Greetings and Salutations!
Great discussions on the drone thing. On all parts. Just keep it civil is my only request. Beyond that, not much else seems to be going on, except that radical psycho 15 year old female who shot up another Christian School and killed a few folks, and then self terminated.
That took the drone story off the front page rather quickly didn’t it? Like how convenient for The Leviathan that just as people started realizing that the stories coming out of the current (mal)Administration was making zero fucking sense.
And started asking questions
That “all of a sudden” a ‘new wind-up toy comes out and whacks a bunch of kids at a Christian Church.
The head of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, (a member of the tribe BTW) stated that “They (Homeland) didn’t have the authority to shoot down these drones!”
Uhhhh… say whut?
If the Department of Homeland Security lacks the authority to defend the Homeland then what the fuck are we paying you assholes for??? Why does this bloated, worthless and ineffectual bureaucracy even exist except to line their own pockets at taxpayer expense, and be a “jobs/works program” for those who’re too stupid and incapable of working for anyone other than a Federal or State Government???? DEI hires galore!
I mean why the Hell do you think DMVs nation wide suck so badly? They’re NOT hiring the best people for the job… nope.. a blind, mentally deficient 1/2 Native American gets hired OVER EVERYONE… especially the ‘normie’ White College Graduate. Nope… they’re hiring the worthless, weak and mentally challenged.
Remember when they started advertising for BLIND Air Traffic Controllers? The fucking mind boggles, and then boggles again! Same for the TSA… I’ve related my own personal experience with the TSA Hires… One example is HERE.
Either way…
So besides the whole bullshit-MK/Ultra Wind-Up Toy and the now-slooowly vanishing Drone Story? Well, I got other things to deal with/work on.
Genuinely IMPORTANT things
Namely the crack in the Enfield’s stock:
Nothing too dramatic.
For an 85 year old rifle with its original major wooden stock parts, the condition of the stock(s) are great. However:
That one -might- have potential in the future to be querulous.
A close up shows that it’s pretty long, and yeah, it goes down about 3/4 of an inch, as I measured it with a shim gauge… I put a .05 gauge down and into it, and then measured the depth that it went in.
Now, one of you Awesome Deplorables in the Studio Viewing Audience (namely one of you Clowns in the Comments) told me how to fix this as it was ‘traditionally done’ by the Brits, i.e. utilizing a brass pin. I went online and maaaan
The prices were insane for some of the repair parts, and those that weren’t? Well I don’t need 25/40 of the brass pins. I also couldn’t find a thin enough brass screw that could go the 2in or so across that made me happy. I’m being particularly anal retentive on this one regarding the faithfulness to the repairs, so there is that too…hence why I wasn’t too hot to duracoat it. So I did a deep dive on “What was in a British Enfield Armorers Repair Kit to repair stocks?” or something to that line of thought…
Sarco had them for $3 a throw.
It’s 2 1/2 inch by 3/32in Brass pin with screw thread on it.
It’s designed to be put into a drilled hole and then screwed into the hole, pulling the two sides of the wood together. It also reinforces it, so it won’t crack further. Mind you before you screw in the brass pin, you put epoxy in to fill the crack, as well as firm it all up. My plan is to do the drill hole here:
I marked it with a sharpie, which practically disappears on the wood as it’s got too many stains and dings already. The circle is where I plan on tapping it, and then, put the hole through like this:
So I’ll transverse the stock, and then, once the pin is fully inserted, I’ll take a Dremel and cut it off at the wood. Then I’ll point-grind the ends of the pin into the wood a wee bit and leave it at that. To insure the filler maintains its color, I actually have some furniture repair ‘stuff’ that I got like forever ago in my past life to get rid of scratches and gouges that the spawn had inflicted on the furniture back then. It has some liquid that is designed to be mixed into the epoxy/glue, and that as they say should be that.
Even just leaving the pin in alone with a minute amount of filler, it should be fine.
“Sound as a Pound Eh Wot?”
So More Later
Big Country
Post pics of the stock repair….should be interesting. Saving old wood is a holy calling.
Been following your posts on the restoration program on the Lee Enfield with great interest, you are doing a really good job on it. The SMLE #1 Mk 3 holds a special place in my collection, it was the rifle that I started target shooting with back in the early 1980’s (down here in Oz we call them Smellys). I have two Enfields, a #4 from Longbranch Canada with US stamps on from 1942 and then later NZ stamps from later in the war; and a #1 Mk3 from Lithgow made in 1945. The latter rifle was never issued and was in mint condition, in the 1980’s the Australian Army cleaned out all of these rifles from storage and then sold them mainly to the US (as they were an evil military rifle they could only be sold to Army personnel in Australia and I acquired it second hand but still unfired). You might still be able to find some in the US, they are all 1945 manufacture.
Lee valley tools makes a crack filler for high use wood objects, usually chairs and tables. Was a blessing when kits were little and rocked the wood chairs
My go to epoxy for crack repair has always been Brownells ACRAGLASS.
https://www.brownells.com/tools-cleaning/gun-tools/stock-bedding/acraglas-2-gun-bedding-kits/
The mixed consistency is nice and runny so it flows into cracks nicely. Plus you get release agent for metal parts and dye to darken the mix.
I have an original Krag rifle the had a crack in the wrist of the stock that I discovered after I bought it. The crack orientation was horizontal across the stock. Someone had made a “repair” under the trigger guard tang with a shiny chrome wood screw. Because of the angle of the crack, I was able to drill a 1/8″ hole down the center of the crack which helped a lot getting the epoxy to fill the entire crack. Then it was a simple matter to re-assemble the trigger guard and a action to clamp the crack together. Crack pretty much disappeared. That rifle was a real find. At that gun show (1990-ish) I had my choice of three rifles. I chose this one because the bore is perfect.
BTW, the consistency of ACRAGLAS GEL is much easier to work with for a bedding job.
i believe “cyoanurate” glue may work. ? or research wood working glues. kiss. no disrespect intended.