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Heresy on stands.

He arrived less than 2 months ago weighing in at ~3 lbs. Eats his dog chow like a small horse 3 times per day. Now he's bulked up to an even 7 lbs and commenced ravaging his stuffed sheep. Youngest daughter says 1st time she sees him coming for her leg she's calling his Vet.

If you have seen Juan you've seen Jamal

Straight to the point. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

GOOOOOOD MORRRRRRNING VIETNAM!!!! Just had my first cup and I am off to the tri-state gun show! Roger

Now you're just jumping to conclusions. Are you trying to start something?

Good evening friends.... Over in RTM as per usual on the weekend evenings with a number of regulars there. It was good to see MKP stop by and check in Enjoying a fine vino, and listening to some Shadow Fax on Vinyl right now.. I must say however, the photo association posts were really clever AND funny Ok, just wanted to stop by and say hello..................all looks good here......back to RTM I go...

You are a big man to admit that.

Good afternoon my CC&C friends........ Taking in another LIVE concert from the Berlin Philharmonic concert right now.....

Mark, my Mom's parents were born in England. I have 2 cousins and their uncles come here to "holiday" 2-3 times a year. I find them very interesting people. They were bred to drink, most of us can't keep up with them. The uncles get emotional late in the day and they talk about us Yanks saving their butts in WWll. THose guys witness the brutal bombings, it will bring a tear to their eyes when they talk of it. The older guys are extremely snappy dressers….sportcoats and ascots even in the 90 heat here. They're always happy and fun people to be around. My parents have been to England a few times, the pics are awesome. I would love to go sometime. Enjoy your visit with your family.

Morning afternoon all....... Coffee all done......got few things going on today...... Were picking up some new rugs this afternoon....we'll be taking them to mom's.... Later tonight were all going out to the steak house...my uncle and cousin are over from England....haven't seen those guys for close to 30 years... Last time I was back in England was 1988.....man the years just tic away...... Well I must say yesterday was some reall fun with all the "puns".... Yea yesterday was kinda slow so that made the day go by......yea running around the shop taking pic's and saying dumb shitt....yea I was laughing my @ss off.... Wishing all a great day....... MKP :-)

Have a blast!

That's not what the Boss told me.

I believe the King of Junk would be Fred Sanford?? Am I wrong?

I'm done. You guys have a great weekend!!!!!!

Almost 5 here, winding down.

I changed racks in the back room and now use my 6H30 preamp with my custom ST70 pushing some JBL C50 Olympus with custom wood horns. This is an incredible combination.

Ok, some know, some don't know (and nobody cares!) but, I own a full sized backhoe/loader. I use it to do odds/ends around the farm. It's never pulled its own weight (been used to make money). If something breaks on it, virtually anything, start pulling out bills in $100 denominations. I've owned it for maybe 15 years and have done all the upkeep on it myself. Fortunately, the only issues I've had were relatively small (replace tires, exhaust, hydraulic cooler (that one cost me), radiator (that one also cost me) and some hoses. Oh, I forgot....over it's time with me, I've repacked virtually all the cylinders. Think about it....it has a handful of them and they're not small. Some I can lift myself and some, no way. Just last summer, I had to repack the two swing cylinders on the rear end, I think that was about $1,800. I was glad when I was done....and I thought to myself.....the only cylinder that's not been repacked is the main boom on the backhoe. I don't ever want to have to pull it out because it's literally "boxed" in. I'd have to dig a hole (15' deep), plant the hoe inside the hole so the opening would then be facing UP and then somehow crane it out of its hole and get it done....reversing the process to put it back. Well.... don't you know that just after I got the swing cylinders done.....the boom cylinder started leaking. It's time had come. I had a bright idea....we have a dry pond in the field.. maybe I can simply lay the hoe down the slope of the pond and wrestle the cylinder out? Yep, worked like a charm with a couple come-alongs. Got it out, into truck and fixed. I actually got it back alone. Thing must weigh near 300 pounds and this was when I had some health issues and could barely lift 5 pounds so it was a major effort for me. I am however, stubborn and persistent. Good thing I'm mechanically inclined because having the shop drive out for a house call would really kill my wallet. Enter today and me being a dunderhead. (technically a dunderhead is even worse than a dolt) Preface: The machine has an electro-mechanical transmission.....no (foot) clutch. Just start and click the lever on the left of the steering wheel (think turn signal, pushing down/left to reverse and up/right to go forward) That's all there is to it. Oh, and there is a 4-speed shift lever that essentially never gets used. You can shift on the fly by taking the left lever into neutral. This morning, I jump on the machine to prepare a burn pile. Gather some stuff....get to the already piled burn pile, lift bucket to dump contents.... dump..... click reverse.....and nothing. Dead Machine is running just fine, just not responding to my forward/reverse lever. Hmmm... Is 4-speed lever in gear? yep Is key turned to on position? Yep (with machine running, you can turn key to off location and kill transmission) I'm stumped. After 10 minutes of trying various combos of those levers thinking perhaps I forgot to turn the key on the LAST time so, do it again.... I realized nothing was happening. Horn....hit the horn. The horn is a button on the end of the left stalk. Horn is dead. Hmmm...so everything on the left lever is dead. I flicked the lights but they're on the right lever and, I couldn't see them. Now I know the problem is in left lever housing. Something happened 10 years ago and a solder broke. Good.....I know how to solder! I walked back to house to get screwdriver to take apart and I was going to document my skills. Got apart.... not the issue. I'm slowly getting stumped.... I'm also getting a rising fear that maybe something in the transmission has just now given out on me and if so, it will likely be a long time before I want to spend to fix it. Maybe I can part the machine out....heck, I saw the big cylinder sell once for something near $4,000 alone.... Hmm...maybe it's low on trans fluid? I look and indeed!! HA However, it doesn't make sense to me that on flat ground it would go from working 100% to 100% dead. I top it off....still nothing. Maybe I have a transmission fluid leak so I crawl under the machine....nope. Shift lever ok? Yep. I of course, have tried to move it several times during this process. I decide maybe the transmission fluid was low and needed to work its way into the system so let's look at it again. I lift the hood to check....pull dipstick out....something catches my eye. The negative battery cable had fallen off the battery. I keep it loose so I can pull it off when machine not in use and drain the battery. I get a scowl on my face.....no electricity being fed to an electro-mechanical transmission means no clicky-clicky... I put the battery cable back on the post, sit down and the machine drove off like nothing happened. All in all, this took me about 90 minutes to get from beginning to end. About 4 trips to the house and back to get a screwdriver....oh wait, it also needs a hex, go back.... need fluid, go back, forgot the funnel....go back.... and it was that stupid negative battery cable falling off. Next??

There is almost never any good reason to run a High Output MC cartridge through a phono preamplifier set to "MC". Find the switch that controls your phono input setting (might be hidden on the back panel or even as a DIP switch on an internal circuit board) and switch it to "MM". This should give you a bit more breathing room with your master volume control. Good luck!

Yep.....gotta love those cell phones

MKP, what part of England are they from?

Ahh how cute, looks like a pen%s ,only smaller mine was used for this one. My avatar picture was taken by mine.

Mine was the model for this:

When I log on, the "members" list increases by 3

Mine was so big, they wound up giving it it's own IQ test in the 8th grade

Who needs sunglasses when you have a perennial shade tree.

Some people walk up and stick it in I stick it in then walk up

Curious….what 3 states are the tri-state area? Ohio, Indiana, Michigan? I know the area on the In/Mich line is called Michiana. The southern In/Ky area is called Kentuckiana. Would the In/Mich/Oh area be called Omichiana

I sued them for discrimination... We had a hung jury.

Awe look, somebody sewed a button on a fur rug.

Something creepy about saying that

Sancho's punchline thread?

When I showed up to board the plane, United Airlines made me buy a second ticket.

I had to quit wearing shorts at age 6

There is your problem -- my Klipschorns sounded very average the one time I connected them directly to an AVR. Most HT receivers don't have good amplifiers in them -- how can they, they have to have five (or more) of them in that one box along with all the other necessary stuff. I'm sure there are some that will sound good, but they are likely the very expensive ones. For pure 2-channel listening, you're best off getting a good 2-channel amp. There are many flavors of them and even then some are better than others (but most will be better than your average AVR).

Like the gas lines to Canada....I lay down the pipe.

Marty has "SMALL HANDS!"

Applying for statehood..............

Got it's own zip code

Salmon River for me

Mine is horn loaded

Ahhh - you're the infamous Elephant Man. I stand at attention to your prodigious protuberance.

Ok time to cap this crap off..... Check in later..... BOSS is taking me out.....time to strut my stuff... MKP :-)

Hey I can go all night..... I'm wired...... MKP :-)

You guys trying to harness my creativity?

I was looking for a book to get started with active crossovers but alas I was in the

And I'm a stud too!

But ya know really....... This forum has become an extension of my life...... It's had a reall impact..... MKP :-)

Some of you need a good swift kick in the

Approximately 26x23x8. Asymmetrical long wall placement. Hope this helps.