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- Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:45 am
- Forum: The After Hours Funnies
- Topic: Random Meaningless Pictures-Lets See Them
- Replies: 2136
- Views: 1205559
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 9:25 pm
- Forum: Airplanes and ships
- Topic: The SS United States
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12566
Re: The SS United States
The state of disrepair is so great it would cost somewhere between 400 million and a billion dollars to restore the ship to something like a tourist attraction. The cost would be hard to justify.
- Sat May 31, 2025 8:22 am
- Forum: 22 Caliber firearms
- Topic: A wee bit of boasting.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 393
Re: A wee bit of boasting.
Sight falling off on first shot? How could that happen to a trained gunsmith? How could that happen to someone not a trained gunsmith? In any case, you obviously didn't need it anyway.
- Thu May 29, 2025 9:32 pm
- Forum: The After Hours Funnies
- Topic: A FEW MORE......
- Replies: 3
- Views: 189
Re: A FEW MORE......
Seems like wisdom to me.
- Tue May 27, 2025 8:54 pm
- Forum: Gun Law around the world
- Topic: Beware of the toy gun
- Replies: 0
- Views: 515
Beware of the toy gun
May 27 (UPI) -- Retailer Walmart will pay a $16,000 fine for shipping realistic toy guns to New York buyers in violation of state law, state Attorney General Letitia James announced on Tuesday. New York law bans retailers from selling or shipping toy guns that are black, dark blue, silver or alumin...
- Thu May 15, 2025 10:14 am
- Forum: Upkeep, Repair and Restoration
- Topic: Removing rust
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5907
Re: Removing rust
Try it with Kentucky sour mash whiskey.
- Tue May 13, 2025 3:43 pm
- Forum: Upkeep, Repair and Restoration
- Topic: Removing rust
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5907
Re: Removing rust
So I got the brass brushes today. You can get one from Home Depot for about what I got a collection of brushes off of Amazon which came from China. And since Trump is talking a little more intelligently about China trade last time I looked, maybe we will continue to get stuff from China relatively c...
- Sun May 11, 2025 10:52 am
- Forum: Upkeep, Repair and Restoration
- Topic: Removing rust
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5907
Re: Removing rust
Now that's the professional way. It involves more materials and construction effort than I am willing to take on. With what I'm working with I am having to stick to the non professional way.
- Sat May 10, 2025 10:32 pm
- Forum: Other Firearms that We Have an Interest In
- Topic: Ruger Vaquero Single action 45 oddity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4293
Ruger Vaquero Single action 45 oddity
I'm in possession of a Ruger pistol, for safe keeping purposes at the moment, that a recently deceased close relative had owned. I was looking it over and discovered it didn't want to work. It's a pistol that looks like is today bringing in the $700 range in good condition and not a Saturday Night s...
- Sat May 10, 2025 10:14 pm
- Forum: Upkeep, Repair and Restoration
- Topic: Removing rust
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5907
Removing rust
I acquired a rifle recently that had been badly stored in a place not climate controlled. Humidity and lack of maintenance produced rust. Looking at solutions for rust removal one finds a couple of favorite solutions. One requires 0000 steel wool and various oil products. The idea of the 0000 is tha...