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I got my second Pfizer shot yesterday. I'm 64, but have prior conditions so they called me and had me get on the list about a month ago. First shot three weeks ago and second shot yesterday. I'm good to go, far as I know.

Put enough sugar into something and almost anything will taste good! I don't think it will work for kale cake, though. Kale is vile. Tomatoes are just... red.

"Hard solder" means silver braze, Jim. It's a jeweler's name for the properly named silver braze. About the lowest temp you can get silver braze is around 1140 F. All solder melts below 800 F. That is how the AWS defines solder melting points as opposed to brazing temps.

I wonder why some of us think brass founts are better. Firstly, both brass and steel fount lanterns use steel for the bottom of the fount. Second, I have never seen a steel fount with stress cracks, because there are none. Steel is stronger than brass, too, in the same dimension and especially in th...

Wow Greg, I'd be bustin' my buttons! Congrats to The Commander!

I think the main thing I would do is pay for the "signature required" service. I don't see how they can get around that.

When I make these kind of things I usually use a small center drill or very small countersink spinning in the mill and index with my rotary table. Both of those tooling items are made from HSS. Plenty good for anything up to mild steel, and they are quite inexpensive. Dan had to do it a little harde...

Except for the hippie hair, that current shot of Henry looks more like me than my avatar.

Like Mike said, I had mentioned once that I wished I were cool (or normal) and the next day Murff had put up my current avatar. He gave me cool. I'm still waiting to be normal..

One of the nicest lathes Atlas made was the 6" with the Timkin roller headstock. I have a plain bearing one that I used for some years, but it had to be put into storage to make some room in the shop, mainly because machines were starting to bump into each other. I don't know of any other real lathe...

Neat, Dan. Atlas?

Don't have to worry about the mica. It's like see-through stone. A mineral that is not bothered by heat. Remember, the Air-O-Lanterns (327 type) came with "globes" made from mica, 'cept when they are made of mica they are called a chimney. No, I don't know why.

I think I'll let Kitty do the work. (Yes, Kitty is her real name.)
She catches about a squirrel a day in the spring and summer, and eats it all except the four little feet and the tail. Little killer...

Spring... I remember Spring... Isn't that like the last week in June? Starts right after 4th of July here, Timm. We have a three day celebration each 4th of July here with parades, street sports and like that. A town wide celebration that has been going on over a century. No kidding, more than once...

I LIKE it! We've got about 32" on the ground and the wind is blowing 40 mph. Drift city. I'll take the flowers any day.

You sure do nice work, Moses. Admirable craftsmanship!

Happy birthday Donnie! Hope it was a great one.
All the best,
Dean

Very sorry, Joe. I'll put a fire to something this evening as the sun goes down.

I think the guy does nice work, over all. Quite a meticulous worker, to his credit. I don't understand why he didn't use a good acid when he was soldering the cracks on the inside of the tank. If he had, he wouldn't have had to solder the outside of the tank, too. Just a little clean up of the bleed...

How does everyone treat the fount after de-rusting

I treat mine very gently and with loving kindness because de-rusting can be quite traumatic for them...

The globes that Coleman used (I don't know about the new ones) had a 400° F temperature differential quality. So, if the globe was 300° F and the snow is 30° F, that is only 270 degrees differential. Well within the design of the glass. That is why Coleman could advertise the lanterns as all weather...

Got mine last Wed. Same drill with the 15 minute wait to see if I would drop off the twig. No notable initial effects except a certain looseness in the bathroom dept. No big deal. Get my second shot two weeks from today. Here, they are not giving the shots at doctor's offices or the hospital, but at...

Glow bags, socks, baby booties. You see a lot of goofy stuff on lantern sales off the forum. For instance, never fired but has a fully filled out and burned in mantle. Maybe that's not so much goofy as it is a lie, but still. You know.

Hope the knee fix goes well, Russ! Meanwhile, PVC on, Garth!

Glad it worked well for you, Phredd!

Doesn't have to be terribly tight. I've made hundreds of Kamplite gens and use brass mesh in place of the asbestos that was used in the originals. I roll it up using a piece of wood on some rubber mat with the screen between them. Once I have the approximate right diameter I roll it between my palms...

The nice glow in the bottom sets it off really nice, Mark. Looks good.

The military did an extensive report on this subject about 30 years ago. I have a copy of it somewhere, but don't even know where to start looking for it. In any case, the conclusion was even wax paper or letter paper will block the small amount of radiation coming off of these, and what is left is ...

That "New Coke" was yuck. It tasted like Pepsi.

That's pretty neat. Looks like nice glass work. I wouldn't want to be the one who had to make the molds for that one.

zoomkat wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:42 pm Some times the pump tube gets cracked or damaged during check removal, but with a full tank, fuel would probably leaking into the pump tube instead of air.

That's a good point. I do hope it's not a pinhole in the pump tube.

Sorry to hear it, Shawn. I'll light one when the sun goes down.
God's speed, Marine.

In a worse scenario, there could be a small hole in the pump tube nearer the lower half of the tube. The pump leather holds pressure and puts air into the fount until the leather passes the supposed hole in the pump tube, and then the air escapes out of that pinhole since now it is above the leather...

They really had style back then, not a bunch of bubbles like we have today. Yeah, now most cars look like jelly beans and a lot of trucks look like full size Tonka or Legos stuff. I long for my old '56 Chevy and my '59 Ranchero. Beautiful vehicles to my eye. I still have one on the list, but gettin...

God bless you, Russ. This is part of The Lord's work. Some of it isn't pleasant and sometimes hardly tolerable, but you are doing man's job of it.

"Hey, this beer ain't cold!"

Ha! Ya got me, Russ.

Turn it off. Be man enough to make your own mistkes. I am.

Yeah, I always liked the Edsel too. Nice big toilet seat right out front... Yep, just right.
Was actually a nice car, if you liked toilet seat grilles.

No, it doesn't look unfired to me. It looks spray bombed. As for the generator, look at the color of the brass fittings on the rest of the stove. They have gone to a sort of soft yellow-tan color. The color of the genny is black. The reason it is black is oxidation. From having a fire under it. If i...

I'm very sorry to hear this, Patrick. I'll pray for you and your family. Peace and The Lord's comfort.
I'll get a lantern lit soon as I can, too.

I'm getting mine next month. That's as soon as my risk factor of people can get them, (64 years old, heart failure, previous resp problems). It's a small state population-wise, so that could be part of the waiting problem. I don't know about the experimental thing. This is a type of flu, and we have...

Good to see you, Jan!

Coleman quit making 502 generators a little while back, but OCP has someone who makes replacement gens for them. The guy is not making them right now, but should be back to making some in a month or two. For what it's worth, the coil inside the 502 is not for the purpose of heating inside the genera...

I remember those instructions. It was one part of the Coleman way to store lanterns. The other parts were to put some pieces of cardboard in the bottom of the original factory box, and also to lacquer the box with three or four coats so water wouldn't make the cardboard come apart. The upside down t...

What a very different kind of thing. Very artistic, yet has a deep in the gut "yuk" factor, too.

Dads are special men, and I'm sorry to hear that you have lost your earthly father. I pray for peace for your family and healing from the hurt that too many of us know.
God bless you, Roy.
Dean

Happy Birthday Casper!

Murff wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:43 am
Deanofid wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:06 am Looks like your cell phone is trying to grow a head, Murff. (last pic)
I wish it wouold grow hair, Dean!

Murff

Photoshop, my friend. Photoshop...

Looks like your cell phone is trying to grow a head, Murff. (last pic)

Nice shop, Andy! The new lights look like they do a good job. That's one thing about a workshop; You can't hardly get too much light.
One question; Where's the lathe and milling machine?

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Uncle Sidney ~ Prison Philosopher Says:
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