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My grandpa has had one forever, we had one at Mom's when we were kids, small basement restricted it later. Dad's got one in the barn. Figured I need one too haha.

I like your version better than my idea though gonna change it up a bit now lol.

Nice .22 that's fun. Big ole pellet.

That's awesome. I'm not a bow hunter, but any reason to buy "new gear" sounds good to me. Nothing much cooler than a new bow. Theres gotta be a million games for people with basement archery ranges. Sporting clay's, miniature golf, pin the tail on the poor bastard setting up targets... you get the idea. I say you take a year off, wheel some kegs downstairs and write a book about it.

About 10 years ago I wanted a new air gun. I had a Sheridan 20 cal. Silver streak, but wanted something bigger. I picked up a Walther .25 break action springer rifle. What a piece of shit. I sent it back and found I was only gonna get store credit. Damn, so I picked out this one.... it was a substantial up grade, and a different style action. It's a Pre Charged Pneumatic (PCP) that means you have to use a scuba tank to fill it to 3000PSI. It very accurate, not too heavy, and being semi-automatic is really cool. But, it's very loud, I shot an opossum in the backyard and the wifey flipped out because of the noise, well that, and I jhad ust dispatched a rodent by kiddy pool. It's a great gun, but I wouldn't do it again. I'm gonna start digging under my house so I can buy a bow and arrow

 

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Pink nightmare?

Deranged Easter bunny?

You'd be surprised how many magicians have died after being bitten by by mad rabbits... far more common than one might think. C.P.

 

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That's pretty slick. I've heard of that style but only had a break action and a co2, and the obligatory pump action. How many shots do you get with a charge? We used to use 3000/4500 psi tanks for paint ball guns. Those were a riot, not in the woods in camo stuff. Inflatable bunkers, high rate of fire quick match play. We played a couple tourneys on the national circuit but mostly just local stuff for fun, way too expensive. That's crazy I guess that short barrel doesn't help with the noise any though.


Honestly I shoot my bow for fun far more than I meat hunt with it anymore. I love bow hunting versus rifle but rifles put meat in the freezer faster. We have courses around the area with a bunch of 3d targets setup, like a golf course kind of. Walk to each station take your shots score higher for vitals. Total it up at the end high score wins. In the winter we have laser screens indoors with leagues. Or most gun clubs run a paper Target league. At most I used to shoot four nights a week 3 for leagues and one practice, plus usually more practice or some event on the weekends.
Now I'm married and have kids, my bows collected two years of dust sitting on the rack. I think the last dozen arrows I bought have less than ten shots on the first 6 the others are still brand new.
Gonna need to get to work

 

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I could use a nice, quiet air rifle right about now. Some rabbits are taking over and need a little country justice in their life. Stupid city and their stupid rules.

 

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That's pretty slick. I've heard of that style but only had a break action and a co2, and the obligatory pump action. How many shots do you get with a charge? We used to use 3000/4500 psi tanks for paint ball guns. Those were a riot, not in the woods in camo stuff. Inflatable bunkers, high rate of fire quick match play. We played a couple tourneys on the national circuit but mostly just local stuff for fun, way too expensive. That's crazy I guess that short barrel doesn't help with the noise any though.


Honestly I shoot my bow for fun far more than I meat hunt with it anymore. I love bow hunting versus rifle but rifles put meat in the freezer faster. We have courses around the area with a bunch of 3d targets setup, like a golf course kind of. Walk to each station take your shots score higher for vitals. Total it up at the end high score wins. In the winter we have laser screens indoors with leagues. Or most gun clubs run a paper Target league. At most I used to shoot four nights a week 3 for leagues and one practice, plus usually more practice or some event on the weekends.
Now I'm married and have kids, my bows collected two years of dust sitting on the rack. I think the last dozen arrows I bought have less than ten shots on the first 6 the others are still brand new.
Gonna need to get to work

I haven't used it a whole lot. It seems like you get 30 or so spicey shots. I really have no way to measure other than when the pellets stop breaking the sound barrier.

Yeah, I guess I can get a tank i can wear which is cool if I want to walk around without a scuba tank.

That's cool. I'm a machinist by trade. I worked with a few guys that were making crazy upgrades for their paintball guns. Not sure why I never got into paintball. It has all the serious draws for me. Guns, cool stuff to buy, lots of beer... yeah, how did I miss that?

That would be so fun. Golf with a death toll! Well, you get your kids into it as soon as you can and you'll always have something in common. Sounds like fun. I wanna live by you!

 

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I could use a nice, quiet air rifle right about now. Some rabbits are taking over and need a little country justice in their life. Stupid city and their stupid rules.

They have silencers on the new high end guns. I just wish I had enough room to safely shoot on my property. My neighbors just dont understand

 

[TurboBucket]

I could use a nice, quiet air rifle right about now. Some rabbits are taking over and need a little country justice in their life. Stupid city and their stupid rules.

Arrows stick em right to the ground when you can shoot off a porch or roof lol raccoons will try to take off with that fucker though.



The big tourneys were more fun, really competitive, fire rate was capped at 15 balls per second which is fast enough you can't really run through a rope of them so it's a lot of hosing down running lanes with large volumes of paint and waiting for a split second chance to advance. It was so close to going big and then a couple of the big companies got greedy and tanked the whole industry.

I've done a little bit of machine work but just production stuff, operator but not a machinist. I can run cad and do a little bit of G code just not enough machine time. I love it though. Making a $100 part from a $1 worth of metal is just fun. But I like building/creating/growing anything. We'd raise some hell if we lived closer together I'm sure of that.

 

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Arrows stick em right to the ground when you can shoot off a porch or roof lol raccoons will try to take off with that fucker though.



The big tourneys were more fun, really competitive, fire rate was capped at 15 balls per second which is fast enough you can't really run through a rope of them so it's a lot of hosing down running lanes with large volumes of paint and waiting for a split second chance to advance. It was so close to going big and then a couple of the big companies got greedy and tanked the whole industry.

I've done a little bit of machine work but just production stuff, operator but not a machinist. I can run cad and do a little bit of G code just not enough machine time. I love it though. Making a $100 part from a $1 worth of metal is just fun. But I like building/creating/growing anything. We'd raise some hell if we lived closer together I'm sure of that.

Kleptomaniac casualties?

It's a handy thing to know. I'm a 3rd generation Plastic Injection Mold Maker, which is why I just say I'm a machinist. I worked mostly on medical, and biotech stuff. I left the bench in 2001. I work as a Design Engineer now. Its kinda funny... no one knows how to run manual machines anymore. A lot of places have gotten rid of their Bridgeport's. I want one in my garage.

Haha. I'm sure. If you're ever close to 91701 let me know!

 

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A lot of places have gotten rid of their Bridgeport's. I want one in my garage.

Me too. Every now and again one more goes across an auction block but usually looking at 6-8 Grand around here and most of them could use some extra attention.

 

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Me too. Every now and again one more goes across an auction block but usually looking at 6-8 Grand around here and most of them could use some extra attention.

$7000 isnt too bad, but not if you have to replace a belt or something like that. Every once and a while you can find one that still has good ways, and a solid head, but it's hard to see how good it is without running it. What I'd really like is a nice Bridgeport with a CNC retrofit from Accurite. So then it's a 2D CNC (you can get a power Z axis, but it's a piece of shit) cutting pockets, engraving, hole patterns. I made this fixture block (the Vee block is Starrett, just using it for scale) in under 5 hours, cutting it out from a 3'x3' sheet. The screw hole threads were just started. I bottom tapped them on the couch. Its heat treated and ground flat. The machine helped me figure out a hole pattern that wouldn't interfere with the holes on the other side. It STILL isnt finished.... kinda disappointed in myself for that.

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While on the bench I was a surface grinder. I still do it if I'm managing a project and have no one else to get it done.

 

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Nice!

Yea my concern is I'll never do enough machine work to justify the cost but it would be phenomenal for when I needed it.

I made wood chipper/lathe/stump grinder knives and large diameter 40-96" round saws for awhile. Spent most of my time on a big old Blanchard surface grinder. Or hammer straightening heat treated knives, talk about modern day blacksmith lol. I ran the plasma, and the mazaks. Did some time on a couple of glockels doing bevel grinds. All just production stuff though load it up press go come back in 40 minutes haha

The most I do now is turning flywheels and brake components on an old drum lathe we picked up a few months ago. Nice to make chips though

 

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Nice!

Yea my concern is I'll never do enough machine work to justify the cost but it would be phenomenal for when I needed it.

I made wood chipper/lathe/stump grinder knives and large diameter 40-96" round saws for awhile. Spent most of my time on a big old Blanchard surface grinder. Or hammer straightening heat treated knives, talk about modern day blacksmith lol. I ran the plasma, and the mazaks. Did some time on a couple of glockels doing bevel grinds. All just production stuff though load it up press go come back in 40 minutes haha

The most I do now is turning flywheels and brake components on an old drum lathe we picked up a few months ago. Nice to make chips though

I have a nice table saw like that. It's the largest thing in my garage other than my old car but I only use it once a year. You can HAVE it,just bring a truck haha.

Blanchard grinder... the big dog. I've only seen a couple in real life. I understand, if you want to remove some material that will do it. I imagine you need to watch the heat on a heat treated part, no? You sound like a handy dude.

 

[TurboBucket]

I have a nice table saw like that. It's the largest thing in my garage other than my old car but I only use it once a year. You can HAVE it,just bring a truck haha.

Blanchard grinder... the big dog. I've only seen a couple in real life. I understand, if you want to remove some material that will do it. I imagine you need to watch the heat on a heat treated part, no? You sound like a handy dude.

That'd be a trip worth taking haha. If you had a bandsaw that could do 12in resaw I'd for sure make that jaunt, haven't been on that coast in almost ten years. Used to cruise the 8 from Phoenix to Oceanside overnight in my supercharged grandprix to spend the weekend sleeping in the car at the beach. She loved the beach and I liked her haha good times.

We had three of em with tables big enough to grind four full sheets of plate steel. Flipping that shit was a safety hazard and a half haha. That's why we always ran it on second shift I suppose. Made great rate with it though. Running that and the glockel I could hit weekly rate in like 3 days. Usually they were grinding flats and edges on the knives.

Yea the treated knives were a peach. 58-60 Rockwell usually couldn't leave marks deeper than .015-.020. on knives that ranged from 1/8th in to 3/4" finish size. Up to 84in length. Or else the flats would be all marked up. 3 in thick soft steel table top with a sharpened mallet that weighed about 8lbs. Had to lay flat within .005-.010 per foot, expect lathe knives even the 72inchers they used for veneer had to be flat within .005 those were a bitch, massive and wouldn't move.
Just banging away. Plugging away with feeler gauge. I did that nonstop the first two years I was there. And constantly filled in after that, could never get new guys to stay they lol just wanted to run the plasma table or Haas mills.

Those Blanchards were cool though, just don't run a load under, some of them were a hundred Grand worth of knives at a time

 

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That's awesome. I love a quick car that can take a trip like that. I have a 53 Chevy panel, but I think a trip to Phoenix is probably out of the question.

Just you and an electro magnet? I dont like that shit. We would have to tip large molds while working on them. This one was one of the largest at 18000#.

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60RC is pretty damn hard, flatness must have been an issue on the long thin stuff. Could you adjust the strength of the magnet?

I wanna try one now.

Here's so.e stuff I've done. The first is an unwinding core. Its threaded, so the core spins to get the part off. A carbon electrode for an EDM, and a pipette tip corepin.

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The good old days

 

[TurboBucket]

Yea that's the kind of machined parts I love. So cool making stuff like that.

Pssh no me and a fork truck lol, no overhead lift. Wrestle em around and let em flop, hazard and a half, they weighed like 4-800 lbs or something.

The table mag was super tough, no adjustment on our end although I'm sure it was. some of the fixture blocks were like 4x8 up to 40in long for edge grinding the mag would hold it all true.
Honestly the biggest difference was in the steel, you could just feel the difference from bohler steel to China junk. Same knives same machines same operations drastically different finished product. It was actually my uncle that ran heat treat on first shift for like 25 years big electric blast ovens, so most of it was pretty nice until he left. Then they brought in a new kid about my age with a college degree to run it. I never saw such twisted knives before in my life. I left shortly after to get my own degree in engineering which I promptly discontinued in favor of being a commercial refrigeration service tech. Not sure which choice was worse. And now I do diesel repair with the old man out of his shop. I can fix and or make just about anything under the sun now from antique tractors to 100 ton glycol chillers, million btu boiler systems, Tig welded stainless, CNC control and manual machining, high pressure brazing, Ive managed an old school drive in restaurant for my family in the summer. I make rustic furniture from cedar trees we log out of frozen swamps. I build lifted Jeep's.
If I had more capital I'd be making some fail proof water cooling blocks and low profile variable speed air cooled radiators I designed for all these quantum boards everyone is running. I need a water jet and a mill and I could do it all on just those from aluminum plate and Cooper tubing that can be jig bent.
I just started redoing half the garage into my own woodshop so I can start making some humidor stash boxes hence the desire for a big resaw capacity bandsaw haha. I can only make them wide enough for one row of Mason jars and I want 4 in a square box with a lift out top tray.

Pretty literally a jack of all trades master of none. My ADHD kicks my ass sometimes

 

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Yea that's the kind of machined parts I love. So cool making stuff like that.

Pssh no me and a fork truck lol, no overhead lift. Wrestle em around and let em flop, hazard and a half, they weighed like 4-800 lbs or something.

The table mag was super tough, no adjustment on our end although I'm sure it was. some of the fixture blocks were like 4x8 up to 40in long for edge grinding the mag would hold it all true.
Honestly the biggest difference was in the steel, you could just feel the difference from bohler steel to China junk. Same knives same machines same operations drastically different finished product. It was actually my uncle that ran heat treat on first shift for like 25 years big electric blast ovens, so most of it was pretty nice until he left. Then they brought in a new kid about my age with a college degree to run it. I never saw such twisted knives before in my life. I left shortly after to get my own degree in engineering which I promptly discontinued in favor of being a commercial refrigeration service tech. Not sure which choice was worse. And now I do diesel repair with the old man out of his shop. I can fix and or make just about anything under the sun now from antique tractors to 100 ton glycol chillers, million btu boiler systems, Tig welded stainless, CNC control and manual machining, high pressure brazing, Ive managed an old school drive in restaurant for my family in the summer. I make rustic furniture from cedar trees we log out of frozen swamps. I build lifted Jeep's.
If I had more capital I'd be making some fail proof water cooling blocks and low profile variable speed air cooled radiators I designed for all these quantum boards everyone is running. I need a water jet and a mill and I could do it all on just those from aluminum plate and Cooper tubing that can be jig bent.
I just started redoing half the garage into my own woodshop so I can start making some humidor stash boxes hence the desire for a big resaw capacity bandsaw haha. I can only make them wide enough for one row of Mason jars and I want 4 in a square box with a lift out top tray.

Pretty literally a jack of all trades master of none. My ADHD kicks my ass sometimes

Jesus. Terrifying.

On a 6-18 surface grinder we used Walker chucks that have a variable strength that you can set so the part doesnt suck down on the chuck when the part is warped. BUT, in your application you may end up launching parts when you hit a high spot. Surface grinding is a different animal. Slower, a .oo1" pass is huge. Tolerances are usually +/- .0002"

You're so right about foreign steel. People saving money (they think). Too funny.

Man you have all sorts of skills. I'm kinda jealous! My career is in a holding pattern right now. I work from home as a Design Engineer. I design plastic parts in the injection molding or thermo forming desipliines. Here are a couple drawings...

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I use a CAD program called Solidworks. California just put a ban on "gig work" which effectively puts me out of business. It wont effect my present customer base, but it will probably affect any new customers. Sniffle.

A humidor of resawn quilted maple would be amazing!

ADHD guys make the best master surface grinders

 

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I worked in sawmills most of my life and most of that was as a resaw operator. My resaw was a linebar, 6’ McDonough on 7’ hangers. The bands were 36’ in diameter 10” wide with 5/16” kerf line.

 

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I worked in sawmills most of my life and most of that was as a resaw operator. My resaw was a linebar, 6’ McDonough on 7’ hangers. The bands were 36’ in diameter 10” wide with 5/16” kerf line.

God damn! Now that's a saw! Did you ever have to make a blade? That's sick.

I took a temp job as an Engineer for a place that made beds for hospitals. They used huge blocks of foam and cut them with a CNC bandsaw. I would create a 2d Auto CAD DXF. for the tool path and it would cut the profile. The blade was a trip. It was very narrow and had no real teeth. When it changed direction the blade would flip over. I was only there for 90 days, but it was very interesting.

 

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God damn! Now that's a saw! Did you ever have to make a blade? That's sick.

I took a temp job as an Engineer for a place that made beds for hospitals. They used huge blocks of foam and cut them with a CNC bandsaw. I would create a 2d Auto CAD DXF. for the tool path and it would cut the profile. The blade was a trip. It was very narrow and had no real teeth. When it changed direction the blade would flip over. I was only there for 90 days, but it was very interesting.

How did you guys unwrap a new blade? Even a 96 inch blade will leave you with bloody knuckles if you arent paying attention

 

[TurboBucket]

I love solid works. Id love to do that. My problem is I want to do the mechanical and the design. Haha can't turn over control, more of a product engineer and I can't stomach the cost/time of that education now. The two little ones take up most of it but he'll be in school next year so it'll get better. It's such a poor economy here even with a resume that looks like a book and all the certifications to boot I still can't find work for more than 12-14$ an hour so cash pay repair work is awesome. Just do it when I have time.

God damn that's a big blade. I love working on the forwarders and other trucks on the Mills around here, something insanely satisfying about taking it all apart with a sledgehammer or torch haha compared to working on thin sheet metal and little control wires.

That flip flop saw thing would be super to cool to watch run I bet