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    Touch hole diameter.

    Where do you get those?
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    Powder RE packaging

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar (The Leyden jar is a high-voltage device; it is estimated that at a maximum the early Leyden jars could be charged to 20,000 to 60,000 volts) Anything very insulative can build up a charge across it.
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    Sources of treated tinder fungus?

    I'm not sure but if you find it....swipe left
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    Leaving a loaded powder horn?

    Do you have a lawnmower? Do you store gas for it? If so I bet your gas can isn't empty Blackpowder = 3MJ/kg Gasoline =47.5MJ/kg Gas packs ~16 times the energy BP has. I have a shop with eight reserve 5 gal containers full of diesel in it and I'm not worried in the least.
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    Trade whiskey

    The thing most people gloss over is distillation does not produce anything that wasn't already there (in the beer or wine). Distillation is a refining process. Beer & wine making create the "poisons" (& is perfectly legal) and yet most people have no qualms about drinking those. Distillation can...
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    Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself!

    Looks browned to me - God Job! ;-D
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    Cleaning Issue Solved?

    Well I often feel it's like explaining the car to buggy drivers. Nothing wrong with buggies...but.... Another thing I've done to help cleaning is make workbenches to aid in disassembly. Years ago Rob Andrews was making them for Brown Bess's but when I contacted him he had no issue with me...
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    Cleaning Issue Solved?

    This is another reason I like the steam cleaning. The small diameter wands have radial orifices (see pic) which, after having done so for the length of the barrel, blast the combustion chamber clean with hot saturated steam and it just flows out the barrel end. It cleans the inside of the...
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    Had to let her go 😢

    “Indian Chief, “Two Eagles,” was asked by a white government official: - “You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.” The Chief nodded in agreement. The official continued: -...
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    Had to let her go 😢

    I do and I don't like it any more than the next guy (the ol' death & taxes thing) but if he rented those same costs would be passed on to him anyway without any equity growth. By buying (getting his boat in the water), he freezes the house cost at $12,500 and gets the full equity growth...
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    Had to let her go 😢

    You did good. While your wage increased 13.85x by investing in a house your worth increased 28x. It's like my father said, "Inflation is like a river. You can stand on the shore and watch everything go past or get your boat in the water and go with it."
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    Trade whiskey

    I agree. All I can say is if I had anything green with a "snakes head" in it ... it would be up for trade too ... just sayin. ;-D IMHO any alcohol with "living tissue" in it belongs in a lab and not a bar.
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    Trade whiskey

    With all that filtering you're making vodka not whisky. Nothing wrong with that but it's not really whisky. That's why there's negligible hang-over. It's a two headed coin. The flavour but also the hang-over (if you drink a lot) comes from the impurities. The flavour is contained in the...
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    Trade whiskey

    It's funny, you hear a lot about whiskey in re-enactor accounts but never about the ever-popular tavern drink "Flip" - as in he's "flipping out" or "its come to loggerheads". Pic of a loggerhead being heated in a tavern (traditionally heated in the tavern fireplace)...
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    Shiny Balls

    I think it means the 2nd condor needed "change"
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    Can "they" hear me? Do "they" care?

    For wearing, I have the upgrade to that. My "Yes V7" watch. They now have wireless charging so no more batteries. I like knowing when sunrise, moonrise, civil twilight, astronomical twilight, when we hit solstice, etc will happen. It can be a compass too. It can be set for anywhere in the world...
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    GOEX is hiring

    Well you made my day with that! :-D ..and thank God Estes/Goex is coming back online! Great company. I remember all the rockets I built when younger. My last one was a real cool tiny one. I put great care in putting it together, spent hours giving it a real detailed paint job. Carefully...
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    GOEX is hiring

    Do tell.
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    Finally Found That Antique Anvil I Been Huntin'

    My friend in Wisconsin got a Nimba years ago. I'm pretty sure it was the 450lb "Gladiator". Absolutely beautiful - but out of my league. :-( If it were more than a hobby to me that's the one I would get. The shape of them is shear perfection and at that mass it might as well be the Rock of...
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    Finally Found That Antique Anvil I Been Huntin'

    FWIW this came into my email this morning. New anvils coming to life. Pass the cigars...
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