Friday Feedback

Indicators

We took my daughter’s care up to have work done on it. The auto shop is a local business doing great work. While there, we got into a discussion with a young lady.

She made the statement that she might be trading in her car sooner if the economy improves after the election. I.e., if Trump wins.

We got to talking politics. She asked if we are seeing more Trump signs this election.

This made me think about it. There are Trump signs in all the public places. As expected. There are a few more yard signs around, but still not many. It is as if people were worried about expressing their support for Trump. Go figure.

What I have noticed is that there are fewer Kamala/Walz signs. About half as many as I would expect.

Is this an indicator of how the election will go? I’m always unhappy when my state is shown as deep blue for the coming election. We were a red state. Then purple. Now dark blue.

The Interview

Ok, I didn’t watch it. I can’t stand to watch her talking, much less listen to her. X has been blowing up with just how badly she performed.

What was mind-boggling was the number of posts claiming she did well. Now if only the media would take off the kid gloves and interview Trump as aggressively as they did Kamala.

The ratio is beautiful. The question I had was, “why?” Why would they post something so ridiculous? Anybody who has half a brain knows that Trump is out there doing interviews, sometimes multiple interviews per day.

We have all seen just how biased the media is against him. It was on full display during the presidential debate.

The answer? In my opinion, the posts/tweets are not directed at The People. It is directed at the base.

The democrat base has been conditioned to treat anything that comes from the right as lies. Even though Fox has never been a “Right” media source, they were much more balanced than the other media sources. Thus, the left considers everything that Fox does as tainted, lies, misinformation.

That base is never going to watch the Fox interview of Kamala. What they will do is read these posts, have it confirmed by the rest of their bubble friends, and know that Kamala did a fantastic job in a hostile interview that got testy.

Document Library

I have copies of all of Gun Free Zone’s library. I will start putting them up. I’m also going to reach out to some of the other sites that have libraries to make copies to host here.

I have a fairly complete set of FMs that I downloaded from someplace. They will go up as well.

Technical Package

According to Ian, Gun Jesus, one of the reasons it is difficult to manufacture modern versions of older firearms is that we have lost the technical package.

If I understand it correctly, the Technical Package is the documents that give the directions on how to convert blueprints into actual objects.

As an example, it can be faster to drill a series of holes and then mill out the metal between the holes than to just mill a pocket. Those decisions are important.

Another example is documenting the order of operations. When machining an item, we need to determine the sequence that will be performed on the item. First op might be all the roughing operations. Second op would be the finishing operations. Third op would be the heat treat, and fourth op would be grinding to dimension.

Here is a different, simple instruction. The drawing for the AR15 lower receiver calls for a 0.376 +/- 0.001 hole for the selector switch. The easiest method to do this is to drill a 23/64 (0.3593) hole and then ream it to 0.376.

I do not believe I have ever seen a technical package for a firearm. I’d love to get one for the AR15/M4.

Homeowner Laments

Our house is one that “just grewed.” It was likely built as a summer cottage in the 40s. From there it was extended. Multiple times.

I’ve been able to piece out some of that growth. My office was likely a porch at some point, or mud room for people coming into the house. The reloading room, off the office and dining room, used to be a kitchen or bathroom. It still has a small sink in it.

The entrance to the basement was in the reloading room. At sometime in the past it was covered over. The stairs are still in the basement, leading up to a solid floor. Currently, the entrance to the basement is from the outside.

After expansion, the house had one full bath, between the master bedroom and a secondary bedroom. That is properly positioned for the water supply to the house and the sewage connection. The “new” kitchen is at the other end of the “old” part of the house. It was a separate extension.

The water from the kitchen sink used to go into a copper pipe that slanted across the width of the house and then down the length of the house to tie into the sewer line.

When they extended the house the last time, they added a second bathroom. This was at the opposite end of the house from the sewer connection. There was no way to get the waste from the second bathroom to the sewer connection by gravity alone.

This is not a problem. You use a sewage sump/ejector. This is a sealed tub that collects waste until the float valve turns on the ejector pump. The ejector pump then shoots the waste up the exhaust pipe to the ceiling of the basement where it can then travel, via gravity, to the sewer connection. All good.

We had an issue where the pooper shooter stopped shooting poop. This required my son and I to go through each clean out to make sure that nothing was stopping up the flow.

Nasty, yucky work. Finally, it required the plumber to come fix the pooper shooter proper. The issue? Grease from the kitchen sink had formed a dam at the bottom of the pooper shooter, keeping the pump from working.

So why is this an issue? Ever since that fix, we’ve had an off and on problem with horrible smells.

Today, I think I located the source.

One of those clean out plugs isn’t fully sealing. My fun for the weekend is to make sure that nobody flushes while I take the plug out, clean the threads, then replace the plug with sealer to keep the smell in the pipes.

Every so often, I wish I were a renter, again.

Question For You

If you were forced to travel in a hurry, to escape the zombie’s (democrat city dwellers) and were limited to one handgun and one rifle, what calibers would you choose?

I would love to have a carbine in .45 ACP. I don’t, so that puts the PC 9 and Glock right up there. On the other hand, I might take the Winchester Model ’94 in 30-30 with a 1911. Good stopping power without the scare factor.

The CETME in 7.62×51 sounds nice, but I’m not sure. M1 in 30-06?

Please let us know in the comments.