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Scott NC

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  1. I lost a family gun once to a house break in 25 years ago. It was my dads stevens side by side 410. I lost a of other stuff but that hurt. I'm glad you have those to preserve. Nice phoros. I know the rat that did it and I would like to teach him something but I've gotten over it. Dirty thieves.
  2. I'm not sure what mean humor is.
  3. You did post that and I said "Hi". I don't know where it went.
  4. And then a voice came out of nowhere:
  5. Dad sent me a complete unabriged Sherlock Holmes, when I was in the Navy. He new I liked it. There is a book of some unpublished stories as well as a lot of other insider stuff on Doyle and why he wanted to kill off Holmes, but I will have to find it on the shelves or look it up. There is an old black and white British movie series on Holmes on youtube. Google: "The Careless Sufferegete". If you can watch "Boris Turgof The Anarchist" in that episode without cracking a smile or laugh let me know. It's a half hour watch.
  6. I know, I said large and heavey, but I mean't by model engineering standards. It may be 2 or 3' long. I haven't seen it in 30 years. I'm getting a bit irritated with no photo. We may lock horns soon.
  7. We are getting secret island and treasure mixed up. One island and second secret treasure. I was just trying to work an all important chainsaw into how to get to the secret island to dig up Cooks second treasure. Books are always better. Billy, read "From The Earth To The Moon", by Verne. The furnaces built to create the cannon to shoot them off on their way is worth it alone. Pouring the cannon walls..... Don't watch the movie though. The human imagination, unlimited, is why movies are always worse. I will bow out until the dust settels.... again.
  8. I wish I was tecno savy some times. I always miss out on the easy money.
  9. Thank's John. Grandpa's ran on steam or compressed air, I have to verify the compressed air part with my brother though. Family lore. I'm hoping he sends a video.
  10. I suspect the used bookstores in my area cherry pick everything, where the good stuff goes, I don't know. And I look closely and dig through boxes.... I'm starting to think conspiracy... There's cookbooks & home fix-it books galore. I have better luck at the flea markets.
  11. I usually don't offer unsolicited ideas but maybe the chainsaw could be modifried with paddles, if the bar was long enough that it could be mounted on the end of a cobbled together log raft, like an outboard motor and speed them along to Flint' secret island and even save labor digging up his second treasure, flying sand everywhere, what with the paddles and all. That is if it were buried on a sandy beach.
  12. Draft gear is just a steel box full of springs that cushion the coupler. You heard trains taking up slack? It soften all that steel banging back and forth. I suppose I am easily amused. Sometimes they are hard to get out. I think now they use compressed gas.
  13. Very nice Billy. But what are the conversions all about? I know very little of such things. I'm waiting on photo's from my brother of a model Case steam tractor my grandpa built. He doesn't tolerate being pestered or rushed very well. He got the tractor, rather large and a heavey beast, and I got his lathe at the estate sale.
  14. Thanks Das. Those glass eyes are just colored beads of glass, I got a bunch in a box of junk at an auction and have been trying to find uses for them, lol. It is a coincidence you mention lost culture antiquity because I've been watching some old movies that have huge stone carved heads in mountain sides and been trying to figure out what they were modeled after. Olmec heads is what I am going with. I had never heard of them so thanks. Bad habit, saying never.... Good old Nemo.... I watched "Mysterious Island", but in that one the Nautilus was already built but worn out broke down. Maybe fund rebuilding of it..... A lot of my stuff turns out looking like him and I don't even try... Now I will have to make another, just to try this..... An idea I can certainly use on other things, too. Thanks, Lee. I've always wanted to experiment with invisibility in my projects.
  15. Too bad he survived the fall and landed all broke up on the beach and got chewed to the bone by fire ants.
  16. I used to play and climb around them on the siding they left them on in the flyspeck town I grew up in... Always loved aspects of it. I'd love to drop a draft gear again if I got the chance...
  17. Thank you Larry. I found a transission shop that will give me all sorts of crazy shaped metal junk that could be shaped and manipulated to my liking. I used to build large scrap art and now find myself being able to get back to that. Slowly. But those faces carried me through rough time. I'm working on a large pelican for my sister right now.
  18. Oh, did he go on a rampage after raiding the still, after going on a rampage?
  19. Who got that elephant drunk enough to go on a rampage in the first place?
  20. Shainarue, If I make another, it will be with your ideas in mind. You are so thoughtful. Jèr, I'll come up with something original, I think. Billy! A blind Pew chasing over the rocks and flying to his death over the cliff!
  21. I am tired of making them Shainarue. They are too easy. It makes me feel lazy in my art. If you call it that.
  22. We used to spook new guys on the graveyard shift at the old bean plant. Many years ago, before I started, they had an anual shutdown for repairs and one contractor had his leg cut off and survived but another died in a gruesome way I won't describe. It was in the extraction plant. 3 am by yourself with humming pumps and machinery is bad enough. There were tales told. I even got the shivers doing my rounds. We had a control room we monitored all things from and in the wee hours it was great fun for some to go up 2 floors and drop a sledge hammer on the roof of the control room. It was a intense place with explosive potential, and it made you jump out of your skin. There was a lot of creepy stuff happened there. It's why I don't like ghosts.
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