[TheForge] Anyone there? OT:

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

You were a dangerous little snot!
Now you are a dangerous big snot!
Yipeeeeee!!!!!

Jerry Frost wrote:
> 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>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anyone there? OT:
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> 
> Grapes? That's for sissy's...We'd use marbles or ball bearings!! ha ha
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Jerry Frost
> Sent: Sun 8/8/2010 8:13 PM
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anyone there? OT:
> 
> 
> 
> 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>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anyone there? OT:
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> 
> Can you blame them? ha ha
> 
> 
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