Dad! It's SNARK week!!! (Chat Thread)

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mrn8 said:
It's just called wire rope, as far as I've ever seen. I think that's what it's labeled at Ace Hardware.
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DerekH said:
Brake line.
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daizee said:
we always called it 'aircraft cable'. comes in 1/16", 1/8" etc. And there are crimpy doo-dads whose name escapes me at the moment. A nail-set and hammer will crimp 'em...
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Ok, thanks guys. I'll try my local Ace and see if they have it. I tried to search on the big box websites with no luck.


DerekH said:
A big enough pair of pliers will crimp 'em if you got the hand strength of a man that has spent longer than 5 days single. And let's be honest here, you have spent way longer than 5 days single before...

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Yes I have pliers and grip strength...... no comment :D
 
DerekH said:
I don't know if you can make it last that long or not, but I would love to try some mead, never had any before.
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I'll do my best to remember to bring it.

daizee said:
Mead! the stuff hangovers are made of. Kinda like apple wine that way.
Only tip I know: don't drink it out of a metal vessel - I know, I know, who DOES that? Apparently it reacts with certain metals. Dunno about stainless.

-Daizee
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odd - I never got a hangover from it before -- of course I generally drank it out of a 25 oz ceramic mug back when I made my own... maybe because I don't use sulfites (camden tablets) to kill my yeast?

Greybush said:
I've never heard of mead before lurking here....I'm very interested...is there anywhere where I can buy some to sample? I've searched mead on google, but what I'm getting is mostly How-To guides...
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there is some decent stuff out there and some horrible stuff -- avoid "Chaucer's mead" at all costs. nassty sstuff!

Murphnuge said:
Yeah, I'm itching to try it. That or the quarterly baths aren't enough to keep the bugs at bay.
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I vote it's the bugs. :)

Greybush said:
thank God for airbags....
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hmmmm... never heard them called "air" bags before...

ThePointyEnd said:
I recommend Vino Florida's "pirate mead" I know it sounds a little gimmicky, but it's the best I've tasted yet, and it's available thru the 'net.
Alternately, try going to a few local wine cellar type stores and asking around at the beer stores, if there's a meadery in your area, they're bound to be represented.
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you should bring some of this.

DerekH said:
A big enough pair of pliers will crimp 'em if you got the hand strength of a man that has spent longer than 5 days single. And let's be honest here, you have spent way longer than 5 days single before...

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"big enough" pliers?
you don't pinch crimp them by hand? :D
 
we need to figure out a way to get Dubs to the gathering so I can go back to being a "little guy".
 
I'll be happy to not have to be the largest person there. Im rather hoping some of y'all dwarf me...the biggest one has to do all the work LOL or at least that's how my Dad and brothers feel about it!
 
Erik ate a cast iron skillet last time. That is how big he is.
 
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never mind....just ordered this one, it matches his bass guitar which he loves. need to find a place to engrave his initials and I'm set.









note to self -bring some cast iron cookware for 1066 to snack on so he don't eat nobody-
 
Ordered two new murses on closeout. I need some black stilettos to match now.
 
trade, if you squint, the maroon almost looks purple.

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daizee said:
we always called it 'aircraft cable'. comes in 1/16", 1/8" etc. And there are crimpy doo-dads whose name escapes me at the moment. A nail-set and hammer will crimp 'em...
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They sell it in the spooled wire section at Home Despot. I buy the 1/16" stuff.
The crimpy doo-dads are called ferrules and stops, and they're on the same aisle at my Home Despot.

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