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I use any form of vinegar. They all work well. I use them mostly for old rusty tools like pliers, or screwdrivers. I leave them in vinegar for about four days, then clean with steel wool, and WD-40. If you want a stronger vinegar solution (before using), put it in a bowl then into the freezer. Wh...

WOW! All these rude comments! Makes me wish I had a nice big, extra bacon, BLT for lunch today. Bannock? I think one of the old, traditional ways of making it, was to mix up a thick, gooey batter, roll it out with your hands into a long snake like piece, then wrap it around a peeled tree branch, ...

I like what you are doing. I wouldn't recommend the AC, unless it's a small unit to use only when slipped in a Marina. You can buy, or make yourself a wind funnel. It's a nylon cloth thing, long and round in construction (tube). Open your forward hatch and it mounts (velcro's good) around the hat...

Rifle cleaning: Take barrel off stock, remove nipple, place nipple end of barrel in a bucket or container of very, very hot water. Us cleaning rod with large patch, moving it up and down in barrel, which will draw in hot water, and push it back out nipple end. When water going out is clean, set b...

Thanks for the reply. Have you made a trip to the states? I think you would have a good time, and I'm sure there are lots of folks who would enjoy meeting and talking with you. I live in New Mexico, so most of our blackpowder stuff is representing the fur trade era out here. From roughly the 1820...

Wow! I honestly expected something bad to happen before you fired the first shot. After that, I was impressed. Very nice.

Do you have a video that shows results of not seating the ball prior to shooting? I mark a ring around my ramrod at the muzzle when the gun is loaded. Then I can look at the ramrod when it is inserted into the bore. If the ring is even with the muzzle it is loaded. If the ring goes out of sight i...

I used to shoot wheel guns, but now do mostly single shots. When I did shoot wheels, I had trouble with the cryskal or lard getting warm, and turning to liquid, if I didn't shoot out all cylinders. Do you have any of that sort of problem, and if so, what's you solution. Thanks.

I see the porch, but where's the house??? Just kidding, I see a pretty, intelligent, Lady, who is doing what she wants, where she wants to do it. I think she's great.

When travelling, a number of times, I have stoped in some small towns at the local convienence story. I've asked the clerk inside, if it would be okay if I parked off to the side of the parking lot, and got a few hours sleep. I'd say I was tired, and would be leaving in the morning. I have never ...

Regardless of what you call yourselves, you aren't Hermits. You are urban, or rural dwellers. Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dest dictionary defines Hermits as: (quote): Hermit: One who abandons society, and lives in seclusion, often for religious reasons. (unquote). You sure have not abandoned soci...

For wood stocks, to clean a dirty one, I use some fine steel wool (maybe 0000), soaked with Old English dark wood liquid furniture polish. I used it on a 100 year old military rifle that had a dark grey stock, and after cleaning, it was a medium color, beautiful walnut stock with almost a tiger ...

I saw a cool idea here on youtube about making a bore snake out of plastic weedeater line. Cut a piece a few inches longer than your barrel. Sharpen one end, and melt the other end flat. Poke the sharp end through a patch, and slide it down the plastic line until it is stopped by the flat end. Ru...

Factory mags are the way to go. I don't think shooting from sandbags, and other mechanical rests show much of the shooters ability. I think when a shooter can shoot MOA or sub-MOA using off-hand, sitting, kneeling, and prone position, then he has bragging rights. Shoot military in the field type ...

Gun shoots nice. I think however, that sandbagging a gun, and shooting only shows how well the barrel, action, and trigger work with the bullet used. It doesn't really show very much about how good the shooter really is. Want to have fun. Set up the same targets (I like your's), and fire 10 offha...

Rgjerde53 mentioned Charles Durning. Great Character actor. Most people don't know that during WW2 he was a rifleman in the Army, landed on Omaha Beach during the D-day invasion. During the war he earned the Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts. A great american hero, and actor.

Kids! Gotta lov'em.

I was caught like that once on the ocean in a thunderstorm. Raining so hard, it caused the water to go flat. Looked like a carpet. Like sitting under a shower. Scary because there was also lightning flashing, and thunder banging. Funny because my buddy was trying to light a cigarette practically ...

A plow anchor like that one is designed to have an anchor rode (rope) shackled to the end of the long arm with a couple feet or more of chain. The boat rising up and down on swells will lift the chain, and not unhook the anchor from the bottom. The other hole at the front of the anchor is to atta...

Crate looks good. For a floor, rather than plywood which will soak up water and delaminate, I'd use some polyethylene plastic (buy at lumber supply or hardware store), or buy a kitchen cutting board (plastic) at Walmart. Will last forever. Happy Yaking.

Hi, As a back up to a larger grinder/sander like you have. If you have to rebuild a knife that got broken, or want to try making one, you can use a regular hand held belt sander. The kind normally used in woodworking. Just mount it upside down in a vise, turn it on, and start grinding. By the way...

Nice knife. I like your work. I make a few knives myself. I wanted to comment on your work bench. I like it!!! For those viewers who would like a nice work bench, that's easy to make, go find yourself one of the old military/government all steel office desks. They are cheap. Buy it, take it home,...

Everyone has their own ideas, and cleaning solutions. Something that I use for tools that are so rusted, they look like they would never come clean is regular vinagar like you buy in the grocery store. Pour some in a container, place your rusted metal object into it, and leave it to soak for a fe...

Good choice of bullets for it. Try sighting it in with iron sights for dead on at 100 yards. from 50 yards to 200 yards you should be accurate enough for a kill shot on a deer. I think that would put the bullets inside a 10 inch circle from 50 to 200 yards when sighted in for a bulls eye point of...

Nice rifle. Made back when shooters could shoot without having to have a scope, and high speed, long range bullets to be successful. Antlers? If you still have them, don't toss them. They can be sold for about $20-$30 per rack, or cut them up on a band saw, drill holes, or don't drill holes, and ...

I would only recommend one thing. I'd only move the knife across the belt, moving it from the handle to the tip. I see you do it both directions, and you run the remote possibility of digging the tip into the belt (especially the leather strop) when moving towards the tip, and if it happens, it m...

No, I'm pretty sure that the Airlines stopped carrying missles years before 911. Something about removing the missles, would allow higher bagage fees???

Nice video. A great help to a newby on using this tool. Comment however: When you start, and push the needle through the first time, then pull the amount of thread through needed for the project on the back side of the project, there's no need to pull out the same amount of thread on the front si...

I'm glad you guys can own and use firearms again. At least it's a step in the right direction. I don't believe governments really care about someone shooting up a few innocent people, as bad as that is, but instead Politicians don't trust armed citizens. They know that if the people get unhappy e...

Great Man, just Great! Someday, he'll still be remembering this trip with fondness, while he's telling his Grandchildren about it.

Beautiful music, and judging by the reactions from his family and friends in the video, he was well liked, and loved. He is on my list of people I wish I had, had the opportunity to meet, and perhaps, get to know a little bit.

Wearing helmets? (My personal opinion is wear them if you want, or don't). I wear them on the highway for comfort (hours of wind screaming through my hair, to me is uncomfortable). Around town, I usually don't wear one. It should be the other way around. In town, you are most likely to crash, or ...

Looks like just another nice day at the beach to me. I shudder at the work required to prevent saltwater corrosion in the wheel wells though. Great airplane. I was a C-130 Flight Engineer USAF.

WOW! That's pretty much just like my flight Instructor described my first solo flight.

So . . . How did you get the axle out. You didn't show how in any of your videos. It was just suddenly not there anymore?

Maybe they could have held the yak over their heads and walked out. LOL. I'd suggest wearing pfd's though. Required if in the US, and in that water, I'd think would be very advisable.

Just keep practicing. You'll get it. Try...just as your bow goes into the wave, lean forward, reach out with your paddle and make a strong paddle stroke back towards you, then leave your paddle in the water to brace should you start to turn, or roll. Once through, paddle like mad to get as far a...

That was cool! I hope he had an energy drink with him for after he got outside. That's the kind of surf that shipwreck survivors used to drown in while attempting to swim into the beach. With the right yak, just going in and out of the surf line would be a blast. I'm 62, and I wanna try it.

Wish I could have been there with you. Flying medevac and pulling young Marines out of a hot LZ and getting them to the medical help they needed was the most rewarding thing I have ever done. I wonder how many lives the frogs have saved over the years. I was with HMM-161 in Vietnam, 1969-1970. Se...

I passed over that ridge line through that saddle going from Paul's Place back to our home, near the Church east of Weldon. on a horse when I was about 8 years old. There weren't any roads up there then (1956 or so). Haven't been back to the valley in about 30 years, but it was a nice place to gr...

I like your videos. I grew up on a ranch where we packed into the high country in the summers to work cattle. It brings back memories. One suggestion: you might tell people what minimum length of rope you like to have before you start, so anyone trying will know how much to go buy. That way, half...

Yeah sure. But, could you do that in the dark, after a few beers, when you are trying to get away quickly because the wife is yealing at ya? All kidding aside. Nice job. It isn't quite as easy as you make it look, but it's a good place to start learning if you don't have someone right there with ...

I would say that when you want to sew. Just start singing a song in your head, and start tapping your foot to the beat of the song. When you get the right song, with the right beat and rhythm, then you'll be working your treadle and sewing up a storm. That would be the song. The Doors and "Riders...