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Looks beautiful out there.

Yesterday I drove 484km (301 miles) inspecting various minor work sites. I headed up the Coromandal Peninsula to Coromandal itself. This is a narrow winding highway with lots of low speed limits. I haven't been up there for years.



Edit: Very slow and winding, the 54km/33 miles took about an hour.

"But, now I have another one to work on"
Yes you do but it`s in Puyallup.

That really looks like a great machine... good job Bub.

Lovely challenge eh!

As that didn't work, I am treating it as a template to use on a thicker piece that I will mill the back out of so as to have enough meat underneath the rim of the cartridge.

Right now I am still at the layout stage, and thinking about how I want to go about this. But you have to start somewhere.

Thanks UB!

But, now I have another one to work on:

But more about that later...

Quote from: Uncle Buck on Jun 12, 2026, 03:46 AMCongratulations and very nice indeed! The box looks very nice and I am sure you will make the most of it and enjoy it.

I am very ecstatic to finally have it.

Over the past couple days I have kept it on the end table next to my recliner and after work while I'm relaxing watching TV or YouTube I've been just kind of messing with it and interacting with it and all the tools inside.
 getting a feel for how I ultimately want it set up and where to best but what tools.
How easy they are or aren't to access, if any tools ever get a little stuck where I've put them, just basically pretending to work out of it since I don't have any projects going right now.

It's something I like to do so I know it'll be easy and convenient to work from when needed.

I sure am, UB. I have downsized a lot of metric, as I don't really work on my truck (not enough time in my life and I was never a trained mechanic) and the motorcycles are long gone. But it does come in handy.


Here we have the final fitting of the falling breach block


and it now closes on the extractor.


and there isn't enough meat on it to reliably extract unfired cases, let alone a fired shell. So, I am going to have to go back to the drawing board and make something thicker at the tip and milled down for the body. I was half-way expecting this to happen, so it isn't a deal breaker. And now I have a pattern for the main body of the part that I know both fits and works with the rest of the rifle. It might be a while before I get to milling this, but I'll there in the end.

Quote from: OldCarGuy on Jun 07, 2026, 07:22 PMAfter using the aluminum soft jaw for my 5" Columbian vise in my machine sop area. I picked up a 6" set for my Wilton located in another garage... Interesting how they spelled VICE on the packaging. 

I am thinking likewise. I have that same vise and have been so pleased with the first set I got for my 3.5 jaw width vise that I have had it in mind to add a set for my larger vise too.

It always feels good to have on hand oddball size tooling, fasteners or whatever and during those times makes  me glad I keep all of this stuff!

I am sure that was about how you felt! I too have a lot of metric stuff I may never use but will be glad to have it on hand if I ever do!