I haven't logged on or visited here for a bit, and so I come on and read the "Gardening sub forum" thread.
My damn eyeballs nearly fell out of my head.
Oh, I'm sorry, I must've clicked on a different bookmark. (checking, checking, checking. . . nope, it says "castboolits.gunloads.com" so what the hell is going on?)
But after reading the justifications, I got to thinking. Hell, all this talk about self-reliance and how casting lead projectiles is synonymous with cooing to petunias started making sense.
So, how about this?
I propose the following subforums be added to Cast Boolits.
• Home Improvement subforum. After all, we're all self-reliant and what could be more self-reliant than a subforum on changing out your own toilet rings (which some new members here still think can be used as a consistent boolit lube) or fixing your own sink or putting in new windows.
I would also propose the following sub-subforums in the Home Improvement subforum:
-Painting, of which we could have sub-sub-subforums dedicated to the different kinds of paint brushes, sprayers, drop cloths, thinners, colors, textures, et al. Painting is asthetic and we all like our boolits to look good as well, so that makes it related to cast boolits.
-Plumbing, and of course what kind of sub-subforum on plumbing would be complete without the following sub-sub-subforms on soldering (had lead in it, so that makes it related to cast boolits), fluxing (same term we use in smelting), pipe-cutting, and of course when dealing with piping, we could then create a sub-sub-sub-subform dedicated strictly to PVC pipes with sub-sub-sub-sub-subforums on the various glues, cleaners, joints, cutters, etc.
-Electrical, which could then have its own sub-subforums on wiring, gauges, meters, test equipment, AC versus DC, etc. We use electricity to fire up our lead furnaces, so that makes it related to cast boolits.
And another subforum that might be interesting. . .
• Automotive. Automobiles use tires which need wheelweights which we need to make boolits, so that makes it related to cast boolits.
Of course, sooner rather than later, we'd need some sub-subforum to include Chevy, Ford, Chrysler and Imports. In the Imports sub-subforum, we'd need sub-sub-subforums for all the imports. We have Cast Boolits members who live in various countries where the imports are driven, so that would make it related to cast boolits.
• How about an Aviation subforum? I fly and so do some other members here, plus some of our stuff we get is transported by air, so that makes it related to cast boolits. We could have some sub-subforums on general aviation and commercial aviation. In the general aviation, we could make sub-sub-subforums on the different manufacturers, including the homebuilts, which would then need sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-subforums for the different specialized aspects of building your own airplane. Since we have a homemade thread somewhere in the midst of all our other sub-sub-subforums here, that would make it related to cast boolits.
• How about a TV subforum? We could make sub-subforums for the different shows and break them down into reality versus sitcom versus sports. The Sports sub-sub-subforum could have their own sub-sub-sub-subforums dedicated to each sport, with each sport sub-sub-sub-subforum having its own sub-sub-sub-sub-subforum for professional versus collegiate versus high school. Since so many members here admit to depriming and priming their brass while watching TV, then that makes it cast boolits related.
Hell, the possibilities are endless I tell you!
Or how about we remember that this is a forum dedicated to taking alloy, melting it down and turning it into projectiles that can be fired in guns and of which support for that includes reloading, molds, smelting, the various firearms that cast boolits can be utilized in. . .? Radical idea, I know.
Of if that offends anyone, how about we just change the name of the forum so that it can be everything to everyone all the time everywhere?