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hello!Quote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
Nice to see you ho a bit recently.. :)
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Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
I wish I had ANY money for toys. Wife is voluntarily changing careers, effectively cutting our household income in half until she gets a good job. This and some other money woes is causing some strife in the HoneyBadger household. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by patrick0685
Hey on how you doing bro? I was like 2 minutes from your house for my last call at work today!
What be happnin HB?
I'm thinkin ya was speakin to me.......ya should have stopped by and had a beer since it was your last call of the day. Still got a barrel for ya too...lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh
yea its been a whileQuote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
Sorry to hear about that, brother.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
thats no fun, dont you have a lil honeybadger now a days tooQuote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
I gotta hit the hay fellers....
Lets have a great Friday if we can.
Peace
See ya obc!
Goodnight Brother...Quote:
Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh
nightQuote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
Goodnight OBC!Quote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
Yeah... We're working through some issues right now that center around her career change (she is quitting her job because she doesn't like the people that she works with and she doesn't feel like she is being a good mother to our son). Obviously money is going to be an issue when we cut out household income in half for an indefinite amount of time... She better figure things out and get a decent job before next Christmas, or we'll be moving out of our brand new house and into something much smaller, older, and in a shadier part of town. We bought this house and made other financial decisions based on the jobs that we both currently have and are guaranteed to have for another 3 years, but she is calling it quits early, so all my financial planning, along with our savings and investments, is about to get flushed down the can.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
That being said... happy wife = happy life and she just isn't happy in her current work situation. In fact, she is downright miserable. :(
Yep, he's 10 months old now and causing all sorts of trouble!Quote:
Originally Posted by patrick0685
HoneyBadger Jr enjoying his dinner tonight:
http://i.imgur.com/1OZ56Vjl.png
This is brass that I had previously tumbled in walnut media with some brass polish in there. I thought it was fairly clean. For this batch, I put it distilled water, dawn dish soap (about three drops), and a little pinch of lemishine.
my brass is now not only clean, but its shiny. I'm thinking of just getting ride of my dry media (not my vibratory tumbler) and using that as a receptacle for the stainless pins.
http://youtu.be/vhOYRgyl4xk
That's like a new penny belly!
With the wait time running 3-11 months depending how you file, it's worth the wait. You have a gun or two. set up a trust, Efile. Once the approval is given, you'll have some more dinero saved up to do that 11.5" AR just the way you want. OR an AK.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
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Ahhh I remember those days! Good times!Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Our family has struggled since we started....sounds cliche but as long as you have each other, life is good!
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Originally Posted by TheBelly
I have my eye out for a cheap CL treadmill. Guy on arfcom did a real nice Volume wet tumbler. OR a low budget unit is this Plastic drum and paddles. Install a bottom / rear petcock for ease of drain & rinsing.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_241568-47120...3591096&rpp=32
I'm too old for this
It's for the children.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Im cheap. I'd buy this: http://t.harborfreight.com/1-1-4-qua...xer-91907.html
i don't know if you read my long, whiny post above, but in 3-11 months, there is going to be even less dinero than we have now. Definitely no money for toys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Yeah, that's a tough spot. I feel for ya, brother.
seems like a few of the PWT regulars are falling on difficult times. I hope it gets resolved as well as possible.
Please belly, stop encouraging me to spend my money more efficiently! [LOL]Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBelly
I looked into the NFA route, but don't have any trustee's (ie kids to put down) and if I understood the process, putting my wife down wasn't enough.
HB, good luck with your funds situation. Is there a chance your wife can find a work from home type situation to at least lessen the loss of funds a bit?
We're looking at having my wife stop working when we have a kid, I have a budget for it with only my income. It's doable, but probably won't be fun. My wife wants to stay home (otherwise we'd pay almost her entire income to childcare, which the local daycares are just druggies in rehab playing with babies, and I can say that knowing it as a fact), and I think it'd be good for our baby. She's scared of putting that entire burden on me though, and is currently looking for various work at home options. I keep subtly dropping the idea of getting an FFL and doing transfers, but not sure how many I'd actually end up doing and if it'd be worth the hassle.
Yeah, we're open to all options right now. She just can't keep doing her current job for much longer... It's literally destroying her.
The plastic / resin tub of the lowes unit outweighs the price difference, when it comes to potential brass damage. IIRC rondog used a HF mixer and did some alteration to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBelly
Interesting. Just ran a quick test with the WFT on 5 cases after setting it up again after setting up the tool with one 1.745" FC Case.
Two of the cases went to 1.740", while the other 3 wouldn't go below 1.750" (even with trimming them 3 times). Looked at the headstamps, the 2 that went low were FC and LC. The 3 that were high were RP. How peculiar. I hypothesize that the shoulders of different brass manufacturers will be different and therefore, the final trim length will not be the same amongst differing manufacturers. Let's proceed with an EXPERIMENT!
Pulled out 20 cases of varying length, then sorted by headstamp and trimmed them all in 1 go (ie drill still running the entire time).
Out of 9 RP -- 1.748" Average Post Trimming = +0.003" Deviation from Target
Out of 4 Win - 1.748" Average Post Trimming = +0.003" Deviation from Target
Out of 6 LC - 1.743" Average Post Trimming = -0.002" Deviation from Target
Out of 1 Win - 1.751" Post Trimming = +0.006" Deviation from Target
My hypothesis was correct based on this low sample experiment. In order to fully verify my results, I need to analyze a larger sample volume. So, I will sort through and find 25 of each headstamp, measure, trim, measure and calculate deviation from nominal (ie 1.745").
Stepping back, this isn't that surprising as different manufacturers of brass use different molds/dies/processes/etc to form their brass. I just didn't realize there would be this much of a deviation. If this is the case, then it looks like I'll be sorting all of my rifle brass by headstamp, trimming and keeping separated. It will make it easier to pick out cases of similar length for precision loads.
Stay tuned for another report.
Thanks for the good report BC. It's nice to see things examined scientifically. I guess its a good thing that I've been sorting my brass by headstamp.
That's all I have time for now, I just ran through 25 of RP and FC, here are results:
Out of 25 RP - Average = 1.748” - Std Dev = 0.004”
Out of 25 FC - Average = 1.742” - Std Dev = 0.002”
I'm attributing the smaller standard deviation of the FC cases due to my setting up the WFT for a 1.745" FC case, so the shoulders will be the same. My guess is that if I were to setup the WFT to a 1.745" case of each headstamp when trimming only that headstamp, the results will become more consistent across the board. I'm keeping a spreadsheet and will update it as I trim cases. I'll probably end up starting a full thread on it in the reloading forum, but not for a while.
Ya, its Friday....Stay tuned for Indian Taco pics..
[Coffee]
Oh my bad...Seemed to have entered the reloading forum again.
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Hah! Indian tacos.....you mean at like Tocabe?
Those are awesome!
No worries. Sometimes people come into the reloading forum to clutter our pages with utter nonsense and these weird camel videos. Not sure what that's about. [Dunno]Quote:
Originally Posted by waxthis
Don't feed the camel's.