The CZickness XLIII prepping for winter.

[88E30M50]

T-D could make some extra money remaking people's garages for them. A book should be written and a YouTube channel started. T-Dogg's Gun Friendly Workshops could be the title

 

[T-DOGG]

You, sir are a true wood butcher ... my hat is off to you!

Thanks. I get it from my Dad. He used nails, I like screws. The drill press and bench grinder stands are mainly from the twin box spring from my daughter's bed. Her friend jumped on the bed and broke it. It still had plenty of usable pine in it, so I tore it apart and salvaged what I could. I'll put some grey paint over all of it eventually and make it look less hillbilly.

While we're talking full skinflint, years ago at our old house, a neighbor threw out a perfectly good kids bedframe that has storage drawers in it. I didn't need a bedframe for daughter, but she could use a dresser at the time. Let's just say I made her a dresser.

Re-purposing wood is rewarding to me. I like to make things, I save money and I don't waste a useful resource. However, I do need to slow down and do a better job with the final product. But I get too anxious and it shows.

 

[mcapo]

For sure. I see all the broken Colt Lightnings selling for 1K and up and think Sal Lanara is doing very well right now.

Well...googling "Sal Lanara" turned into quite an interesting rabbit hole.

Once again, your posts delivery.

 

[drillsgt]

Got up this morning and saw that I had lost out on the New Service and Merwins on GB. Stuff just keeps going up.

In other news it's raining and foggy here in the GSF.

Cabela's yesterday had a little revolver called a Marlin 32 Standard 1875 in .32 Rimfire, might be up your alley, seemed in good shape. It was 499.00, seems prices are all over the place for those.

 

[Leadeye]

Well...googling "Sal Lanara" turned into quite an interesting rabbit hole.

Once again, your posts delivery.

Sal and his brother Dave are really at the top of the old Colt pile. Dave's displays at the OGCA are always first rate.

 

[Leadeye]

Cabela's yesterday had a little revolver called a Marlin 32 Standard 1875 in .32 Rimfire, might be up your alley, seemed in good shape. It was 499.00, seems prices are all over the place for those.

Thanks for the tip, my only issue would be the cartridge. Old rimfire ammo is very dear. Those are great rifles, I keep my eye out for one somebody might rechamber in 32-20.

 

[ChrisK]

I don’t have any more room in my garage for anything. I have 2 freezer’s, 1 refrigerator, 2 large roll around toolboxes, 1 Gravely 60” zero turn mower, 1 Kubota 3030 tractor and Henri’s Outback. I think I may need a pole barn. I forgot about my snowblower, grinder on a stand and 2 generators….

 

[PlaysInTheDirt]

Happy New Year everbody!
The garage work reminds me that I have a piece of our old kitchen counter down in the basement waiting to become a reloading bench. Time to see how my landscape construction skills will translate to inside, though my last project didn't turn out to bad.

 

[wingrider1800]

Well...googling "Sal Lanara" turned into quite an interesting rabbit hole.

Once again, your posts delivery.

I had to google it too.

 

[MindfulMan]

I've been working off and on in the garage the past week, getting some more things setup and using up more scrap wood that I'm tired of looking at. When I decided to dedicate the workbench to mainly reloading and gun stuff, I took the drill press and bench grinder off there. My original idea was to just get those things out and clamp them to the bench when I needed them. Well, that was a poor plan. So, I made stands for them both out of scrap wood. I call this family of custom woodworking the Frankenstein collection, complete with a plethora of drywall screws. I don't think I'll go professional just yet, but I'm getting pretty good at blowing sawdust all over my wife's car.

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Then I decided I was tired of dragging the air hose from the compressor around the back of my wife's car and over to the bench, so I ran a second line across the ceiling (50' 3/8 Goodyear hose only $23 on Amazon) and dropped it down to the work area with a short section of yellow coiled hose and a blow gun. I have a small portable compressor, but it's loud and vibrates all over the place, along with running constant due to the small tank size (main compressor is a 220v 60 gallon unit). This will be nice for clearing off the workbench and cleaning guns with. When I deep clean guns, I like to soak with cleaner, scrub, spray again and then blow all that crap out of there. I used Sea Foam Deep Creep for years, but now I'm trying out a Lucas product.

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And this morning I'm trying out this Frankford Arsenal Vibratory Tumbler that I bought the other day from older sister. Some of you may remember she makes custom wood burning arts and crafts, like those given away at FGE a few years back when Birds Away was still with us. She was doing stuff with empty casings in it on Etsy and some Karen reported her and Etsy made her remove anything of the sort. So, she's not making those things anymore.

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Fabulous organizational skills, Spicy !

 

[MindfulMan]

I have been working on a home gym in one of our spare rooms.
My wife and I are empty nesters and have a beautiful 2 story 4 bedroom home.
Anyway this is my Son's old room, used to be Colts blue. Two coats of Sherwin Williams Morning Fog.
All old carpeting has been removed, I intend to pull the sub floor and insulate, then go back with a gym type floor.
This will be a good winter time project. Looking forward to start getting back in shape without having to travel to an indoor gym.

Let's all hope that in this new year of 2022, that things will begin to turn around for us as a Nation!

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Wow...... a huge project. Looking good !

 

[Leadeye]

I had to google it too.

Colt 1877 pistols break easily, and repetitively, that said they really are Colt's first DA and a popular small frame gun of their time. Not easy to repair, Sal is the best there is.

 

[drillsgt]

Thanks for the tip, my only issue would be the cartridge. Old rimfire ammo is very dear. Those are great rifles, I keep my eye out for one somebody might rechamber in 32-20.

It's a little break top revolver of some sort.

 

[Leadeye]

It's a little break top revolver of some sort.

Those I've not seen, the rifles I'm thinking of look like smaller falling block single shots. That looks like what is called a "tip up".

Smith and Wesson made a number of these, but I've never seen one from Marlin.

 

[patience0830]

@T-DOGG my garage would drive you bonkers. Lol

He couldn't get halfway down the stairs to my basement. He'd look like BRC running from a ghost.

 

[wingrider1800]

It's a little break top revolver of some sort.

That Marlin must be a really rare dude if LE hasn't seen one.

 

[wingrider1800]

He couldn't get halfway down the stairs to my basement. He'd look like BRC running from a ghost.

I was thinking the same thing. I could keep him busy until retirement.

 

[Hoosier45]

Happy New Year czickos.

2022 might be the year of the revolver. Maybe a nice model 66 to start the year off right.

 

[patience0830]

My wife and I are at the same point in life and are slowly remaking the house to better suit two of us instead of 4. One of the boys bedrooms is the guest room but the other is lacking purpose and is a catch all for stuff we don't need but haven't been able to part with yet.

I like the home gym idea. That would be a great use of that extra space

That means renting a storage unit. . . . Or actually parting with some stuff.

 

[Hoosier45]

I sent TD a picture of the inside of my safe once. He didn’t talk to me for two weeks. Don’t think he could handle a picture of my garage or the barn.