GOLDEN JACKASS 2
Yesterday we discussed
what a wonderful guy Jim Willie is ( as has been pointed out here previously,
anyone named James is automatically considered special and above the common
Dirt People. I’m sorry, I don’t make the
rules ) and his assertion that the PetroDollar collapse already happened (
after being chipped away at for years ) and our central bank papered that over
with derivatives and kicked the can down the road. It sounds rather convincing to me, if only
because you can’t have a severe decline without breaking a few eggs and
derivatives have been the bankers Go To move forever.
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Now we continue on with
more of the articles topics. Actual
inflation is at 10%. Now, we all knew it
was higher than actually reported, because while all those Old Humpers out
there were thrown a bone and given COLA-cost of living allowance-adjustments on
their Social Security, they seem to have all skipped all math classes ever and
don’t realize that once the Boomers all started to retire the Ponzi Scheme
couldn’t pay for all of their Florida condos and Arizona golf courses. The official inflation rate is lower on
purpose to keep all those greedy grandparents from getting bored and buying
scratch off tickets all day long. Hey,
hump you! I get to miss my kids
Christmas so you can play Lotto all morning?
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And we all know about
commodity cheapening. Just three years
ago I’m buying the Heeb hot dogs for under $5 for 16 ounces and now the Goyem
have to pay for all those funny hats with $6, nine ounce packs. Serves us right for being unwilling to buy $1
lips and arseholes from cancerous chicken parts. Not only package shrink but the terrible
quality. NOL had to go buy a dryer
because the apartment laundry room one had been heating up and smelling and
threatening to burst into flame ( I took it apart, amongst dreadful confusion
and swearing and replaced the heating coil, but it was just worse
afterwards. And that was without extra
parts left over! ).
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Of course, Home Despot had
you wait for two weeks for an appliance, because, you know, hump you that’s
why, so we went to the only other place in town, Sears. They are independently owned so they have a
chance of surviving the chains bankruptcy.
On a $379 dryer they would have charged another $80 for delivery and
around $80 for a three year protection plan.
Those are usually not protection plans per se but rather a product lifespan
guess, plus one month. Your crap always
breaks just after the plan expires. I
never get them. Now I’m wondering if I
gave GE too optimistic of a quality control guess. I won’t start again on shoes, my hobby horse
of quality decline ( one You-Tube survival guy recommends “L.A. Police Gear”
for $55 boots that last over a year of hard use ).
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But JUST monetary
inflation yearly is around 10%, averaged out over nearly twenty years. Oops-ee!
That makes me a little more nervous about my cash savings. Not that I want more silver ( putting too many
eggs in one basket ). And ammunition won’t
buy food ( while in the decline ). I’m
seriously thinking about putting more cash savings into wet canned meat. Anyway, that is all of course pre-fracking
oil industry collapse. You ain’t seen
real inflation until our energy supply contracts. 10% will seem dreamy. I was concerned about the petrodollar
collapse since we still import half of our oil from overseas ( Saudi Arabia is
already accepting Chinese currency for oil.
She just knows better than to not also take dollars. Not that her oil will be a factor too much
longer ).
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And that is still going to
happen. It just won’t matter then
because ALL trade is boned at that time.
It wasn’t really hyperinflation as much as lack of trade for almost
everything that frightened me so. It
seems that few people want our fracking oil.
It is like the Venezuela crap.
Fake oil costly to process or use.
Gold Jackass seems to think that rising prices ( through manipulating
the Texas and London prices ) are one way the frackers are being subsidized to
stay in business. It makes sense as they
were losing money at $100 a barrel.
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Then there are soy beans
and Chinese trade. It is reported by GJ
that a lot of soybeans are rotting in silos because the Chinese tariff
tiff. They evidently don’t need Big Ag
as much as BigAg needs them. They are
getting supplies from elsewhere. I think
there is some indications we were involved in Brazilian politics, as in CIA or
such. And the Brazilian folks in charge
down there are not as big of idiots as the LefTards here in this country,
believing Russia is behind hacking. They
know who there enemies are, and they don’t drink vodka. So they would naturally
be disposed towards Chinese wishes for agriculture commodity trades.
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Not to mention
Africa. Not only are more African
nations now trading in Chinese currency for oil ( while we just send in
SpecForces to try to stir up trouble ), there is a lot of ag commodities going
from there to China. This is a lot what
hubris looks like, when you take conditions of prosperity from fifty years ago
and insist they still apply contrary to all evidence. We USED to be the global bread basket. We USED to grow in fertile soil and used home
grown oil to do so. We USED to have
surpluses before we filled up the place with Other Colors.
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And one more Fun Filled
Fact while we are in Africa. Look at the
map, the east cost at the Horn. Right
across from Yemen is a little turd of a country, Dijibouti. GJ reports that China has a good stronghold
there, mostly thanks to the Saudi-Yemen War.
And guess what just happened?
There was pirate activity against Saudi Oil. I can’t imagine who was behind that. Now, go up a bit and what do you see? The Suez Canal. Are you getting a strategic picture yet?
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We have already lost
geopolitical control of the globe. We
can’t admit that, ‘cause ‘Murica! We
have already lost economic control, as we no longer have the key currency
anymore. We are in a period after the
can has been kicked down the road but before we run out of road. If any of you are under the assumption that
Very Bad Things Economically This Way Come are not already baked into the cake,
go buy an extra box of ammo. You only
need one round, but they sell them by the box only. Get prepared to eat that bullet.
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note: wonderful minion suggestion. For apocalypse reloading, a car battery has near 20 pounds of lead in it. Out-bid the recycle center or auto shops ( with the core charge/tax ) on Craig's List or however ( I'd camp out at Wally by the auto center with a sign ). Our tax here is $8, if I recall correctly. I would have no problems getting as many batteries as I needed at $10, and instead of $2.50 a pound mail order lead it would cost me .50cents a pound. I'm sure the lead is "weird", and the acid is a danger, so I wouldn't use this for every day reloading, just post-apoc. Thanks, loyal minion! ( in response to the e-mail newsletter article you all refuse to subscribe to ).
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If you are looking for canned meat I can highly recommend the following:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.werlingandsons.com/
I have a bunch of their hamburger and it tastes just like normal hamburger. I have some that is about 5 years old now so I need to use that up and reorder.
I've heard good things, but need to do it double cheap.
DeleteJust remembered, a few months ago I bought a can of cooked ground beef at Wally for about $6-$7 and the can was about 14 oz, and it tasted OK to me. I don't remember the brand name right now (Keystone maybe?). They've been selling it for at least a few years now.
DeleteJust looked up Keystone ground beef:
Deletehttps://keystonemeats.com/buy-online/canned-ground-beef/keystone-heat-serve-ground-beef-24-cans-14-oz/
You can buy from them at $88 for 24 cans (14.5 oz) plus shipping. Before shipping that works out to about $3.67 a can, or about $4.05 a pound. Not bad considering.
I'll suggest getting a single can at Wally and try it first to see if you like it.
Call it $4.50 a pound. Not bad if you call the raw on sale $2, then $1 for the glass jar, amortize the canner generously at 50cent and it would only be another $1 for steel can vs. glass. Perhaps I should give these people a second thought.
DeleteI don't recall seeing them in the grocery canned meat section ( left to right, chili, then tuna ). Am I blind? Hint?
DeleteBetween chili and tuna, next to the GV chicken, canned ham, etc. Same brand has chicken and pork too at Wally. Sometimes they're out of it. JIT, ya know.
DeleteNow that I know what to look for, I might notice it. Previously, I'd just occassional scan for the old hamburger in a pouch they quickly discontinued. Thanks.
DeleteOn the battery lead thing, I would rather stick to sawing the terminals and cable connecters off and using them. The acid inside of the battery could be more useful and less dangerous than melting the plates. At least have an industrial respirator in your stock if you plan to try.
ReplyDeleteOr use the slaves to smelt/salvage.
DeleteAre you thinking of using battery lead to make bullets?
DeleteDon't.
You can not get the acid out of the lead. It will corrode anything it touches.
DeleteIf I'm wrong, please cite good sources to refute. I'd love to be wrong on this point.
Lead-acid batteries, like those used in automobiles, often have arsenic in the plate alloy, as well as calcium. When arsenic and calcium come into contact with the hydrogen generated in the normal chemical reaction in the battery they form the ammonia analogues arsine and stibine. These are heavy gases, once used in chemical warfare nearly a century ago. Very small amounts of either of these gases can kill you, so the recycling of car batteries for bullets isn’t worth the risk.
DeleteI tried it, its a pain in the butt at best. The time it takes one could take a second job and buy lead.
DeleteNot to mention a new pair of jeans because mine got ate. It stinks and its dangerous. I used a full face shield and was still worried about my eyes the whole time.
Trust me, there isnt enough lead in the battery to make it worth your while.
Why Car Batteries Are Dangerous
DeleteThe warnings about smelting automotive batteries to recover the lead they contain needs a bit of explanation. Doing so really does have the potential to harm or even kill you and here is why. Maintenance free/low maintenance batteries use calcium metal-doped lead to catalyze the hydrogen gas generated from water electrolysis back into water. That is what makes the batteries low maintenance or maintenance free, you don't need to add water to the cells as often like in the old days. When the battery lead is melted down there is enough sulfuric acid from residual electrolyte trapped in the lead dioxide and lead framework of the battery plates to react with the small amount of calcium metal in the lead alloy. Normally when sulfuric acid (or water) gets in contact with calcium metal it undergoes a rather vigorous reaction that generates hydrogen gas. In and of itself this is no big deal, hydrogen is a simple non-toxic asphyxiant that is also flammable. But the lead alloy used in batteries also contains a bit of antimony and even arsenic to help harden and strengthen the lead to withstand the vibration and general knocking-about batteries have to withstand in order to survive normal automotive use. When hydrogen comes in contact with arsenic and antimony, or compounds of these two elements, the hydrogen reacts to form ammonia analogues called arsine and stibine, AsH3 and SbH3. Both of these are heavy gases and both have the similar characteristic odors of rotting fish. In World War One the Germans experimented with these, along with phosphine, another rotting-fish-smelling gaseous ammonia analogue with formula PH3, as war gases. As such they were highly effective since they are deadly in amounts too small to easily detect. In even smaller amounts that are too small to immediately kill they cause rather painful lung damage that often eventually leads to emphysema and lung cancer.
So, leave smelting car batteries or using lead smelted from them to professional recyclers. Many folks including myself have successfully smelted batteries and lived to tell about it, but the risk is just too great to mess with the stuff.
Understood and appreciated.
DeleteBuy a used dryer for about $100. My son's done it twice in the past 15 years, had a friend with a truck deliver it.
ReplyDeleteDrill a hole in the top of the battery to relief the pressure and throw it in the burn barrel, come back and shake out the lead later after it cools down. What? You're not "allowed" to have a burn barrel? Sounds like you're living in the wrong place.
"...lips and arseholes..." LOL
Don't forget them toenails and beaks!
Feathers ain't to bad when they're ground into flour bulking. Best tortilla's you ever had but your anus will be bleeding.
Hmmm, I didn't think on a burn barrel.
DeleteAnd then there's the option of blowing it apart with .303. Target practice! Use off your older ammo, then go get some new stuff.
DeleteThe mil spec stuff is supossedly like a dum-dum, with the wooden core. That could be pretty fun. Here, Bubba, hold my beer!
DeleteThere are a couple of issues here even if the battery doesn't have any Calcium in it.
DeleteThe way I see it, you're dealing with Sulfuric Acid contaminated lead. You may or may not be able to neutralize all of the acid. After being submerged in H2SO4 for most likely a number of years, the acid has migrated into every possible microscopic pore in the metal.
A quick neutralization with Ammonia or Sodium Bicarbonate mght not get all of the acid. I simply wouldn't chance it. The thoughts of melting and casting lead that may have a hidden corrosive component, and what it means to your pot, loaded ammo, and gun aren't very appealing. The acid theoretically boils at 626 degrees F, but gaseous acid could remain trapped in the alloy.
In addition to that, fresh battery plates consist of Lead Peroxide (PbO2) and Sponge Lead (Pb).
Discharged plates consist of mainly Lead Sulphate (PbSO4).
Batteries that you're going to open up will most likely have most of the Sponge Lead converted to Lead Sulphate, as the batteries you have access to are dead by definition (otherwise, they would remain in service!).
You're going to generate large amounts of really hazardous waste to try and get just a little lead.
Do everyone a favor, and trade the battery for either scrap lead or wheel weights.
Which seems to translate into whoever is trading you lead is using the poison stuff as batteries will be the #1 available source. Thanks for the save-you convinced me.
DeleteWell, glad I didn't try that! I guess lot's of stuff changed for the worse while I sat chained to a drawing table for 40 years. Back in my day the worse that could happen to you was to burn circles in your thumbs holding a jumper wire on it or blow up in your mug if you fucked up and put the terminals on backwards. I seen a guy in the army cross wire a set of 36v batteries for a gammagoat blow up and burnt 3 fingers off his hand cause he was wearing rings. The rings turned white hot instantly and then fingers hit the floor. I took my class ring off and never put it back on and I don't wear a wedding ring neither. I don't do any jewelry, nor does my spouse. No obvious reason to rob us unless you want some new ventilation holes.
Delete3:34 is smart. Not the route to go with batteries. If that desperate, seek another course of action. Actually less risky out quickly foraging and raiding than dinking around like a meth head with trash pickings. Time will return to being a valuable commodity all over again.
DeleteWe used to use lead wheelweights from the tire shops. Can you still get those?
DeleteYou MIGHT still get those, but you have to sort out metal and other non-lead. Pass over a strong magnet to discard metal, then cut into the others with snips. The lead is soft, other types barely make a bent even with extra pressure. Sorry, no coffee yet and I'm drawing a blank on the other material.
Delete7:14-batt scavenge is meth head trash picking. Ha! Love it.
Delete“…all those Old Humpers out there…don’t realize that once the Boomers all started to retire the Ponzi Scheme couldn’t pay for all of their Florida condos and Arizona golf courses.”
ReplyDeleteI understand that you’re using hyperbole here when you speak of “all” Boomers – and I are one at age 63 – because I came to understand this truth almost 30 years ago. My awakening came when I read the book Social Insecurity by Dorcas Hardy, former United States Commissioner of Social Security. He reported on the actuarial analysis done by the commission which came to the conclusion you noted. From that realization came my own efforts to ensure that I would not need to rely on SS for my retirement income. I resolved not to be one of those who were guilty of sticking the bill to the next generations by receiving more than was taken from me (a moot point, since I’ll never get it all back anyway). It also did not save me from having my wages plundered with FICA taxes, nor will it save the younger folks from being plundered as well by the Boomers who did not adequately prepare and who will demand that the youngsters pay for those condos and golf games they feel they deserve. Someone always loses in a Ponzi scheme; it’s just a question of who profits and who gets stiffed. At least my conscience will be clear when I do retire. I won’t be living the lifestyle you described. Rather, I’ll be living in the simple fashion using the techniques you outline in this blog. My donations and Amazon purchase through the blog are my tangible "thank you" for all your efforts on that score (overt, unsolicited, shameless plug to encourage others to do likewise ;-) )
P.S. – The book (https://www.amazon.com/Social-Insecurity-Dorcas-Hardy-Coulburn/dp/B009J47LBY ) is out of print but a summary may be found here: https://www.enotes.com/topics/social-insecurity
I don't really blame anyone for taking Social Security. The system rewards participation and punishes those who object. No one can be expected to work against their own self interest. I blame the system and the elites rather than the participants, but still reserve the right to mock all.:) Many thanks for being a paying minion. Love you all, long time.
DeleteThe problem isn't the people that are doing the receiving but rather the assholes that are doing the taking. I have no problem at all giving up my SS if they give me back ALL that was stolen from me, with interest, and I'm not talking a cheezy assed 3% neither. Notice that ALL is in capitals because I do mean ALL. Income, sales, property, license plates, fishing license. ALL of it. 20% interest, compounded just like it would have been if it had never been stolen in the first place.
DeleteWhere are they supposed to get that payback money? Sell gov't assets to the highest bidder. For Sale: Washington Monument w/ 5 acres of land = $1bil or best offer. Let the bidding begin.
Washington Monument? Looks more like a monument to Bill Clinton and his activities while in office. Or perhaps a monument to what the .gov has REALLY done to the taxpayers.
DeleteI like your idea, ghostsniper, it's similar to one I've proposed for years: "Hey, .gov, as repayment for all the SS money you stole and used to fund your giveway schemes to buy votes, I'll take my choice of an equivalent-value (with interest) section of federal land with allodial title and no property taxes, ever." Never going to happen - my guess is that China already has the title to it - but it's nice to dream...
Folks used to worry Japan would buy our country. Now they think China will cash in our IOU's for the country ( I know you were being sarcastic-I speak of a generalized fear ). 1st, the law is what the lawyers say it is, regardless of what it says. 2nd, who the heck wants this cankerous crap box? Any of it? All the nice stuff is a facade and kept standing by carbon fuels. The rest of it is Bosnia waiting for a spark.
DeleteExpect the northwest corridor, frisco to yukon and 500 miles inland to be mandarin held territory. No Nancy, Wolverines can't do poop about it as they were starved out and stay on the porches in Idaho. Your gate fees at national parks and now more tariffs on wally world junk pay for interest on bonds held off shore anyhow. Enjoy the soup now, while Minions can still dine in peace.
DeleteBut...Rawlesian territory! Freeholding Yuppies! Let them have it, I say. Gore Warming will drastically change the weather, plus Fuki radiation.
DeleteIt's o.k. though Jim. Free fire zone from Carlin eastward. Plot out your hill spot now and stake a claim with paper on a stick now. That way you have bestest plinking position for the hordes: kalicrats or slopes, fair game. Plan for mom to pack a hearty lunch and thermos of good hot coffee, gonna be a good game.
DeleteAnd when the other guys on the patrol want some coffee, tell them to hump off. You couldn't stockpile at $5 a can?
DeleteYes Jim, good match strike flash points to your article. Expect false flagger domestic events to push for war. (The savior of depressions and collapsing regimes) I won't even spill my coffee over news of a suitcase nuke going off to instigate. (Vegas maybe, international victims, everybody's beloved playground, hhmm?) Invest in the wet can meat as a high value commodity and store of wealth in it's own. Won't have to spend dwindled dollars for supplementals to wheat diet later. Get value priced protein and fat content products over novelty items. The rest of the planet may not total collapse as well and turn their backs on the f.u.s.a. collectively, and Merika could spontaneous combust on it's own stupidity.
ReplyDeleteI don't look for war as a desperate response to economic conditions. We are already in a Forever War, and we will have no option but to shrink that soon enough. The last war that paid was Gulf One. And the last time war screwed our economy rather than saved it was Vietnam-a lesson I'm sure the elite have not forgotten ( Gulf 2 is just corporate welfare and an employment program, not economic stimulus per se in the WWII model ).
DeleteGood point, but, a few middlin' level deep throat state sluts may go off the reservation and start thinkin' fer themselves and see opportunities abound in such an activity. Deniability is baked in the cake and win win all around minus the body count. Thinkin' outside the box just like they do.
DeleteWar might always be the Go-To, but I don't see it working as planned for anyone.
DeleteWe humans love violence, guns, big bangs, and power/control attributes. Can't wash that off of the hands easily. Old habits die hard, stick with what ya know, 3rd generation war and all that. Yep, it'll happen. Stay away from crowds.
DeleteDo you mean 4th GenWar? Guerrillas. 3rd is the German model of decentralized tactical control and mobile. The US is still stuck at 2nd-control on high, bombs over boots.
DeleteRemember when we were growing up, and everybody had a story about their mom's washer that lasted forever and moved multiple times with the family.
ReplyDeleteNow like you say, everything is pretty much crap.
I have a four school-aged kid household, so everything naturally gets beat. The fridge we are using is modest, no telescreens or beverage dispenser in the door. I got it as a discard from a time share resort I clean every year.
Despite being a simple fridge, the internal plastic shelving and drawers are falling apart.
We had friends over one night and were sitting at the dinette table. They are a little older than us and have more discretionary income. We opened the fridge for another,beer, and they saw the duct tape holding the door shelves together. They were like, "Holy shit, your fridge too."
Their newish, super tech consumer report vetted fridge was sporting duct tape too.
After my short comment yesterday about F-the-Man-Don't-Play-the-Game, I was all motivated when I got out of bed this morning.
I ground wheat and buckwheat flour for pancakes and let the old lady take it from there.
Got the sun ovens out. One with 2 loaves of pumpkin bread, one with garlic lentils.
One thing I started doing with the sun ovens is as soon as I decide to bake/cook something, I get the oven(s) out to preheat. Then while they are heating, I do the food prep.
Its about noon here and the temp in each is 325 degrees.
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I wish our fridge was just held together by duct tape. Three months in the motor was wheezing and farting and talking smack. Still running, knock on wood, but the ancient NOL is going to outlast that bitch.
DeleteGutted our kitchen 5 years ago, all new appliances, cabinets, all of it. GE appliances. The bottom rack in the DW is rusted all the way through in several places, rust showed up in less than 2 years. That DW cost $350 and a new bottom racks costs $135. Can you believe that shit? It's still rusty. Amazon has a repair kit I might try out.
DeleteI guess we should know better, after GE went nuclear power plants and financing, that they couldn't be trusted, but we have to hope brand names screw us less.
DeleteDW, is that urban code for rag, sponge, brillo, soap, hot water in a basin. Problem seems to be using it in the first place. Install it, run it after holiday dinners as a treat to the domestic partner, then leave it be. No DW come apoc, thought we was on prepper blog, just saying.
Delete3:13 pm correct.
DeleteThe first part of prepper is prep and we are doing that.
DeleteAnd in the meantime we will live as we see fit.
Got your land out in the sticks yet?
I do and that's where I keep that DW.
I do get the gist of your message though.
FWIW a DW is a big 5 sided mostly waterproof box that can be used for lots of things. Lay it on it's back, tear the guts off the bottom, connect a bike to the shaft the motor was connected too, whittle some oak paddles for the inside and you got a manual washing machine.
I must interject. "Why do you own a DW?" Well, why do you own a car? Both are luxuries ( with the caveat you can own a car if the property is paid for, as long as you can get into town with alt transportation ). One is an affordable luxury, the other is usually not ( although, granted, the Insurance Banker Cartel really chaps my ass and I hate insurance companies with a red hot passion which might slightly color my logic ). If we were truly, honest Injun prepping, should a car be allowed? In other words, pot calling the kettle black.
DeleteAvoid the Rawles priced canned meat products. Use your abacus or smart phone calculator to price out cost per ounce of product. 3 or 4 of one versus 1 of another? Factor in contents of course. Beef, pork, chicken, snouts and pink slime. Avoid tvp vegetable protein fillers. The wet canned meat foods are trader's gold, and a day maker when in a shitty situation. A 120 quantity count plus starch and carb fillers will be a good baseline, to start.
ReplyDeleteBy my calculations, if you go long on pork and chicken and lean on beef, it is 2 glass to 1 metal. If you eat a lot of beef, the costs become really similar ( they seem to charge about the same for all meats ).
DeleteI'm gonna dump a can of that Keystone ground beef in a seive, rinse it good, air dry, then run it through the dehydrator and see how small it gets. Maybe do 10 cans and put in a sandwich size vacu bag. I don't trust cans.
DeleteBut why buy the can, then? Just make fresh, draining/rensing the fat.
Delete40 plus comments, you're a rock star Jim! I guess I am not the only Minion sitting on a thread bare couch, broke, waiting for my welfare and ebt cards to get loaded up. Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
ReplyDeletePlease PLEEZ read up on what old-time gun nuts think of batteries and all things lead. These guys have been near-autistic cheapskates since the ink was barely dry on Tojo's surrender, and they've tried it all.
ReplyDeleteThe best sources, as always, are musty old pre-PC books found at used book stores, rummage sales, and often the best gold mine of all, the books-for-sale area of your local library. 2nd place would be finding the musty-dusties on Amazon.
Anyway, wheels weights are good, linotype metal is their gold, I think fishing weights are OK, and if I remember correctly car batteries rank right up there with dog shit, for the reasons several readers here have cited.
Don't worry, I'm sold.
DeleteGood stuff Jim. I’m sure it pleases you to generate so many comments on an article. I have a few old car batteries sitting around, but the thought had never occurred to me to try and salvage lead from them; mostly because I know what incredible nasty stuff sulfuric acid is. After reading the process in the Dick’s Encyclopedia on the fulminate of mercury (percussion caps) I’ve come to the conclusion that this is also a process to be avoided unless you had no other choice, and even then, you’d better know what you’re doing.
ReplyDeleteHere in the PRK, lead has just about been outlawed, or soon will be. I can see a time when all bullets will be made from Bismuth or Tungsten, and cost a fortune.
Luckily for me, I probably have a 100lbs or so of lead sitting around, that my father had molded into wheel weights for his tractors, from the days when lead was easier to obtain. I don’t know the breakdown of it, but it probably has some antimony and tin in it. Some guns, such as cap and ball revolvers use pure lead balls, and I have more than a few of these guns, so I probably need to buy at least some lead.
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It pleases me I get so many comments, so I know what the hell I'm doing, plus look better than I should whilst so engaged. Minions continue to make my hair shine brighter. And pay me too! Yeah, bitches, good work if you can get it :)
Deletei recently lost my husband suddenly.
ReplyDeletealready in a tizzy and i read about golden jackass.
terrifying.
according to regular reporting, china cannot live without our ag exports. you shot that don.
ag from africa? when we are told they are all at war and starving? i know china has been building up infrastructure in parts of africa for years, so must have plans that parts of africa will become a breadbasket for china.
chinese take a long view, are smart, and are excellent planners.
so yuans are already accepted , as why shouldn't they be?
our hegemony is over and americans don't seem to know it yet.
you mentioned venezuelan oil as 'crap'. is it not good oil? we rtold venezuela is awash in oil and should be a rich country. what is the truth?
i am entirely dependent on very little social security as of this october.
husband's salary gone, house tied to job.
daughter and i and pets must be out in 40 days and are seeking a place to live.
did not plan this way as emergency can overtake anyone at all. emergencies are unforeseen by their nature.
eventually many of us will find ourselves very unexpectedly, in 'reduced circumstances'.
and if james and the g.j. are correct it will be almost a landslide.
you wrote of living as though america is still in the 50 year old prosperity that no longer exists.
that is true, because i remember when almost everyone could get a job, even in west virginia, my home state. people also felt they were one of many united americans. united americans do not seem so numerous as once they were. nothing seems to bind us together and what few bindings there are are being picked at by the vultures.
when i was a kid the old ladies woud sit in the afternoon on the porch and talk about how the country was slipping downward since their own young days.
now we do the same, me and my age confreres [almost 70 years old]. we all agree 'this is not the america i grew up in.'.
and it isn't.
one thing sticks with me from my high school days. mr. alonzo varney, world history teacher, said, 'you've all heard aboout the fall of the roman empire. i have been to rome. it is still there.'.
this land will still be here, in what condition only God knows, after we are gone.
i hope those who inhabit this land in future are blessed and moral.
james, you have told the truth, which is frightening.
thank you for the truth.
Never believe any of the lying liars. Oil reserve numbers were lied about forty years ago, and that reporting is far worse today. Venezuela was pumping oil near 100 years ago. What is left is very low net energy crap akin to tar sands or fracking oil. As global industry contracts from The Greatest Depression, demand for oil is down ( no need to manufacture stuff for unemployed people ). Low net energy crud doesn't sell. Not our fracking oil ( we cannot export the stuff ) and not Venezuela's. Folks can pick from higher energy crude, and they don't want the Fake Fuels. If socialism killed Venezuela, Sweden and France would have died long ago. Even the Saudi's are having problems with being stuck with too much lesser quality oil. It would be like you liquifying coal and trying to sell it with your competitor selling high test racing fuel. At the same price. I'm not a religious man, so I can't pray for you, but I wish you all the luck getting through your difficult period.
DeleteDeborah, Sorry to hear about your husband. We feel for you here in Fla. and wish you the best in a hard time. Steve
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