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Post by rvm45 on Sept 12, 2011 14:07:46 GMT -6
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Post by Jerry D Young on Sept 12, 2011 21:32:35 GMT -6
Cool! The man has many talents!
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Post by nancy1340 on Sept 13, 2011 0:18:53 GMT -6
I like #4, the dancing lady. Makes me smile.
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Post by feralferret on May 4, 2023 2:12:03 GMT -6
I guess I stumbled on this post a bit too late. That site no longer exists. It's only been 11 1/2 years. |
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Post by rvm45 on May 6, 2023 11:11:13 GMT -6
Yeah,
I put together a beautiful tutorial on how to make a revolver in the home workshop on that site.
I used some patents from the earliest revolvers as well as all sorts of illustrations from here; there and everywhere. I mean it was close to 100 000 words and still growing.
Unfortunately, I ONLY posted my Revolver Tutorial on Garage Gunsmithing.
The dude who owned and ran the site got ill quite abruptly. He tried to give the site to a couple of other people—but his mind went rapidly. He lost some key passwords—and not even the hosting service could resurrect the posts…
SIGH…
…..RVM45
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Post by feralferret on May 6, 2023 20:53:15 GMT -6
That's a real shame.
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Post by papaof2 on May 7, 2023 11:54:05 GMT -6
Anything of value - especially something involving that much work - needs to have some backup.
I have a small herd of thumb drives, collected during a dozen+ years of writing although with much of that writing never seeing daylight beyond the screen of my laptop. Most of those drives can be written on with a Sharpie Extra Fine - date, story, notes, whatever - so I have more copies than the one on the current laptop (no guarantee it won't be zapped by a power surge or have some help to "walk off") and online (where things just "go away").
Paranoid? Maybe. I've had more than one laptop lose it's USB ports to "one block away" lightning (and others survive lightning within 150 feet) - that does make getting things off the laptop either a network operation or writing a CD/DVD. And I know that computers die and web sites disappear and I'm aware that I might never get a given line of inspiration again. At my age, I might not get next week or even tomorrow to continue working on a current tale.
Not sure if the kids or grands or <whomever> will be interested in things I've written but not published. Perhaps I should start a thread of "Papaof2's Unfinished Short stuff" and just post all the bits there... but I keep waiting for a muse to run with one or more of those bits and make it into a tale worth reading.
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Post by feralferret on May 7, 2023 21:14:35 GMT -6
I've had computers fail with no warning, and have had weird damage when the power supply was the point of failure.
I've also seen a lot of weird lightning damage over the years, especially working in radio and Television for about 20 years. Good surge protection on incoming AC power saved me a lot of headaches on a couple of occasions. Then there were the other times when there was little or no protection.
One of the transmitter sites that I serviced under contract had the three transformers that stepped down the 480 VAC three phase to 240 VAC wiped out several times (before I had the contract). The insurance company told them they would no longer cover the transformers unless the station installed heavy duty surge protection upstream of the transformers. They couldn't get any three phase 240 VAC from the power company, only the 480 VAC, hence the transformers.
A fellow ham operator back in Amarillo (about 30 years ago) really had lightning issues. The buried power feed into his house got hit by a ground strike. It caused a lot of damage. His bathroom had foil type wallpaper. It blew the wallpaper around the light switch off of the wall. Less than a year later, he took a strike to his tower and lost even more stuff to lightning damage. We all told him not to stand near us whenever a storm came up. It just goes to show that even buried utilities are no guarantee against lightning damage.
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Post by papaof2 on May 7, 2023 23:09:32 GMT -6
Neighbor had a lightning hit on their fiber internet connection. Tripped the breaker, blew the interface box, damaged the fiber. I was surprised that they got a hit there but there are some trees taller than the house on that side of the house so maybe down the tree and then to the fiber? I wasn't up to walking that far and standing around that long so I didn't see it before it was repaired.
Maybe the fiber has a metallic locator strip?
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Post by feralferret on May 7, 2023 23:47:25 GMT -6
As a matter of fact there is a metal wire in the cable for locator purposes. I watched a contractor for Google run my line around eight or nine years ago. You can see the exposed end of the wire inside the network interface box.
I told Google to shove it about four years ago. Besides their politics, they kept jacking up their prices (both internet and TV) every few months. Gigabit internet was nice, but I could live with 400 Meg from the cable company for half the money. The cable internet is now up to 800 Meg for the same price, so not a lot of difference now.
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Post by papaof2 on May 8, 2023 2:35:32 GMT -6
I've been searching for the company's retiree discount phone number (it was on a laptop that walked off) and I found it yesterday. Now I'll see what they want to take me from 7mbs to something nice ;-)
If the price isn't acceptable, I'll likely stay with what I have. Other than ads, most of my browsing is text searching and 7mbs is a bit faster than I can read ;-)
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Post by rvm45 on May 8, 2023 18:21:00 GMT -6
EE…
My revolver tutorial started out small and kinda grew. Back then, there were 4 "Scratch Gun-Building Sites." Generally, when I posted, I posted to ALL four of them—but the Revolver Tutorial started small and gradually grew. At first, there was little to share and then afterward, there was several postings worth—per Forum—and Garage Gunsmthing was new and I was trying to promote it.
I DID kinda do a series of info dumps, but I also thought about cleaning it up and trying to get it published by" Paladin"—before "Paladin" went tits-up.
One of the olde tyme building forums is defunct—BESIDES "Garage Gunsmithing." One is a pale copy of its former self and one charges $10 or $15 to join.
I'll swear, the last forum is like if I asked a real good programmer—with a good imagination—to design what a Steampunk Era Forum would be like.
Frank has four or five servers in his like garage and he has proprietary software and the token charge was the only way that he could come up with to keep out spammers.
There is one more. It is the best—but it is "By invitation only."
I am one of a handful of members with the AUTHORITY to invite other people to join:
BUT:
A.} They only want BUILDERS or Knowledgeable Designers;
AND,
B.} The New Member Software has gone buggy and the last two people that I invited couldn't log on…
EMBARASSING.
One dude made a .32 ACP Semiauto MAC 10 (MAC 12?) Another dude made a BEAUTIFUL carbine in 7.62 x 25-Is that right? The Tokarev Cartridge—back when surplus 7.62 rounds were selling for less than a penny apiece.
Ach Ja…
Vulgar superstition to the contrary. it is far harder to make a Revolver than it is to make a semi-auto. Very few ever attempt it.
I FIRMLY BELEVE that Guns get TOO MUCH EMPHASIS on being the things that can SAVE your life—and far TOO LITTLE EMPHASIS that keeping and bearing arms is what makes life worth preserving in the first place.
After a big crash—no more new guns—maybe for generations…
It would be nicety see someone diligently creating a Home Firearm in a PAW story—not to better arm himself, but simply to bring something WONDERFUL into the World…
I digress.
…..RVM45
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Post by techsar on May 8, 2023 22:41:25 GMT -6
Bummer...ever the Wayback machine is no help on this  Computers are such hateful things! |
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Post by papaof2 on May 9, 2023 10:43:18 GMT -6
No idea what their algorithm for saving data is, but the Wayback Machine appears to be traffic driven to some degree - meaning that smaller (lower traffic) sites may not be saved.
I had gigabytes of data on CD's at one point in time, only to find that one brand of CD's had very short storage life :-( Now I'm more likely to use DVD's (currently RiDATA and one more brand) or thumb Drives (the PNY that I've carried in my pocket for more than a year) or an SSD (mostly WD).
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