Last great day I had offshore, I had the lights going on the platform five minutes after the helicopter landed.
On previous trips, I did enjoy fishing over the handrails after work, though.
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Forum: Our Town
Last great day I had offshore, I had the lights going on the platform five minutes after the helicopter landed.
On previous trips, I did enjoy fishing over the handrails after work, though.
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Forum: Our Town
Yeah, the Germans have holidays for when they beat the French: Sontag, Montag, dienstag, Mittwoch...
dale in Louisiana
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Although it's a departure from the original context, just because I KNOW these things, in steam powerhouses we use waste heat to preheat the feedwater so that when we send it to the boiler to make...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I don't cook brats. I holler "Git off mah lawn!" and turn the water hose on 'em.
Oh, the OTHER brats... I loved 'em in Germany.
Here, it's Johnsonville, and I parboil 'em for five minutes at...
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SAme recipe as for muskrat. Just be more careful skinning it.
Dale in Louisiana
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It wouldn't take much finagling for a young airman today to be the THIRD generation to work on B-52's.
That's not gonna be the same exact models, of course. These thing have been upgraded seven...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Try this recipe. You can cut down or eliminate the sausage or you can swap it out for chicken.
I'm freaky about brussels sprouts.
dale in Louisiana
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Bought it! Read it!
Great story.
If you're a hand's on history buff, buy this one!
dale in Louisiana
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Puh-leeze!
We're already in the mid-eighties. In another couple of weeks we won't see sixty at night for another six months. Eighty by eight(AM) and ninety by nine will be the daily forecast...
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The blue stuff Wideners offers is surplus West German ammo. It matches ballistics of 7.62x51 Ball out to a hundred meters or so, then the velocity drops off fast. When you think of how big a range...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Get yourself a good-sized plain iron washer and float it on top of your lead. It won't take long before it's dark. You can even help it along with some cold blue (or HOT blue, if you want). ...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Package of Kraft mac 'n' cheese. Can of Campbell's cream of mushroom. Can of water pack tuna, drained.
Grease an 8x8 baking pan. Set oven for 350. prepare the macaroni from the mac 'n' cheese...
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Adding boiled eggs to second-hand pickle juice is okay IF (and only if) you're going to put the jar back into the fridge for the eggs to pickle. The problem arises in that you don't (short of lab...
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Amazon has it for the Kindle. Got me a new 'road book' now.
dale in Louisiana
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Bit my tongue. I knew which answer they wanted.
13/13
dale in Louisiana
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I guess we're a 'utilty'. I work for an interstate natural gas pipeline. That breaker is at one of my stations.
I used to work for Entergy, a huge electrical utility, and have done high voltage...
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First, a circuit switcher blew up. Root cause? "I can't believe you bought this ***.
Second, lightning strike blew stuff off a pole. Root cause? I told you that your ground system design was...
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If I knew it had to last this long, I would've taken better care of it.
Started having another round of back issues at the end of January. Went to the doc and got the normal painkillers,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Acetone will, over time, migrate through most plastics that it doesn't attack outright.
If you make the acetone version of ER use metal or glas containers and pay attention to the sealing methods,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
There are several companies that sell glass bottles and stoppers (among other neat things) in case and carton lots. I bought a dozen bottles from one of them for my next batch of ER.
You can...
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You gotta love it - somebody needed a honkin' big MG, and they haul out John Browning's M-2, a hundred years old and still kicking butt in a major way.
I remember when I transitioned to the...
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If AR-15 prices go up this time, I'm selling. At 64, I'm too old to fight in the next revolution, and anyway, a .30-06 suits my personality better.
And in the army I served in, 'AP' was 'armor...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Oh, good grief! Gravy.
Fry bacon or sausage or ham. When it's done, remove it and survey the fat left in the pan. You need three tablespoons of fat. If you don't have that, dip into your stash...
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Airflow on parts of the airframe of several WW II planes could achieve compressibility in a dive. The planes themselves didn't. The difference is moot because if the shockwaves masked control...
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She Who Money Bought Out.
Got three of those. That's why I live in a mobile home.
dale in Louisiana
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |