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More accurately, SLIP 2000 Carbon Killer does not work as advertised.... and does not do the things that would make it useful. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: water based degreaser product, biodegradeable and non-toxic. COST: Quart can cost $31 with delivery. That is about $1 PER OUNCE. USAGE: soak dirty part and rinse clean with water (or wipe off). Here are the claims made on their website (http://www.slip2000.com/carbonkiller.html ): First off, contrary to the claim above, my quart of cleaner arrived in ametal can with a warning that the cleaner may not be stored in it after opening. Thanks a lot. SUMMARY OF TEST RESULTS: 1) Product does remove "loose" carbon or grease. 2) Product does NOT do anything against burned on carbon, even after repeated soakings. Will not clean a revolver cylinder face as shown, will not cleaned burned carbon from either the inside of then cylinder tubes or barrel bore. 3) PROS: biodegradeable and doesn't stink. 4) CONS: does not do anything to remove burned carbon. Way too expensive for what it does. Product is very sticky and needs to be rinsed with water, requiring steel parts to be carefully flushed with oil and sealed to prevent rust. MY OPINION: If you want a bio friendly (non stinky cleaner) MPRO is better than this junk and doesn't require a water rinse. This cleaner doesn't remove anything that mineral spirits, acetone, Hoppes #9, or any other decent cleaner won't remove for a fraction of the cost. If you want a water-rinse degreaser, the stuff made for car engines is just as effective and costs about $2 for a 24 ounce can. DETAILS OF TEST METHOD USED: 1) Gun #1: SW 66 revo, 100% cleaned before testing (absolutely clean). Fired 25 rounds of 158-gr FMJ .38sp ammo. 2) Cylinder removed and coating of slip 2000 was applied to the cylinder face and let stand for 15 minutes: the carbon did not wipe or rub off. 3) A Q-TIP was used to repeatedly rub the cleaner on the cylinder face. The carbon burn rings could not be removed. 4) Cylinder was soaked entirely in the cleaner for 20 minutes. Scrubbed face with nylon brush, carbon rings still visible. FAILED TEST. Gave up on them and focused on the burned carbon inside the cylinders: 5) Used a stiff nylon brush to repeatedly scrub the cylinder tubes, then inspected: hard carbon deposits at the muzzle end still there. 6) repeated 15 minute soakings and brush scrubbings. The hard carbon showed NO CHANGE. FAILED TEST. The web siteimages shown of the revolver cylinder sparkling clean after a wipe off is clearly wrong. BARREL BORE TEST: 1) Gun #2 was a clean Beretta 92FS, with aftermarket barrel. Polished stainless steel barrel, extended with ports. Fired 50 rounds of standard 115-gr FMJ ammo. 2) removed barrel and soaked it in the cleaner. 3) Used stiff nylon brush to scrub bore. Hard carbon still visible in the corners of the barrel grooves near the throat end. 4) Repeated soakings and scrubbings of the bore: carbon still in corners of the grooves. FAILED TEST. 5) Scrubbed barrel ports with nylon brush. hard carbon deposits on the front edges of the ports would not loosen or remove. FAILED TEST.

That is not the definitive test for dominance: 1) Lock both eyes dead on a distant spot. 2) Without changing focus, raise your right hand with index finger pointed out until you are "sighting down" your finger with the eye that it naturally aligns with. 3) If you see a "ghost image" of the hand to the right of the one you are sighting down, you finger is aligned in front of your right eye... and that's the dominant one. 4) If there is a "ghost image" to the left of the sighted image, you are sighting with your left eye. 5) Do the same thing with a gun: look at a distnt target and raise the gun without changing focus so you are "looking through" the blurry sight image. Whichever eye is aligned with the gun is the dominant eye.

Oh and try not to shoot while blinking Or blink while shooting? Seriously, a lot of use hold our breaths or lock our eyes open when we get "really rocking" and that is not actually a good thing. Obviously, it's better to have your eyes open when you are shooting......

They are pretty. Nice machine work.

It depends on what kind of steel it's made from. They are supposed to be "spring" steel, although not many people agree on what that term means. Point is, a very hard steel will exert the proper tension with a microscopic deflection of distance traveled..... which means when the steel "takes a set", you will lose tension and have to reset it. And if the face wears a bit with time, you will lose tension. If the steel is springier, you get the proper tension force with a longer deflection distance. It's more tolerant to setting and wear without losing as much tension. BTW, I think 7000 rounds is reasonable for needing a reset. I consider checking and adjusting extractor tension to be periodic maintenance.

Relax, Eddie's only 22 in Keith Richard Years.

It's a different era. My wife told me about her psychotic mom who was so vicious the kids were terrified to make a sound..... one cold stare from mom and the kids all burst into tears from sheer terror.I loved the day at Home Depot where some yuppie couple were wandering around and their obnoxious brat was leaving a path of death and destruction in his wake, alternating between tearing something up and screaming for something. As they were checking out, the kid was laying on the ground throwing a full blown tantrum over something, pounding his fists into the ground. As his parents are walking out his dad looks back and yells out: "Bye-bye...". The kid suddenly looks up, realizes they are gone and runs out of the store. I would have strangled him. Only if it's possible to die from embarrassment. Trust me, it's not. But they do have the most tender meat. It's just cruel to buy the ones raised in closets.

This one is great..... they are warning you that some nefarious person has added himself to your PayPal account. And, of course, to "fix" this you have to log into their bogus site so they get your ID and password. And to help safeguard you, the scam includes warnings about never giving your password to anybody else. For the record, I don't even have a PayPal account:

Way to go! I knew that "recruitment problem" had an upside for the guys they wanted to retain. Words from the Marines in my wife's unit: "I'll follow the sergeant anywhere!" In other words: "After you, sir!"

It's a small world, in my recent mission to stop these e-mail credit card scams, I discovered exactly what you said is also true about VISA and Mastercard.The "scam mail" actually referenced the true phone number of the VISA office here in san francisco. I called them and asked them why they didn't notify their "customers" that this was going on, and they told me that the people who have the VISA cards are NOT their customers.... the banks who issue the cards are. The main center for VISA has no idea who has their cards.... and really doesn't care. There is no communication between the bank who issues the card and the "source" who sold them the right to provide the card with their name on it. Sounds like AmEx, VISA and the rest provide no actual service, just sell franchises to banks who want to use their name. I think most people do. Out here in kali, it is illegal to charge "extra" to people who use credit cards (to cover that 3% fee)...... but it is not illegal to give "discounts" to people who pay in cash!That always cracked me up......

It always surprises me that merchants accept AmEx or Discover or any of those screwball cards. I mean, my potted plant could get a VISA or Mastercard, why inflict the added pain on people?

I use drops called "cortisporin" or similar name and they have some kind of steroid in them to reduce the inflammed ear lining. They also have antibiotics in them. They work really well and usually will knock it dead in a day if I catch it early.

I was thinking of putting a red dot on my G35. Aimtech makes mounts, but I am not sure which one fits the G35. Anybody know which one is best? I want the ones that clamp the light rail and mount on the trigger pin. Any other mounts to consider for a basic weaver type setup?

Damn, and I missed it! I was downtown all day yesterday and every time I looked outside it was dry (between 1st, 2nd, Mission, and Market). Where were you at downtown that had hail and snow? Vince I wasn't there, they showed it on the news. Did you see the 30 car pileup? Some tunnel, on one side it was pouring rain and on the other side it was snowing. The cars came out of the tunnel and hit 4 inches of snow and sleet and started sliding. two dead and a bunch of cars totaled. Honestly, most kali drivers don't know how to drive in any condition other than sunshine. And a large percentage of them can't drive in that either.

YEP, had dozens and dozens of them. Wake up in the middle of the night with a shooting pain like somebody is sticking an ice pick into your head. Mine aren't just the usual streph bacteria sneaking out from the throat. My doctor says I get fungus type infections if there is any moisture in there and I sleep on that ear. Those are worse because they hurt and also itch like crazy. Some tips: make sure your ears are bone dry. never leave any moisture in there. Clean your shooting ear plugs if you wear them.

So, got what probably is another scam e-mail yesterday, this one is allegedly from Chase bank. Starts out with they will credit you $20 if you fill out this thing.... I go to the link site and it really looks like an official Chase site. HERE'S THE KICKER: The "linked site" has info warning about "fishing" scams and advising people never to give up confidentail information.... Of course, guess what it takes to get into the place? Your customer ID and password!!!! This sounds like the old "good cop / bad cop" routine. They give you all this good info to avoid scams to make you think they are the good guys... and you will then type in your ID and password. I have to admit, that was a good one! Here's the text: Interesting is that the prosaic greeting at the end is very typical of Asian or japanese writing style (I deal a lot with Pacific Rim customers). "Many Thanks and Kind Regards - Chase Manhattan Bank Customer Department " This is very unusual for a western mode of writing. They would just say "thank you" or something like that.

The same ejector and slide stop can be made to fit both. I have an STI with 9mm and .40 top ends, all I swap is the top ends. I believe it's the .40/.45 slide stop, and you may have to tweak the magazine follower's foot to get reliable slide lock back.

You can buy everything you need from www.glockmeister.com. They have all the stock parts in stock! But it's a dangerous place to shop. I went there to get an $18 extractor and started looking at all the goodies and ended up spending $60. I just had to have that plastic plug to fill the gap in the grip, and some spare springs, and stuff.

One of the local Glock experts told me it would work better with a G34 extractor. I did go to Glockmeister and verified the G34 and G35 do use a different extractor. I recall one was the 15/5 and the other was the 15/0, which has to do with the cut angles on the extractor. probably a subtle difference, but for $18 I figured I'd try it. At worst, I'll have a spare extractor.

What's the bearing?

I was wondering if the G34 (9 mm) and G35 (.40) have a different extractor? I have a 9mm drop-in barrel for my G35 which works pretty well, but not sure if I should also drop in a G34 extractor. My G35 with 9mm barrel extracts pretty well using new ammo, but not with reloads. If the G34 uses an extractor with a bit more hook, it might improve that. Would the G34 extractor drop into the G35 slide?

YEP, asnow and hail in downtown San Francisco yesterday. The high for the day was something like 44, and exactly one year ago to the day: the high in San Jose was 88 degrees. Global warming sure is fun. Our weather this winter has been oscillating back and forth between three to four week stretches of either record heat or record cold. You can't 'dryfire' in Oregon they have wetfire. Dry is not a real word in Oregon. They don't have drywall, they have dampwall. They don't have clothes dryers, they have temporary clothes dehumidifiers. They don't even have dry goods stores anymore, well not since they got the new WalMart. Nolan And nobody gets Alzheimer's disease... their brains just rust.

I have the Aimtech grip-mount bracket on my Beretta 92 with an OKO sighter on it. I like that setup because I don't have to modify the gun. I am thinking of adding a dot sighter to either my Para 1640 or Glock 35 (maybe both?) Anybody know if somebody makes something similar for a Para 1640? Aimtech makes one for the regular 1911, but I assume that would not fit the wide-body 1911. ALSO: I saw a picture of a very cool mount for a Glock 35 that clamped to the front light rail and was mounted at the rear on the trigger pin. Text said it was polycarbonate. Anybody know who makes that or something similar? Advice appreciated.

Actually, the 9mm barrel is all I shoot. It functions 100% with the stock (.40) recoil spring. I did have to buy 9mm magazines, their .40 mags don't feed 9mm (Beretta's do BTW). The only "issue" I had is that the EFK barrel is machined to such tight specs so the throat is "dead on" size which meant some crappy 9mm reload ammo I bought was tight in the throat and not feeding right. A couple of my other 9's didn't like the ammo either, so it's not a gun problem. The EFK barrel feeds new 9mm ammo fine. I shoot the reload junk in guns with a really loose barrel (my CZ, Beretta and my 1911).

They sure do. I bought a new SIG226 from Gunsamerica and saved about $150 over the prices out here. Same with a Para 1640 LDA. Even with shipping and paying the local FFL to do the deal, I still saved that much. The savings in state sales tax is usually a wash with the FFL fees. On Gunsamerica, you can find the name of the dealer who is selling and call them on the phone. That's what I did, to get a feel for the people. I also asked flat out if they would take the gun back if there was a defect, and they said it would be no problem.