Darianis
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do you need to get the upper and lower replaced? The tech only mentioned the upper. Also if the cost<$500 then it would be worth it to jsut get it fixed so that I don't have to worry anymore.
Thanks for all the info.
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What kinda $$$ are we talking about for this type of repair? assuning parts are required. I still have to pay my smith for my new open gun. Hmm also how bad are these problems. should I be concerned, stop driving the car?
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I had new tires installed on ym car yesterday and the tech told me that I needed to get it fixed because I hade "upper ball joints loose and tierod ends loose" How serious is this and how hard of a repair? Also are any specialty tools needed?
1994 T-Bird
Thanks
Tony
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I once paid over $150,000.00 for 3 .45 A.C.P. Hydra-Shocks....well by the time it was all said and done.
Ok that's gonna require more information Kurt... you can't dangle a carrot like that and expect no one to bite!
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Wonder how much drag that mini bar pulls the top end down, as well as whistling...
I was wondering the same thing heh the article says 203 top speed but I bet that bar knocks 25 off that at least
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Absolutely the most important change I made was more hearing protection. 32nrr plugs and Pro ears and I no longer blink. Shot isn't even scary. I've improved markedly in that one change.
Along the same lines, I double plug. Also shot a lot of rimfire to get used to not blinking and seeing the front sight lift and return.
Of course there is always the dark side, where the dot tells all........
Now that you mention it I have my local smith building my open gun as we speak. Hope to have it in my hot little hands in the next few weeks. I plan on shooting it a good bit over the winter to get ready for next season.
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and ignoring everything around me but the sights what else do I need to do?
You don't need to ignore everything else around you. Observation is all inclusive...you aren't only observing the sights you are observing what is happening around you.
What makes you think you are doing something wrong? Were you able to call your shots correctly? Are you sure the gun is sighted in correctly?
Yea I'm fairly good at calling my shots not 100% but I usually know if it's an "A" or not
Hmm seems the consensus is more lead down range hehe can do! I'm sure the wifey will be happy that I need to spend more time at the range and less time under foot
thanks for all the advice... now if only ammo prices would come more into line with my budget
Or maybe the happy gnomes will go into the garage and load me a few K's worth. I keep leaving all the supplies out there and every morning I go out to find no more loaded ammo than the night before. Damn cobblers get all the luck! -
I have been shooting for many years, but only for the last few have I started taking an intrest in training. Well I want to be more accurate so I tried concentrating of watching the sights. I took a friends MKII out to the range and fired several hundred rounds through it. I basically ignored everything other than the sights. squesed the shots as carefully as I could and watched the sights. and basically this is what I found out.
puuuuuullll trigger.... shot breaks .... see the sights again as they start to settle back down... rince repete till eye strain took it's toll.
at 1st my friend swore I was blinking... so I had him stand where he could see and nope not blinking. If I'm not blinking and ignoring everything around me but the sights what else do I need to do?
Is it just a matter of keep doing this or is there some other method I need to be working on? I know it takes time but I want to make sure that I'm doing what I need to so that I'm not waisting my training time as I have vanishing little these days.
Thanks
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must be nice to actually have seasons. In Alabama we only have Hot and not quite as hot.
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Continuing the thread drift, George Takei and William Shatner hissing and spitting in the news is hysterical.
Someone should tell them Mr. Spock was the real star of the trek....
I do love me some Shatner but yer totaly right Nemoy rules the roost, any other opinion would just be illogical
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looks like you guys all had a great time. I just wish my boy had been able to attend... but I told him you don't get the grades you don't get to go. Really sucks for me sometimes to be strict,
cause I really wanted to go.Glad you guys had fun and if the boy don't get his grades right next year I may have to shoot him!
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After having taken several marketing classes I understand those commercials... I don't like them but I understand them. What's really bad is that they really do work on most consumers. One of the things that I thought was just odd was that the more annoying the commercial is the more effective it is. It has something to do with product recognition or something. I have seen the market research.
Also the buy in the next 10 min, limit 2 per customer, limited time offer. Those are all ploys to induce the idea of scarcity. If you think the offer may expire or that they may run out you will be more likely to buy then, cause the studies show that if you take 24 hours to think about it the "smart" part of your brain kicks in and smacks the "kid gotta have it now" side back into submission.
I watch commercials with a very different eye now that I have had the classes. If you want to get some really fun knowledge I recommend you take a marketing class. You might be surprised at what you learn
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Ok OK... Merlin you have redemed yourself from all the really bad jokes. that one actually made me laugh out loud.
Thanks for making my night!
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You would think after all the merlin posts that I have read over the years that I would learn not to click on em
but I have no will power and the urge to click over powers my knoledge that it will be a really bad joke!Still in all I smile every time... usually while I'm groaning
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Basically I need some graphics for my tank I have a good basic idea of what I want to do. I need a monochromatic drawing of some tribal style flames for my tank.
This is a stock pic or my bike
I will be putting this image on the front fender
and I wanted to have some flames on the tank as if the dragon were breathing fire back. If you have the skills and want the job let me know. PM me here or give me a call at 256-509-6907
Thanks
Tony
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Somebody was making (and selling) templates for folks that wanted to paint their AR's.
There has just gotta be somebody selling a pre-made kit for painting bike tanks. (maybe even email them your design and have them print it out for you on the right stuff?)
Let me know if you ind some flames...I need some on my riding mower.
That would be great. I have little/no artistic ability heh but I can trace
if you know anyone that can do this let me know I would gladly pay for the custom templates -
you see this is why this is the only forum I need hehe you guys know everything. Thanks for the info
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I will be repainting the tank of my motercycle and likely the whole bike soon, and while I have the painting thing mostly figured out I know squat about graphics. What I need to know is, what material should I use to make templates out of.
Basically I want to get some clipart style pics and print them out and overlay them on the template material and cut it out then place on the tank paint then remove. I guess it would have to be fairly thin so it can be cut easily and a bit strechy to cover the uneven surfaces, and have to stick to the tank but not leave any adhesive on the tank.
Or are there any places that sell these kinds of templates in about the right size that I need?
Basically what kinda material should I use.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Thanks
Tony
BTW I know this is a shooting forum heh but it's the only one I read on a regular basis and someone on this forum knows something about everything. You guys rock!
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I have fixed all the mechanical problems resulting from my recent encounter with the assphault, but there is still the problem of the tank. I know what I'm going to do repair wise, but in an effort to reduce the likely hood of having an encounter with the local Fire Fighters I am trying to figure out how to keep the gas vapor in the tank from lighting me up whilst I work on the tank. My thoughts were to drain all the fuel out, then let it sit out exposed to the sun for a few hours... black tank so it should evaporate any residual gas in the tank. Then drop a few chunks of dry ice in the tank, close the filler cap and let the ice sublimate and dispalce any remaining fuel vapors in the tank. If the tank in full or CO2 it's can't ignite.
Now I know that since I thought up this idea and it sounds great to me that there are some major flaws with it, so before I kill myself and my lovely home please tell me where I am going wrong
Thanks
Tony
BTW gonna repaint it black with an orange/copper stripe down the tank and front fender. Should look relativally nice when I am done.
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#41. Gordon Ramsay calls Alton Brown 'sir'.
This was my favorite heh I LOLed
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While surfing another site at work I came across a list that had me crying. It's long but really funny...
Enjoy:
#1. Alton Brown grinds his own peppercorns. With his teeth.
#2. Alton Brown's chili cheese fries are healthier than raw carrots. Even after he adds the bacon and lard.
#3. Alton Brown brushes his teeth with wasabi and gargles with pickle brine. But still his breath smells like lemon merengue.
#4. Alton Brown can boil a three-minute egg in thirty-seven seconds.
#5. When Alton Brown was born, he collected the hospital slop they'd left for his mother and made it into an zesty, appetizing goulash. The dish fed the entire maternity ward for a week.
#6. In the first, as-yet-unaired episode of Iron Chef America, Alton Brown single-handedly defeated an all-star team of Bobby Flay, Cat Cora, and Hiroyuki Sakai. The secret ingredient was 'whimsy'.
#7. Alton Brown doesn't reduce sauces. He demoralizes sauces.
#8. Alton Brown prepares his fugu blindfolded, with one chopstick and a plastic spork. Alton Brown ain't afraid of no chump neurotoxin.
#9. Alton Brown's blender has four speeds: 'stir', 'mix', 'frappe', and 'plasmify'.
#10. Alton Brown can split a pineapple in half using only his pinkies. For coconuts, though, he has to use his thumbs.
#11. Alton Brown knows where capers come from. And he grows his own, on a Chia pet in the pantry.
#12. On Rachel Ray's show, she shows people where to eat for less than forty dollars a day. When Alton Brown eats, people pay him.
#13. Alton Brown slices ham so thin, it can only be seen using an electron microscope.
#14. Some knives can slice through a tin can and still cut a tomato. Alton Brown's knives can slice through a Pontiac, and still cut a tin can.
#15. Grown men have been known to weep for joy in the mere presence of Alton Brown's vinagrette. His hollandaise sauce can kill a man from sheer ecstacy at forty paces.
#16. Alton Brown can eat just one Lay's potato chip. If he ever bothered to eat food he didn't make himself, that is.
#17. Alton Brown once got carried away slicing carrots, and julienned his cutting board. Undaunted, he sauteed the splinters in olive oil and spices -- and they were delicious.
#18. Every Burger King Alton Brown has walked into has immediately closed forever -- try as they might, they simply can't 'do it his way'.
#19. Alton Brown can pair a wine with any food -- including hot dogs, ice cream, raw eggs, Alpo, sawdust, and soylent green. It's people!
#20. Alton Brown's cakes don't rise. They ascend.
#21. Some meats are so tender, they seem to melt in your mouth. Alton Brown's meats are so tender, he's had entire turkeys vanish into thin air.
#22. Alton Brown's no saint. But if his chicken Kiev cures one more kid's leprosy, the church will reconsider the evidence.
#23. Alton Brown doesn't whip potatoes. Alton Brown's potatoes whip themselves, if they know what's good for them.
#24. Alton Brown's other car is the Wienermobile.
#25. Alton Brown's show is called 'Good Eats', because 'Multiple Shuddering Mouthgasms' didn't play with the network's target demographic.
#26. Alton Brown's freezer operates at minus-twenty-seven degrees. Kelvin.
#27. Alton Brown once prepared shrimp gumbo for a cooking competition, using only salt, water, canned Spam, and a packet of Arby's 'Horsey Sauce'. He took second place. He would have won, but one of the judges was allergic to shellfish.
#28. Alton Brown can fit three hundred and forty-two cookies on a standard-sized baking sheet. Without any touching.
#29. When Alton Brown slices onions, the onions cry.
#30. Alton Brown was once asked to participate in a blind orange juice taste test. He was the only person able to successfully identify the brand, style, vintage, temperature, pH level, distance to the orchard, age of the grove trees, and the names of the workers picking the fruit. Including the one who needs to start washing after bathroom breaks.
#31. Your grandmother may make biscuits that taste light and airy. Alton Brown's biscuits have to be tethered, or they float right up the chimney.
#32. Too many cooks spoil the soup. Unless one of those cooks is named Alton Brown.
#33. Alton Brown ran a lemonade stand as a child, just like the rest of us. But Alton Brown's lemonade was so delicious, he bought his house with the profits.
#34. Some salsas are so thick, a tortilla chip may break off when dipping. Alton Brown's salsa has been known to trap entire herds of wild deer.
#35. Alton Brown grows truffles in his back yard. And at harvest time, he sniffs them out himself.
#36. In Alton Brown's fridge, the open boxes of baking soda aren't thrown out when they're through absorbing odors. They go straight to the Louvre.
#37. Like any trained chef, Alton Brown can make any of the five 'mother sauces'. But Alton Brown also makes father sauce, grandmother sauce, and great-uncle-twice-removed sauce.
#38. Alton Brown's oven is a Hotternell.
#39. Legend has it that a school of piranha can strip the meat from a full-grown cow in sixty seconds. Alton Brown can do it in thirty -- and wrap the cuts in butcher's paper, to boot.
#40. Alton Brown's fudge brownies aren't simply dark and rich. Alton Brown's fudge brownies actually exert a mild gravitational pull.
#41. Gordon Ramsay calls Alton Brown 'sir'.
#42. Alton Brown was once pulled over by a traffic cop who asked to see his driver's license. Though he had forgotten his wallet, Alton Brown proved his identity on the spot by preparing a delicious stromboli using only the beef jerky, ketchup packets and stale doughnut scraps found in the officer's car. Needless to say, Alton Brown was not given a ticket that day.
#43. To most people, 'a pinch of salt' is an approximate measure. To Alton Brown, a pinch of salt equals three hundred and twenty-four grains, exactly. And he can grab them, even blindfolded, every time.
#44. Alton Brown doesn't need to brush. Alton Brown's teeth are coated with Teflon.
#45. Cervantes famously said: 'Hunger is the best sauce in the world'. Cervantes clearly never tasted Alton Brown's remoulade.
#46. Alton Brown doesn't use deodorant. Alton Brown brushes down with olive oil.
#47. Some chefs can sculpt fancy swans out of foil to hold their diners' leftovers. Alton Brown's diners never have leftovers.
#48. Alton Brown scrambles eggs into their individual component atoms. And can still make them into a tasty omelet.
#49. Most souffles collapse if you breathe too loudly near them. Alton Brown's souffles are guaranteed fall-proof, up to 8.6 on the Richter scale.
#50. Alton Brown's kitchen timer is an atomic clock. It's set to GMT (Gumsmacking Morsel Time).
#51. You or I might cream leeks until they're tender. Alton Brown creams leeks until they say they're sorry.
#52. Alton Brown once carved a rose garnish from a radish peel so lifelike, neighborhood bees tried to pollinate it. He planted and watered it, and now Alton Brown has a whole rose garnish garden in his back yard.
#53. Some desserts are so tasty, they come with extra spoons. Alton Brown's desserts are so decadent, he cannot legally serve them without defibrillator paddles for every person within a three-mile radius.
#54. Alton Brown owns the fastest mixer in existence. When he runs it in reverse, time flows backwards.
#55. The Eskimos have fifty words for 'snow'. Alton Brown has fifty words for 'kosher salt'.
#56. Alton Brown's egg slicer can cut through cue balls, too. And when he's done seasoning them, diners can't tell the difference.
#57. Most chefs are happy when they've beaten egg whites into 'stiff peaks'. Alton Brown isn't satisfied until his egg whites can support a watermelon.
#58. Alton Brown doesn't bother buying elbow macaroni. Alton Brown buys mezzani, and bends it with his will alone.
#59. The sweat from Alton Brown's brow registers 30,000 units on the Scoville scale.
#60. Alton Brown once attended a charity ball where a prize was awarded for the best donation. Though he showed up seemingly empty-handed, he won the prize, anyway. Because Alton Brown brought flavor to the party.
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Body shop relatives......
Recommendations:
1. Have it done by a pro.
You'll save time money and aggravation.
Also you can get a really cool design painted over it since it has to be painted anyway and will probably not match the other stuff (Fenders, covers , etc...) you might as well use this as an excuse to get that really nifty USMC emblem you've always wanted on there.
2. If no to#1 then empty the tank and fill with CO2.
Inert gas filled tank can't go BOOM!
Nice and safe.
If no to that
3. Fill the tank with gas all the way up.
Explosions are more likely with an empty tank from the vapors.
Sand to bare metal.
Rust can form on the bare metal so this should be done when you can at least devote the day to it without interruptions.
Fill the void with bondo.
Let it cure.
Sand it smooth using pnumatic sanders or a random orbit sander.
Since you're not experienced doing it use a smaller grit paper. Not an 80 grit but more like a 100 or even 120 grit.
It will take you longer but you're less likey to gouge it or over sand it with a finer grit paper.
Change the paper frequently. Don't try to use it until it fals off or is shredded to save $.
Be aware of heat build up from friction and stop if its getting too hot under the sanding.
Remember you're working on a GAS TANK not a water tank.
Get the "icing" from your local body shop supply. It comes in a huge toothpaste type tube and it may be blue in color and called "glaze coat" or some other name.
Spread this on using small plastic spreaders taking care to not lump it up or have it spread over a void without filling it.
Press it in using mild/moderate amount of force and feather/blend the edges.
Kind of like spackling drywall.
Sand this down smooth.
Repeat.
Once its smooth (feel it with your hands. I've found spots that I could not see using hand touch.) sand it to at least 400 grit.
Then you can tape off the areas to not be painted and hit it with primer and then paint it.
Good luck with it.
JK
Wow that's exactly what I needed heh I don't think it will look professionally done, but as I was the one who painted in in the 1st place heh that's not a real problem. I think for the time being I'm just gonna spray some rustolium on it to prevent rust and leve it be till I get healed enough to get all the work done.
Getting more strength in my arm everyday. I should only have to miss one match and then I'll be good as new.
Thanks for all the info guys I think this will be a fun project. I love to tinker with the bike. I can't wait till I replace the headlight assemble with a custom piece heh. Fun Fun Fun.
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LOL Siggy you made me laugh that time. and I and now you owe me one cause it still hurts when I laugh heh.
I had to laff when I finally dove into this thread and saw that it was a gas tank he was talking about..... and not1. A tank (like, where do you manage to PARK it???)
2. A fish tank (do you also need hardwood floor repair now as well?)
3. A scuba tank (you survived.)
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Hmm I don't wanna spend too much getting it fixed heh as I'm still paying to get me fixed
Also I kinda like to do my own work when I can. Anyone have any specific products taht ishould ask about or try?Thanks again
Tony
Or maybe the happy gnomes will go into the garage and load me a few K's worth. I keep leaving all the supplies out there and every morning I go out to find no more loaded ammo than the night before. Damn cobblers get all the luck!
What thread patern on an EGW comp
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I have an EGW 9 port cone come and I bought a Clark threaded 9mm bbl from brownells for my open gun but the comp won't thread onto the bbl. Any ideas? I alwase thought that they had a standart patern...