Here's my mag version

Hmm, the picture didn't post. Here's the link:
https://northamericanarms.com/parts/parts-mag/

I have a neighbor who had a problem like yours. He changed the grips, and a small pin, part#8 on the parts diagram (item 1404 Trigger pin) fell out and got lost. He ordered another one and I put it in. Problem solved. The pin is loose in the hole however. If yours is gone and is also a loose fit, put some scotch tape over it on both sides. I don't think it will interfere with the grips

Nice job Rick!
Constructive Criticism:
Octagons have eight sides. I would rename it "our new hexagon pattern".
Hexagons show up in nature more than octagons anyway. Beehives, Hydrocarbons . . . They have a geometric stability, and pack really well. Ask any bumble bee.

Ahem . . it's hard to describe

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If I owned this company and lost customers because of a post I wrote I would think twice about posting any more. I don't think his absence is related to losing interest. It's more likely related to losing customers.
It goes under the heading of "Closed mouths gather no feet."

When you're older you'll understand! 

Nice Raspberry PI project, Linux! How much memory did you put on it?

Is this a talented group or what?

 Bill that engraving is gorgeous. <Round of applause>

Aah! Dave, you made my day. What a great electronics project. It brings back memories of designing with simpler chips. An 8 pin dip switch!

You know, I have a lot of digital padlocks. I write the combination on each lock in binary. If the thief knows  binary he can have the contents! After all there are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that know binary and those that don't.

Quite the collection Bill! Do you shoot the cannons?
What is that right angle thing on the end table?

Quote from: bearcatter on February-02-22 15:02
Another bit of trivia is that modern technology somewhat ruined the Big Band "sound". In those days there was some variation of wind instruments being manufactured in tune, even with two instruments of the same brand and model. That gave the music a little more "color". Modern trumpets, etc. are tuned more exactly, and that makes for kind of a "dry" sound compared to the old bands.
Pianos are another example. A piano tuner used to have a chest full of tuning forks, and a "trained ear". Now they use a digital tuner, a little box that shows the pitch exactly. Handy with any string instrument.

My favorite modern pianist, Stephanie Trick. She plays some stride style and classical but likes boogie the best. There's a lot of her on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIusMod9H8

This one takes off about halfway through!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_esHyqvbPY

She a good player. Definitely has the Fats Waller thing down!

About tuning:
One definition of dissonance is having 3 trumpet players hit triple high C together.
Piano tuning has a long history. If you tune it perfectly in C, where the pitches are tuned by the numbers, you have an instrument that is in tune for C major, but has glaring problems in other keys, like C#. Today pianos are tuned to the equal temperament scale, where the distance between pitches is equal. It makes C just a bit off, almost imperceptibly, but the other keys sound equally good. A good piano tuner will lower or raise the pitch 1 or 2 cycles per second as needed to get the equal temperament. When two related pitches (like in a chord) are a bit off you hear a variation in the sound, like wa-wa-wa. The speed of the variation is the number of Hz you are off. That's what a good piano tuner does. I used to have my piano tuned by a sax player whose day job was a piano tuner for Steinway. I learned a lot from him.

Nice work ds10speed. Some people have the best toys!

Rick, it's great that you got to spend that kind of time with your dad. My dad was a TV repairman and I started working in the TV shop when I was five. I started working as a musician when I was 13, but I kept helping my dad until I graduated college as an electrical engineer. He was a really good troubleshooter, but I wanted to know why the circuits worked.

QuoteRick:
There is a formula I can't seem to remember... "Cut 3 by eyeballing it then measure? Cut twice then measure? Measure, cut, cut measure?"  I think I see a pattern 

I think I see a pattern . . . er . . . problem . . . too.

After graduation I decided to dig in to the music field and made a good career of it until I fell into a career teaching electrical engineering in college, which allowed me to get a masters and doctorate in computer science for free.

Bearcatter, when I graduated engineering school and decided to continue my music career I connected with Roland Hanna, the pianist that Benny Goodman took on his famous Russia tour. Roland became my teacher and mentor. I've yet to meet another dyed in the wool jazz pianist with a Julliard set of chops and knowledge like Roland had. I used to stay late at school on most Monday nights and walk to the Village Vanguard to see the Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis big band with Roland at the piano. About 1AM Thad would give Roland space for an extended solo, and the entire 20 something piece band, and myself, would sit there rapt, with our mouths open. He improvised jazz with a classical composer's sense of composition. Amazing stuff.

Quote from: bearcatter on February-01-22 14:02
Very nice! How do you mow and trim all of that? I've just got a double residential lot that is exhausting these days.

There's a couple that lives up the hill from me with a passel o' kids. As each one gets to about high school age they take over the mowing and trimming job. Sometimes when there's a lot of debris on the ground you can find 4 or 5 of them picking stuff up. Some of them are quite young. The kids also clean the roof gutters in the late fall.

I have another neighbor that plows the 180' driveway in the winter. The walkway and front steps are kept snow free by heated mats.

It's good to be da king!

Well done, SteveZ!

Views of some of the property

Does this count? I hand-built our house 45 years ago. It seems to be aging better than me. I also hand built the cabinets.

Me three. Too small to be an issue.

Go to PayPal Wallet and click on transfer money. You should be able to transfer it to your CC or checking account.

Ayoob's book comes with the membership package from the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network, along with a ton of articles to download and an informative monthly newsletter. They have lawyers in every state that you can call immediately for assistance, but they only cover costs if they feel it is truly a self defense incident. If you hold up a 7-11, they're not interested.

There are a number of states including my own (NY), that don't allow out of state insurance companies. I joined a legal defense fund out of the state of Washington, funded by contributions, called Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network, Inc:

https://armedcitizensnetwork.org.

It accomplishes the same thing, in a different legal way.

That's a good one. Thanks.

I would be interested, just for something to show off.
I would spend $30 for it with no reservation. At $50 I'd start to wonder why I'm doing this.

According to the Federal site the Punch is designed for short barrel handguns.
https://www.federalpremium.com/rimfire/personal-defense-punch-rimfire/11-PD22L1.html

Beans.

55 for the second round

The musket was made by a friend and given to me. It's a replica of a common gun from around 1830 if I remember correctly, called a Bumford.
It makes a lot of noise and smoke and leaves a very big hole.

People would definitely keep a safe distance from you . . . especially in the grocery store.

Now you did it!

I've been checking out the AR-7 also. But the little Badger has a certain cool factor, and it's 22mag.
Think you can make a pocket holster for the Badger?

And for Bearcatter:

"Gimme that catalog!"

47 for the second round.

Rick, if my previous Little Badger picture was the before picture, this is the after picture.
That's parachute cord. It makes the whole gun kinda plush.

Quote from: Rick_Jorgenson on January-09-22 08:01

Quote from: barrytheprof on January-09-22 01:01
53 for the second round.

This got my attention!  I've been kind of looking, lurking, eye-balling, these little Chiappa Rifles!

There are some fun accessories and custom items to put on them. 

My first thought is get the Long Rifle, then I think, "more power!" Get the Magnum. Then my lizard brain say's "you don't have a .17HMR, that would be cool"....except that would be the only gun I own in that caliber and I already have a "metric crap ton" of long rifle and magnum!    So I would be on the hunt of another caliber for ammo!

So many decisions! lol!!   I would probably end up with what was available at the time!

Stay tuned for tonight's picture.

53 for the second round.

57 for me. I know it's been used before. I'm on round 2.