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- My WordPress Contact Form Was Drowning Me With Spam Until I Got CleanTalk March 18, 2024I want to share a Wordpress plugin that made a huge difference for me. I was getting spammed via my contact form many times every day and it was getting very frustrating. I absolutely hate spammers and needed to find a solution that could be installed by a non-technical person. I started by searching ...
- Tightening or Replacing a Pride Mobility GoGo Elite Traveller Scooter Ignition Switch March 17, 2024It was our last outing with the Scooter that I noticed the ignition switch, if we can call it that, was floating on my mother-in-law’s Pride Mobility GoGo Eliter Traveller Scooter. I was surprised that it happened given how well it had performed up to that point. From what I could tell, the ...
- Replacing the Batteries on a Pride Mobility GoGo Elite Traveller Scooter March 17, 2024Back in 2022, we bought a used Pride Mobility GoGo Elite Traveller scooter for my mother-in-law. I wrote a blog post about replacing the battery charger and the original batteries were still good though I knew that if the scooter was made in 2019, they probably only had a year or two left. ...
- Why you need to clean, lube and break in Rock Island Armory Pistols March 16, 2024As some of you may know, we make custom magazines for the Armscor Rock Island Armory (RIA) A2 HC family of .40 and 10mm pistols. Once in a while I get to talk to a new owner before they go to the range and either they ask for advice or I give it regardlesss ...
- Quick Post: Do you need to download Amazon Order History for taxes? There is a cheap fix March 4, 2024As a small business, I order a lot of tools and supplies from Amazon each year. Of course, when tax season rolls around, I need to start pulling stuff together for my accountant. Guess what? Turns out Amazon discontinued the order history report that I have used for years to download all ...
- Hungarian Blue Stocks Do Not Have A Standard Color February 24, 2024Have you ever heard someone refer to a stock color on an AMD-63 other Hungarian AK variant and they called it “Hungarian blue”? Well, I’ve had a lot of guys ask me to make AMD grips in that color but I could never get my hands on the original and the demand was never really ...
- Japanese Type 96 25mm gun and North American T-28 Trojan on Display at Villa Escudero February 24, 2024In my last post, I introduced Villa Escudero located near Quezon in the Philippines. I have a few more photos of static displays near their museum that I want to share in this last post from the visit. Japanese Type 96 25mm Anti-Aircraft Gun – Single Mount The Type 96 was a variant of the French ...
- A Japanese Type 89B I-Go Otsu Medium Tank Is On Display at Villa Escudero in Quezon, Philippines February 17, 2024On July 16th, 2017, I had the opportunity to visit the Villa Escudero Plantation and Resort during a trip to the Philippines. Villa Escudero (VE) is a working coconut plantation about two hours drive from Manila near Quezon and was founded in the 1880s by Don Placidio Escuderio and his wife Dona Claudia ...
- A Surprisingly Good Tomahawk From Amazon – The Nedfoss 12.2″ Tac – Yeah, I’d never heard of them either February 14, 2024I like axes, hatchets and tomahawks. I actually inherited a number of axes and hatchets from my dad and grandpa. I also have a number of CRKT and ColdSteel models among others – some are worth talking about and some are best forgotten or not mentioned out of sheer embarassment. This story ...
- How to do Home Manganese Parkerizing February 13, 2024The Following is a Basic Do-it-yourself Manganese Parkerizing Formula A couple of friends online, Elkaholic and Ding, got me interested in parkerizing years ago and gave me a home brew formula and process steps they use. I have been tuning that formula for a few years and thought I would share it as I use it ...
- The Best Reference Book On Uzis February 13, 2024I recently wrapped up building a semi-auto Israeli Uzi in 9mm. At the start, I researched about this iconic submachine gun and guys kept mentioning that I should get the book “The Uzi Submachine Gun Examined” by David Gaboury. I ordered a copy from Amazon and must say I was very impressed. [Click here ...
- Need a compact hand stop for a Picatinny rail? Check out the Arisaka HS-P February 11, 2024When I built our a pistol with recoil, I worry about my hand slipping off the handguard and going in front of the muzzle. I recently bought a Stribog 10mm and that was running through my mind – so I started digging for hand stops that could mount on a picatinny rail. I should point ...
- What Magazine Loader To Use For 10mm Stribog Magazines? .45 UMP Loaders February 10, 2024The Stribog line of subguns, pistols and pistol caliber carbines are really cool. When the brace fiasco erupted, I sold my 9mm SP9A1 and regretted it. When Grand Power said they were coming out with a 10mm, I was an early buyer. One question popped out though – what was out there ...
- Refinishing Olive Wood Spoons January 21, 2024In 2014 we visited Greece, and on December 30th, we were in Delphi staying at a small quaint hotel whose elevator put the fear of God in us. The vibrant town was quiet and subdued – the summer tourists weren’t there and the arrivals for New Years Eve handn’t arrived so we had the ...
- Read This Before You Change the Brake Pads On Your 2015-2019 F150 Ford Transit Van January 20, 2024Okay, I’ve done a lot of brakes over the years – mainly on Toyotas and a smattering of other makes. We bought our 2016 Ford F150 Transit with an Explorer conversion new at the end of 2016 and the original brakes were really starting to squeek in November of 2023 so I knew it ...
- Are Weaver and Picatinny Rails the Same Thing? January 20, 2024The short answer to that question is “No” but then when someone asks if they can use some Picatinny mount on a Weaver rail it becomes “It depends”. Why is that? Well, the Picatinny rail does have a true military specification – “MIL-STD-1913″ that lays out the details but nothing like that exists for Weaver ...
- 2016 Ford F150 Transit Explorer Conversion Van Custom Fuse Block December 31, 2023We got a good deal at the end of 2016 on a Ford F150 Transit that was converted by Explorer vans in Warsaw, Indiana. It’s no longer under warranty so I’m now responsible for all maintenance. With cold weather here, my wife reminded me that her passenger seat heater was no longer working. First ...
- Civil War Monument With an Eleven Inch Dahlgren Gun in Saint Joseph, MI October 26, 2023In Saint Joseph, MI, near the intersection of Lake and Broad Streets sits a civili war monument consisting of an Eleven Inch Dahlgren and some stacked shot. The gun is pointing out to the lake and there is a simple sign for curious folks to read. I’ve read this sign and looked at the cannon ...
- Restoring a Pair of Director’s Chairs October 25, 2023Our church has a rummage sale once a year to raise money for the school and people donate stuff to sell. Maybe 3-5 years ago, my wife and I saw two old director’s chair wooden frames towards the end of the sale when they were just trying to get rid of stuff. The ...
- Fitting a Ronin’s Grips Beryl Grip To Your Rifle October 24, 2023Some time back in 2017 or 2018, I bought some original Beryl second generation grips – the larger one with finger grip cut outs. I then made a couple of molds based on the originals. I thought they would be popular right away, but I’d sell one here and there and then Arms ...