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I created a ledge just above the acrylic and beveled the edge so that water will drip away from the plastic (I think)

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Then I placed them into the cutouts in the structure

And trimmed around them creating a flange which I can attach weather stripping to the backside to help seal in the heated air

19253
That stuff latched right onto the acrylic panel. I'll have to use a saw to remove the clear stuff if I ever need to. I used a saw, then some sand paper to contour in the edges enough to hold paint and not look like a complete mess

19254
With the foam all properly hardened, I sanded down the edges and shaped the collectors up s little better

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that looks pretty sweet, I'm really interested on your temperature differentials when all is said and done since I'm only a few.miles north of you.

Dave
Should have it installed early in Feb, so we'll know soon.

I'd offer to lend a hand, but I'm afraid I'd end up face first in the back of your truck with my head in a gunny sack to keep the location secure.  That being said, I'd probably still be willing to help if you needed it, I'm a little odd like that.

Dave
I run the local security ministry where I am teaching a bunch of folks stuff like you just described. If you showed up, we may treat you as a training aid!
Dunno, it'd be fun for us!
Wanna show up at a training session?
Think about it... ;-)

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NW

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Point if order here:

I don't worry or get too wrapped up about things these days
I just make my requests known to the Lord, then move out smartly knowing he has this
Thereby avoiding the worry part
Result: I'm happy or content most of the time


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Just agree, thats all!


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Build Threads / Re: SquareD Part 7 Start it up!
« on: January 17, 2017, 09:48:24 AM »
Any progress? Pics to confirm you still own said object, like one with a recent newspaper & date visible...... :popcorn:
I understand.

Doubting Thomas even asked our Lord to stick his finger into the nail holes to confirm Jesus was still real!

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What are you building? / Re: Captain Chunk's Grotto
« on: January 17, 2017, 09:46:15 AM »
Where are the pics of all the fun?

there was no fun. my backyard looks like the stereotypical trailer trash redneck paradise.

tarps, dog kennels, mud, grill, piles of wood and bricks.
Good!

Called "the start point"

Pic the thread up

Then it will motivate you to add shots of the improvements

See what I did there?

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that looks pretty sweet, I'm really interested on your temperature differentials when all is said and done since I'm only a few.miles north of you.

Dave
Should have it installed early in Feb, so we'll know soon.

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Don that looks really great. Any thought to mounting the top with a hinge? Then you cold angle them to maximize solar heat in the winter then let them close back up in the spring past freezing weather. I'm very interested in your temp results.
Wil, like I've said before the expectations for these, my first solar heat collectors are low...Just keep the water tanks from freezing in the winter, nothing more

But I have started something here which I will be expanding on

I see some more solar collectors to warm the underside of the camper, thereby reducing heating needs inside
I see a panel or two warming 50 gallons of water so I can take my very necessary "beauty-bath."
I want now to incorporate several of these passive collectors into the top side of the "Shed" to make hot water and help heat that thing during the cold months, and perhaps one or two heating the underside of the shed once I skirt that thing off to warm the floor and hopefully radiate a couple of degrees of BTU type warmies into the shop of the shed.
I want to add a year-round green house, dome type with a central fish tank. I thought I might use a collector or similiar technology to warm that and keep the water up around 70F
By the time I add my proper home, likely a partially buried log home, I'll incorporate lots of technology into the design to take advantage of low angle winter sunlight

But as for hinged top: Nope.

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OK...

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Oh yea, forgot to mention. I'll file down the foam once it sets up and send the filings to some tree huger in California, claiming it is the crematory remains of some flower child that went out while chewing too many mushrooms. They'll spread it dutifully in some recently filled local reservoir and JR will eventually taste it in his drinking water!

Life is good!

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I'll be ordering several small blower motors such as you'd find in your desctop computer. I found a few that are less than 5" in diameter that are 12 volt and push over 100CFM of air. Two of those in each collector with corresponding holes for the outlet should do the trick

After trimming these collectors and painting them green to keep the hippies happy, I'll get inside the unit and place the insulation all over creation. Following that, I only have hinges, cutting access for the 4" fill/collection pipe, and finding a spot and setting up the pump board

19266
Second unit followed suit

19267
Next I laid a thick bead of polyurethane expanding foam onto the top surfaces, then pushed the poly-acrylic plastic into the gooey mess. This step both bedded the plastic panes nicely, and put the finishing touches of destruction to my fav T-Shirt!

19268
The plan is to paint the aluminum parts, but leave the aluminum foil in the center section exposed so that a small bit of light might get reflected onto the backside of the tubes, hopefully increasing efficiency

19269
Then after allowing those to dry for just long enough that only some of the paint got smeared onto my favorite ARMY T-Shirt, I married them back up with their housings

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After that set up some, I gave the heat sink part a squirt of flat black paint. THis time I used a large can of Rustoluem on each collector

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But I worked a bit on it today!

First up I pulled the heat collector grid and sealed them with silicone

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 15, 2017, 08:21:41 PM »
Don.... before ya chew em out... ask why the 2011 and newer Dmax isn't supported...and if there is a work around like using 2010 brakes as an example.

I am interested in this stuff for many reasons...not the least of which my oldest kid is determined to build a real Dana 60 for the front of his Power Wagon..he's already replaced the rear with a Dana 80 from a CTD truck. He has test fit my 40" set of tires, and well it's just a matter of time before he hangs a Front 60/radius arm set up under that truck.
What I know about this is that:
The 2011 truck is quite a bit different from the 2010
Having grown from the LMM engine to a LML, a significant increase in torque, everything got larfer
The rear 11.5" AAM axle got larger bearings
The brakes in the front grew larger
the lug nut pattern went from a 8-6.5" to an odd ball 8 on 180mm pattern, and,
Of course we got the blessed DEF, There were frame changes, a larger driveshaft, an upgraded Ally transmixer and who knows what else.
I suspect it is the brake size difference that was causing the snag. If I recall you can't get the larger rotor in a 180 on 8 bolt circle. The big dodge rotor has the 8 on 6.5 pattern. So if you went with that, then the wheels wouldn't fit the rear 180mm pattern unless you installed a 2010 rear axle assembly to match the front, or run wheels of different bolt circle patterns front and rear, which makes rotating big tires now a matter of pulling tires off rims.
With all that, I don't remember them being able to fit the 55 tooth reluctor ring onto the dodge stuff, so with that said, I was out.

I hope I recounted that correctly. I have everything for a radius arm/coil spring suspension. I even have a set of 7" lift Dodge 2500 front coils gathering cat fur in some corner...

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Vests & Protection / Weapons concealment...
« on: January 15, 2017, 05:19:59 PM »

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: January 14, 2017, 09:18:20 PM »
I have to get busy doing that

Have a bunch of brush piles to "Average-down"

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Medical Corner / Re: Tooth cap
« on: January 14, 2017, 09:16:17 PM »
I was serious about the SG!

I mean we use it to close up wounds, seems to fit just fine over big tears, why not a tooth or tooths?

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 09:14:38 PM »
Darned varmits!!!!!

I went there and sure enough, they are selling all the stuff we were working on that was supposed to premier on C-Max!!!!!!!!

That's the lowest, low crawlin' no-good, good for nutthin' thing this side of the sunset!

I'm gonna give them a call first thing Monday morn!!


Actually its fine that they developed the kit, good for them

I'll get my stuff back, and maybe finish out the parts I needed for C-Max

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 08:42:38 PM »
No Sean but our cells are being whacky...not sure whats up.

As I see it Sean's situation is a easy cheap fix. He just needs a Currie tone ring on one of his rear axles and he's set... minus the wiring he will do anything to avoid. My guess it's no big deal...

Now on a floater front...more challenging.

One option that would make it simple on a front 60 would be a Spyntech Kit..
http://spyntec.com/wp-content/uploads/9904_Ford_hub_3.jpg

not a cheap solution but totally possible. Now...the question would be does Chevy use some weird odd tooth count on it's brakes? If not....although not a cheap solution it's a workable one.

But I thought the Duramax crowd had a computer tune workaround to bypass the anti lock?

WFO has a disk brake brackets that adapt 2010 vintage Chevy brakes and speed sensor to a Ford King pin 60.... Don if that uses the same sensors or tone ring your golden...you could just swap to 2010 Front brakes.
WHAT?
WFO is the company I was working with two years ago with MY HUBS to solve this problem.

I'm off to their site to check this out...Better not have sold my hubs!

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / New Mental Disorder sweeping nation!
« on: January 14, 2017, 08:38:09 PM »
Help Fight This Mental Illness:

 

Do You Know Someone Suffering From “Trump Unacceptance & Resistance Disorder” (TURD)?


Know the signs, spot the symptoms, and save a life.

TURD is a pattern of pathologically dissociation and psychotic behavior, first observed in the late hours of November 8th 2016, and increasing in severity with passing time.

Sufferers of TURD often exhibit pronounced cognitive dissonance, sudden bouts of rage, rioting, and uncontrollable crying.

People with TURD are characterized by a persistent unwillingness to accept that Donald Trump is going to Make America Great Again.

TURD is caused by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America. For many, both in America and worldwide, this was a shocking and unexpected outcome; their preferred news sources having failed to inform them that the alternative candidate was a criminal parasite in such ill health she got chucked into the back of a van like a kidnap victim.

Research is ongoing, but TURD appears to correlate closely with the following environmental and behavioral factors:

           Membership in the Democratic Party

           Identifying as a Feminist

           Currently enrolled in college, and/or Possession of a Liberal Arts college degree

           Living in a densely populated metropolitan area

           Massive student debt

           Spotty or non-existent work history

Patients with TURD are very resistant to treatment, and dangerous in large groups. Any possibility of treatment requires that they be separated from their hive-mind support apparatus; they cannot begin the process of accepting reality in the presence of encouragement towards delusion and irrationality. Separation may require the assistance of law enforcement.

If you have a friend or loved one suffering from TURD, urge them to seek treatment. Together we can beat this scourge, and Make America Great Again.

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: January 14, 2017, 08:00:19 PM »
Whats all this topper plywood talk?
Don't ask

Old dead subject

Offensive to someone here...

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:59:09 PM »
Don.... I'd say stay tuned, I suspect Sean may have a workable idea. And to aid him I am going to take a look see at my junk collection sometime in the next few days...I may have a idea, but I need to lay eyes on the hub.

Does anyone "ken" have a clue how large of a diameter the Chevy or for that matter Ford speed sensor deal is?
Koot,
I can tell you this. The only rotor we found that fit in the size range with a reluctor ring was a late 2500 Dodge.

From what I recall, it needed machining and possibly even machining of the hub

BTW, I don't have any hubs so I could go with anything I suppose

19281
Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:56:22 PM »
Web site data page sez he's postin'

But I'm not seein'

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:55:20 PM »
Also worth noting you would be a guinea pig of sorts if you wanted to proceed with this test pilot idea.

Like how I added pilot in there so he couldn't say no? :wink:
I do kinda like that

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:54:50 PM »
Where's that frozen nebraske' corn farmer???

19284
Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:54:06 PM »
Ok, now that Don has sobered up. I think I may have a way to make it work. I ran it past Norm last night and he couldn't argue his way against it. Odd I know, he said something about Kay in yoga pants or something at the start of the conversation so maybe it's possible he was distracted from the conversation.

Here's the thing, I need superduty knuckle out components to figure this out for you Don. I'm pretty sure I have a work around for mine at the moment.
Be happy to hear it

Give you a get out of banned card, for the next time...

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Didn't work on it past two days, so don't ask!

19286
Medical Corner / Tooth cap
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:49:41 PM »
So the cap on my molar just came loose

Was flossing and I guess I yanked up a bit too hard

So, can I just superglue it back on

Anyone know?

Question: Which teeth do you have to floss??



























Answer: Only the ones you want to keep!

19287
Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Am I racist for pointing this out?
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:40:32 PM »
Total Personal Staff members for US First ladies
Mamie Eisenhower:  One - paid for personally, out of President's salary.
 
Total number of Personal Staff Members paid by Tax Payers
Jackie Kennedy:               One
Lady Bird Johnson:         One
Pat Nixon:                      One
Betty Ford:                     One
Rosaline Carter:               One
Barbara Bush:                 One
Hilary Clinton:              Seven
Laura Bush:                    One
Michele Obama:           Twenty-two
 
Yep.....your eyes don't deceive you. You want to read WASTE? ...Scroll on down.
 
Michele Obama's personal staff: Take a closer look
One..              $192,200 - Sher, Susan  (Chief Of Staff)
Two..              $160,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C.  (Director of Policy And Projects)
Three..            $133,000 - Rogers, Desiree G.  (White House Social Secretary)
Four..             $122,000 - Johnston, Camille Y.  (Director of Communications)
Five..              $120,000 - Winter, Melissa  (Deputy Chief Of Staff)
Six..               $110,000 - Medina , David S.  (Deputy Chief Of Staff)
Seven..           $104,000 - Lilyveld, Catherine M.  (Director and Press Secretary)
Eight..             $  95,000 - Starkey, Frances M.  (Director of Scheduling and Advance)
Nine..             $  90,000 - Sanders, Trooper  (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects)
Ten..               $  85,000 - Burnough, Erinn  (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Eleven..          $  84,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B.  (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Twelve..          $  82,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R.  (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator)
Thirteen..        $  80,000 - Fitz, Alan O.  (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director)
Fourteen..       $  77,500 - Lewis, Dana M.  (Special Assistant and Personal Aide)
Fifteen..          $  72,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M.  (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary)
Sixteen..         $  70,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E.  (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide)
Seventeen..       $  65,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A.  (Associate Director of Correspondence)
Eighteen..        $  63,000 - Tubman, Samantha A.  (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
Nineteen..       $  60,000 - Boswell, Joseph J.  (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff)
Twenty..         $  56,000 - Armbruster, Sally M.  (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
Twenty-One...       $  55,000 - Bookey, Natalie  (Staff Assistant)
Twenty-Two...       $  55,000 - Jackson, Deilia A.  (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence)

That's a Total...$2,075,200 in annual salaries - all for someone we did not vote for and apparently have no control over
 
5 staff are Muslim and 13 African-American.
 
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.
           
This does not include:
 
"Makeup artist"   Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49,
 
"First Hairstylist"   Johnny Wright, 31,
 
Both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One on ALL Trips, Europe included.

As of 11/15/2015 the Obama Family has spent over $1,300,000,000 (one billion, three hundred million dollars) on personal family trips. They were personal, not political or Government related.
 
How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at WalMart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of "Ms. Michelle" are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU.
 Copyright Canada Free Press
 
Yes...... The Canadian Free Press had to publish this, perhaps because America no longer has a free press and the USA media is afraid that they might be considered racist.

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:35:28 PM »
Chief, you're smoking something if you think a king pun Dana 60 came from an 05 superduty FYI......

Furthermore if it was an 05 60 it had abs brakes on it stock.
I stand korrekted

1995 F3-fitty

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:33:35 PM »
This project took about a week, every evening and 2 weekends.  :-[
My wife does the whole marathon thing, running farther than I typically like to drive, and needed a place to hang her medals in the bedroom. I told her i would make something but it had to be western, since the bedroom is the only place I have control (seemingly) over decorations.

...cut out a mountain back ground, and gouged out the ridges, and her initial that will look like white wash after hanging on the wall :


then I made a shelf with a corral made from square stock and round rod (to scale) with rods underneath for hanging medals, and a place to hang her placards:


...then the windmill, with copper blades:


Hmm..can't find a finished pic




Nominated:

Artsy-Fartsy award!

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Build Threads / Re: Our G741 Project
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:29:17 PM »
I'm sure one of a dozen or so rigs on your property could handle the transport of the teens to someone else's house for the day. preserve your sanity Norm. Retired farmers' lives matter!
Use one of the M37's to pull one of his "Sheds" upright and pull out some old 440 powered power-wagon or something else he forgot he owned. Maybe even discover where that speed boat is stored...

Power wagon...Wish I hadn't mentioned that...I'm trying to imagine those trucks don't exist so I won't want one...

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Build Threads / Re: 2008 Jeep Jk 4 Door
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:26:04 PM »
Unless I am old and forgot something, he can run just one wheel speed sensor and minus the ABS, everything will work correctly. Only the newer Jeeps need all 4 sensors. So regardless of combination....ya just "need" one sensor.

Sooooooo... sell your present 60 housing. Use a SD housing from any yard.. $225 here at the pick and pull when they have one. Use one Currie hub for your sensor and away you go.

I feel 8 lug is a no brainier because the rotors/calipers are off the shelf, everything is cheaper and simpler. Swapping that 9" to 8 lug is child's play. Used 8 lug wheels are a dime a dozen if your feeling all thrifty.








Koot,
Since you're all tuned into the D60 front axle world

Allow me to take this opportunity to completely change the subject (Junk up this thread) and ask for you to read in on my Silverado build
Remember when I was going to add in that HPD60 from a 2005 F350? It's a beautiful king pin thing that I just love to look at. Anyway, I have all the suspension parts, minus shocks, the axle housing, open carrier, 35 spline axles, knuckles, but no hubs. Sent them to _____Can't reacll their name, and they kept them.

Anyway, the problem was, we couldn't fit up the anti skid brake rotors to make that junk work and not flash dash lights at me all the time.

I was looking at a tighter than the Battleship Missouri turning radius out of the SAS front over the girly car suspension those trucks have.

Any clue how to do that...go ahead and write all you want, it's shawn's thread and he wouldn't care if we used this as the new discussion forum!
;-)

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:13:34 PM »
or he's just some guy that had a tool box and found a good deal on a topper for a short bed and didn't have time or plywood to build a tac topper...


I'll patiently await my punishment.
I regret to inform everyone that Tate is also no longer with us!

May his aggravatin' memory pass quickly into the forgotten past!

Topper junk, good for nuttin, bunch of horse crap...What the heck was he think.........

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: D.C. National guard chief fired
« on: January 14, 2017, 07:02:38 PM »
He may have been a PC guy

Trumps people knew of it

Probably told the pentagon to save themselves some embarrassment and pull his plug before trump made something public.

I have no idea at all why this happened, but that would fit...

Had a commander once, a colonel

He commanded a tiered unit of national importance. He was having an affair with an enlisted girl, an E-4. When it made the light of day, he was fired on the spot. We officers are not allowed the excursions from morality that our civilian counterparts are afforded.

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Donations / Re: Our Christmas support 2016
« on: January 14, 2017, 06:58:17 PM »
Well, it was a bit strange.

Bella's family had a Christmas death which chenged that all up

Both girls parents showed up and thanked Kathy, although one of them could not for the life of him figure out why anyone would do that. (Comes from not knowing a loving father is my guess)

So I asked Kat to reach out to both girls. She did, going over to their apartments. Sadie's parent thanked us a lot. He said had it not been for us, Sadie would not have known a Christmas. Her favorite gift was/is her bed spread, she just loves snugglin' up in it.

Not much else heard from the other parent. I have a strong suspicion that he fears his daughter's exposure to the "Religious kook" thing. Not solid proof, I just feel that way.
He doesn't get God, in fact is pretty angry with him, best I can tell.

And none of that matters. We are not to give based on what we get out of it, we are just supposed to plant seeds and help the least of his. And that is exactly what we did.

MC...

And I'll wager there is a lot more coming out of this before we sign out of this existence...

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done

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: D.C. National guard chief fired
« on: January 13, 2017, 08:13:44 PM »
That is really weird

Relieving a commander ahead of time in the middle of a mission. Can't say I have ever heard of that happening before. I wonder why?

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I think one of the first things Trump need to do is pull us out of the UN, and kick their ***es out of our country. Without us, they have no real status anyway. As to Obama setting conditions for a global war against Arab States, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. He has absolutely no understanding of our resolve when it comes to real war. Neither do the middle eastern people.
...No, but we Christians, when threatened, know how to resolve all of this...

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Firearms / Re: Carry frequency..
« on: January 13, 2017, 09:05:49 AM »
Everywhere except work (against policy, persona non grata style), and where it's against the law (schools, govt buildings), and obviously where there not allowed and there is screening (sports stadiums, etc). I give a nice half smile when I see the signs at the theater, and even talked to our local police about legal ramifications of giving the same little smile to the "not allowed" signs at the state fairgrounds. Basically, if I'm not gonna land in jail if exposed, that's the decision criteria.

Also, I will say, I will disarm if I've had a couple drinks and decide to have "one more", even at home. At that point to me the decision is one or the other, not both.


I agree.  Maybe 1 beer out.  Maybe 2 at home.  That is just a force multiplier against me if I ever had to make a decision involving a firearm.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On that note, I'd say this: If you are in an area where you feel a threat, or suspect it is there, then do not drink. Drinking slows down your mind, reflexes, dulls everything and opens you to recourse. The reality of Black lives matter being more important than police in this upside down world mandates we stay up on the ready. Spouse partaking is OK, but we stand guard over ours.

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Build Threads / Re: Our G741 Project
« on: January 13, 2017, 09:02:23 AM »
He has a pretty big ice storm at the doorstep. Going to be an interesting Saturday for our strange inheritance (Norm)

Keep Miss Kay off the roads in that Boss Mustang for awhile!

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