Why do you need an AR 15 and a shitload of loaded high cap magazines?
The enemy is domestic, is here and wants you dead.
Rashida Tlaib’s congressional district is in Dearborn, Michigan.
Here are her constituents calling for “Death to America.”
They also cite terrorist Ayatollah Khomeini as an “inspiration.”#TheWestIsNext#HamasCaucus
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 7, 2024
Flash! Home Machinist Makes Tool to Make Tool!
The home shop if full of neat things that you can make. My primary tools are a 5×13 South Bend Lathe, shipped to the Reynolds Machinery Company on December 31st, 1947 and a Bridgeport mill from the late 50s
The rule of thumb for any hobby is that you will spend more on tooling than you do on the primary machines.
My F5 camera body cost about $2000. I then proceeded to spend $3000+ dollars on lens, film scanner, color charts. Speed lights and so forth.
My lathe, mill, horizontal bandsaw, milling vise, three chucks, a handful of tooling cost me $1500. The delivery charge was another $200.
Since that time, I’ve spent much more than that on tooling. Quick Change tool post, quick change toolholders, indexable tooling, measuring equipment. Well, you get the idea.
The thing is, that as you go through the shop making things that accomplish real goals, there is a never ending need to make tools for making tools.
BlondiHacks is doing a series on a tool holding tool to help you grind bits. I want to make it.
I have an indexing head that I made that is about 80% complete. That includes casting all the parts that needed castings. I’ve got a shaper started, but I was having trouble casting a couple of parts and went on to other things.
One of the weird things that has happened, is that things that were not available 5 years ago are now being made and are available. This has led me in a long circle where I want to make a backing plate for an ER-40 collet chuck.
Before I spend anything on that project, I intend to make my “casinator”. I have drawings that are “good enough” to get started. But here’s the deal, I need to make a couple of counter bores.
These counter bores have to be to 0.0005 inches in size. If they are too big, the bearing will fall out. If they are too small, the bearing won’t go in. If they are just a little too small, the bearings might not function correctly. I have to get those bores nearly perfect.
The tool used for this is either the lathe, a pain for a rectangular piece of plate, or a boring head.
I actually have two boring heads. One for micro boring bars and one for large bores.
To use a boring head, you create a hole. It can be a through hole or a partial hole. The hole needs to be large enough for your boring head to fit.
The boring head is already positioned correctly because you have not moved it since you put the clearance hole in place.
You then adjust the position of the boring bar, You adjust the depth it will go. Then you start the mill to make a cut with an automatic down feed.
When the quill reaches the correct depth, it stops, and you can retract the boring head/boring bar. Carefully measure the size of the hole, adjust the boring bare, cut again.
This up and down motion will make the bore the correct diameter. You can hold very tight tolerances with quality boring heads. Which I have.
The problem, is the base of the hole doesn’t look good. As I write this, I realize it doesn’t matter. As long as the bearing seats fully, the surface finish doesn’t matter.
Now, the point of all of this, is that I wanted to upgrade to a “boring/facing head”.
This piece of magic allows you to advance the boring bar as it is rotating. Instead of cutting a larger and larger diameter bore, moving down through the material, you put the boring bar at the correct depth and cut outward, “facing” the bottom of the hole smooth.
I’m not going to pay north of $500 for one of these things. And I’m not willing to purchase unknown items from E-bay.
Landlines
I wanted to do a deeper dive into the article embedded in the Tweet from the last post I made.
REVEALED: WiFi went down ALL DAY at LA cash storage facility as thieves stole $30m in daring heist
Neighbors of a cash storage facility robbed of $30 million claim internet signals went down and they heard an explosion during the daring heist.
The FBI and LAPD are still trying to piece together how burglars breached the roof of GardaWorld in Sylmar, Los Angeles, on Easter Sunday without triggering any alarms.
Issa Alhosry, 22, co-owner of the nearby Kwik Market Deli said their WiFi, phones, and servers were down for hours on Sunday morning and into the evening.
‘We couldn’t get or make calls, not even on my cell phone,’ Alhosry told DailyMail.com.
It does sound like the thrives used signal jammers to disable security measures or prevent people from calling the police if they saw something.
Cellphone jammer can be bought on Amazon, and they are becoming popular in robbery and home invasions.
I understand why wifi based security system are popular, they are much cheaper that hard wiring a home.
However, the technology to defeat them has also become cheaper and more prevalent.
If you are at all serious about security, a hardwired system tied to a landlines is much more secure.
Reactivating a home landline for emergencies might also be a good idea.
(I invite our resident security camera expert to do a follow-up post on this)
The importance of analog systems
Signal jamming is becoming more prevalent in North America. If you can’t call 9-1-1 during a home invasion, what’s your plan? If your wifi alarm doesn’t notify you of the intrusion, how will you react?https://t.co/X7n0XCCqQt
— Western Phalanx (@WesternPhalanx) April 5, 2024
There isn’t a signal jammer or RF blocking device that can stop my dogs from barking or jam my Sig P320 or Benelli Nova Tactical.
I’m with Miguel on this, that security systems and cameras are invaluable, but that doesn’t mean they are unassailable.
If your high end security goes down, what ar3 your backups.
Mine eat kibble and fire JHP or buckshot.
Barnett v. Raoul, Judge McGlynn Gets It
For the last bit, we’ve been talking about how the apparatchiks have been moving to try to redefine what the plain text step is in Heller and Bruen
—No. 166 Barnett v. Raoul, No. 3:23-cv-00209, slip op. at 4 (S.D. Ill.)
The judge agrees with us, the Seventh Circuit judges, Wood and Easterbrook, looked at their two-step method and said, “The Supreme Court can’t be talking about us.”. Then said they got it right, and the Supreme Court’s opinion matches theirs.
Or as a former president put it: It depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is. If the — if he — if “is” means “is and never has been, that is not — that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.
—Volume III: Document Supplement, Part A, William J. Clinton
The Seventh feels it can define any word to mean anything they want it to mean.
Having defined the word to mean exactly what they wanted it to mean, they then claim that they have investigated themselves and found that they had done no wrong.
—Order – #166 in Barnett v. Raoul, No. 3:23-cv-00209, slip op. at 4–5
Again, Judge McGlynn takes the Seventh to task. … has come at this question from a different direction … by the Supreme Court
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But here is the kicker, he tells the Plaintiffs that they must brief both arguments. That of the Seventh’s ridiculous contention that you have to prove that an arm is protected under the Second Amendment before the state has an opportunity to prove a historical tradition of regulations. But the Plaintiffs must also argue using the correct methodology, as laid out in Heller and affirmed in Bruen of text.
The state is going to say: The Seventh has told you that LCM’s and Assault Weapons aren’t protected arms, so you can’t challenge the law on the ground that they are protected arms.
They will contend that the Plaintiffs have not met their burden of proving that the arms in question are arms. Since the Plaintiffs did not meet their burden, the state does not have to show a historical tradition of firearms regulation that is a match.
The Plaintiffs are being required to argue that “assault weapons” are protected under the Second. That is the only argument they need to make.
The court has warned the state, “Make sure you brief historical tradition, or you might lose.”
No matter how this goes, it will be appealed. I just enjoy bringing you news of courts and judges that do get it right.
There is every indication that this judge will do the right thing.
