Besides, everyone needs a break once in a while from our TEA and exploring things warm and soft is infinitely more interesting.
For a moment I thought it was Dwagon writing, you surprised me !
The dwagon and med6753 do have more in common than one might think.
I don't know whether to take that as a insult or compliment...
mnem
"I'm only a asshole on Thursdays. Rest of the time I'm a whole ass." ~me, immediately after the line-dancing incident
Ditto.
Besides, everyone needs a break once in a while from our TEA and exploring things warm and soft is infinitely more interesting.
For a moment I thought it was Dwagon writing, you surprised me !
The dwagon and med6753 do have more in common than one might think.
I don't know whether to take that as a insult or compliment...
mnem
"I'm only a asshole on Thursdays. Rest of the time I'm a whole ass." ~me, immediately after the line-dancing incident
Ditto.
Besides, everyone needs a break once in a while from our TEA and exploring things warm and soft is infinitely more interesting.
For a moment I thought it was Dwagon writing, you surprised me !
The dwagon and med6753 do have more in common than one might think.
I don't know whether to take that as a insult or compliment...
mnem
"I'm only a asshole on Thursdays. Rest of the time I'm a whole ass." ~me, immediately after the line-dancing incident
Ditto.
Just five words: The dwagon licks papa smurf.
Let me know if you need a picture to illustrate this.
Managed to extract the three stooges from the TM501. Turns out the Duratool desolder station is completely beyond useless on ground planes so I had to hit it two handed. One hand with the Metcal and a big tip and the other hand with the Duratool.
Left wanting for a Metcal sucky iron now
Anyway they're out: Can't even execute the bastards!
Replacements ordered.
What...? No Sledge-O-Matic...? I'm shocked!
mnem
Recall the 7603 PSU re-cap? Miniature hacksaw and Dremel to get those bastards out.
That will be because RS are currently manned by trolls, gnomes and goblins.
One of my Avmet orders changed from in stock to confirmed order to 5 months delivery -- without them bothering to tell me.
Yep, thats so true, I always found it a little unnerving every time I had visit a couple of our Atomic Weapons EstablishmentsThe firearms or the radiation ?
Radiation would bother me more.
The firearms I imagine. The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (better known as the Nuclear Police) were the only regularly armed police in the UK until the Met decided to go for the "armed bully boys with shaved heads" look on a regular basis.Yeah well I just don't get how some can be not scared of electricity yet they are of firearms.
Arse about IMHO.
Well, the express purpose of firearms is to kill, either for hunting or warfare. That folks like you and me use them as long distance paper punches as a form of peaceful sport has itself evolved from the need to train people to use them in warfare. The British government used to promote target shooting as a sport to have a ready supply of proficient rifleman handy in case of hostilities. Everybody is aware that a firearm is a weapon, and a weapon that one is unlikely to defend oneself from without having one oneself and being proficient in its use. One has an innate understanding that a firearm is more dangerous than a fist, rock, stick, knife or sword.
You have to put this into a context.You do.
Despite your well written piece with some of it now snipped, to us your view and that of many more including legislating Gubbermints to far to simplistic and to a large degree influenced by all the bad press about firearms and what some nutters get up to with them.
To us they are just tools, nothing more nothing less and like with any tool some of them will give a bad result if used incorrectly.
They let us solve problems in a safe and efficient manner such as the dispatch of some poor injured beast when use of a knife or spear would be dangerous and inhumane.
Dealing with large critters takes somewhat more than a pea shooter such as mercy dispatch of stranded whales where only the larger bores able to be used by man can do such tasks efficiently.
A very good friend wrote a white paper on such dealings decades ago which is still the reference document in use here today.
Such are the decades of bad press we have set up a quite nice private facility where we and invited guests can scratch our itchy forefingers and polish our abilities and expose the community to safe and controlled use of tools used in all manner of legitimate sporting pursuits.
It truly saddens us that firearms get such a bad wrap .............
Besides, everyone needs a break once in a while from our TEA and exploring things warm and soft is infinitely more interesting.For a moment I thought it was Dwagon writing, you surprised me !The dwagon and med6753 do have more in common than one might think.
I don't know whether to take that as a insult or compliment...
mnem
"I'm only a asshole on Thursdays. Rest of the time I'm a whole ass." ~me, immediately after the line-dancing incidentDitto.Just five words: The dwagon licks papa smurf.
Let me know if you need a picture to illustrate this.
Yep, thats so true, I always found it a little unnerving every time I had visit a couple of our Atomic Weapons EstablishmentsThe firearms or the radiation ?
Radiation would bother me more.
The firearms I imagine. The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (better known as the Nuclear Police) were the only regularly armed police in the UK until the Met decided to go for the "armed bully boys with shaved heads" look on a regular basis.Yeah well I just don't get how some can be not scared of electricity yet they are of firearms.
Arse about IMHO.
Well, the express purpose of firearms is to kill, either for hunting or warfare. That folks like you and me use them as long distance paper punches as a form of peaceful sport has itself evolved from the need to train people to use them in warfare. The British government used to promote target shooting as a sport to have a ready supply of proficient rifleman handy in case of hostilities. Everybody is aware that a firearm is a weapon, and a weapon that one is unlikely to defend oneself from without having one oneself and being proficient in its use. One has an innate understanding that a firearm is more dangerous than a fist, rock, stick, knife or sword.
You have to put this into a context.You do.
Despite your well written piece with some of it now snipped, to us your view and that of many more including legislating Gubbermints to far to simplistic and to a large degree influenced by all the bad press about firearms and what some nutters get up to with them.
To us they are just tools, nothing more nothing less and like with any tool some of them will give a bad result if used incorrectly.
They let us solve problems in a safe and efficient manner such as the dispatch of some poor injured beast when use of a knife or spear would be dangerous and inhumane.
Dealing with large critters takes somewhat more than a pea shooter such as mercy dispatch of stranded whales where only the larger bores able to be used by man can do such tasks efficiently.
A very good friend wrote a white paper on such dealings decades ago which is still the reference document in use here today.
Such are the decades of bad press we have set up a quite nice private facility where we and invited guests can scratch our itchy forefingers and polish our abilities and expose the community to safe and controlled use of tools used in all manner of legitimate sporting pursuits.
It truly saddens us that firearms get such a bad wrap .............
I'm a little disappointed that you snipped the context, which describes exactly why people like specmaster, faced with a firearm, get all antsy. In the context of where you are, in farming, a shotgun leaning in the corner is normal. If Farmer Giles is also a decent shot (rare) perhaps also a small bore rifle for pest control/rabbit stew and a full bore rifle if there's deer to be managed (In the UK it is illegal to hunt deer or use firearms to euthanise them unless you are using ammunition of a adequately large calibre and power to ensure a clean humane kill) .
I'll bet specmaster doesn't get antsy if he visits Farmer Giles and sees a shotgun in the corner of the kitchen. There's a world of difference between a friendly cuppa with the farmer's wife while a 12 gauge gently does the firearm equivalent of snoring in front of the fireplace and pulling up to a big gate to be eyed up suspiciously by two blokes carrying submachine guns at port-arms while another one says "papers please". Context is everything when it comes to how people react.
Yes, a firearm is just a tool, but whereas a hammer is just a tool and also a very lethal weapon should it be put to that purpose, a firearm is always going to be perceived as a weapon first and a tool second by most people because 'weapon' is a quintessential part of its nature. Don't expect the ignorant to see past that barrier of 'weapon' without a lot of education.
On the politics side, it's just a cynical "easy to get almost everyone on your side" ploy if you make a fuss about firearms, with very little risk of serious political comeback. If you were raised, as I was, by a professional killer trained to recognise the weapons potential of any object (which is a nasty way of saying "former Sergeant in the commandos who had responsibilities for unarmed combat training"), then the humble ballpoint pen is a nasty weapon. Somehow I don't see the politicians going on the warpath again ballpoint pens the next time one is used to seriously injure or kill someone (Until the prison service cottoned on and started issuing floppy ballpoint pens, there were several stabbings a year using one as a weapon in British prisons).
Managed to extract the three stooges from the TM501. Turns out the Duratool desolder station is completely beyond useless on ground planes so I had to hit it two handed. One hand with the Metcal and a big tip and the other hand with the Duratool.
Left wanting for a Metcal sucky iron now
Anyway they're out:
Can't even execute the bastards!
Replacements ordered.
Managed to extract the three stooges from the TM501. Turns out the Duratool desolder station is completely beyond useless on ground planes so I had to hit it two handed. One hand with the Metcal and a big tip and the other hand with the Duratool.
Left wanting for a Metcal sucky iron now
Anyway they're out:
Can't even execute the bastards!
Replacements ordered.Do they do a sucky iron?
Managed to extract the three stooges from the TM501. Turns out the Duratool desolder station is completely beyond useless on ground planes so I had to hit it two handed. One hand with the Metcal and a big tip and the other hand with the Duratool.
Left wanting for a Metcal sucky iron now
Anyway they're out: Can't even execute the bastards!
Replacements ordered.
What...? No Sledge-O-Matic...? I'm shocked!
mnem
Managed to extract the three stooges from the TM501. Turns out the Duratool desolder station is completely beyond useless on ground planes so I had to hit it two handed. One hand with the Metcal and a big tip and the other hand with the Duratool.
Left wanting for a Metcal sucky iron now
Anyway they're out: Can't even execute the bastards!
Replacements ordered.Do they do a sucky iron?You just need low melt solder and you can remove it with anything.
Anybody can buy expensive chemicals to make the problem go away...
Besides, everyone needs a break once in a while from our TEA and exploring things warm and soft is infinitely more interesting.
For a moment I thought it was Dwagon writing, you surprised me !
The dwagon and med6753 do have more in common than one might think.
I don't know whether to take that as a insult or compliment...
mnem
"I'm only a asshole on Thursdays. Rest of the time I'm a whole ass." ~me, immediately after the line-dancing incident
Ditto.
Just five words: The dwagon licks papa smurf.
Let me know if you need a picture to illustrate this.
That's my cue to log off the blog and go watch TV.
I did myself with all the gun talk, I watched Batman Returns with my sons, watched Batman last night as well, maybe tomorrow we'll watch again the new series of Batman films.
I did myself with all the gun talk, I watched Batman Returns with my sons, watched Batman last night as well, maybe tomorrow we'll watch again the new series of Batman films.
So, let me get this right. To get away from a very civilised discussion of why people find guns disturbing (prompted I might add by your comments) you went to watch a film full of violence involving, among other things, gratuitous use of firearms? Mmmkay.
"Nurse!"
I on the other hand am now off to watch a film about lots of dxs and dys being horribly crushed to nothing. In other worlds I've downloaded a bunch of 3Blue1Brown videos on calculus from youTube.
"Death to the running dogs of improper fractions!"
Anybody can buy expensive chemicals to make the problem go away...
Sn18Pb32Bi50 (Rose Metal) is pretty cheap and melt at around 95C