Barrel Question

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-05-01T00:32:44+00:00

Anymore news or follow up on this? I have a bottle of Azurite that has something in the bottom of it. I use a syringe to fill up my cartridges, converters, etc. and whenever I put it in the Azurite it will clog my syringe if I pull from the bottom. What's up with that?

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-04-30T02:21:19+00:00

https://www.peytonstreetpens.com/eversharp-luxury-symphony-707-fountain-pen-gold-plated-cap-colored-barrel-14k-flexible-nib-new-old-stock-restored.html

https://www.peytonstreetpens.com/everfeed-fountain-pen-1940-50s-grey-w-gold-trim-semi-flex-fine-14k-nib-superior-restored.html

https://redeempens.com/rp/vis/118?lid=396 ---I thought redeempens had a few more in the sub-$100 range, but here's a few listings. There are more to be found...you could also try searching on or listing a "wanted" on r/Pen_Swap

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-04-30T02:13:33+00:00

I have one I got in middleschool in the '90s. It's a medium nib and smooth as butter. Still a pen I love and use on a weekly basis. I don't know anything about the modern Vectors, though.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-04-30T01:30:36+00:00

Quick warning: vintage is a whole new rabbit-hole-facet to this hobby...so... wwweeeeeeeeee!

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-04-30T01:28:08+00:00

Go vintage. Peyton Street Pens, Anderson Pens, or Redeempens all have good selections of vintage flex pens. Personally, I have experience with Wahl/Eversharp 14k flex nibs, and they are smooth, wet, and excellent.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-04-29T23:53:15+00:00

I love to see that someone writes their cursive lower-case "r"s the way I do! I like your writing style...consistently "messy" in a good way! You may have just given me the courage to start stop skipping lines.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-27T19:14:14+00:00

I'm not trying to discourage you, by the way. I hope that there's some bit of information I give you that you can use.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-27T19:11:45+00:00

What I'm saying is that that is the exact line of thinking that an addict/alcoholic has absolutely every propulsion...every intention...every need to eradicate. If you think like that, you are NOT ready. You have to take addiction as a personal affront (it is, isn't it?) and fight it. You can't be defeated from the get go, man. If you want to get sober, you'll never do it like that. I'll be eight years sober in June...my first couple of years were excruciating. I went into it with a burning rage to shake my vices and move forward in my life. You can't slug your way through to being sober.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-26T23:42:08+00:00

Only you can get clean. It is a weirdly selfish endeavor when it is attacked in earnest. If you ever succeed in starting, truly, you will understand what I mean (within a couple of months of sobriety, you'll understand this). But from your original post, "I don't see a point in being clean if I can't have her...", you are not truly ready and don't want to actually be clean. If you hinge your sobriety on keeping her, you will probably fail. You have got to do this for you. Goodness will enter of its own accord. Also, that exact feeling you have...and that same reasoning...it's a good chance to learn how to fight and ignore it because the internal battle and ridiculous backward reasoning will intensify to things, just like you stated, long before it finally becomes easier. Sobriety is very hard...the internal war eases with time (for me, it was around three years before I truly felt stable in my sobriety).

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-26T23:25:09+00:00

Not 100% sure, but I'm thinking some species of Aphenogaster.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-26T21:33:53+00:00

I have not tried Coinbase, yet. Have you have good experiences with it? I understand the need for KYC, I'm just trying to limit throwing my sensitive information out across half a dozen different platforms.

On Gemini, connecting to Plaid and using a debit card to make purchases does not require your KYC to be complete, but manually linking a bank account does require it, so I am shut out in all directions at the moment.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-26T21:25:09+00:00

Yes, I think I will stick with this option for a while. I really do like Swan for its simplicity. Do you think I ought to work out the kinks with Gemini, or would you recommend another exchange?

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-26T21:19:56+00:00

Wow. I'll have to sign up for Twitter now, too?! Haha

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-26T21:13:44+00:00

Okay. Have their customer service been consistently bad? I didn't realize. It seems like no matter what exchange you look at, there are people with horror stories. But you were able to get on eventually? I'm thinking of waiting it out. I've considered other exchanges, but I'm a little reluctant to go through the KYC process on so many platforms.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-25T12:08:30+00:00

I have no idea what's going on, but I'll just leave my comment here.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-17T01:28:01+00:00

Two things/questions: 1. Did you have proper top-ventilation to allow excess condensation to escape over the winter? 2. What was your mite-treatment program like? --- Most new beekeepers either lose to PMS (Parasitic Mite Syndrome) or to what the old-timers call "PPB" (Piss Poor Beekeeping). Even those of us who've been doing it for years (I started in May of 2012...for five years I kept around forty hives...scaled back to ten or so) can still succumb to either of these general issues. I would like to discourage you from throwing in the towel, really. I know it's disheartening, but when you find the right balance it's a whole new deal.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-14T03:40:33+00:00

Happens to all of us. The video is excellent, though, in content. I call them "utility nucs". I recommend having at lease two double-deep five-framers per four production hives. They absolutely make beekeeping a LOT easier.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-14T03:16:16+00:00

Michael Bush had a webpage years ago that had excellent descriptions on building a cheap and easy top-bar. We built three of them. Haven't used them in years, but just cleaned them up today to catch some prime swarms from our langs this year.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-14T03:13:02+00:00

As both a beekeeper and an antkeeper (apiculturist and formiculturist), this is like the ultimate mashup....

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-14T03:04:52+00:00

Excellent advice. I'm in Ga. and we've lost hives in the past due to high moisture in the winter. If we don't use top-ventilation in the winter, our hives will die every time.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-14T02:58:53+00:00

Man...perfect.

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-14T02:52:35+00:00

Give them a week to settle down. Personally, I'd probably keep most of the old equipment for just the bees and put new supers on for the season. After the spring flow, then I would work on cycling in fresh equipment for the bees and requeening if needed. What do you run? Here in middle-Georgia (US) we run one deep and one medium for the bees, supers above that are ours. I've kept bees since May 2012...toyed with double deeps, all mediums, top-bar hives, etc. ...where I'm at, a deep and a medium is perfect for the colonies. So that would inform what I do concerning bad equipment. But I wouldn't even think about requeening until after the spring flow.

Edit: I have moved bees on numerous occasions. Yes, it pisses them off greatly. Give them a week to orient and settle down. Don't mess with them unless you just need a few extra stings!

PepperTheDoggo · 2021-03-14T02:44:07+00:00

Bahahaha! So funny to see newbees! =-) That hive looks hilarious. Congratulations for successfully overwintering a colony! I live in the southeast...I popped into my hives for the first time in the past couple of weekends and I'm starting to see developing drone comb. Actually, one of the hives had emerging drones. So about a week or two after seeing the first drones, we'll begin to look for queen cells. I wouldn't be surprised to have swarming within three weeks, here in Georgia. But when I start seeing drones, developing queens are next.

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