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My favorite is my Remington 552 Speedmaster .22 semi-automatic. I was 17 when I bought it in 1961 by working in a grocery store on Fridays after school for $3 and 13 hrs on Saturdays for $7. The local hardware store let me buy it for $56 and pay $3/week on the bill until it was paid for with no interest. It would fire shorts, longs, or long rifle cartridges as fast as I could pull the trigger never jamming. I still have it. When I was working in FL, I bought a Sig Sauer AR15 from the Homestead, FL Walmart. I used a M14 and then a M16 in the Army and that M16 really impressed me. My Sig Sauer P226 9mm is the best of the best in handguns in my opinion, single/double action with a hammer. I just don't like the accident prone Glocks with no visible hammer that are constantly cocked. And for a small pocket handgun, my Ruger LCP .380 is very impressive and very reliable. And I bought a used Remington 1100 12 gauge semi-auto for home protection back about 2008. It's time to go to the range and exercise them.

A New Hanover county carry permit requires the names of three people that can verify your sanity before you can be approved. And I have to take a class. In FL my military tour was a substitute for the class and no witnesses needed so I got my permit in less that two weeks. When the repubs took over NC, they passed a castle law and stand your ground. So, home invaders are fair game, threat or not.

The one I have I'd like to sell is a S&W Stainless Steel Model 639 9mm. BUT, after looking into how to sell it, turns out in NC, I have to have a permit to sell a handgun or have a NC carry permit as well to be able to buy one. My carry permit is a FL permit that I got during my 3 yr 7 month job in Homestead FL. I plan to get a NC carry permit now. A permit is required in NC in order to give a handgun to a relative. Recently, my wife's son gave her two of his handguns but they both have NC carry permits so that was legal. All of my handguns I acquired when I was in FL and they are legal. The walls are closing in.

The only men who understand women are gay men!

Well, my Cosmic Monocular arrived today. It only took 8 days to make it the last 100 miles. Now that I can see for 30 miles, I need to find something that will allow me to read....I haven't checked it out that much yet but it appears to be clear with good magnification, worth the $50 for sure in my opinion.

CowPuc, what web site would you recommend to sell a handgun. I have at least one I'd like to sell?

I bought my 07, a one owner, 23k miles, in nice shape for $3,000 3 yrs ago. Granted that was a special case but. The previous owner from Darlington, SC tried to sell it for $5k the summer before and then dropped his price to $4k. The following spring he was determined to get rid of it and advertised it on craigslist for $3k. As soon as I saw it I jumped on it even though at the time I wasn't sure I even wanted it. It's a great bike.

I suspect Quaker State oil is okay now isn't it? But, in the old days, it would sludge up an engine pdq. My exwife's father was a mechanic and if you mentioned Quaker State around him, he would go into a rant about how bad it was. I remember one story of an engine that overheated and the Quaker State oil turned into a mayonnaise like substance that wouldn't even drain out when the drain plug was removed

Beautiful bike! Ventures are great bikes but for whatever reason they don't bring what they are worth it seems to me.

60 is the new 40! When I was 59 I got married for the second time to a 42 yr old lady with an 11 yr old son. Retired at 70. Things started going downhill at about 74 when I got shingles and had to quit exercising for a good while. Trust me, you don't want to get shingles. It took about a year to fully recover from that crap. And take statins if you can tolerate them to keep your cholesterol low. I didn't. Big mistake.

This is why I'm trying really hard to lose weight and exercise more. Losing weight improves all health problems it seems. At 77 I guess I beat the odds already and I hope to be able to enjoy my remaining time, not just survive. I have 3 stents, severe right hip arthritis, enlarged prostate, and beginning cataracts. The cardiologist told me that my 3 heart arteries were almost evenly plugged up all the way down to the capillaries making a bypass almost useless. Those 3 stents and medication are helping though. I'm taking finesteride to shrink the prostate and it's working but it has nasty side effects since it messes with the hormones. I'm taking Turmeric and Glucosamine Chondroitin for the arthritis. I'm sure the Turmeric is helping. Not as sure about the GC. I'm taking Zetia to reduce my cholesterol and that seems to be working. But it after a while makes my arthritis worse that same as statins did in my case. That's why I'm not taking statins. I can still do about anything I want to but have to go a little slower. You have to be tough to get old I suppose.

If you don't mind doing the work to install the engine, it's a good opportunity to get a cheap venture.

My Whirlpool dishwasher wasn't spraying enough water to clean the dishes in the top rack. The large screen in the bottom was clean and I don't see how anything could bypass it but a piece of broken glass did and was restricting flow to the recirc pump suction. I disassembled it to get to the pump suction and removed the piece of glass and it's back to normal. I found a youtube video tha showed how to do it. There is a video on youtube showing you how to do everything!

Seafoam recomends adding one ounce per qt of oil if you use it in the engine oil. My old 2002 F150 5.4L with 165,000 miles on it recently started making a little valve train noise on cold startup. I added 6 ounces of Seafoam to the oil about 30 miles before an oil change and drove it gently. Now there is no valve train noise on cold startup. So, I was pleased with the result. I usually don't believe in oil additives but it seems to have worked well.

A while back, FedEx decided to not renew their Amazon contract. I suspect Amazon is depending on the USPS more now and they are overwhelmed maybe. The USPS is unionized so I'm sure that has something to do with the service also. I didn't have another choice for delivery from the company I ordered which is Cosmic Scope.

I ordered one of those newly offered Monoculars that is supposed to allow you to see for 30 miles on March 23. Anybody have one? Anyway according to the tracking info it came from CA to Fayetteville NC leaving that location on April 7 but delivery has been delayed. And Fayetteville is only about 100 miles away. I caught the USPS package delivery truck at our mailbox yesterday delivering an Amazon package to my wife and talked to the driver. She said that the USPS package delivery service only cares about delivering Amazon packages and everything else gets delayed. What the heck?

When I had that problem with my Kawasaki, it was because the carbs were not seated properly in the carb holders or intake manifolds and there was a huge vacuum leak.

This is what one owner did. He used to be a member of the forum.

There used to be a NGK spark plug boots catalog on line but I can't find it now. It used to list boots NGK SD05F 8022 boots for the Gen I Venture because I bought a set (that I never installed). However these boots are all straight and two of the OE boots are not straight. NGK boots are 5k ohms while the stock boots are 9 to 10K ohms. I found this when I searched but they can't confirm they fit. https://www.amazon.com/ngk-spark-plug-boot/s?k=ngk+spark+plug+boot&af={"vehicle"%3A"1989-1210-20642-20-----14300------4-1"}&pid=euxvpRG&ref=sx_pf_dsk_cvftr

Oh, I only got a bloody nose and a broken arm! Nah! My stepson is moving into a penthouse apt in a western city and gave up a lot of stuff. Besides those two handguns, he left all of his tools here too. He told us to sell the stuff if we didn't need or want them, altogether several thousand dollars worth of stuff. Oh by the way he has a silencer for that Sig P227 and we are looking at what we need to do to accept that. My wife is on the permit. I haven't read it yet.

Today, I obtained free of charge a Dan Wilson Combat 1911 45 cal and a Sig Sauer P227 with the stacked 45 cal mags. Hope to get out and try them out soon.

I would suspect that water in the intake would be caused by blowby. Engines crankcases are typically vented through a check valve of some sort to the intake so that the blowby gases are routed through the combustion chamber as an emission control. This blowby is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and water, the main products of combustion. When the engine is shut off and cooled any combustion gases left in the intake could result in condensed water vapor, the same thing that happens in the exhaust pipes. Race engines may not be vented to the intake. Remember the old cars that had a tube connected to the crankcase behind the intake that was routed to the bottom of the car.

If you run gasoline with alcohol, water collection in the fuel tank shouldn't be an issue because water will mix with alcohol and move it through the combustion chamber instead of collecting on the bottom of the tank. But, when the fuel is burned, one of the products of combustion is water. That's why water drips out of the exhaust when a cold engine is first started.

Yamaha made a very nice Harley clone with the Gen 3. That seems to be the style most riders like so that is the market they went after instead of going after the Goldwing market. My opinion doesn't matter a twit because I'm too old to buy bikes. What I have is it...

Yeah, it could have been a BMW 1600 LT competitor with the water cooled VMax engine but they didn't sell that well either did they? I never see a used 1600 for sale on craigslist in my area any more. Update No BMW 1600s on craigs but lots on cycletrader