Wow! Thanks Vic. My 2nd win. :-)

1. Winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, old winner posts declaration of new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread. (My preference is for the winner to ask the mods to lock the old thread after the new one is started.)
6. No double posts. Violator buys a round for the house in Rocky's.
7. Additional rule retained from the last round - No posts that APPEAR to be blank - these will be ignored or deleted. (Sig lines do not count as part of a post)

Let the race begin.

Cheers.

Since this is the 1st post it is probably safe to not win.

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And you would be correct in that assumption. ;-)

Cheers.

Congrats Wiggo on your win. That's a great bed you have there.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Congrats Wiggo :-)

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Congrats Wiggo.

Thanks everyone. :-)

That's a great bed you have there.

Thanks Vic, I havn't slept so well since last summer in on my other bed down in my other unit (that's the old shop out front and my summertime hangout) and all it cost me was the steel for the base, getting some 25mm holes drilled and a bit of flat steel down at the local workshop, 2 sheets of plywood, 2 pine planks (which I turned into 4 and still have 2 left for another project) as well 1L of clear coat and a 2lb roll of MIG wire (as well as plenty of blood and sweat, but thankfully no tears). The rest I had laying about here (mostly my daughters' old double bunk unit which supplied the posts, fastenings and bedhead inserts) and I can have a few beers at the pub with the change from $350au (and seeing as it's P.O.E.T.S. Day I'll do that right now). ;-)

Cheers.

I just have to get the adjustable steering column and get the column installed, I did with some effort figure out how to get My right thigh under the wheel, but that is still not easy, while getting out is conversely easy.

Doing that was always a bit difficult, but now that is really difficult and a bit exhausting.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Well done Wiggo. I'm glad to hear that the new bed is working well.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Late night insomnia is still lurking and waiting.

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Thanks Rob and I'm glad that I went with the steel option over the structural pine option (I drew up plans for both types) as on inspection of the old ensemble base the pine structure of it has pretty much turned into a stiff rubber type substance (obviously the timber has been well and truly over stressed over the years tearing the grain apart), but it'll still make good kindling for the fire once I finish separating the wire frame from it and chop it up (hopefully I'll finish getting that done tomorrow). The only give and movement that happens with this new bed is totally contained to the mattress now so I'm not taking a couple of hours of a morning anymore trying to straighten up and I got a chance to learn MIG welding as well as trying out an electronic welding helmet (both a totally different experience to the old stick and flip lens helmet that I've used for half a century). ;-)

I usually find a dark rum or 3 will fix that Admiral. :-D

Cheers.

Congratz Wiggo.

Winning again.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Up since 1 when my phone sounded an alarm,

"Active shooter, shelter in place".

At 3 I get a text that the shoot has been caught and that the shelter order is lifted.
This time it identified the city where this was happening. It was over 30 miles from me.
How far can a bullet travel?

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How far? It all depends on the size of the shell, barrel, and gun powder behind it.

30 miles? You should be safe, unless someone is shooting 20" shells at you...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Somehow I don't think an active shooter at UC Davis is going to be walking around with something that can shoot a 20" shell. Or even lift the shell without the gun. Turns out it was a burglary at a weed dispensary. The report does not say what size the gun was. Only that it was a man with a handgun.

Wait was wondering who had a 20" shell. "The 20-inch guns which were planned for Incomparable[1] were bigger than the largest guns ever installed on a warship (the 18.1-inch guns of Yamato): 20-inch guns were ultimately only ever to be used on paper. "
Event these are only 18"

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Max range for 16"-18.1"? About 25 miles. 20"? Probably no better, the US Navy said larger than 16" was a fools errand, which is why only the two 18's were made, Japan did make two 20", but they were never completed or fired and Japan was near their industrial limit as mentioned here.

The construction of the Yamatos challenged the capacity of the Japanese steel and shipbuilding industries, and the A-150s would have strained them even more. For example, producing the armor plate necessary to protect a battleship against twenty-inch guns was simply beyond Japan’s industrial capacity, and would have required serious compromises.

Drawing of a proposed A-150 IJN Battleship.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Up since 1 when my phone sounded an alarm,

"Active shooter, shelter in place".

At 3 I get a text that the shoot has been caught and that the shelter order is lifted.
This time it identified the city where this was happening. It was over 30 miles from me.
How far can a bullet travel?

How far did that active shooter cover in Nova Scotia, Canada?

CONGRATS, Wiggo!!!!! :-) :-D


TL

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Have TARDIS, will travel...
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Thanks Mike & T.L.

Up since 1 when my phone sounded an alarm,

"Active shooter, shelter in place".

At 3 I get a text that the shoot has been caught and that the shelter order is lifted.
This time it identified the city where this was happening. It was over 30 miles from me.
How far can a bullet travel?

When I use to buy high powered long range ammunition (when I wasn't reloading used cartridges) they always came with a warning that they were dangerous within 5 miles or 8km, but if the shooter is driving that could throw a spanner in the works if you don't know which way they went and how fast they can cover at least 25 miles. ;-)

Cheers.

That would be quite the monkey wrench. My firearm days are behind Me and today that holds no interest in My mind, even if I was very good at it.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's