Cappy? For you

[Trav]

Cappy,

Do you know much about AR's, I want to change out my gas block and thought if you know how to do it maybe you can show me when you come to visit Posthole. It has the old A2 style and I want to put a low profile one on it.

[Captain]

Easy-peasy. We will take care of it.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I can pretty much vouch that captain has no gas block.

BKB

[Captain]

I just got a gutted muffler

[Thumper]

I can pretty much vouch that captain has no gas block. BKB

Ha ha ha! Look who's talking!! :hair

[BarryBobPosthole]

8906

[Captain]

Posty, you got a vise and regular hand tools?? I'll bring punches....
Will need a rubber hammer also.

[LJ3]

WTF? Are you mounting Bucky's scope?

[Captain]

No that requires a drill and grinder....

[Trav]

Thanks Cappy, I have a rubber hammer.

[Captain]

I'm not kidding about the vise. Unless you can remove the flash suppressor before I get there.

[Trav]

Ok, I will see if I can do it. I have a buddy with a vise if Posty doesn't have one.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I ain't got a vise at this time. And all my hand toolsare made for normal sized hands, so maybe you need to bring some.

I habe a rubber hammer. Great for straightening bent skegs!

BKB

[Captain]

Totally useless.....
No vise! Turn in your man card.
How can you fix shit?
I guess that would explain the spring hording obsession

[Thumper]

Sounds like another get-together for the hoity-toities around this joint. I don't recall seeing a public invitation. :moon

[Captain]

Bring your happy ass to my house Sunday and go with me.
There's your invite!

[BarryBobPosthole]

It don't get any more plain than that, Jim! Come on out! You know the way already.

BKb

[LJ3]

I'm still stuck on the fact that you have a spring on your desk but no vice in your garage.

[Captain]

I'm still stuck on the fact that you have a spring on your desk but no vice in your garage.

I know right, I guess he takes his chainsaw somewhere to be sharpened, and mower blades.

[Thumper]

Bring your happy ass to my house Sunday and go with me.
There's your invite!

Oh thanks a lot for giving me plenty of time to plan. I'd love to dust off my old K-Mart Blue Light Special and show youse dufes how to catch fish, but my happy ass will be in California on Sunday. You don't know how lucky you are 'cause I'd be takin' a dollar from all o'youse dufes! ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

I know I need one. Truth is, I have never built out my garage shop like I did in my last place. I miss it sometimes. Then I just open another beer and sink a little further back in my pool chair,



BKB

[BarryBobPosthole]

Oh thanks a lot for giving me plenty of time to plan. I'd love to dust off my old K-Mart Blue Light Special and show youse dufes how to catch fish, but my happy ass will be in California on Sunday. You don't know how lucky you are 'cause I'd be takin' a dollar from all o'youse dufes! ;)

And Jim if I'd have thought of it sooner I'd have invited you for sure.

OTOH, you don't ever need an invite to be welcome at my house. Just show up. Show up with weed and you can have Larke's room.

BKb

[Thumper]

That would be nothing new. I spend lots of time in Larke's room whenever he's out of town. ;)

[Captain]

You don't know how lucky you are 'cause I'd be takin' a dollar from all o'youse dufes! ;)

Posthole wouldn't pay ya.....

[Captain]

Show up with weed and you can have Larke's room.

BKb

Well! Looks like someone might not get any wilderberry juice.

[Thumper]

Tough crowd! ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

No worries. A week out here near the Center of the Cultural Universe and he'll go back a changed man. No taller, mind you, but changed.

BKB

[Thumper]

Well, with a little bit of advance notice, I could'a smuggled a bag'o Purple Kush into the lawdog's truck for the delivery. (does he still drive with his badge on the dash?) :D

[BarryBobPosthole]

I know right, I guess he takes his chainsaw somewhere to be sharpened, and mower blades.

Neither of those require a vise to do by the way. I have a bench grinder and I do sharpen my blades once a year or so. And when my saw gets dull, I buy a new chain. Many of my youthful hours were wasted with a round file. Would you rather scrapeaway on a $20 chainsaw chain for an hour or two or be casting a Larke lure at a lily pad?

Priorities man!

BKB

[Thumper]

Ha! I'm with you P-hole. I always have a spare chain in the garage just waiting for the one I'm using to get dull. Oh, that's also an item I sell the hell out of on eBay. It seems half the sales I go to have a new chain or two in the garage. They usually sell as fast as I can list 'em.

'Course, Larke prolly bought Cheryl a new galvanized tub and washboard for Christmas. ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

My grandpa and grandma on my step Dad's side heated their house with a fireplace in the family room and a 55 gallon drum he'd made into a stove in the kitchen. They had a gas range and oven but no running water in the house. He had an old red McCullough chain saw that you had to be a stud to use. No telling what that thing weighed. He worked on it EVERY time I saw him use it. It always seemed like he picked the biggest tree he could find (I got to load, unload, and stack and eventually split all that big ass wood). Man that old saw was loud too.
I was only eight when my Mom and I became part of that family. I followed him around trying to step in his footprints and to a large extent, still do.

But I don't work on my shit every time I have to use it. It makes me cuss when
i have to.



BKb

[Thumper]

Speaking of vises, that's another of my eBay specialties. Most everybody (except at least one Okie I know) has a vise in their garage. When I spot a good'ern, I break out the wrenches and pull that puppy off the bench! I just sold a nice Wilton Pattern-Makers Turret vise a month ago for $317.50. In fact, I have a really nice (Dec. 1951) Wilton 5" Bullet Vice sitting here that I'll be listing when I get back from California. Those Wilton's sell in a flash!

Here's the Turret I just sold. (haven't taken pics of the Bullet vise yet)


http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/N3EAAOSwTM5Y3vZj/s-l1600.jpg

[BarryBobPosthole]

Damn, that's more than I'd think a vise would go for! Has to cost a fortune to ship.

BKB

[Thumper]

Naaa, I go with freight and it varies depending on where it's going. Georgia would be much cheaper than Washington State for example. Maybe $35-$50 depending on size/weight and location. The guy who bought the one pictured restores and sells vises. He was extremely happy with that price and still has room to make a profit.

[Thumper]

The Bullet I have here is in excellent condition and just needs to be cleaned up a bit before I list it. I've prolly sold 10 of these things. Here's one just like it that the guy has restored (ie; cleaned, lubed and painted). It sold for $544.00 a month ago. See the cone shape on the rear? That's where the term "bullet" comes from.


http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vygAAOSwtZJY-rFq/s-l1600.jpg

[quercus alba]

I don't have a vise, a chain saw and I don't sharpen lawnmower blades. I probably would have been a Bob Cratchit type a hundred years ago

[Chicken Dinner]

Damn, I'm going to have to take a closer look at he vise in my basement. I think it came with a house I bought over 25 years ago. So, who knows?

[Thumper]

I'd be lost without a vise. When I was working, I'd probably use mine most every day. Nowadays, I still use it a couple times a week. 'Course I sell the good ones. My personal bench vise is a 6" Craftsman.

In typical eBay fashion, you'd be amazed at how many people COLLECT vises! They're the ones who pay the big bucks for a good one.

[BarryBobPosthole]

"Vise is nice, but incest is best!"

BKB

[LJ3]

I don't have a vise, a chain saw and I don't sharpen lawnmower blades. I probably would have been a Bob Cratchit type a hundred years ago

Um, you may be one now :)

[quercus alba]

Well I do work for Scrooge

[BarryBobPosthole]

I'm picking Eeyore over Cratchet.

BKB

[quercus alba]

You guys sure kick a guy when he's down

Which is all the time not that anyone cares

[Captain]

You mean to tell me if a chain gets dull you throw it away? You are a dufe... those things can be sharpened several times.
You got more money than sense.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I didn't say i threw it away. It goes in the coffee can with the spring!

BKB

[Captain]

If I replaced a chain every time it got dull, I'd buy 30 plus chains a year. That's insane.

[BarryBobPosthole]

A smart person would figure out not to dig in the dirt with it so much.

BKb

[DeputyDog]

A smart person would figure out not to dig in the dirt with it so much.

BKb

You have to remember that it starts out a lot closer to the ground already when Cappy is holding it.


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[BarryBobPosthole]

Good point!

BKb