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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2012, 05:36:36 PM »
Take your wife out to dinner, or an extra nice dinner at home, (one she doesn't have to cook)...

ammo.

Quote from: BAC on March 05, 2012, 05:26:55 PM
Ooooh, maybe a Garand.

Can't knock that choice I had to get one when I had the $$$.

CMP still has good service grades from $600 (and up)..

Did I mention ammo? Big box of primers aren't bad to have either...I have a few boxes, and do not reload, just in case I need to barter with them...

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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2012, 09:21:55 PM »
Quote from: NC Buckeye on March 05, 2012, 04:49:58 PM
Mag 40


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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2012, 04:26:16 PM »
Quote from: les snyder on March 05, 2012, 11:05:24 AM
I've had a good 30 year experience with USPSA/IPSC competition... met some very good friends, and gained a little skill...
assemble a Production class rig or shoot Limited minor if you want to use high cap mags

Glock 34 in 9mm
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good gun belt
(2) Blade Tech douple mag pouches
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spend the rest on ammo, or bullets if you reload

have fun
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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2012, 04:37:42 PM »
I don't own a diesel vehicle at all, but I would look into buying a kit that converts used cooking oil to diesel....  then later on I would buy a diesel....or put the $1,000 down towards a Volkswagen with the TDI engine.  It gets a for real 45 to 50 MPG.

 WARNING!  thread drift ahead....I have seen the kits and videos on YouTube before.  Locally, you can get the blue plastic drums for either for free or for $5 each.  I think some even have the snap lids and retaining rings with them.  I'd be curious if you could fill one of the removable lid ones with water and mount it upside down if it would leak.  If it didn't leak....(sorry, I probably have searched this some more on the internet) I would look into getting my own very large plastic funnel shaped "bottoms" made...and then turn around and sell them to others to make biodiesel on the cheap, that they could then snap on to their locally available blue drums.

IIRC, the bottom funnel shape is useful for draining off the glycerines that solidify on the bottom of the tank/drum.  The glycerines are heavier and fall to the bottom.



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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2012, 08:08:12 AM »
As a note on cooking oil/bio-diesel/diesel engines......from experience seen from my youngest son's involvement on the ag bio-diesel/ethanol production team in HS, there are some things to consider.

First, if the vehicle/engine is older or high mileage, all the fuel lines and most of the fuel components will probably need to be replaced if running bio-diesel....because the bio stuff has a particular cleansing property (the byproduct of a 'bad' batch of bio-diesel is glycerine/soap) and will clean any and all built up deposits from the fuel system (so be ready with filters) and in some cases will disintegrate older hoses.

Also, a diesel engine can and will run on straight cooking oil (Ol' Rudolph's first engines were designed to run on peanut oil), if properly filtered through an oil filter. The one caveat to this is that the engine must fist be started and warmed up to operating temperature via diesel before being switched over to oil. This is a simple piping and switching  issue. Also, before shutting down the engine after running on straight oil, you must remember to switch back to diesel in order to purge the system so as to allow for cranking the next time around.

The local HS Ag/FFA department has a tractor that will run on regular diesel, bio-diesel, or straight filtered cooking oil.
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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2012, 09:03:40 AM »
If I had an extra thousand dollars, I'd buy WORLD PEACE.





Actually I'd get a subcompact 1911 in .45 acp. World Peace would probably be too pricey.
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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2012, 09:09:34 AM »
Quote from: jaybet on March 08, 2012, 09:03:40 AM
If I had an extra thousand dollars, I'd buy WORLD PEACE.





Actually I'd get a subcompact 1911 in .45 acp. World Peace would probably be too pricey.

Ding Ding Ding.....we have a winner.   ;D
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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2012, 09:30:14 AM »
OK, the biodiesel thing...no.

I have acquired the money.  Most of it's sitting in the safe (had to pay for flute lessons last night).  Still haven't decided what to buy.  Might even say "screw it" and buy a new camera.  The Sony NEX 5n is really affordable and has great potential.  Hopefully Sony will start making some worthwhile lenses soon.

Update:  I ordered a Mossberg 500 field/security combo a while ago.  My first shotgun.



Anybody want to come out and teach me how to use this thing?
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Re: What would you buy if you had an extra $1000?
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2012, 03:56:26 PM »
You buy the Food, Lodging, Gas and AMMO ( About 500 rounds) and I will be there Monday. ;D
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