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Would just caution never to stone or abrade any sear face or trigger face surface. They are case hardened about .005" to .008" deep. Cut through that, and the parts are toast. Cowboy up.... the proper search method is on hands and knees with small flashlight in mouth...... comb the shag rug apart as you go.Draw curtains, turn out lights and look at night..... the flaslight will "flare up" any metal piece in the vicinty. Been there, done that..... more times than I will admit to.

Best tool on earth to depress a 1911 single stack follower is a regular size Sharpie pen. It fits perfect and you can push the follower straight down as far as you want no problem. Then insert the small screwdriver cross ways through the witness holes to trap the spring near the top of the spring.

Sure isn't. Back when I played golf, the surest way to do something bad is to say: "Whatever you do, DON'T..... ( ) Snap hook it into the water, push it out of bounds, etc. The best thing to do is not even consider any of the "screw up" possibilities, just visualize the one you want to do.

It is close to a freeway, but I "surveyed" a bunch of other stations on the freewy edges and most were "only" about $3.15 to $3.20. There is clearly about a ten to fifteen cent premuim for gouging the tourists that drop off the freeway to tank up, but valero's prices are WAY above that. The problem now is that people are so shell-shocked numb by high prices they don't register anymore.... and they don't watch out for gougers. believe me there are plenty of stations taking advantage of that....

Absolutely! But...dropped one end of the shaft drive on an R69-S. Very messy problem that broke the housing in addition to leaving me on the side of the road. Still the smoothest ride on the road, period. Lots of very quick scooters out there and lots of comfortable rides, but if you want silky, smooth, quiet and no BS on warranty work, it is BMW all the way. David C California Highway Patrol are now on BMW's. There was a shady bidding deal where Harley, BMW, and Kawasaki (the supplier of choice for the last 25 years) all bid. Kawi was about $6000, harley was about $7000, and BMW was about 15,000. How did BMW win? They offered a massive "rebate" (refund) on every bike to lower the net cost to about ten bucks under Kawasaki's bid. Their strategy is "get 'em pregnant" with the bikes and make the money bleeding them for parts and service. Anyway, our state cops are on some beautiful machines these days.

Preface by saying I don't sell or represent this company, my only direct experience is on my 1986 Dodge, 1979 Kawasaki (still using that) and my wife's 1995 Saturn. The staff scientist here put one on his VW beetle. We both had long term baseline mileage figures for our cars and he derived about a 10% bump on his, I averaged about 15% more on my car. Performance also improved, in mine more power and could run on lower octane fuel. The principle is sound, they do work on some cars, and will save you some gas and give your car a bit more power by enabling combustion of some of the unused fuel that normally does not ignite in the cylinder (and is burned in the cat converter downstream). Obviously, I don't know if they work on every car. No guarantees, but considering the price of gas, thought some folks might want to try it. The car has to have a PCV (positive crankcase ventilation) hose and fitting to tap into to inject the vapor, or some other vacuum line in series with the intake flow. http://www.nationalfuelsaver.com/ 1-800-537-7427 Special price right now $99, regular price is $199. Lasts 30,000 miles and then fluid has to be replaced. Will be appearing soon on ABC's 20-20. Like I said, I am in no way affiliated with the company. I put this up just to help people cut back on gas consumption, and save a little money.

I tend to agree on the theme of selling guns..... if it's a good gun, you will eventually be sorry you sold it. If it has problems, you don't want to sell it (especially to a friend) anyway.

The head diameter is too small to make Torx, star, allen etc feasible. The screws are good but you need a dedicated screwdriver with a fairly thick blade yet a narroe head width. I bought a craftsman screwdriver which had the perfect blade thickness and filed the sides to match the screw head width. I keep it on my bench just for SW sideplates.

I am still riding the 1979 Kawasaki KZ-750 I bought new back in 1979 (now has 75,000 miles on it). All hard core city driving, only engine work was a valve job at 60k. Doesn't leak a drop of oil, compression is as new. Runs strong.

I laughed as the idiots speaking to congress said there is "no gouging"... there sure as hell is gouging out here in kali. The discount price for regular out here is about $3.00 right now. We have a valero by my house I used because they take Master card and (until recently) charged the fair price. There is a Texaco name brand station across from it, always about 15 cents higher because it's name brand. Recently, valero hiked their prices to match the Texaco... so I boycotted them and so did everybody else. That valero was empty and the discount staion one block up was packed. Valero eventually lowered their prices somewhat... still about 5 cents above "discount", but lower than name brand. Boycotting works. I was empty last night and drove into a Valero about two miles from the one I usually frequent... and was stunned to see $3.40 on the regular pump.... a full 35 cents higher than the other station. 35 CENT GOUGING! THATS ABOUT $5 EXTRA ON THE TANK! I bought one gallon (just enough to go to the range and back home) and drove off. WATCH THE PRICES! Some stations are using this as a license to kill. BOYCOTT THE ONES PULLING THIS CRAP!

The old saying was that harley riders always rode in packs so the guys in the back could pick up the parts falling off the ones in front...... Thought they had all that fixed. Apparrently not......

They are lying about honoring warranty work. All dealers should do it and then bill HD for the work. They are just jerking your chain. I suspect you'll be a lot happier if you buy the srvice manuals and some tools so you are not helpless with such minor repairs in the future.

Yep... they keep saying Lance Armstrong was doping, and they can't find any proof to support that charge.... Meanwhile, it looks like he might be one of the few who wasn't doing it. Funny.

The key is do they ANTICIPATE recoil (ie, move before the shot) or after the trigger pull?After, it's OK. before, it screws up the shot.

As Irecall, Kimber makes .40's.... but they only tool up to do it every six months. And I have it on good authority, they hold their nose whenever they make non-.45 barrels.......

I never understood why they make those pins out of such brittle material. I went to Home Depot with my calipers and found some bright steel finishing nails which were only a couple of thou thicher than the pins and made replacements from that stock (which is much softer). It will NEVER break. Love the search function. The elevation hinge pin on my Bomar style Les Baer rear sight broke and one side fell out Sunday. The pin's diameter is 0.072 or #15 gauge. 4d Bright Finish finishing nails are #15 gauge, but the one's I bought today metered out at 0.075 making for a perfect friction fit. The ends also blued nicely. No doubt. I could have gotten some replacement pins from the manufacturer within 7 days, but I'm impatient. I'm curious to see how long this will last and whether or not it's going to drift on me. On mine, there is a spring in the center that is supposed to snap into the groove in the middle of the pin to keep it from drifting. BTW, that machined groove is where they break. On the nail I prepped for a hinge pin, I filed a groove in it and all snapped in as required.

Stop it, you'll make me blush. Considering how cheap computers are and how sophisticated medeling technology is for airflow effects..... I'm surprised there isn't some software out there to design brakes and compensators. BTW: I'll bet the people who design exhaust systems for F1 and superbikes know which end is up in designing things that can pass hot gasses effectively.... the exhaust systems on motorcycles are so precises that they can adjust the torgue range just by changing the insert that goes in the exhast outlet. Way cool stuff....

9mm brass will hold a .38/.357 star MUCH tighter than .38/.357 brass. The 9mm brass is a "tight fit" and doesn't go all the way in, so it holds the star from any movement when torqueing on the rod.

Not sure if it was covered but this is important: On old guns that wear into end shake, the end of the crane tube cuts a groove into the inside face of the cylinder. That face has to be smoothed before fitting washers. The washers have the same outside diameter as the crame tube, but extend farther in (ID is smaller). If you don't smooth the inside "ridge" on the inner cylinder surface cut by wear, it will bind up the washer. Hope this makes sense to you.

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Sorry to hear it. We haven't been hit much by flooding, but the north bay (Napa , Sonoma, Mendocino and the rest) have been getting horrible rains every winter. They had one last year where they got about 1/2 of a normal YEAR'S rainfall in a single storm. Fllod levels of about 16' in one town were 'slightly" exceeded.... the crest went to about 28 feet! I don't think we will ever have normal weather again.

Yep, I saw a GREAT example of what not to do raising kids last Sunday visiting the In-Laws.... ERIC: "Daddy! Ethan's going to jump off the counch!" DADDY: "ETHAN! If you jump, daddy will be very angry!" Thump, clunk, crash....... WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! daddy does nothing. All remote control parenting from across the room followed by zero action. The Great Corn Dog Crisis We went out to eat....... and the kid had to have crayons. hand a three-year old a glass with 20 crayons in it.... and he will throw them on the floor. Daddy will pick them up and give them back...... process repeats itself........ hard to tell which one was the stupider of the two? Order food: Ethan won't eat real food, so they order him a corn dog. It arrives, he bites it..... WAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Who knew? Something cooked by dipping it into sclading oil for five minutes would be HOT? No problem, I go to slice it so the inside will cool.... ETHAN DOESN'T LIKE HIS CORN DOG CUT! Ethan still crying, daddy picks up the corn dog and blows on it...... ETHAN cries louder, demanding MOMMY blow on it...... She walks down from the other end of the table, and now two adults are holding a corn dog ten inches in front of a three year old and blowing like crazy...... I wish I had a video camera! Eventually, it cools and Ethan "eats" it..... actually consuming nothing....... he gnaws at the fried coating until it is a pile of gooey filth on the table, but he now has a naked hot dog on a stick which he proceeds to thrust into the air in various directions like a sword. I still think child abuse is wrong, but I definitely have more sympathy............

WOW........ that is definitely making a statement! I would have liked to see the look on the guys face opening up that box. No problem.Actually, it's a good observation on our times....... Apple resurrected itself on the back of that little creature. I guess they prove the old adage: you can never lose money underestimating the intellect of the general public! Or maybe it's just over my head.....

I can say I currently own a fair chunk of Apple stock. And BTW, it has more than doubled in value since the Big Crash of 2001. Only stock I own which has increased in value after the crash.I love Mac computers and the software that runs on them. That's why I was so surprised at the Ipod. Apparrently, they are using the new business model: schlock it out as fast as possible, if the supporting documentation isn't there, don't worry about it. It's too bad, but apparrently... it's really profitable.

Yeah..... that and make sure you put a condom over the whole contraption before you plug it into your USB port.