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Good evening, my seek thermal camera arrived today and I've been playing around with it. Here is one of my first pictures of my dog in front of our woodstove. As you can see, the camera is able to confirm that dogs have cold noses.
Now lets turn the attention to my LDT-465 that has a...
Scarborough Fish & Game is looking for WWII Rifle shooters to come out to our annual Battle of the Bulge Rifle Match, this December 14th.
Any rifle that was used in the European Theatre is welcome: M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, Mausers, Springfields, Enfields, BARs, etc. Yugo and...
I have a seek thermal camera on order, should be here by the end of next week. Once I get it, I'll take some pics of the engine block warmed up with the water pump heater for ya'all. I'm kinda curious myself what it'll look like.
That's it for pics. I'm just going to close by saying the funniest moment on the trip was the ride back home -- We got caught in a rain shower around Damariscotta and rain water came in around the passenger-side windshield and was spraying on my poor wife's lap. The look on her face was...
Another lighthouse that was open that day was the Rockland Breakwater Light.
This breakwater was constructed in the late 1800s and is almost a mile long, and built from some 700,000 tons of granite. I can't imagine the undertaking that was without modern machinery. Here's some pics.
During...
I was just getting to Owl's Head lighthouse Bill W! I think you'll enjoy these pics. (link to map)
The lighthouse is part of a state park and is under the care of a conservation group, it was open when we were there. Here are some pics of the lighthouse and some taken from inside.
In keeping with patracy's "Get in Shape" thread we took the bikes out for a scenic ride.
Along the way, we saw a M-37 "planted" in someone's yard. Now I feel like a dub, here I am posting pictures of the trip on SS and I didn't take a picture of that M-37. But there is one along this route...
I call this pic "Camp Deuce."
We did have a nice little view of the ocean out the rear door, my wife enjoyed looking out from there in a camp chair.
But if you want the back-in-to-the-ocean spots you should reserve them well in advance. This RV park has earned some loyal customers over...
For both nights of the weekend we camped out a place called "Lobster Buoy Campsites." This was a small little RV park right on the Ocean.
To say they were MV friendly was an understatement. That had been eagerly waiting for our arrival even though I had made the reservation several months...
Our first stop on the journey was the world famous Moody's Diner for lunch.
My wife and I both had great meals and dessert, would highly recommend this stop for any tourist traveling through. The hills into Waldoboro can be a little challenging for a deuce, I had to downshift to 3rd gear a...
My wife and I took the M109 up to Owls Head this past weekend, it was my wife's idea so I was happy to oblige. She wanted to see the antique autos at the annual Owls Head auction that was held there.
Here's a link to the auction with lots of pictures of the cars and trucks and how much they...
The muffler cut the most noise, but I installed that several years before I had the "Sound Meter" app. MO MV Man reported 93.1 decibels with a soft top:
Before the new foam, Sound Meter toggled between 83/84 decibels at idle. So only somewhere around a 1 decibel reduction in noise there...
Lined the inside of my hardtop with GI ground mat foam.
Removed the forward M109 box window, dissembled it, replaced a rotted piece of wood where water had been leaking through, and put it all back together.
Cut a foil-lined GI ground mat to fit inside the transmission/transfer case tunnel...
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