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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Diamondback on Yesterday at 11:39:05 AM »

Breakfast pizza. It's kind of like biscuits and gravy. And biscuits and scrambled eggs. And biscuits and cheese. And more biscuits.

I remember when Red Baron had those in the freezer case, called Sunrise Singles. Don't forget the gravy for pizza sauce! Carb Hell now, but before I got old and fat and had to go to a carb-managed lifestyle OHHHH so good...

Blueberry muffin while I was babysitting the squirrel pups right after getting off the overnight office blatherfest not long after sunrise, now a Sausage Scramble Bowl and Greek Yogurt Parfait at Chik-fil-A. (Every other CFA I'm on board with the Culture War boycott, but this crew always took very good care of me before that so I've made it known that I'm supporting THEM and the franchise owner, not the loose screws in Atlanta.)

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Reloading / Re: Latest 3D printer SIEVE project

« Last post by alfsauve on Yesterday at 11:23:28 AM »

The world of .45ACP reloaders hates that there are two different sizes brass.  However, we are split about 50/50 on which size it should be.  A lot would like to just have SPP so they only have to stock one size primer and not to have to change primer handling on their press when going from 9mm to .45.  The other half like the traditional LPP for .45ACP.   A few thinks there's a performance difference but can't document it.

There are a number of gotcha's in the specs. 

In most rimmed cases an undercut of the rim is allowed by not spec'd.      Also SAAMI doesn't spec the size of primer holes. 

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Reloading / Re: Latest 3D printer SIEVE project

« Last post by Rastus on Yesterday at 10:33:28 AM »

Not being a reloader I had no idea the primer pockets in some pistol ammo are different sizes.  I have some reloading equipment for TEOTWAWKI but I have yet to set it up.  That was a good piece of information.

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Reloading / Re: Latest 3D printer SIEVE project

« Last post by alfsauve on Yesterday at 10:22:22 AM »

SAAMI does not specify which size primer must be used in any given caliber.  Obviously very small ones like .25acp aren’t big enough for LPP.  The general rule of thumb in pistol ammo has been anything small than .40 cal the manufactures uses SPP.  anything larger, LPP.  But that’s like The Pirates Code.  More of a guideline.  In a short, though fat case like .45ACP, SPP works fine, so several manufacturers have for a number of years produced .45s with SPP instead of the normal, original LPP.  Only reloaders really notice.  They’re more common than many imagine.

Not only do you hate crunching a large primer when running a batch of large cases and a small case gets in there, but even worse is when running a batch of small cases and a large primer pocket one comes by, then small primer drops out.  You might not notice until you see powder all over the press.

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Reloading / Re: Latest 3D printer SIEVE project

« Last post by Big Frank on Yesterday at 05:45:40 AM »

Not being a reloader, it took me a minute to realize LPP vs SPP meant Large primer pocket vs, Small primer pocket. At first I thought it was something to do with whether the cases had primers in them or not, (which you cold also make a sorting tray for) but you said they had to be deprimed, and I was like, oh, now I get it. I wouldn't want to be around when someone tried ramming a large primer into a small pocket.   I can't imagine anything good coming from that. They seem to be rare in .45 ACP from the little bit I've seen, and more common on the higher pressure rounds based on it like .450 SMC, that I believe uses small RIFLE primers, but I could be completely wrong about that. Anyway, very cool idea, and it just happens to be in my favorite color.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: In need of music suggestions

« Last post by Big Frank on Yesterday at 05:25:51 AM »

 Naomi Brockwell has a lot of videos on YouTube about computer and phone privacy, etc. and also has a site called Naomi Brockwell TV where you can watch all her videos without going to YouTube and having all of your activity  tracked by Google and your information sold by them.

https://www.nbtv.media/home

https://www.youtube.com/@NaomiBrockwellTV/videos

She also has almost 2 dozen Bitcoin music videos. A lot of them are challenges where people sent her song lyrics and she made a new song every week. She has beauty, brains, and talent, which seems to be a rare combination. Whether you watch her music videos or not. I suggest you watch her videos about why you shouldn't connect your phone to your car, etc. In a few songs she uses the words Hodler, or Hodl. HODL is a term derived from a misspelling of "hold," in the context of buying and holding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It's also commonly come to stand for "hold on for dear life" among crypto investors. It implies not selling when markets go down or become volatile. Today, it is a core tenet of many Bitcoin and crypto believers. Satoshi is also mentioned in a few songs. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed Bitcoin, authored the Bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed Bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database. Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin until December 2010.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoDcM0bH8AY&list=PLt3zZ-N423gVfBWsfqDMzJ6krudqxny6w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzCQaIXelE&list=PLt3zZ-N423gVfBWsfqDMzJ6krudqxny6w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKc8Kfu4JSk&list=PLt3zZ-N423gVfBWsfqDMzJ6krudqxny6w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTWjliv_VA&list=PLt3zZ-N423gVfBWsfqDMzJ6krudqxny6w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijHuEOG6fhw&list=PLt3zZ-N423gVfBWsfqDMzJ6krudqxny6w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMdm15yVfxE&list=PLt3zZ-N423gVfBWsfqDMzJ6krudqxny6w

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Building America's Rifle / Re: SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND

« Last post by Big Frank on Yesterday at 02:25:11 AM »

The MI STAP RIFLE Stock Plate LWS/PB fit on the DFA Telescoping Adaptor for Tailhook Mod 1 and T-Rex Stock Shoulder Plate. That means it would also fit the DFA KOMODO TAIL- FIXED LENGTH STOCK/BRACE ADAPTOR. So, these stock/brace adaptors work with a Gear Head Works Tailhook Mod 1, Dead Foot Arms Shoulder plate, Midwest Industries Rifle or Carbine STAP Stock Plate LWS/PB, or Midwest Industries Arm Brace Hook. Anyone who wants to use a DFA telescoping stock/brace adaptor, or fixed length stock/brace adaptor with the MI stock plate or arm brace hook, can save $75 by not buying a T-REX 5 Position Telescoping Rifle Stock or KOMODO RIFLE STOCK, and taking the butt plate off. You could likewise install the DFA buttplate on a MI Stock Tube Adaptor 6.625" Beam or 8" Pistol Brace Compatible Beam. I didn't know it would work, so I didn't do it that way.

I had a really hard time drilling the holes in the end of the stock. The drill wandered on 1 hole and I couldn't get both screws in at the same time. So I put 1 screw in and re-drilled the other hole while the buttplate was on. It made one big hole but I was able to tap the second side of the "figure 8" well enough to get some threads on the side. I used green Loctite made for bearings and sleeves, not nuts and bolts, to hold the buttplate onto the tube and to hold the screws in. I used my heat gun on high for a few minutes to activate the Loctite, then spent a lot of time brushing the excess with a brass brush and Hoppe's No. 9, and scraping it off with a small screwdriver that I keep in my gun cleaning box. It's only 3 1/2" long and I think it fits a 1911 mag catch lock, and it worked without wrecking the anodizing. If I knew how hard it was going to be just to drill 2 holes, maybe I would have stuck the buttplate on with epoxy. I'm going to hit it with a propane torch to really make sure the Loctite is set.

The DFA T-REX buttplate is too big to fit on a rifle buffer tube, but could be shimmed to work. I might try to shim it with a piece of sheet metal, wrap some electrical tape around my old buffer tube and put the buttplate on just for for sh**s and giggles. Who knows, I might even like it. But I don't know if the buffer tube will screw in far enough to hold the buffer retainer, if I put a carbine end plate on it. There's only one way to know for sure.

https://deadfootarms.com/products/komodo-tail-fixed-length-stock-brace-adaptor

https://deadfootarms.com/products/telescoping-adaptor-tailhook-mod-1

https://midwestindustriesinc.com/stap-stock-plate/

https://midwestindustriesinc.com/arm-brace-hook/

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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Big Frank on Yesterday at 01:07:33 AM »

Motor City Pizza Co. 5 cheese bread. A thick, crispy crust topped with mozzarella, parmesan, asiago, romano and cheddar cheeses and parmesan cheese sauce. I bought it and some frozen pizzas at Walmart last week. Until that day I didn't even know where to find pizzas at Walmart. They sell a couple other brands I like too. After 30 years in Flint, Walmart remodeled that store last year, but I've gone there less than once a year on average, even though it's less 2 miles down the road from me.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: Fire arms insurance

« Last post by Big Frank on Yesterday at 12:47:09 AM »

That was just an example. Some of us po' folks don't have the guns we want. We only have the guns we need. I remember seeing one for $60,000 and another for $100,000, back when they were still being made and more affordable.

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Politics & RKBA / Re: Activist Judges - and the spiral continues downward

« Last post by Rastus on May 14, 2024, 06:30:45 PM »

Well $hucks, if he likes you then you are good.  If he doesn't like you bye bye.

It's about how you feel nowadays.... 

I feel like throwing up.