!!! No food in the fridge. I've got to make the grocery run soon while Phyl starts the laundry. Shop time tomorrow! Irrigation system seems to have worked while we were gone. No floods at least and, no dead plants. 

Got the pool drained, cleaned, disassembled and put away. I'm not sure whose idea it was to buy a non permanent, eighteen foot diameter, 50" deep pool but I think her initials are Mrs. Kauffman. All the deck flower pots put away too. After all the leaves are down, it will be time to rearrange the garden shed. Get the mower stored and the snow blower accessible.

Another busy week at the J.O.B..  Seems like a lot of meetings already scheduled.  I hate meetings...yack, yack, yack...then nothing happens.

 

Will work in spare time to organize and get a functional reloading operation set up again.  Will be forced to store some equipment and reduce the number of calibers readily available due to space constraints.  Going to have .45acp, .500SW, 6.5CM, .308Win ready on hand and store components for .45 Colt, 30-30win, 45-70, 9mm and .223.  Casting and powder coating operations will remain in the shop. 

 

.40

Busy week here. I have minor eyelid surgery this morning in about two hours. We will try to move forward on the media room but we have to drive to SOCAL Thursday for four days of grandkid duty. I will try to get some work done on the boat while there. We had guests this last weekend who wanted to go shooting so I have lots of rifles and pistols to clean and a mound of brass to prep. 

Paul

Best to you Paul on the surgery....know we'll be there in our thoughts.

 

.40...do you shoot the 500 Smith so much it needs to be left out over the others? If so, you are one heck of a man!

14 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Best to you Paul on the surgery....know we'll be there in our thoughts.

 

.40...do you shoot the 500 Smith so much it needs to be left out over the others? If so, you are one heck of a man!

The best thing about most revolver ammunition is that they can be safely loaded up or down.  For the .500 I've developed two loads, one for fun, and one very serious hunting backup.  While we don't have too many bears or lions, we do have some very temperamental 800lb feral pigs roaming around where I hunt.

 

Fun "Elephant Fart"

12gr Trail-boss under a 330gr PCLRN.  Lower recoil and about 1000fps.  A standard .45acp is 230gr @ 850fps.  So not much more recoil than a .45.  A five pound revolver pretty much absorbs the difference. 

 

Serious "T-Rex"

37gr W296 under a 460gr LFNGC.  Heavy, bone jarring recoil and about 1500fps. Velocity and projectile weight provide 2300ft/lbs of kinetic energy.  I can take about 10 of these before it starts hurting and I am still well under max load. 

 

They are going to have to update "Dirty Harry" because .44mag is no longer the most powerful handgun in the world. 

 

.40

 

it is a Monday...leave it at that....

Yesterday's shopping trip was a success! Would you believe it, I got everything on the list! 

Hope today's errands will be as successful. Got an appt for new glasses. One lens cracked while in OK. And, need to get a new entry door hand set. Somehow, the old one got broken during our absence. One of our sons must've tried to get in the house and used the wrong key. Now, not even the right key works. Phyl has always wanted a lever action handle, anyway. I got the old handles off but, still can't get it unlocked. Gonna have to cut the mechanism to remove the lockset. So, today is not going to be a shop day. I'm really glad we weren't gone any longer. God knows what else would fall apart in our absence. At least the toilets still flush and, the coffee maker still works.

 

Cabinets coming along with painting.

 

I see the inspector on the shelf catnapping until the product is completed so he can give it his blessing.  

i see in the headlines that the US Mint is thinking of making a 1 Trillion dollar coin to bail out the spenders in Congress.  likely out of some fancy metal like Platinum.

 

well boys, how about something truly green?  Like wood.  plenty around, easily replaced or added to, and easy to engrave with a good CNC machine.  make it any size and shape and pattern you like.  so heavy that it would be hard to steal, or even get out of the room!

 

clearly, they are not thinking outside the box. ---- ooooh, we could make a box for it too!!! fancy!!  carved, gold leaf......

14 hours ago, DAB said:

well boys, how about something truly green?  Like wood.

 

Are you joking Dab?  Do you think money grows on trees or something?!?

Front entry door knob locked up and wouldn’t un lock. It was a Quickset. The house is only 15 years old. We’ve been in it a year this month. Attempted to remove the knob set. Could not get past removal of the knobs. The locking mechanism refused to budge. After a couple hours of fiddling with it, I called a locksmith. It took him another frustrating two hours to get it out. I felt vindicated.
So, this morning’s job is to install a new lever action Schlage entry set. Then, FINALLY I can get back to the shop. It’s almost ready for some serious woodworking. Still got a few machines to re assemble and get a bunch ready for a Craigslist posting. All one needs is a shop relocation to realize how much crap can be accumulated in 50 years of woodworking.

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

 All one needs is a shop relocation to realize how much crap can be accumulated in 50 years of woodworking.

  A really big 10-4 to that.

3 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

  A really big 10-4 to that.

Amen!!

 

5 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

All one needs is a shop relocation to realize how much crap can be accumulated in 50 years of woodworking.

Or a hurricane that puts 4 feet of water in your basement shop!

On 10/4/2021 at 11:23 AM, forty_caliber said:

Another busy week at the J.O.B..  Seems like a lot of meetings already scheduled.  I hate meetings...yack, yack, yack...then nothing happens.

 

 

When I quit the corporate world and became a sole proprietor, a few people asked if I missed it.  My standard reply was, "Not the meetings."  

 

The goal of meetings in my opinion was, to make decisions and assign responsibilities.  Not to tell "what I did since the last meeting." or to pass out information.  That is better handled by notes.  For a few years, I was a volunteer at an organization that had a meeting prior to the work.  In call cases, they handed out a sheet prior to the meeting with important information but still believed they needed to have a verbal meeting to repeat it all.  COVID shut it down but I won't be going back.  I'm a volunteer, don't waste my time.