2/18/14

Well, I can see the light at the end of the wiring harness for John's car.  Saturday I began to finish it out by soldering the few loose ends I'd made and beginning the taping process.  I'm going to do sub-systems into looms and then loom those together into a big harness.  Thing is, some of the runs are way too long since the car is now right hand drive.  I don’t think it will be a problem though unless John really wants to shave those last few grams of weight.  If so we’ll need to string the harness to all of the locations under the dash and shorted wires as need be.  We’ll see.  Actually, since this coming weekend is our off week, I'll probably go there by myself and route the wires then tape up the harness.  We discussed Lil' Wiggly a little but I didn’t touch the car… except to lean against it while working on John's or talking to him.  After we’d done all we were going to do on his car, we went to Campo Verde for lunch.  I went back to the shop from there and disassembled the 90/22 in order to install the shorter barrel.  I swapped the barrels and measured to see where I needed to weld on the flash hider.  When I thought I had it in position, I zooked the hider to the washers and the washers to the barrel.  Yeah, turns out I hadn’t gotten the position exactly right.  It is off just a few degrees to the left… and yes, it does annoy me.  I reassembled the gun and took another measurement.  To avoid federal prison, the gun must be at least 26” long… mine is 62.25” and looks so much better than it did before!  I packed up and went home after that success.  While at work on Friday, I made a pair of signs to carry on my at the gun show advertising the Tavor for sale.  Larry and I also discussed trading the Kel-Tec Sub 2000 folding carbine for all that ammo I “sold” to him last week.  So Sunday morning I rounded up those guns, along with the Sarsilmaz SAR K2 .45 caliber pistol I deemed to be “extra,” and headed to the credit onion to meet Larry for the gun show.  There, I slung the Tavor and “for sale” signs over my shoulder, pocketed the Sark, and we went shopping.  The Russian was surprised that I wanted to sell the Tavor, actually everyone who asked about it was surprised I wanted to sell, especially when I told them how easy it was to shoot and how I loved it.  I ‘splained to most that I had four other bullpups and this was the one which would fetch the most money… probably.  To make a short story long, eventually a guy offered $2,000.00 for the gun without the optics and I fingered I could use them on the Saiga 12 anyway.  The Sark didn’t sell, which left me and Larry to haggle over the Kel-Tec.  Since I didn’t need the ammo back without the Tavor, we’d have to do another deal for the gun.  We came to an agreement eventually.  I also wound up buying a Sight Mark optic for the 90/22 as well as a 50 round shotgun bandoleer.  At the house I decided to try the Sight Mark on the Saiga 12 and noticed it would need a riser to be useful.  The other optic worked fine on the 90/22 so I went with it and planned to go to Bloodbath & Beyond for a riser on Monday.  Monday morning I headed across town to BB&B where I did buy a riser and fought the urge to shop for more guns.  No, that isn’t exactly true.  I did window-shop for guns but I did NOT buy anything… apart from the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle for ten grand.  No, I'm just kidding.  I didn’t buy anything but the riser.  I then went to meet mom for lunch.  Afterwards, I installed the riser under the SM optic on the Saiga 12 and futzed with that for a bit.  Then I played with the 90/22 and its “new” optics for a while.  I think I'm happy with them for the time being.  I might still try to sell more stuff at the next show and pare down the arsenal more before the fit hits the shan and the gumment comes to take them ALL away.  So there you have it, another travelogue of my weekend’s activities.  Enjoy!