What did you do today

[Melvin-TNT]

Finished epoxing in the rear hatch hinge and fiberglassed the roof of my build. Mounted hinges for side door to the door skin.

 

[MickinOz]

Got another round of silvers today. Big fish for this species.
Saw a black swan whilst exploring the tidal creeks - winter has arrived.
A thunderstorm moved in as I was going home. I still find lightning at sea a touch unnerving.
Might be the knowledge that I am the highest thing for miles around.

 

[Modstock]

Tom and Shelly. I feel ya on cleaning out the parents house. When my dad passed, I figured it would take me a year to clean out his house but first I had to get the financial stuff in order. Once that was taken care of we went through each bedroom. Cleanest bedroom first, ending with his. He kept a lot of paperwork for everything, receipts too.
Then we could do repairs, paint, plumbing fixes.
His cancer meds ate the pipe in his kitchen sink.
Took most of the summer and by October we had it on the market. Then it was selling car's that took time.
FYI ))). If you have 5 vehicle's or more, it automatically sets you up for probate court.
Which we avoided by gifting one to his brother.
Made me want to minimalize badly. That may take a few years since im restoring a car.

 

[Tony Latham]

Me? I recently came down with a bit of elf-itis (squamous cell carcinoma) and ended up with a guy carving on me today. (Mohs surgery - where they slice and slice until the guy looking through the microscope says they've got it all.)

Yowsers, eh?

It was generally painless, but it feels like there's a needle or two in it at the moment.



Tony

 

[KCStudly]

Ick. But good to see your taking care of it.

 

[Tom&Shelly]

Glad they got it Tony!

Tom and Shelly

 

[MickinOz]

OOO, that hurts from here.

 

[Tom&Shelly]

I have a colonoscopy scheduled in a week and a half. Anyone want to see pictures?

Tom

 

[Tony Latham]

Anyone want to see pictures?

Bring it on. A 4K video would be perfect, just make sure there's no corn.



Tony

 

[Tom&Shelly]

Survived my endoscopy! And my other-endoscopy!

They assured me they used two different probes. (Really, they did, and I am glad they still have that sense of humor after working in that lab for so long!) I'm supposing the probes met in the middle, but, unfortunately, the 4K video didn't come out, so I can't prove it. It looks like you might imagine, but I can't imagine why you would try and imagine such a thing.

I actually did have a colonoscopy once where they couldn't put me under (long story), and the intern let me peek at the auxiliary monitor. Ever since, when folks have accused me of having my head up there, I could explain that, as a matter of fact, I knew the view.

Tom

 

[Tom&Shelly]

Been cleaning out my late father-in-law's house for the past few months. The problem is that he was a hoarder, unlike me, who merely cannot throw anything away, if it may have even the slightest possible value someday. So, my workshop was (and partly still is) completely packed with duplicate tools, hardware, and electronics including a Bearcat scanner (complete with a book by Betty Bearcat listing all of the police frequencies used in 1989), eight track tape recorder (yes, recorder), b/w camping TV, a 400 KHz vacuum tube oscilloscope, and a shelf full of tower computers from the 1990's. Well, they gotta be useful for something, right?!

I also took apart the "temporary" computer shop my father-in-law had made in the three-car garage out of 2x4's mostly ripped to 2x2s, underlayment shelves, and drywall. (Our relator tells us a three car garage is more sellable than a small workshop.)

So, here's what I put together in our own basement behind the woodshop

The far shelves are made from the 2x2's and underlayment. The closer ones are made from the 2 x 4's and some metal shelves I'd saved. The plastic bins are marked with silver sharpies, so I have a clue as to what I put in them. I made the wire holders from foot long pegboard hooks I found in my father-in-law's garage, hung on strips of 1/4 inch ply left over from our teardrop build, reinforced with 2x4 from my father-in-law's shop. There are some really good spools of wire from my father-in-law's stash. It was spread over so many places in that house (sheds, garage, etc.) that I doubt he even remembered everything he had.

Under the wire is some "barnwood" from a friend's fence in case I ever get around to making picture frames.

The tower computers are occupying the far lower shelf (which are each 8 feet wide). Out of the picture to the left are two doll houses from Shelly's collection. She has a business making doll house furniture, but honestly, why would someone save a couple of old doll houses?

Anyway, if we have it, and bother to look, I think we'll find it in a reasonable amount of time, now.

Tom

 

[featherliteCT1]

Everything looks so neat, tidy and organized! I wonder how long that will last?

 

[Tom&Shelly]

Everything looks so neat, tidy and organized! I wonder how long that will last?

Brought home another truck load of junk today, so, um...ya.

Tom

 

[MickinOz]

Today, I took my new-to-me target rifle out for a run at 900 yards. Managed a 2nd place on handicap. When I was cleaning it this evening, I discovered both the rail mounting screws and the cope mount crossbolt were loose.
A judicious application of torque screwdriver and blue Loctite followed.
I expect an improvement in the score,
But the best bit was I followed up on the strange soft membrane on the parallax knob on the NightForce scope. Woohoo! It has an illuminated reticle.
Loving the new Tikka.
I think there will be swap soon. I'll swap the 15-55x52 NightForce Competition scope off my hunting 308 with the 5-25x56 NightForce ATACR 5-25x56 that is currently sitting on my target 308.

 

[Tony Latham]

Loving the new Tikka.

That thing looks like a shooter. Do you reload, I assume? I've got a suppressor that will be here next week. We have to jump through some hoops to get 'em here.

Tony

 

[Modstock]

Been cleaning out my late father-in-law's house for the past few months.

Tom

Clearing out my dad's house was similar.
What I couldn't sell at the 2 garage sales we had and ad's I posted, was given away. What I couldn't give away went to the dump. Alot of good stuff I thought.
I kept his Jeep, toolbox/tool's, pressure washer, tiller, big air compressor, snowblower (fixed and sold mine to the neighbor, hasn't snowed since) . Pretty much filled up my garage.

Now that his vette finally sold. I fixed things on my jeep and ready to sell that now.

Im the jeep guy of the neighborhood.
Left, wife's Liberty KK, my Cherokee XJ and Dad's JL

 

[MickinOz]

That thing looks like a shooter. Do you reload, I assume? I've got a suppressor that will be here next week. We have to jump through some hoops to get 'em here.

Tony

It's a shooter alright. I put the word out that I was in search of an F-std rifle in 308.
F-std might be an Oz only class I reckon. Reflecting the military heritage of the Commonwealth rifle clubs, only 308 and 223 are allowed (or Nato equivalent).
They must be single shot, weigh no more than 8.5 kilo for the rifle and scope, and no more than 10.5 kilo with the bipod if you use one that attaches to the rifle.
The class was established to allow shooters with aging or just plain bad eyes to add a scope to their target rifles and keep shooting.
I got a message from the publican of the hotel in the next town to say he was thinking of selling his Tikka.
I asked the club president if he knew the rifle. He lives in the same town, so he scooted over to the pub and bore scoped it, pronouncing it "nearly pristine".
It has never fired anything but moly'd 155grn sierra matchking #2156 Palma projectiles. Initially built by a state champ, who passed before he could use it. The club president was asked to disperse the original owner's collection, and he sold this rifle to the innkeeper. We have the provenance, you might say. The beauty of knowing everyone involved...
It's a gem.
Hydro dipped stock. Epoxy bedding job done. Tikka T3 action with a single shot blanking insert in the magazine slot. Aftermarket trigger. Light and crisp. Zero creep. Jerome Ziersch 32" custom Palma barrel.
All polished stainless steel. 1:13 twist, match chamber.
Jerom Ziersch is THE gunsmith in South Australia, he does the smithing for most of the state team.

 

[MickinOz]

That thing looks like a shooter. Do you reload, I assume? I've got a suppressor that will be here next week. We have to jump through some hoops to get 'em here.

Tony

2 years in the slammer for suppressors here. I DO reload, now.
The guys at the club convinced me I would go no further with my two Winchester XPRs until I did.
They literally equipped me with their surplus to requirements bits and pieces. One guy had a priming tool he wasn't using. Another upgraded to a multi-stage press so he sold me his limited edition custom made press.
Another guy offered me some Lyman dies, and threw in an RCBS beam scale on the deal.
Then he loaned me a OAL tool and ogive measuring thingy. I loaded some 308s with a middle of the range load of AR2208 (Varget) and some 155grn Hornady ELD-Ms. I seated them 0.024" off the lands. Figured I'd fine tune seating depth later.
My XPR shot so well the guys said, "Don't change a thing!"
Speaking of shooting well, this is the first outing with the Tikka.
The previous owner couldn't say where he'd left the windage and elevation set, so I bore sighted it. At the range I managed to get the scope on the mark with my two sighting shots, then shot 197/200 at 300 metres with my 20 scoring shots.

 

[Tom&Shelly]

Yesterday, I got my first ever Father's Day gift (the hat).

Think letting the dog have his own credit card might become a problem?

Tom

 

[MickinOz]

Yesterday, I got my first ever Father's Day gift (the hat).
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Think letting the dog have his own credit card might become a problem?

Tom

Reckon it will. Dog looks far too pleased with himself.