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stalwart · « **Reply #1380 on:** January 21, 2016, 04:46:35 PM »

Got a response from Northern:

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting us. Most of our orders are shipped via UPS. If the item is a smaller lighter item, UPS changes the delivery to sure post. Unfortunately UPS does not accept PO boxes for shipping address, even if the order goes sure post. Only way to have UPS deliver the smaller lighter items directly to your physical address is you would need to select 2nd day air.

Regards,

Leo"

Would have been nice if they told customers that. Back to shopping for a gauge. Fortunately, I have nothing better to do with my time...

vigilandy · « **Reply #1381 on:** January 21, 2016, 04:59:14 PM »

Are you looking for a 1/4" NPT gauge? I've had good luck getting quality gauges for cheap via eBay.

StevenG · « **Reply #1382 on:** January 21, 2016, 05:08:16 PM »

Why on earth can't they just chuck your gauge in a flat rate box?
At work we use fedex, if one of our employees out in the world needs something sent to a PO that is what we do. Seems easy enough. Mailman takes it with him when he drops off the mail.

stalwart · « **Reply #1383 on:** January 21, 2016, 05:35:28 PM »

Quote from: StevenG on January 21, 2016, 05:08:16 PM

Why on earth can't they just chuck your gauge in a flat rate box?
At work we use fedex, if one of our employees out in the world needs something sent to a PO that is what we do. Seems easy enough. Mailman takes it with him when he drops off the mail.

My response to Northern:

"Would have been nice to know that before I ordered. I'm not the only person who USPS has decided to quit serving, to save money... while charging them for the only alternative, a PO box.

You have put your reputation in the hands of another company... who chose to put it in the hands of a bankrupt Federal agency (while keeping a policy that will prevent that agency from serving properly). Good luck with that. I paid enough shipping to send it directly Priority Mail... and would have it by now.

If it ends up in my PO Box (it's happened before... ONCE), you won't be hearing from me again. If you get it back (want to hear about how many of my things USPS has lost in transit, this year alone?), I will be asking Paypal directly for a refund... then avoiding your company from now on.

I'm stunned this doesn't concern your company greatly... but, hey it's a game of numbers, right? Screw the small fry... you can make it on the kind of profits USPS has lived on for years...

Eric Kuehn"

I'm not pretending they will care.... but, sometimes, I have to say it anyway.

EDIT: to be clear, I put both my street address and my POB in all my orders, everywhere. Northern won't take the order if it has POB#, p.o. box#, or any other recognizable PO markings. The fact that UPS doesn't allow those markings, as long as they have a street address, too... mystifies me. I remember when they were the very best (yeah, yeah, grampa...).

Quote from: vigilandy on January 21, 2016, 04:59:14 PM

Are you looking for a 1/4" NPT gauge? I've had good luck getting quality gauges for cheap via eBay.

Yes. If this one doesn't show, I'll try that. Couldn't find a (retail) 15K gauge anywhere but Northern. The new design test rig will have a multiplier, so I can use a gauge on it that reads up to that fraction, instead. Those are everywhere.

stalwart · « **Reply #1384 on:** January 25, 2016, 06:19:27 PM »

Well, guys... there are 2 more FDPCPs on the way here, slated for destruction. Thanks, Andy!

The gauge is 1 day out, let's hope it ends up in the hands of the young cutie at the PO (She's 39... yes, I'm old) who caught the last one of these snafu packages.

stalwart · « **Reply #1385 on:** January 25, 2016, 07:18:51 PM »

There is another coming. It looks like we will have a small, but significant data base on these, eventually.

I am pondering the booster. Is there any reason I can't consider the volume lost in the first test's leak as an indicator of the max volume I need to calc for? I just don't know enough to properly WAG the needed volume of the rig.

The max volume needed, if known, will determine the size (therefore the cost) of this thing, and help me build it right the first time (important to me, for a list of reasons).

rsterne · « **Reply #1386 on:** January 25, 2016, 07:40:37 PM »

If most of the leaked volume was from the hose expanding, you won't need to allow for that much, because it will be on the primary side.... but allowing for that would certainly be plenty, I would think....

Bob

stalwart · « **Reply #1387 on:** January 25, 2016, 08:17:19 PM »

Bob, seeing it take a couple tablespoons to chase the leaky rig from 3K to 6K, leaves me relieved the booster won't be a 50# monstrosity.

Guys, although I'm not a Big Dog here, I am very happy to say that I "know a guy, who knows a guy..." Here's why:

The first Fusion repeater will be a 3K .22 bullet gun (stroked). The liner is a Redman's (from John C at pelletgarden.com ), and it will sport a rare, and beautiful, double set up (airgunlab.com).

The sleeve is aluminum and steel... the overlap (it's already bonded) is 3/4". It's significantly lighter than a stock barrel (numbers when it's fully cut, and weighed).

John also made me an assortment of different bullets to test with... also gorgeous. All about 30gr. They will make a pretty pic, all on their own... which is coming soon.

Happy camper here!

stalwart · « **Reply #1388 on:** January 25, 2016, 09:29:23 PM »

Guys, I did custom vehicle paint for decades, and although I'm personally a fan of keeping the use of pearls to just a minimum (an accent, not an attack), I have shot enough heavy pearls to have seen what those can do to the lines of an object in direct sun. See where I'm headed?

I can't help but wonder what a really heavy pearl job, in the colors closest to the hunter's environment, would do to obliterate the biggest cue many animals take... straight lines. It wouldn't require a terribly glossy base.. the stuff "dances" even in the jar (basically flat).

stalwart · « **Reply #1389 on:** January 25, 2016, 09:58:32 PM »

BTW... I have decided to call the concept "Cloaking"... anyone who has been here long knows that 2 of my ideas have already been made public (Russian GRS, and the very first p17 mod I ever brought here), without a mention of me or GTA... and someone here was (is?) planning to copy my thru-tube for sale (and, had the nerve to ask me to sell him a receiver for a production jig). This is why I stopped showing most of what happens here. So...

I offered the concept here to you all... I'll get to it if you don't, first, but I'd love to see it tried elsewhere... but, I would much appreciate it if you would all give me the unspoken gentleman's agreement that using "cloaking" as a process' brand name will be reserved for me.

They make pearls for powder coating.

stalwart · « **Reply #1390 on:** January 26, 2016, 12:06:02 AM »

Can't get this out of my head...lol. Wondering what a barber pole design with a thin stripe of large metallic flakes, covered with a wider band of pearl, would do. Leave a small separation with little manipulation... optically swelling the rest.

rsterne · « **Reply #1391 on:** January 26, 2016, 12:38:49 AM »

Sounds "prissy".... but then I don't wear pearls, myself.... *LOL*....

Bob

stalwart · « **Reply #1392 on:** January 26, 2016, 12:48:30 AM »

LOL... there was a time when, if it would have helped bring in meat, I would have worn a cheerleader's outfit while hunting.

It wouldn't be pretty, and wouldn't be visible except in direct sunlight.... but, that is when even similarly colored objects have enough contrast to stand out... especially straight lines.

It would intentionally have something I normally can't stand when I see a cheap pearl paint job... an optically blotchy appearance.

stalwart · « **Reply #1393 on:** January 26, 2016, 01:24:11 AM »

Anyone who has seen a perfectly straight car painted so badly (metallics or pearls), that from any distance it looks like a Bondo wagon, knows what I'm trying to get at here.

If you try, you can shoot "dents" into a car.

I'm not talking about replacing camo, just enhancing it during the very times some lose their ability to "blur".

avator · « **Reply #1394 on:** January 26, 2016, 01:55:28 AM »

Quote from: stalwart on January 26, 2016, 12:48:30 AM

LOL... there was a time when, if it would have helped bring in meat, I would have worn a cheerleader's outfit while hunting.

It wouldn't be pretty, and wouldn't be visible except in direct sunlight.... but, that is when even similarly colored objects have enough contrast to stand out... especially straight lines.

It would intentionally have something I normally can't stand when I see a cheap pearl paint job... an optically blotchy appearance.

This is normally where I jump right in a thread but, I'm just kinda speechless right now.

rokitman60 · « **Reply #1395 on:** January 26, 2016, 07:55:32 AM »

The whole "cheer leader" thing is painting a picture in my mind...

StevenG · « **Reply #1396 on:** January 26, 2016, 08:53:17 AM »

Quote from: stalwart on January 25, 2016, 08:17:19 PM

Bob, seeing it take a couple tablespoons to chase the leaky rig from 3K to 6K, leaves me relieved the booster won't be a 50# monstrosity.

Guys, although I'm not a Big Dog here, I am very happy to say that I "know a guy, who knows a guy..." Here's why:

The first Fusion repeater will be a 3K .22 bullet gun (stroked). The liner is a Redman's (from John C at pelletgarden.com ), and it will sport a rare, and beautiful, double set up (airgunlab.com).

Is that a one off or will arigunlab starting offering the double tube for the fusion as a regular thing?

stalwart · « **Reply #1397 on:** January 26, 2016, 03:46:06 PM »

Quote from: rokitman60 on January 26, 2016, 07:55:32 AM

The whole "cheer leader" thing is painting a picture in my mind...

Don't let it! It won't end well...

Steven, that's a standard kit, with a custom upper tube. One off.

ezman604 · « **Reply #1398 on:** January 26, 2016, 03:48:56 PM »

I'll have to go to the s-l-a-u-g-h-t-e-r house to watch them process hogs just to get that picture out of my mind.

stalwart · « **Reply #1399 on:** January 26, 2016, 03:55:04 PM »

That's a good idea. A few hours of watching something more pleasant should work to minimize the damage.

I think we should find out if Bill is ok....

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