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710 said:
Anybody here know how to heat treat and temper A2 tool steel? Pm me with info.
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Yeah, send it to Peters' :D

Honestly, just google the datasheet. A2 is pretty straightforward stuff.
 
so tired. insulating the basement. stage by stage. already noticeably warmer. sweet.
 
granitestateofmind said:
Like in the first one? That's the problem with any time travel movie. Besides, looking for continuity in a movie of that sort is what's pointless...I only saw the first and it was fun, but not so much that I felt compelled to see the other two. Buckaroo Bonzai, on the other hand, was genius. Didn't need a sequel.
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All three were on TV today but I missed the first one. I don't recall two plot holes in the first 20 minuets of part I that render the whole movie impossible and pointless though. (if we concede the part about time travel in the first place)

Guyon said:
Painful game was painful.

Gave this three-pack a shot for $20. These are perfectly serviceable beaters with good ergos and lockup. Pivots are a bit tight, but that can be remedied.

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Tried them out too. Problem is, they need someone who knows about knives to tune them, but most people that are willing to do that buy better knives to begin with. And the people that will buy these (or get them as gifts) are going to think they're crap because they don't flip properly and they'll get the impression that Kershaw sucks in general.

I tried taking them apart and broke a craftsman torx driver in the process. Not being able to get them apart means I can't do a proper "fluff-n-buff" and I really don't feel like sitting around opening the knives 1,000 times until they smooth out.
 
bigghoss said:
Tried them out too. Problem is, they need someone who knows about knives to tune them, but most people that are willing to do that buy better knives to begin with. And the people that will buy these (or get them as gifts) are going to think they're crap because they don't flip properly and they'll get the impression that Kershaw sucks in general.
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You give people too much credit. Most likely, the people who buy these and/or the people who get them as gifts will be ecstatic, because they're ten times nicer than those $5 M-techs in their pocket masquerading as a knife. Except for the very rare giftee who will sit there and suffer quietly with Sebenza in his pocket. And Guyon, who knew what he was getting into in the first place.
 
Greatest movie trilogy.....
STAR WARS!!!!!!!!

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granitestateofmind said:
It does seem odd that a story about about the birth of a child, born in the Levant, whose impoverished parents gave birth to in housing for animals and whose birth was attended by animals, a child who grew up to preach of peace and forgiveness, of love and spirituality, who lived simply in the service of humanity, should, in celebration of his birth, engender such a frenzy of consumption and extravagance. And conifers? The original christmas tree would have been a date palm. I'm not saying I don't participate, I'm just saying I try not to lose sight of the actual spirit of the season. It is interesting that Christmas is celebrated so widely, except for in the land of his birth. It's always made me wonder. Especially when I'm trying to get the damn string of bulbs to light up!
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Like terrio said, its a pagan thing. Us darn European peoples.. It belongs to our history, one that has nothing to do with a middle Eastern Messiah.
 
I have seen Back to the Future and Indiana Jones, just not star wars or lord of the rings.

My wife has watched all those lord of the rings, I just never felt interested enough.

Didnt watch star wars when i was a kid, many years passed and at that point didnt feel there was any reason to watch it.

But the Godfather was good, and back in the days indiana jones was good as well.
 
Some stuff i never knew is in here about xmas, and the xmas tree....

Quick excerpt from the article linked below

"The Christmas tree is a 17th-century German invention, University of Bristol's Hutton told LiveScience, but it clearly derives from the pagan practice of bringing greenery indoors to decorate in midwinter. The modern Santa Claus is a direct descendent of England's Father Christmas, who was not originally a gift-giver. However, Father Christmas and his other European variations are modern incarnations of old pagan ideas about spirits who traveled the sky in midwinter, Hutton said."

Another topic

"Gifts are a new (and surprisingly controversial) tradition"

http://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html
 
stvpourciau said:
Like terrio said, its a pagan thing. Us darn European peoples.. It belongs to our history, one that has nothing to do with a middle Eastern Messiah.
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Actually, I was referring to the ancient Egyptians. They were hanging up green stuff to celebrate cool lifeforms that lived even during the Solstice when we were still rolling around in the mud. But yeah, European pagans too.
 
Yes.

Indi was great, I forgot all about how they ruined it with that miserable 4th one recently until you said "back in the days"

I understand about lord of the rings, they are the longest most boring movies ever made.

Don't get me wrong, u watched all of them in theatres and when they have Thier moments, the moments are amazing for cinema with special effects, probably up there with Jurassic park for breaking new ground.

But they are long And I will never spend the hours required to rewatch one, I just won't do it.

Is Jurassic park still a "trilogy"? I vote that up too.
 
james terrio said:
Actually, I was referring to the ancient Egyptians. They were hanging up green stuff to celebrate cool lifeforms that lived even during the Solstice when we were still rolling around in the mud. But yeah, European pagans too.
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FWIW, I don't believe that my people stopped rolling Around in the mud until jules Caesar came and put a stop to that. We put one hell of a fight though, so much so that Vercingetorix is held as the 1st "French" national hero..
 
Bladite said:
so tired. insulating the basement. stage by stage. already noticeably warmer. sweet.
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What are you using to do so? My father is planning on doing the same thing with the basement walls. He was thinking of injecting the walls with some kind of chemical foam.
 
Guyon said:
Painful game was painful.

Gave this three-pack a shot for $20. These are perfectly serviceable beaters with good ergos and lockup. Pivots are a bit tight, but that can be remedied.

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C_Tanner (preparedmind101) had scathing remarks about this set.
 
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