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  1. ReconRat

    CAN-Bus

    Somehow, it will have an additional unique patented sound.
  2. If you're too lazy to make one, these folding stoves will burn about anything.
  3. Sure. Any insurance company knows the actuary odds of what is what. That's why they always ask color of bike, jacket and helmet, do you wear one, etc etc. (NOT) They don't give a crap, too many other factors are way more important to calculating risk.
  4. That's a rather old law. It's been around for a long time. I might barely remember when it wasn't a law.
  5. Done. Oil change and Stabil and parked in storage. Need to go back and pull battery and that's it till it's warmer again. Sad. edit: There was ice in the shady spots, even with the higher temps this weekend. Had to be careful.
  6. I didn't see a trigger/hammer spring on that list. It said sold out. Wondering how hard it will be to find one of those, if you need it.
  7. Not right now there isn't. Too cold. Depends on where you will be. It's flat in the Northern half and nice in the South and East. And there's always Kentucky and Pennsylvania and West Virginia. edit: Ohio has the 2nd most motorcycles per capita behind California. Or at least it used to be that way. Ok, I looked it up. I'm completely wrong. Ohio is maybe 5th in total bikes, and far from anywhere on the per capita list currently. Oddly, Montana and South Dakota lead the list.
  8. If you repair by replacing parts, NRA value is "good", although no one might ever know about repairs. If you trade parts, you wind up with two "poor" to fair" pieces, although no one might ever know about the swap. We're only talking about $35 to $135 each though. Unless the remaining metal finish is very good or fine. (more than 30%) I'd leave them as is, and repair that trigger. Might be only a few dollars for parts. I get the impression it was easy to break a trigger group, and easy to booger up the trigger when trying to repair it. Shoot the good one first, and then decide? Not much lost if you do swap parts, and could swap back anyway. https://www.gunpartscorp.com/Manufacturers/Hamilton-33277/NO2722Cal-36456.htm http://home.comcast.net/~jimringbauer/HamiltonRiflesindex.html edit: it appears it's .22 short and .22 long. No .22 LR. And check the barrel bore, they were often made of brass and cracked. And I notice your article says don't shoot it at all, modern ammo isn't compatible.
  9. Just normal barter in that area of the world. Which everyone else will never understand. Basically the parties agreed to trade camels and shook hands. But since both parties are of different clans and no agreement can be respected, no honor allows a conclusion. So as both parties departed, Iran shouted "Your Mother is a camel!", resulting in total confusion as to what exactly the agreement was about.
  10. I laid out a route from Columbus to Saginaw City and back. I figured mostly freeway with light traffic would make it easier. Yes, a hydration pack would help a lot. Can even add caffeinated boost additives to that. None of it sounds bad, but I know it would make my butt hurt past 600 miles... So anything to improve the seat would help a lot. I know one guy that likes the roller bead seat covers, but I would like to try one of the sheepskin covers. edit: 33 back from 77 would be a pain in the butt. Have done that on both bike and car. I'd rather just take 77 to 70 and back. Same amount of time, more distance, and less traffic and slow stuff through towns. Pick one.
  11. 2.85 lbs per hp, and under 5lbs per hp with 180 lb rider excellent power
  12. Made me look. It's case law in the United States, no state law needed. Although 5 states have actual laws. Ergo, lack of identification is reasonable suspicion to a reasonable law enforcement officer in a reasonable situation requiring it. And the courts generally uphold that reasoning. Unless unreasonable...
  13. Teddy was a first thought, but Jackson is better. He didn't just lead his battles from the back, he was known to charge in swinging a sword and pistols at the front. Shot four times in duels. Near dead multiple times from various sicknesses. Violent temper. Yeah. Books about his experiences in combat paint an aggressive picture. But so did stories about Teddy Roosevelt. Jackson has it in tactics. The battle of Horseshoe Bend was 16 to 1 in his favor, and the battle of New Orleans was 100 to 1 in favor. Even if outnumbered two to one.
  14. haha, it's been going on for years, each time a little more deceptive than the last. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
  15. Maybe it's just that we won't put our cars where they can get hit. Always having a way out, same as on a bike. Everyone in front of me isn't going to get away, or get there faster. Watched a lady turn left today, using the wrong side of the road on both roads. I had to stop short to stay out of the way. She completely cut the corner, getting a couple of feet away from the wrong curb. Always impressed by a car turning where some one can pass it on the wrong side while it's trying to figure out what it's doing...
  16. Saw Rock Island full size 1911 for 358 mail order to FFL. They didn't last one day...
  17. The author of the web article will probably be arrested for treason and the website shut down. And it will all be downhill from there.
  18. ReconRat

    Mad Maps

    Downloaded the free Droid app for "Get Out of Town" for Columbus to see what I see
  19. There are three other big lead smelters in North America. But the majority of lead production comes from secondary smelters using lead scrap to recycle. The largest lead production in the world is in India. They can probably sell it to us cheaper than anything we can produce here. I would expect China to find lead in Afghanistan and sell it to us also. edit: The same EPA problems are also hitting the copper smelters and copper production in the USA.
  20. Agreed. It looked like total unsupported fiction. Lack of references usually does that. Another clue was the very small scale of the experiments. Less than high school science fair type efforts. But it was put together rather well. What I saw was that if any of it were true, I would have seen it before somewhere. The concept of GMO being a weapon of population control was rather intriguing. edit: Plus I would have expected some sort of effect in the general Human population would have been noticed already.
  21. holy crap.... http://www.responsibletechnology.org/article-gmo-soy-linked-to-sterility
  22. wikipedia is probably safe to access: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
  23. Bar ends, since it's quick and easy. You can estimate the effect by adding weight out there to see what happens. sometimes I'll just shift my hand out to the end of the grip and it helps. On aircraft hydraulic lines, rogue vibration is stopped by either adding an additional clamp (or relocating one), or adding weight on the line and adjusting it's position till the vibration stops. Which means that clamping weight to the handlebar and moving it around should find something that works. Basically the handlebars become a tuning fork, and you're trying to kill it. Difficult since there is a continuous input. You also might try finding where the vibration is coming from. Motor mounts, bad bolt torques, bad front sprocket (drivetrain). Things like that. Fixed a Norton once by just re-torquing the motor mounts correctly. Well, made it better anyway. I don't think I've ever seen a motorcycle that didn't vibrate less when the engine mounts were done right. edit: adding an extra clamp point is weird on handlebars, since they are two cantilevers sticking out. Rigging a bar between the two would probably work.
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