[TheForge] Anyone there? OT:

[Jerry Frost]

I used ball bearings when I wanted to do something final to the target and 
my cannon fired marbles. 1 tbsp of black powder would put a marble through 
the fender, inner fender and water jacket of the engine. A friend and I 
combined efforts on a 17th century ship's cannon model for a Jr. high 
history/shop projects. I made the cannon in metal shop class and Mark C. 
made the oak carriage in wood shop.

My metal shop teacher told me if the bore and touch hole met up I'd never be 
allowed to take another shop class in California again. I doubt he 
considered I'd grown up in Father's machine shop. Mark and I got an A each 
on the project in both shop class and history class. It took all of maybe 3 
minutes to push the bore to the touch hole once I got it home. Unfortunately 
Mark's beautifully made oak and brass carriage didn't survive the first 
firing.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark A. Pesetsky" <pesetsky at Princeton.EDU>
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Grapes? That's for sissy's...We'd use marbles or ball bearings!! ha ha

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Jerry Frost
Sent: Sun 8/8/2010 8:13 PM
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But of course, they COULD'VE kept my wrist rocket and the bag of grapes up
front with them. It's not like I was shooting at cars or anything important.

Jer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark A. Pesetsky" <pesetsky at Princeton.EDU>
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Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:45 AM
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Can you blame them? ha ha