This is a hacker/ maker/ DIY channel. Can't afford the motorcycle, tractor, gun, ammo, generator or whatever that you would like to have? Build it yourself! In this channel I show you by example how to enjoy life the low-stress, DIY way.
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I found my family member's old rusted NEF Pardner SB1. After an hour of sanding and polishing, I brought it back to life. Gorgeous little cheap shottie. A great truck or farm gun. I think they paid $90 for it brand new back in 1995 at Dick's Sporting Goods. lol The actual gun is hardened steel (look at the coloration @3:37) compared to the barrel. The wood is solid and beautiful Walnut. Every home should have one of these just based on price alone. Great beginner shotgun and super easy to maintain. If you see one online or in a pawn shop for under $150, talk them down 20 bucks and buy it!
Great 2 videos Possum .. Question : I want to get a Ham or short wave home base radio even if I have to get my lic. I can put up an antenna what do ya suggest that doesn't break the bank ? Naturally a back-up battery system.. Tx. MB ..
Just FYI there are 2 retired Nuns in my AO I call em " the Nuns with guns" they walk around in rubber boots, conservative clothes with there pistolas strapped. Anyway the mother superior just got her ham license! shes 78yo. I have been going over there working on there water collection system . They told me a couple of days ago they are gettin a LP antennae and could I set it up for them. I used to do that back in the 80s so I said sure. I have an old tabletop Sangean SW with a long copper wire mounted and grounded to a big tree branch set up on a carabiner I can rotate it depending on the need it works great but there are not the SW stations like in the old days.
They're not bad, but I would definitely check around on prices. HF sells a 100 watt panel for about $120 for example, but I paid less than $100 each for Renogy 100 watt panels.
My system came from Northern Tool for $130 if I remember correctly. It has a 110-amp panel, controller, and a 400-watt (800-watt peak) inverter. At present, I don't recall whether it's pure sinewave or modified sinewave.
My GF is on FB marketplace and found some solar panels, batts(LA) controllers and inverters as a pre put together kit with shelves wire and everything trying to reach the dude though is frustrating but the whole shebang was cheap like $800. Seems where Im at there are loads of preppers that bit the dust, tiny homes galore etc...
Evening Possum, good to see ya posting. Back in the 80s I worked out of telephone central office, I was the sub cable guy and also did OSP and HF antenna maintenance, we had a bank of LA batts, that had been there since the 60s, simple monthly maintenance. We had a charge controller that manual charged em but you had to do it on a regular basis. I have been considering a solar set up I currently have a rudimentary set up for a H20 pump system I use to move water from cistern to my outside shower, animal water, and garden water. Its been going for over a year and it was a set of replaced 800CCA batterys that had been in my F250 IDI dates on batts are 02/2019.
Hey Frog; good to hear from you, my friend. I'm not surprised that you have a battery setup. I used to be able to get glass cased telcom batteries that were originally 8V but had a dead cell. Cut the strap to the dead cell and use them as 6V batteries. They were cheap, high capacity and still had lots of life remaining. Wish I could still get those.
A fork lift battery is designed to be discharged 100% every 8 hr shift and last for many years and after it's usefull life in a lift they can be reconditioned and used for 20 more years in a solar setup. . I purchased a 36v 750 amp hr battery for $250
That definitely sounds like a great breakfast. My mouth is watering. You have such talent that you can almost make a train wreck sound appealing. 😊 "Making do" is definitely a nearly-lost art. I might assert that we've nearly lost the concept. Ready-made, single-purpose, disposable... Our kitchens are packed to the point of looking like warehouses with single-purpose appliances. Rice cooker, crock pot, coffee machine, electric skillet, blender, coffee grinder, corn popper, microwave oven, air fryer, bread machine.... I'll step off of the soap box now before I get into e'games.
They haven't hatched yet here, but it will probably be soon. Early in the video, I kept wondering "where's the lawnmower?" I expect them here within a couple of weeks and fully intend to try some. Ever the adventurer...
Just so you know, these are not Damascus Steel. There were two basic kinds of mandrel built barrels from back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. They were Damascus and Twist barrels. But, they are two separate things. The only similarity was that they were both hammer forged and welded around a mandrel to form the shape of the barrel. The Twist was the cheapest of the two barrel forms and was constructed by using plain 1015 to 1020 steel rod stock. In the case of the Damascus steel it started by forging several layers of steel, iron and steel alloys into blocks that were folded and folded over and over which like Damascus forgings today formed intricate designs that was then hammered around the mandrel to form the barrel shape. If you look closely at your barrels you will see the twist pattern, but not the pattern associated with Damascus. Damascus as I mentioned earlier was the more expensive product and was reserved for the higher quality guns for its artistic additions to such firearms. The barrels you have are Twist not Damascus, as is marked on the rib of your barrels. Many quality American side by sides used English Twist and Damascus barrels in the construction of their guns. Some of those companies included both Parker Brothers, LC Smith and the like. I am a Parker collector and have both Damascus, Twist and some of their later fluid steel barreled guns.
I've had a Tech Force TF78 Gold Series (QB78 Deluxe, same gun, same factory, different brand name.) for around 15 years. Still shoots as good as the day I bought it. I didnt care for the gold or the fiber optics either, but they didn't have the standard model available in .22, and i wanted the extra stopping power against varmint.. I popped the fiber optics off of it and fitted it with a scope. Great air rifle.
I just did a torture test on the same 4kw like you got & it only draws 4/10's of an amp. Maybe they fixed that since your video but did you actually test it? This is a good inverter except it gets too hot on a full load test after about 10 minutes so it's continuous rating is inflated. Except for that it did terrific on all other tests.
Thanks for letting me ride along. I also like riding with friends via mobile radios. Your season is much more advanced than it is here in Iowa. Depending on species, our tree leaves are about 1/2 developed to barely emerging. God bless the person who needed rescued. It'd be interesting to see you wet a line on one of these jaunts. Be careful, and enjoy your summer, my friend.
Thanks, Michael. I like bringing a radio along too, but most of the folks I ride with use Cardos (bluetooth) so I got one of those too. Yes, God bless the person who needed rescue. It was probably one of the loggers. That is a very dangerous job. Good idea on wetting a line. I've done a couple of videos about my motorcycle-portable fishing kits; it's about time for another one.
Miss riding . My arthritis and back doesn't like it tho. I got a 88jeep im fixing to ride in tho . Hopefully i will be done with this summer if good Lord willing.
@@Possumliving yes it is. Second year of the yj. Lot more like the cj . Turned out to be lot bigger project than I thought. But it's getting closer now to be finished.
@@larryalexander4833 YJs are great. Mechanically a CJ-7 except for a different transfer case. The last Jeep Universal with true lineage back to the original jeep. People talk about the TJ like it was the greatest Jeep ever, but I had one and didn't like it very much. My JKU is ok (once I gave it 4.88 gears), but I'll take a flatfender over any modern Jeep.
Where did you get your Pellet mold maker??? Are you using recycled lead or scrap metal to make them??? Can you make a video on how you make your pellets?
I got the mold from NOE. I am very hesitant to ever buy from them again, for reasons I won't go into here. I use soft lead, either scrap or bought as ingots. I might do a casting video but it will probably be on my Rumble channel instead of here. YT likes to issue strikes for such how-to videos.
@@Possumliving I really would like to start making my own pellets, save me $$$$ Its always good for survival purposes to make your own, especially if you live in rural areas. You can definitely just eat off of the land, harvest squirrels, deer, fowl, quail et.
Does it say RAT CATCHER on the airgun? Im just curious if mine is a Rat Catcher or a regular 2260 that was put into this stock? Mine is also a full one off custom PCP conversion using the original airtube . It also uses the prod forgrip and air gauge. Id love to have the wood stock also. I had mine rebuilt by MAVERICKS CUSTOM CROSMANS. He also gave it a huge power upgrade and is very powerful.
This one started out as a 2400KT from the Crosman Custom Shop. The regular production version was called a 2250, and that is the one that was actually labeled a Rat Catcher, at least in England. I don't know if they ever carried that label in the US.
@@AIRGUN4LIFE My 2260 came with the wood stock too. I converted it to PCP with the screw-in conversion kit. Then later, I fully converted it to a Discovery with factory parts, and swapped the complete 2260 tube with all internal components into this 2400. I still have the original 2400 (2250) tube around here somewhere.
I wondered what happened to the comments section for that video. I thank you for explaining. The video inspired me to go look through GB for NAA minis. The Companion was, generally, lower priced than the cartridge type, but still more than I care to shell out. Interestingly, the Super Companion is only about 30 more than the Companion. Now I am watching a BP Ducktown DD.😊 Enjoy the spring, get through the summer, and be safe through all of it. 73
Maybe RU-vid did not like the part of the Hugh video where the cap went off when you tried to set it on the cylinder. I think that may have ticked them off. The are not shooters and look more at liability issues.
I figured you might want to know. I did notice on another channel a video yesterday had commentes no enabled. I figured it is corrupt tube up to no good I blame them for everything.
I'd like to have the target master version with real adjustable rear sight and a real front. I've only had a chance at one and let it go by because a pawn shop had it that thought too much of it.
Just acquired an older Benjamin air rifle. Try to ID the model number. Looks similar to your 397. Where can I locate the serial number or determine the model I have? Thanks
We own this little monster, and take minor issue...we note you have owned this gun, and the magnum model, for quite a while...you wouldn't mind acquiring the .22 short model (i want one, too!), so there IS something about these guns you do like (the .22lr can run shorts and long, also, but we run those less than every blue moon)...the redeeming feature is the utter concealability of these guns, they can go anywhere...that is not bad shooting, we never practice beyond 10 feet with ours, the gun is difficult to shoot well, and fast reloads impossible...your misfires surprised me, shooting primarily cheap bulk ours has almost never misfired, but .22 is .22...we have well over a thousand rounds (maybe two thousand) downrange on ours, as practice is a constant requirement (ours sees the range more often than any other gun we own), and the gun is fun to shoot...we think of our gun as that last second, last chance, pull in surprise and stick in bad guy's ear option...it is the narrowest of niches, but we have found nothing more suitable...we very rarely carry ours, but it is available, and we currently load cci velocitors if need be...every gun is a compromise, these sacrifice much to be so concealable, the gun owns that in spades...last thing, like your little holster...
I mention the drawbacks, but you're right: I do like these little revolvers quite a bit. In addition to this LR and the Magnum, I also have a Super Companion (magnum frame black powder) and a Black Widow (with both LR and Magnum cylinders). I would like to add a Short and an Earl Companion (4" barrel magnum black powder). Both of those are difficult to come by.
