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We're packing up a United Van Lines 18 wheeler and sending everything off to Banjo to test his supertopsecretidtellyoubutthenidhavetokillyou polishy thingy.

Truck leaves STL Wed, Feb. 15th, 9am, so we can make sure it's there by the time he gets off work Friday.

Limit 10 boxes per person.
 
Jeesh! I get back from my shower, take a last peek at the forum before heading upstairs to read, and what do I find???!!
I'm glad I wasen't drinking anything. I'd have a big mess to clean up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
Jaybird, Am I free to put that name on my invention? I'd be proud to use that Jaybirdism as it's proper title. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
P.S. I just moved... No forwarding address.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
not ANOTHER thingy! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
 
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif and now his address is supertopsecritid.. err.. yea that... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
Whatcha reading Ben?
 
Well, 7 hours in and I'm not impressed. The finish on the dashpot I put in hasen't changed much. So I'm scratching the idea of being able to "hands free" polish my carb parts.
Grrrrrrrr.
Guess I gotta start pricing buffer supplies.~sigh~
But I have a load of rusty hardware in there now to see what happens. That could be a good thing.
I guess I gotta play with different media (coarser grit maybe) and maybe bigger paddles in the drum.

Oh yea, Jaybird. I'm reading "The Silver Chair". It's the 6th book in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series. I got the box set for christmas. One more in this series, and I'm done.They're geared twards children, so they're an easy quick, read. But the stories are pretty good.
Then it's on to "The Complete Sherlock Holmes". That one will probably take considerably longer.
 
Narnia as in the Disney cartoon? You reading them to your little one?

~hides her book~
 
Polishing cast parts is always gonna involve a good level of "elbow grease". But you might have something good for rust/paint removal! Have the primer ready for when you take those steel parts outta the wash!
 
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Narnia as in the Disney cartoon? You reading them to your little one?

~hides her book~

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Yes and Yes. Much like the recent "Hitchhikers Guide" movie, the books have been around for a good long time. They have also been a radio show and a series of older movies, both produced by the BBC (C.S.Lewis was British)
Dot loves 'em. I've been using them as bedtime stories since christmas. We're already on the third book with her.

about the polish.... I guess there is no cheap alternative to manual labor, as was said. Maybe it would work givin enough time, but how much am I gonna pay the electric co. to run that dryer for a week straight? And I can only do one piece at a time or else they get beat up.
Oh well, experiment #2 pushed to the side, off to the train store to get supplies for an indoor project(14f outside right now) that I know will work.
Warm and dry baby, warm and dry!
 
Cartoon? the movie wasn't a cartoon... I put the Disney rendition of the movie up there with Lord of the Rings... but with children...

As Banjo mentioned the books are certianly geared towards children. I read them as research for my work in a bout a week. I thought the series of books was good over all, but "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was my least favorite of the books. I felt it was dry and anti-climatic when compared to the other 6 books.

don't make me tell my boss you said it was a cartoon... *grumble*
 
I remember a cartoon of it many many years ago - I don't think Disney made it. But the New movie is better.
 
Oh yea. I diden't read very closely. It was definatly a live action movie.
It's funny it should surface the same time as the "Lord of The Rings" movie, as C.S. Lewis and Tolken were friends, and members of the same writing club.
They shared ideas, and both storylines were based on the bible.(Narnia more so)
Hmmmmmmmm.
 
and yet many of the really hardcore thumpers would call these writings heresy...
 
I suppose you boys have read the Potter series as well. L. Frank Baum's Wizard books.
 
I plan on reading those sometime, But I haven't yet.
 
I have the complete Harry Potter series of books here... But after watching them on TV, what's the point in reading it?
 
Oh my dear boy. Is always better to read.
 
even after you saw the movie?

I tried that years ago with Star Wars Empire Strikes Back... and I was bored to death.

I've read ONE book before it became a movie.... Thinner by Bauchman (steven King), and then watched the movie. If I'd seen the movie first though, the book would've been replay.
 
Do not judge a book by it's movie, ie. Horsewhisperer.

Bruce L
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