 Surplus tires and truck there for. 9.00x16 Michelins.
|  M101 spare tire mount. Specifically to allow access to the M101-0 trailer brake handles. Allows spare to ride up with the box when using the trailer's dump feature (not recommended, use caution, possible damage to tail gate and a-frame) Will also fit the -A1,-A2,-A3 models.
|  The truck my father, Leon Kuchinskas was in on Tinian, when it got hit by an unexploded bomb, launched from an explosion in a neighboring revetment. Leo's "valiant efforts, coolness and quick thinking" earned him the Soldier's Medal for rushing in to the burning revetment, tearing the burning clothes off of two soldiers, and rushing them to the aid station. The two men eventually recovered.
|  Copy of Leo's commendation, 2nd full paragraph
|  Homebrew beer. Gluten Free, Malted Oats and Sugar the main ingredients.
Plus, the Corny keg I cut down to fit the refrigerator's shelf. Handy to have a TIG welder in the garage.
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 Graph of stats showing why treating the whole population with Statin drugs would, on the average, give us each 10 day longer lives.
|  Old White truck
|  1937 Indiana Truck
|  Indiana, White in background
|  Hand Cranks for Dodge PWs.
Email for info, about $33 ea plus shipping.
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 Barley
|  Stock was too short, I suppose the previous owner was too? So I made this one, to suit me. 14 1/2" length of pull. Black walnut, Spar Varnish, rubbed in as if it was oil.
|  Pretty nice piece of walnut, from right next to a knot in a piece out of the bin at the local hard wood store. Cost all of $19, and I still have some nice stuff from the other side of the knot. Hand gun grips maybe? About 10 hours work.
|  Fiddleback Maple stock that I made for my Model 50 Winchester auto loading shotgun.
|  Different lighting, shows the semi-gloss of hand rubbed oil finish.
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 Myrtle wood stock blank, compared to OE style M14 stocks. Ought to fit.
|  "Honey, does this stock make my butt look big?"
|  Blank sanded a bit and wet, to show some of the curly figure within the wood.
The same mottling does extend through most of the fore end too.
|  Day One, I got the rough inletting done.
|  Stock is still flat and square. Easy to vise it that way. And makes router and table saw functional to do as much inletting as possible. Keep everything straight and parallel. I'm sure glad I hung on to my 2" stroke plunge router.
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 In keeping with as fat a stock as possible, I've inlet the front of the floor plate. Not far enough though. I had mistakenly let the rear of the trigger group in to make up for the thickness at the front. Lets just say I started drilling for a pillar a little prematurely.
|  Nearly finish carved, and dampened with water. Looking good, time to start bedding before final shaping and sanding.
|  Sart of bedding, inlatting a fore end liner of steel, to screw accessories to. It is full length, will be used for sling swivel, and possible rail or to affix an op rod guide block to.
|  Finished Myrtle wood stock for M14.
1 1/2" longer. 1" additional drop at heel, and about 10° of toe out. Truly made to fit.
|  Some of the flashy grain that Myrtle is known for popped up in the butt when the finish was applied. Hand rubbed Urethane Spar Varnish, satin.
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 Full size pic.
|  32 position Gas Cylinder Lock, Stainless Steel. These are the final parts, laser cut, but in need of 'second operations'. Nut needs to be threaded, and retainer milled to a proper thickness. Wrench come with the set, is set up for use with a torque wrench. OD of nut is 1", no bother to sight picture.
|  Pic of a batch of parts, before final machining and medai blasting for final matte finish.
|  32 position gas cylinder lock for the M-14. With the spanner that is included in the kit. Note the two sample sets, and how the key is offset. This allows 16 settings of the nut by flipping the retainer over, the key is offset by 1/4 of the spacing. Flipping it makes for 1/2. If those 16 are not close enough, installing the nut backwards ought to give an additional 16, since the thread pitch does not go evenly onto the thickness of the nut.
|  Front view 32 position Gas Cylinder Lock, Stainless Steel. CNC laser cut parts , media blasted for a matte finish.
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 Final assembly, with tools needed.
M-14 multitool for the gas cylinder plug, allen wrench and castle nut pliers for the front recoil suppressor, and a 3/8" drive ratchet or torque wrench. Use a torque wrench in the spanner at 90° to the torque wrench, other wise expect about 10" over torquing.
|  Ditto
|  Sketch of how a prop-driven cart is able to travel down wind faster than the wind.
|  Ranger (Sears) Side by Side Double 16 gauge, restocked this week with Black Walnut Crotch grain. Lumber from a 2x10 piece of lumber from Frost Hardwood.
|  Right side view shows roll-over cheek piece. Custom stock to fit ME, 14 1/2 LOP, extra drop at heel and all the toe-out I could get in the lumber at hand. Fit's me well, I can mount the gun with my eyes closed, then open them up and be looking right down the center rib.
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 6v air pump
|  Home made wine label.
|  Leon J. Kuchinskas, 60 years after loading bombs into B-29s on Tinian Island.
|  Mud, rocks and debris came very close to a group of homes along a washed out U.S. 34 from recent flooding of the Big Thompson River in the Big Thompson Canyon in Larimer County Colorado Saturday morning, September 14, 2013. (Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
|  A large section of Colorado U.S. 34 completely washed out from recent flooding of the Big Thompson River in the Big Thompson Canyon in Larimer County Colorado Saturday morning, September 14, 2013. (Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
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