Greetings and Salutations!
Well a hearty “Thank You” to all who’ve entered so far. I’ve sent a few folks a DM via email who wanted a mailing addy rather that utilize the PayPal. If you want/need to mail me an entry, the email to HMU is:
bce187th@protonmail.com
If you throw me a DM I’ll give you the mailing addy.
So far, so good.
The only wrinkle of the day was at People’s Glorious Tractor Factory, things are wee bit slow, and I missed a tasker because I was watching a movie. So I have to take the hit so to speak… Yeah, I was purely fucking off, but at the time, I was waiting on clients and or suppliers to return either emails or voice mails, and there wasn’t a Hell of a lot left for me to do. The new Commissar (who I originally thought was cool) apparently is a wee bit of a micro-manager and gave me the line that “…as your supervisor, it’s my job to make sure the company is getting it’s worth out of you, and by not doing anything, well…”
Ah. OK. A Company Man Fucktard
My ‘old Commissar’ had the idea of “Live and Let Live”. If the work and production is getting done in a timely manner, and if no one is complaining, all he cared about was that the proper amount of hours were filled, and that no one was bitching. It was a Golden Time so to speak.
But Dis Fukkin’ Guy?
Yeeeeeah.
I got no use for “Company Men” nor Micromanagers.
So I’m probably getting a write up.
That’s fine.
Time for me to start looking for another gig then.
I’ve acquired quite a new set of skills that are very sellable, and this guy doesn’t quite have a full grasp of what he’ll be losing, so it’s on him. That and if he thinks I’m remotely going to help out the way I used to i.e. doing extra over-and-above ‘stuff’ for the clients that the Politburo have determined are ‘special cases’ he’s on fucking drugs.
Doing shit like this puts me of a mindset that all he’s getting out of me verbally in the future is going to be “Yes Sir/No Sir Three Bags Full Sir” and the unsaid “Go and get fucked Sir.”
Add on the fact that in the three years I’ve been there, I’ve only gotten a $2 per hour raise in total.
Yep. I started at $20 an Hour.
In three years, I’m now at $22
The fucking Pizza Hut is advertising up the street for delivery drivers starting at $22 an hour. And they apparently can’t get anyone to work there. And here I am doing exceptionally skilled work that is absolutely NOT ‘hire off the street’ sort of stuff. In fact, I -did- have to learn it all, and -I’m- the reason that People’s Glorious Tractor Factory even does my line of work, when every. single. competing. business does not offer these services. We’re utterly unique and it’s because of me that it’s been successful.
However, like ALL companies out there, they could give a fuck.
As I even said to him today, “One fuck up erases and entire plethora of attaboys” so as I also said, “It is what it is”
So the plan is to keep doing what I’m doing, and let them, if they have the balls to, let them fire me so I can collect. Whats funny is we have a new person that’s supposed to be assisting me, and that I’m supposed to be training in some aspects of my side of things, but now?
Yeeeeeeah let me get right on that Massa.
So much for the work bitching.
Now… other things…
Polytix?
Haven’t been closely following anything as it’s been the ‘same-old-same-old’ with the exception of the deep dissatisfaction I have with the absolute failure of the Pajeets and fucking Pakis to start a full on war w/Nukes. I was really looking forward to a full Nukular Exchange and no, I’m not kidding. It’d have been epic. Another aspect to that particular ‘tempest in a teapot’ is a lack of Videos.
In this day and age I would have expected, nay planned on watching some toe-to-toe slugfestivus ‘stuff’ and instead? We got Nada. El Zippo. Zilch. It’s even worse than the Krain right now.
And speaking of the Krain and the apparently Koked up Klownshow? The video is pretty damning in regards to the Eurofags covering up the spoon and packet of coke. The m,ain reason I’m convinced it was real was the number of ‘scattershot’ excuses that came out… “It was a deepfake…” then it was “That was just a Kleenex!” and of course after that “That was AI and made up!” and then “You didn’t see what you thought you saw…” oh so fucking plainly and openly on videotape that we could see for ourselves.
Any wonder why no one at all outside of retards and morons have any faith or belief in any and all “Leadershit out there. Like we still haven’t had any of the Epstein Clients revealed… I mean for fuck’s sake, we got some clambag Henchwoman, Ghislane Maxwell or however you spell that hebe-cunt’s name sitting in jail for the trafficking of sexual slaves and shit to…. nobody???
Then all the other crap out there…
Anyways, it’ll never change until someone starts killing these assholes in wholesale lots. Once bodies start stacking, and if done correctly, the fucking enforcement swine won’t even try to interfere as they’ll recognize that it’s a zero-sum game, and the smart thing to do is just stay the fuck out of the way while the butcher’s bill gets paid.
Not that I’d ever encourage that sort of behavior.
Now lastly, working on the new rifle.
I got the vice installed finally:
So as an experiment, I figured that BEFORE I attempt to fit the new barrel to the receiver I’d attempt to remove a barrel from a receiver, specifically on one of the Donor rifles.
Now, I got everything nicely clamped down, tight as all get out. I set everything up, and then I tried to wrench it off. It didn’t go as planned:
The barrel, despite being torqued down like a mother still slid and rotated in the collet. Looking at it closely, my hunch is the hole they bored through and the weld that they put on the pin also bored/melted the threads to each other. It got to the point the ENTIRE work table was going to break if I kept it up, so that’s done for now. I had even soaked it in penetrating oil before I tried this, hence my reasoning for the drill/weld being the issue. It sure as Hell isn’t from lack of strength nor trying.
I think I’ll just chill for a while and work on degreasing the new donor rifle. That should keep me busy for like the next month or so. I did get in the new ‘soaking tub’ today:
It’s the same as my original tub. 36 inches long and perfect for soaking the longer pieces/parts in. The tub itself is just your basic flower trough:
For those of you interested in it this’s the link:
https://amzn.to/3Zey2oC
and yes, I get a ‘taste’ if you get one. I found it to be VERY good in using it with almost ALL the solvents EXCEPT that Xylene shit. The Xylene melted that fucker down like a Styrofoam cup in gasoline… whereas gasoline? No problem in that sucker. Hence the need for a replacement.
Now that I have the new ‘soak tub’ here I can get down to business. A nasty dirty business, but hey, what ya gonna do?
So that’s what I got for tonight
Hope all is well and appreciate all of you who’ve entered.
More Later
Big Country
“I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat…”
“Looking like I need a heavier bench.”
One that’s bolted to the ground and the wall. That wrench is a right monster and with someone your size hauling on it, that’s a lot of torque. Have you ever tried a strip of beer can aluminum as a shim? Wrapped around the barrel it may give just enough more biteThat’s bailed me out a couple of times.
Good luck with the job thing.
Since the receiver’s trash anyway, you might try getting out your Dremel and the cut off discs and proceed to (CAREFULLY)cut around the edge of the drilled hole when you’re almost to the threads, slice out the portion you just cut so you (hopefully) see what’s going on there.
Alternatively slice the receiver in line with the barrel on either side if that damn hole and from where the barrel goes into the receiver until you are past the end of the barrel. Do that twice – maybe a quarter to three-eighths of an inch apart and on both side of the hole – so you have a “wedge” piece of the receiver cut through around the hole. With luck you can pry that piece off and see what’s going on. Even if you nick the threads on the barrel, as long as it’s just a touch, you should be okay.
All this assumes that they didn’t drill through the receiver and the barrel which I have seen done..
Looks like a candidate for a Gov “buy back”. lol
might be a small strip of 220 grit sandpaper would take up any space/slack in your “vise”
if you have way to clamp it upright, might try heat on the thing. and then try transmission fluid
on it. don’t ask me how, but it has worked for me in the past. cold and wet rag on one part of the “problem” and put heat on the other part. I like using a Mapp gas torch for heating things like this.
when hot enough add transmission fluid to it. that stuff works better than most “stuff” I bought.
then again, you might have to draw file your vise a bit to close up the gap.
one more idea, it always a good idea to have a pair of “hot gloves” to work with problems like this.
I have 2 “mittens” that where once used to swap out M-60 barrels. leather gloves just didn’t cut it.
one more thing, do the heating and dipping in tranny fluid OUTSIDE as it does small bad.
I saved a old steel can for that part. even outside, “she” was bitching about the smell.
also you might want to make a “flat” on the wrench handle and hit it with a hammer.
shock after heat and oil damn near always get the “problem” to move.
BTW, let me know about the M1a magazines. like I wrote ya, I have 2 , 10 rounders like new.
no longer have the rifle as I went with a Sig 716 piston model instead, put a 18 inch barrel on it and I can ring steel at 6-800 with it. all I hope I never need really.
DON’T go for the pizza driver job.
They may pay more, but you’ll be using your own car, with all the extra miles, wear and tear.
And with your luck with cars…….
So you were gold bricking on the job and get your tities in a twist when your supervisor calls you out. Then you use the lame excuse that they don’t pay you enough, I get it. Think I’m starting to see why you are always in a crisis.
When there’s NOTHING to do, then what the hell am I supposed to do? Worthless retard busywork? Great for a mindless drone… tell me to clock out but then don’t fucking come at me bro if you don’t
If your were on the clock you work. If there is no work you report it to your manager. If that’s too much then leave, no one is making you stay. This kind of shitty attitude is a big part of our problems in America. Nothing but ghetto attitudes.
Really? The problem is that we have to be there on ‘standby’ as in our line of work shit -suddenly- pops up.
So we have to be there, asses in seats.
If there’s nothing to do, but if YOU need me there, then DO NOT crawl up my ass and insist on ‘busywork’ just because. Like back in the Army when they banned us from reading ‘civilian novels’ while on staff duty. Only TMs or FMs. Fucking stupid shit there.
THAT is why corporate America is dying. If the immediate needs are fulfilled, and I’m not bothering anyone and I’m in or (usually) above my metrics, leave me the fuck alone and go away.
One place to shop such job skills is at the competitors.
At my current job (which I love), our CIO always says that “we are all human and make a mistake every now and then”. She says “learn from it and don’t do it again” and THAT’S IT !!
Now if you keep doing it then come the writeups, etc.
Shit happens and you forgot, that has happened to all of us.
I’ve said several times over my career that “you don’t pay me enough to put up with micromanaging” and I don’t tolerate that BS. You know where you stand there and if they write you up, fuck em, have resume out. $22/hour is peanuts for an IT gig, you should be able to get a much better higher paying gig.
Ugghhh!!! Did you shoot the raffle rifle Tiny?!? How did it shoot??
I get where you’re coming from with Company Men though. I’ve watched those days destroy margins and companies trying to make themselves look like superstars. And they wonder why the guys they want won’t work for them…
BCE:
Just some job hunting expertise but explore in-house positions with your current client list. They maybe open to having your skill expertise available inside the tent. As a former Ronin engineering manager, we always lost talent to our clients. There has to be one client smart enough to recognize your skill set a valuable. If you don’t get any bites then the market is telling you that your current skill set is lacking. Figure out how to expand/absorb knowledge and try again. Not to sound like an annoying Uncle but this should be worked on everyday. But I believe you know this and hate somebody pointing it out but its time you looked internally and unfucked your situation Marine.
As to the wrenching on the rifle, the vice mount sucks. Putting it on the table/desk is a bush league move. So is hammering on it. Slow and steady torque is what is needed for force. Hammering is an accident waiting to happen. As to a penetrating oil, get some Kroil. Clean out all the previous stuff and put some on and then attach a marital aid vibrator to the offending part and let it rip through a few sets of batteries. Note that if you heat the receiver you will taking out any heat treating that was done to it. Might want to know if that was the case before hand.
To get the vice to grip a little better don’t use beer can strips but get actual shim stock. Beer can is too soft, shim stock is hardened. You can get packs of various thicknesses off of amazon.
Spin
Got the Kroil. That’s what I used. Checked the inside of the pin hole late last night… the receiver and threads are ‘melted’ together so that’s no going to break anytime soon. As far as the current mount, I’m out of room for it to go anywhere else for now.
thanks Spin!!! for that info.
In Gunsmithing school, we used to make lead instead of the aluminium. We made a form out of pine wood, used a playing card for the seperation. We’d pour the lead and let it cool. The lead didn’t slip like the aluminium
when removing the barrel pet tension on the wrench then strike the wrench withe a hammer
the impact will cause it to loosen
I have done this several times, its the only way with a LE
Shaun in NZ
should have said strike the wrench handle with a hammer