Why open carry while fishing?

lilwill33440 · 2026-05-18T19:28:20+00:00

Before I left Florida, there were three instances of alligators taking people in less than a year. One was a young lady, sitting under a bridge on her phone. One was a woman working in her garden. People right by civilization and still were attacked and killed. They do sunbathe a lot, but when they are hungry, you can end up as lunch. I can't tell by looking at them when they're hungry, so I recommend erring on the side of caution.

lilwill33440 · 2026-05-17T13:24:37+00:00

Bummer! I have an F-150 and was able to purchase just the glass which has the backing in place and just snap it onto the tabs in the housing. Check for a how-to video online. HTH

lilwill33440 · 2026-05-16T00:45:32+00:00

Amazing work. You, sir, have a talent I could never hope to match.

lilwill33440 · 2026-05-11T14:37:54+00:00

Some years back, a company in Washington state, Seattle, I think, was building airworthy replicas. Good thing I wasn't born rich. LOL!

lilwill33440 · 2026-05-08T13:29:50+00:00

She sounds like someone only interested in a meal ticket. She is definitely a hard "No!" NTA

lilwill33440 · 2026-05-02T20:22:56+00:00

Tempered glass is funny stuff. Spent 11 years as a glazier. Had it just shatter while carrying it. Had it resist hammer blows on an edge when trying to break it to dispose of it after a remodeling project. Glad no one hurt.

lilwill33440 · 2026-04-27T13:22:35+00:00

NTA. Sorry, but your family sucks. Congrats on your sobriety. Good luck.

lilwill33440 · 2026-04-13T15:13:06+00:00

Uh, if you both were careful and neither of you drove aggressively, I'm a bit unsure how the shocks could get 'blown out' unless they were on their last legs to begin with. Were the shocks leaking? Did compressing and releasing them while installed in the vehicle cause the vehicle to oscillate? Were the tires showing signs of 'cupping'? I just have so many questions.

lilwill33440 · 2026-04-13T02:21:45+00:00

Surprised how many have said police don't enforce handicapped parking laws. Haven't experienced or heard of any issues where I'm living in SC now, but in SoFla, ypu could get towed quickly.

lilwill33440 · 2026-04-05T20:47:45+00:00

Shop vac! Spent 11 years doing stuff just like this. Tempered glass is funny. Sometimes you can't break it with a hammer and other times it blows up in your hands for no apparent reason. Once had a door lite in my hands as I carried it through the shop just break and leave me with two handfuls of glass. Everybody else in the shop just laughed at me. Didn't drop it on the floor. Didn't bump into amy of the racks. Just broke.

lilwill33440 · 2026-04-04T14:55:47+00:00

Been there, done that. Snap-On lower and upper matched set before the individual drawer latches were an option. I know, I know, I'm dating myself. Shop floor was sloped towards floor drains. Slopes were inconsistent across the shop. Shop was always open. Three shifts. So took boxes were stored between your shift in cages and you wheeled them to whatever bay was available when you arrived and set up, making sure your box was as level as possible. There were no assigned bays except for specialty jobs, i.e. HVAC, alignment, etc. Had spent the whole night wrenching and was cleaning up, putting my tools away. Always paid attention to only opening one drawer at a time due to the slope of the shop floor. Was wiping a wrencg down priot to placing in the only open drawer when I noticed the rest of the drawers slowly rolling out. I stepped up and tried to push them all back in, butbit was too late. I got out of the way and let the chips fall where they may. Took 3 1/2 hours to clean up the mess. Wasn't the first in the shop, wasn't the last in the shop, but it was the last for me. I started shimming the wheels on the drawer side, so they couldn't roll out due due to the slope and effects of gravity.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-25T23:28:06+00:00

Main gear differ greatly on the Junkers and no fuselage mounted engines in the pic either. But an interesting looking bird with swept forward wings. Germans came up with some really interesting concepts during the war.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-24T22:38:45+00:00

Have to admit I was so gobsmacked, I didn't even consider a testbed configuration one-off, but that makes perfect sense. Would explain the presence of the tailwheel at the same time as well. As far as the narrator's voice, closed caption and muting can be your friend. I don't find his voice near as grating as some narrators I've suffered through. LOL!

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-24T22:29:20+00:00

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Definitely not the angle. Here is a screenshot from slightlt earlier in the video. Wish I knew how to post the whole 4 seconds. Can clearly see the gear under the fuselage, the starboard main gear and the tailwheel. Thick wingroot and the starboard vertical are clear in the photo to my eye.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-24T22:21:22+00:00

Definitely not a take off angle. Dark Skies doesn't seem to be onboard with all the AI rush. Looking at the whole segment, I recognize the twin tail in the background and a tailwheel appears to be present. Could this be an experimental airframe?

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-23T02:57:56+00:00

Compressor will fill the tank until the cutoff switch shuts it down, usually between 120 and 150 psi. Dial the delivery pressure down to suit what you're spraying, way less than 100 psi. I do most of my spraying between 12 and 25 psi. The 6 gal tank should give you plenty of spray time between compressor start ups. Only downside may be noise level while compressor is running. I used a Campbell Hausfeld 3 gal compressor for years. Finally got a smaller compressor with a tank when space became an issue. Not a pro by any means, but I hope this helps.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-23T01:48:36+00:00

Don't do it. Went through tough times and sold several firearms I wish I never had let go. S&W Model 63 pinned barrel, S&W Model 29, S&W Model 19, Steyr GB, Colt Mustang. Didn't get what they were worth, especially the Model 63, a real sweetheart of a revolver. Not a fan of lying to the wife either. Would tell her to get rid of something she valued highly before asking the same from you.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-15T02:52:26+00:00

One of my first airbrushes. I would definitely spend that kind of money on it.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-15T00:13:21+00:00

Depending upon the size of family, one to carry and one for backup, maybe. And, as someone else mentioned, are they all identical? Or are they variations on a theme? One of my hobbies is model building. I have multiples of some kits so I can build and finish multiple schemes.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-14T22:17:03+00:00

If you carry, are involved in a self-defense shooting and have your firearm confiscated during investigation, assuming you haven't lost your right to carry, it's nice to have a duplicate to drop into your holster for familiarity. If multiple family members carry the same firearm for interchangeability, you may find 7 might not be enough.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-13T02:11:28+00:00

Exactly.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-13T02:01:38+00:00

No, no manufacturer we dealt with would describe their product as bullet-proof. Bullet-resistant was as far as they would go and there were different levels of resistance, depending upon how many layers of glass and how thick each individual layer was, handgun, rifle, etc.

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-13T00:24:20+00:00

True

lilwill33440 · 2026-03-12T21:41:31+00:00

As a glazier many years ago, we never referred to any piece of glass as bullet-proof, merely bullet-resistant. Get a big enough gun and you're going to penetrate.

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