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1066vik said:
first piece of steel I found tonight was a piece of 1x1/8 mild.
I got the 1" hole punched, but one edge cracked. :(
tomorrow I'll dig out a piece of rebar or maybe some 3/4 x 1/4 and see if that works better.
if I go that route, I'm tempted to cheat and drill a starter hole before I start heating and stretching.
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I'm a driller. :)
 
The Warrior said:
Supposed to be 50° and sunny here on Christmas day. 60° and rain for Christmas eve. When I was young, there was always snow on the ground here for Christmas. We used to have snow all winter long, that's pretty much how we knew it was winter. Now, we're lucky if we get one snow per year.
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The roadsides are already greening and the Spring clover is starting to show up all over the place here. And it's not even officially winter yet. SMH
 
daizee said:
Oh, no! That's a priority!
I smashed some rebar into a brutish cap-lifter/dashi combo about 8" long (probably posted it here) and gave it to my local liquor store guy.
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Would love to see that if you can track down the pic.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Hey Daizee -

You ever get down to Kingston for Mexican food at El Tapatio? I was at Newport NS when it first opened back in 1986. The food was blah, and they served the fajitas on stone cold ceramic plates. I told the owner that he needed to take a trip down to San Antonio (and gave him several establishments to go to) and see how they did it there. A couple of months later the entire menu was revamped.
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Oh hmmm, no. I don't get over that part of the state very often these days (used to work down at the Bay Campus in 'Gansett/Saunderstown). Technically that's North Kingston. Kingston proper (and not South Kingstown - note speeling difference) is much closer to me (southwest corner of the state). Of course this is all at Rhode Island scale 😂. These days I'm going west into CT most of the time, opposite of the before-times.

No surprise that was your experience in '86.
I grew up in CT and lived out in Santa Fe in '97-'98 and finally learned what southwestern food was all about. No wonder I didn't like it growing up. It wasn't until ~2004 that you could reliably get decent "Mexican" food even in NYC, where I lived for some time after Santa Fe.

There's a little Mexican market in Willamantic, CT of all nowheresville places. It has a tiny restaurant attached, and the young dude cooking there blew my mind. That was a bunch of years ago. And up in Providence there's a Mexican/Salvadoran joint called Hacienda (west side - there might be two places with the same name?) that has great, cheap, authentic grub. They do pupusas, grind their own corn for sweet corn tamales, and make their own horchata. The little carnitas tacos are amazeballs too. Mmmm.... Not far from the SteelYard, Revival Brewing (new loc), and a bunch of other stuff.
 
daizee said:
Oh hmmm, no. I don't get over that part of the state very often these days (used to work down at the Bay Campus in 'Gansett/Saunderstown). Technically that's North Kingston. Kingston proper (and not South Kingstown - note speeling difference) is much closer to me (southwest corner of the state). Of course this is all at Rhode Island scale 😂. These days I'm going west into CT most of the time, opposite of the before-times.

No surprise that was your experience in '86.
I grew up in CT and lived out in Santa Fe in '97-'98 and finally learned what southwestern food was all about. No wonder I didn't like it growing up. It wasn't until ~2004 that you could reliably get decent "Mexican" food even in NYC, where I lived for some time after Santa Fe.

There's a little Mexican market in Willamantic, CT of all nowheresville places. It has a tiny restaurant attached, and the young dude cooking there blew my mind. That was a bunch of years ago. And up in Providence there's a Mexican/Salvadoran joint called Hacienda (west side - there might be two places with the same name?) that has great, cheap, authentic grub. They do pupusas, grind their own corn for sweet corn tamales, and make their own horchata. The little carnitas tacos are amazeballs too. Mmmm.... Not far from the SteelYard, Revival Brewing (new loc), and a bunch of other stuff.
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Oh, I get the "Rhode Island scale", re: distances.

When I was in RI. I was shooting a practice outdoor round (archery) at the Tiverton Gun Club with 3 of the locals. They were debating whether they were going to the shoot on Saturday morning in Fall River (only (9 miles away) OR the shoot in Warwick on Saturday afternoon, a whopping 34 miles away.

I just looked at them an said "That's why I keep kicking y'all's ass."

They looked at me like I was crazy. "What do you mean?" one of them asked.

I said - "I'm going to go to both shoots, and then I'll be going to the shoot up in New Hampshire on Sunday. I'll go to the one in Fall River in the morning and then go to Warwick for the afternoon shoot. Y'all don't know how good y'all got it up here. Down in Texas we have a rule where if someone else has a shoot already scheduled, you can't schedule one for the same day unless YOU ARE AT LEAST 150 MILES AWAY FROM THE FIRST SHOOT."

While I was there, I met a girl at the church I attended who was 25 years old and had NEVER left Aquidneck Island. She had had chicken pox when her 3rd grade class went to the capitol building in Providence and she went to college at the Women's College on the island. I found that out when I took her to dinner one Saturday. I got recommendations to a "good Italian restaurant" that happened to be in Brockton MA, about 50 miles from Newport. When we crossed over the bridge from Tiverton into Massachusetts, she damn near panicked and I learned about her lack of travel.

After a few miles she said "This looks just like Rhode Island." 😳

Needless to say, I immediately knew that this girl was NOT going to be following a sailor anywhere.
 
gmoneyluv said:
Would love to see that if you can track down the pic.
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Found the post!:

Beckerhead Knife Making and Modification Thread

Thanks for the compliment. I'm sorry though, it bugged me quite instantly so I didn't waste much time and removed it once I had some time, haha! No in hand pics or vids. It's quite inexpensive though and it's D2 so if you want a little project I can absolutely recommend it. I've got over...
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Zzyzz, that's classic Rhody! :D
We also give directions based on where things used to be.

I'm not a native, but have been here awhile now...
 
Head is a little foggy this morning as I had a few too many celebratory beers. Over the last few years on my birthday, I've set a goal to climb a number of MoonBoard problems equal to my age. Yesterday I turned 54 and so the goal was to fire off 54 problems. The grade range was V5 and under with benchmarks thrown in for good measure. I won't lie, it was a bit of a struggle near the end. Glad I'm not 100. Here's a vid of some random benchmark V5 with a Joy Division soundtrack in the background. Note the t-shirt at the end. I can dream!

 
Any Brothers have a High Lift jack preference. Pulling stumps, fence post, jacking, winching etc...
 
Tanker 1/66 said:
Any Brothers have a High Lift jack preference. Pulling stumps, fence post, jacking, winching etc...
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Mine is from Harbor Freight. Good thing is the price - under $70 most of the time, sometimes cheaper with coupons. I bought mine using one of the 25% off coupons.

The negative of them is "Made in China" but damn near everything is now-a-days.
 
Got a good paycheck with lotsa OT, decided to purchase a hot tent, so....I did. Trying to decide which Ti stove to get for it. I don't like the ones with the windows in them. I like the Winnerwell fastfolds, but dizam, they're $500, and a little on the small side. But, any of the Ti stoves are pricey.
 
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