Charter Member Of The Nonessential and Non Disposable Society Group 7th Anniversary

[RoyEllis]

How can one marry better?
I still can't figure out what my wife saw in me. ... Never mind, I get it.

A great many yrs ago I thought that about my 1st wife...absolutely stunning Italian beauty. Took me around 4 or 5 years to figure out beauty is skin deep but evil incarnate starts at the bone & runs all the way out to the shell....you just don't see it until there's a crack opened up.
Worst @#$* thing I brought home from Bad Tolz.

[Just Duke]

A great many yrs ago I thought that about my 1st wife...absolutely stunning Italian beauty. Took me around 4 or 5 years to figure out beauty is skin deep but evil incarnate starts at the bone & runs all the way out to the shell....you just don't see it until there's a crack opened up.
Worst @#$* thing I brought home from Bad Tolz.

I believe I dated here sisters.

[RoyEllis]

The only reason I'n on a computer is we miss placed our telegraphers key and my battery jars are out of acid.
Anyone have telegraphers please PM me as I need one for my SW radio. I'm serious....

You may be in luck Duke! My Dad was heavily into Ham Radio and I will look through his old stuff....I know there should be some of his old keys lying around. He taught me Morse & telegraphy as I learned the alphabet as a child. If I find one or more they shall be yours.....even if you don't like them you still won't owe me anything for them. The only one you can't have hangs on my wall above the desk, it shows a distinct bullet strike, one that saved Dad's life in WWII as a communications MSgt in 3rd Army under Patton.

[Just Duke]

You may be in luck Duke! My Dad was heavily into Ham Radio and I will look through his old stuff....I know there should be some of his old keys lying around. He taught me Morse & telegraphy as I learned the alphabet as a child. If I find one or more they shall be yours.....even if you don't like them you still won't owe me anything for them. The only one you can't have hangs on my wall above the desk, it shows a distinct bullet strike, one that saved Dad's life in WWII as a communications MSgt in 3rd Army under Patton.

That would be great Roy. I'll get my battery jars cleaned and ready to go!
My clicker due to OR weather, the copper wiring has turned blue green and fused itself to-gether. I suppose these can be re-wound, right?

[kootne]

Here in Libby, all our internet in and out of town is channeled through the telegraph office.

[bearcove]

I think you need a time machine.

Wish I had one.

Sweet Dreams.

[Just Duke]

I think you need a time machine.

Wish I had one.

Sweet Dreams.

Since I was 6 years old I need one.

[HollandNut]

I've always grappled with technology , on the one hand it is nice , on the other hand , I was born 150 years too late , but alas the kidney stones I have had would have probably killed me in the early 1800's , along with a few other ailments we think nothing of today ..

And I'd have died a long time ago ..

But my dad said ( he would be 105 this year ) , he didn't see much good looking back on the "good old days" ..

[torker]

A great many yrs ago I thought that about my 1st wife...absolutely stunning Italian beauty. Took me around 4 or 5 years to figure out beauty is skin deep but evil incarnate starts at the bone & runs all the way out to the shell....you just don't see it until there's a crack opened up.
Worst @#$* thing I brought home from Bad Tolz.

I think Bad Tolz was the cleanest Kasern in Europe. At least in the mid 70's it was. Had a few drinks there, Called the Cave I think.
I know what you mean about thoses Italian women.

[Fishman]

I doubt any of us are logging on here with 20 year old computers and cell phones . . .

But I do agree with the concept whenever possible.

[Three-Fifty-Seven]

back!

[Nicholas]

I doubt any of us are logging on here with 20 year old computers and cell phones . . .

But I do agree with the concept whenever possible.

Fishman still has his single shot 20 gage H & R I bought him for duck hunting as a kid. That should qualify.

The problem with living a simple life is a little known law of thermodynamics, succinctly stated - There is more matter in the universe than it can contain. In fact more seems to appear out of nowhere spontaneously. My garage is an example. Dark Matter might be another example. I am betting there are political examples as well.

A corollary of the premise for this group is to obtain perfectly good stuff from those who do not want it anymore. Evidence that this is good is the Swappin and Sellin forum.

[TXGunNut]

I doubt any of us are logging on here with 20 year old computers and cell phones . . .

But I do agree with the concept whenever possible.

My desktop is 12 yrs old, just don't ask her to go on the 'net. RAM is maxed out at a blazing 512 and the "reconditioned" power supply cost about the same as a good bottle of wine. Has an awesome word processing pkg and a huge (for the era) 40 gig hard drive.

[Ozarki]

Do two 1953 Lyman AA turret presses, 1972 John Deere M108, some zippo lighters and some made from c-rations tins, several hundred rear old rifles and pistols, recently acquired 1938 Winny in 32ws, Gee there aint nothing new here. Looking in the shop I find dads old woodworking tools, some his dads, some purchased in the 40's. better quit here I seem to be dating myself.

[jaysouth]

I've always grappled with technology , on the one hand it is nice , on the other hand , I was born 150 years too late , but alas the kidney stones I have had would have probably killed me in the early 1800's , along with a few other ailments we think nothing of today ..

And I'd have died a long time ago ..

But my dad said ( he would be 105 this year ) , he didn't see much good looking back on the "good old days" ..

I distinctly remember the smell of an outhouse in August, not to mention the cloud of flies attracted to the smell.

[Just Duke]

I still have and wear underwear from before I was married 17 years ago!

Have you ever changed it?

[waksupi]

I distinctly remember the smell of an outhouse in August, not to mention the cloud of flies attracted to the smell.

It was poorly maintained, then. I have an outhouse. Keep lime in the pit, and the lid closed, no flies, no stink.

[6bg6ga]

I distinctly remember the smell of an outhouse in August, not to mention the cloud of flies attracted to the smell.

The smell is still alive every summer on the construction front. Ahh the wonderful smell of the mint on a hot summer day.

[Pb2au]

So I have been thinking on this thread since I posted in it some days ago.
Most of my hand tools, wood and mechanic, are old, like over 50 years. The newer stuff I have always tried to buy the best I can, when I need it. I don't waste my dough on things I don't need. I make my money with my hands and my mind. It has morphed over the years, but I still make money with my hands. Whether I am rebuilding machinery, repairing machines, building machinery to programming it, I have needed tools that would work all the time. It could be a good hammer to a quality spirit machine level accurate to 0.01mm over 5 meters.
Most of my firearms are over 50, with the exception of a few. My Black hawk is one of those examples. I needed at 5 1/2" barrel, 45 colt revolver that I could throw off of a cliff and it would still work.
My anvil was forged in England around 1880. My forge was around the turn of the century.
New stuff can be good. So long it is quality. My last weed whacker was a piece of garbage from the get go. My new one is a husqavarna and works like a champ. Same for other things I have bought new.
If you buy cheap, you will buy it twice.

I like this thread a lot.

[Just Duke]

You may be in luck Duke! My Dad was heavily into Ham Radio and I will look through his old stuff....I know there should be some of his old keys lying around. He taught me Morse & telegraphy as I learned the alphabet as a child. If I find one or more they shall be yours.....even if you don't like them you still won't owe me anything for them. The only one you can't have hangs on my wall above the desk, it shows a distinct bullet strike, one that saved Dad's life in WWII as a communications MSgt in 3rd Army under Patton.

Any luck on those Roy?