5/31/12

I sold a PT92, not a PT29 at the gun show.  I hate it when I make a tpyo like that.  Anyhoo, I also didn’t finish telling why the SKS cleaning rod wouldn’t work.  The threads for the jag and/or cleaning brush are different.  So, Monday morning mom and I head to Sutherland’s Hardware to look for sprinkler parts.  I find the aisle and begin shopping.  They have a different brand but they appear to be… um, what’s the word?  Not “universal,” standardized!  They appear to be standardized.  I find the 90° spray pattern unit I need and begin looking for the installation/removal tool.  They either don’t have one or there isn’t one because I can't seem to find it.  I do find a “tuning” tool and an auger type removal tool thingy I think might work.  I round it all up and head for the register.  Oh, I'm thinking going in that the sprinkler head thingy was going to be in the $20.00 to $30.00 range.  I could not have been less correct.  They were… wait for it… $2.99 each.  I was out the door for less than a tenner.  After that trip, we headed towards downtown to eat at Lili’s Bistro on Magnolia.  Yeah, they were closed for Mammorial Day (a day to remember titties!).  We went to Papadeaux instead.  After lunch we headed home then I rounded up the tactical 7.62x39 and the Saiga 12, along with two cleaning rods and the castle-nut tool I needed to cut down, and headed to the shop.  I found a couple nuts I could weld on to the rods to replace the knob I'd be cutting off and then trimmed the rod for the shotgun.  I zooked the nut onto it and hit it with some black paint then had a look at a way to secure the rod to the gun.  I found a nice little cable holder thingy bent out of metal with an existing hole and thought, “This will be perfect.”  I trimmed it to fit the gun and mounted it to one of the setscrews for the front sight.  The rod slips in and the new nut wedges into the flash hider securing the rod perfectly.  Me rikee rots.  Well, except that it is about an inch too short.  Fortunately it will still work for either of the 7.62x39s so I'm going to cut the third cleaning rod I have a little longer for the shotgun this weekend.  I moved on to the tactical 7.62x39.  I trimmed the other rod and zooked on the nut.  The holes I drilled in the fore arm are snug enough, and just misaligned enough, that the new nut zooked on the end wedges the rod securely into place.  Me rikee this setup rots too.  I cut and ground the corners of the castle-nut wrench to fit behind the butt pad of the shotgun and gave it a test fit.  I'm not 100% happy with how it fits but have an idea how to fix it.  I'm going to finger out a way to recess it into the plastic of the stock so it doesn’t sit as proud of the surface causing the rubber pad to be ill fitting.  Also, I'm going to zook the flash hider/muzzle device wrench to the castle-nut wrench to make a multi-tool… sort of thing.  I think recessing just the castle-nut wrench into the stock, as it is far thicker than the flash hider/muzzle device wrench, will be sufficient to make the rubber pad fit well enough.  Back at the house I had an epiphany about the fore end pistol grip with the covered cubby hole and how I COULD use it on the tactical 7.62x39.  I have a rear trunnion with a Picatinny rail on the bottom for attaching a grip.  It is also threaded for an AR style buffer-tube butt stock.  I took the butt stock off of the shotgun and tried it on the tactical 7.62x39 with the fore end grip as the main pistol grip.  With a higher cheek rest, it will work.  I reassembled the shotgun and the 7.62x39 with the butt stocks they had before the experiment and decided to get the AR style tube and butt stock, with adjustable cheek rest, I need for the 7.62x39 once I get paid.  Hey!  I got paid today!  I may swing by Bloodbath & Beyond “on the way” home tonight and see what I can see.  I know they have a butt stock which would work for $239.95, but I'm not quite ready to drop THAT kind of money on one.  Online I saw a different one for $59.95 which would take a $39.95 adjustable cheek rest.  I think I'll gopher that one if they have it.  I rectum I could just go ahead and order it off of them intergoogles.  Well, we’ll see if they have it in the store or at the catalog desk first.  Ok, it is now 1215 h and I have to go pee.  I'm going to call it a rant and go downstairs now.  I'll talk to y'all again tomorrow.