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  You're welcome!  :)

    It's just like putting a straw in your glass, putting your thumb over the end and pulling the straw back out of the glass.  The liquid won't drain until you remove your thumb.   The water trying to exit the tank from the drain is pulling a vacuum on the house plumbing.  You've got to open a valve to let air replace the water in the pipes.  If there's a valve on the outlet from the tank, you need to open it.  You also need to open the hot water tap (faucet, shower, whatever) nearest the tank, perhaps even all of them, depending on how your house is plumbed.      And this thread has reminded me of 2 things... 1) I haven't flushed my water heater in a while.  2) The term "hot" water heater still annoys me.  If the water is already hot, why are you heating it?  ;) 

Right.  It's effectively aluminum rust.... aluminum oxide.  It's the reason why the cloth comes off black whenever you use metal polish on something aluminum.    TMI alert:  Aluminum is one of those nifty metals that does what's called "self passivation".  When bare alminum is exposed to air, the oxide layer that forms is much harder than the aluminum itself and solid so it completely covers the aluminum and prevents further corrosion.  The whole process typically happens within a few seconds of exposing bare aluminum to air.  However, the oxide layer is exceedingly thin so it's easily scratched off and the process starts again.    As stated above, the cleaner has etched the aluminum pot and removed that oxide layer, only to have it return in a much greater thickness because of the residual cleaner on the surface.  If he really wants the black gone, a scotch-brite pad will take it off. 

  Yep.  Always figured I'd shoot a 'yote if I saw one while hunting something else, but then there's the classic "dog chasing car" question...  Ok, I got it.  Now what?

  +1.  After the 5th it got downright annoying. 

When has an online "door buster" type sale where supplies are "limited" ever worked? I guarantee the web geeks at Buds knew it would blow up their system but their bosses laugh all the way to the bank. It's worse than eBay snipers. A bunch of people inevitably get butt hurt, but at least no one got trampled.

Right. I wouldn't consider someone who thinks a $300 shotgun isn't top shelf a gun snoob (:D).

Cool. Would be much more cool in a rifle caliber.

Classy.

Best price on Stihl probably at your local farmers coop unless you catch a sale at a big box store.

Nice. Being able to sharpen a knife reasonably well is pretty satisfying for me. I think most any of the sharpening systems are at least a 9 on a 1-10 scale. I only got the Smiths because I had a Dicks gift card and that's all they had. Using it for a while has improved my freehand sharpening skill noticeably. Instead of making edges more dull, I can now make them less dull. :D

Meh. If you've got kids, you've already got the germs. It's inevitable.

Just a fairly basic Smith's system with a strop to finish it off. Helps a hack like me cut a decent edge.

Agreed. I'll try most anything... Haggis, yep. Kimchi, yep. Horse, yep. The stuff I won't eat has been confirmed and reconfirmed. And add shashimi to that list. It just tastes like raw fish (and I like fish). Yuck.

So I decided that I'd spend this lovely afternoon sharpening various kitchen knives, my pocket knife, and a utility knife or two. All went well until I got to my kershaw pocket knife. There was some sort of strange double bevel near the tip on one side of the blade. Took lots of work with the coarse diamond stone to clean that up. But did clean up and is razor sharp again. I have a habit of testing the quality of my sharpening job by shaving a bit of hair off the back of my hand. After a dozen or so knives, the back of my hand is nearly bald now, so I'm bare handed. And I only cut my finger once. :D.

I will admit hot sauce will fix a lot of things. But it won't fix beets, cottage cheese, asparagus, collard greens, probably a few more.

Been there, and it sucks. Had to hold my young 'un down while the doc stitched him up. Not the most fun I've ever had.

A gun without a round in the chamber is nothing more than an expensive hammer.

Happy turkey day folks.

I put it where I liked it best combined with my BUIS and that happens to be over the mag well. 

  I've always printed off a copy of the pdf and cut it down so it fits reasonably in my wallet.  It'd be useless if it got wet, but I've also got the hunter's ed course card with my TWRA number so hopefully they could look it up that way.  But more hopefully it wouldn't come to that.

Look into both 1-way and local rentals.  Sometimes a 1-way rental will be more expensive if the location you pick wants that truck back.  Unless they're really big items, you might be able to rent (or even borrow) a trailer that the stuff would fit in. 

Page 23 of the hunting guide addresses this...  http://www.tn.gov/twra/pdfs/huntguide.pdf   It says the mobile app contains and should self-populate the harvest log, so that's all the officer should need to see.  Though if you happened to be in the woods with no cell service, I'm not sure where it would go from there.    If you use regular internet check-in or a physical check station, you must keep your receipt OR fill out a harvest log.    I looked into it because I don't recall ever hearing/reading about a harvest log before. 

I've used the Honeywell t-stat's from Lowes for Home Depot for years.  They have various versions for different systems with different options.  They've always been pretty easy to install.    http://yourhome.honeywell.com/home/products/thermostats/

Yep... he looks like he got taked to the ground and disarmed.  Several times.     :lol: