Was Mc Gyver the ultimate Survivalist??

I too stopped watching the show when I found out about the ati-gun thing. I remember one episode where he went thru some convoluted thing with a fire extiguisher contraption when all he had to do was stand behind the door and coldcock the bad guy on the way in! What a way to complicate an easy thing!

But in his new series "StarGate SG-1" (Shotime and syndication)he is always firearm armed and doesn't like to be without one. Change of heart? Couldn't say for sure but it looks that way. I will say that he IS one of the main producers of the show tho! The show is actually quite good, IMHO.

Vince


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The show was fun to watch somtimes, I also thought it was anti gun just from watching.He probably carries a gun in his new show because they told him to, he probably does everthing they tell him to because he is happy to have a job.

Hey J.J. Magnum, you might actually be able to weld with a coin and a battery charger, a piece of soft metal, but your not going to weld a broken rod for a gas powered engine with a freeking coin! Thats what he was trying to do in that episode.

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They were silver coins. What he did was silver solder the rod using electricty as a heat source it would work.
 
raspy, I said in my post that the actual process would work, just not to do what he was trying to do.

Exactly e_utopia, if you work on and build these engines, see what happens to them when they come apart you would understand why there is no way in hell silver solder would hold a connecting rod together! Why did the rod break in the first place? How would the engine run with the nasty bend that happens when the rod breaks? Give me break!

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I agree that the general damage caused by breaking a rod would make silver soldering not work, but it is interesting what people have done with silver solder. I read an article once that reviewed the operation of a .410 shotgun revolver. This was made by sawing two revolvers in half (I think they may have been .44 specials) one was cut even with the back end of the cylinder and the other was cut even with the front end of the cylinder. Two halves from different guns were silver soldered together to create a frame with double length cylinder opening. Then two cylinders were silver soldered together to make a double length cylinder (there were more refinements to how all this was done). The end result fire .410 shotgun rounds with no signs of overstress. Some silver solders are rated at 75,000 to 120,000 psi tensile strength. (Under the right conditions, with good cleaning and fluxing, and solid substrates).
 
Hey dano,
it was a revolver that he and his friends bought with their allowance.(i guess we should ban allowances too....)
 
McGuyver always has a squirt gun in the new show were he is a COL. I haven`t seen his branch insignia. I would guess INF. If he was anti-gun, he seems to have outgrown it.
 
He's Airforce in the new show, STARGATE SG-1.
The shoulder patch in the show represents the Stargate teams; ex: SG-1, SG-14 etc. I haven't seen any other insignia other the the Generals stars on the other character (who was also on McGuyver).

Hope this helps.

Vince

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Stay sharp and be Safe!
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That which does not kill us only makes us stronger.
F.W. Nietzche
 
He is using guns now because it pays so good just like every other HollyWeird Hypocrite.

On the show "McGulliver," he and his childhood chums were playing with a Colt M1911 that through his negligence, discharged and killed his friend. Like most liberal-types of arguments, an environment or an inanimate object has to take the heat for someone's arrogance, ignorance, negligence or outright stupidity... Because, as you are probably well aware, we are really not in control of ourselves...we are pawns to inanimate objects, etc., instead of the other way around.
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Onto interesting "logic."

On one occasion on this rope turd of a television show, he remarked something to the effect that...firearms are indiscriminate.

Now I ask all of you folks, and from reading your posts, you are literate, intelligent and obviously show a degree of reading comprehension...what is more indiscriminate then a fookin' bomb, incendiary device or boobytrap?

"Hey! Put that gun down, you might kill someone by accident...here, take this fragmentation grenade..."

And, one parent who thought the show passed the "sniff test" for anti-violence is sadly mistaken today.

As I understand it, Mr. Anderson was sued as well as the Producer of the show because an ingedient was left in and a bicycle handlebar blew up and killed a child, who was making what he seen on the show.

Urban myth? I don't know, that is what I heard...you guys are good at digging stuff up.

He would have been a complete neutron had he not had a SAK and the ever-present roll of black electrical tape. 3M Must have loved the series.
 
From my Father's ancient, 1940 The Marine's Handbook...a piece of wisdom.

(Page 102) On discussing the Fragmentation Grenade, Mk II.

"Safety Precautions"

"1. What should be remembered about the grenade? Ans. It is always loaded, cocked, and pointed at you."
 
Ah, I used to love that show, the memories of my youth! Maybe it was a little farfetched, but it sure made me want to carry my SAK around all the time! And the college was Cal State Northridge right here in the San Fernando valley.
 
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