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On my way through the Menards store there is the end cap display where they have a bunch of boxes of this gun cleaning kit. I've not clean a gun since 1971 so I'm not so interested but it is less then $10. Again I'm not up on the prices of these kits having purchased my last one in 1961.

I walk by on to other things of interest that day.

I come back and they still have a stack of these. However this time I'm coming to purchase one. Have I decided to take up shooting again?

No, well not right now anyway. But between the visits I was trying to clean this gonked up bushing and a tube. I found I had no good way of doing this task, after much effort I had made little progress. While I was dropping a weight with twine attached, followed by a swab it brought back memories. I remember doing this way back when in my weapons cleaning days.

For less then $10 I now have wire brushes, swabs, tubes, and the rest of the assorted parts (total of 27 pieces). Need less to say this addition made my task go very quickly.

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The first thing I noticed was the smell of gun oil. It is distinctive and it seems your mind can bring back things like that even after a good deal of time. Didn't notice it until I opened the box, but bang it came back just like that. I've not open the oil or even taken it out of its sealed bag.

So this is about all I care to say on the subject for now. I have not checked how well this sizes to things like router chucks but I have high hopes.

Ed

Son of a gun...

I love cross purposing stuff. I have the tools of all kinds of trades and use many of them back and forth a lot.
That is kind of the way of life on a farm.
In many things it can be a great benefit to maintain a problem solving mentality. I believe any type of shop work helps the development of that and it is frequently evident here.


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I thought you were going to repurpose the box!:D

The box was not make by a woodworker unless he/she was in 5th grade beginners class and this was the first project.

Ed

JPG40504 wrote:I thought you were going to repurpose the box!:D

I have a lot of farming history on both sides of my family, not sure how it might have passed down to me since everyone was pretty much off the farm by the time I came along. Of course my mom had grown up on one and so had my uncles so hanging around them might have done it. On my dads side his father was a farmer but off the farm by the time he was born.

I really think it has to do with growing up poor and in a poor area $$ wise. Needed something you went to the relatives/neighbors first then the town dump and if you still didn't have it you went with another idea. Well sometime you went to the hardware store if it was a rush and you had a few $$ saved up. Remember when the grocery store got a lot of their goods in wooden boxes and crates.... those were good pickens and I still have a few things made out of that material.

But I digress.

Ed

robinson46176 wrote:Son of a gun...

I love cross purposing stuff. I have the tools of all kinds of trades and use many of them back and forth a lot.
That is kind of the way of life on a farm.
In many things it can be a great benefit to maintain a problem solving mentality. I believe any type of shop work helps the development of that and it is frequently evident here.


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reible wrote:But I digress.
Ed

I just came home from dinner out. I will not digress... I will digest...


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reible wrote: I remember doing this way back when in my weapons cleaning days.

"Gun" is in quotes. Weapons is substituted for guns. Only disciplined military people continue to use weapons for guns. So, tell us, what branch were you in? I think I know but don't want offend others by posting it.

If you were not in the military then how is it that you identify "guns" as weapons? Curious minds want to know.

Too bad we don't have Menards here. I would love to have one of those cleaning kits.

curiousgeorge wrote:Too bad we don't have Menards here. I would love to have one of those cleaning kits.

Me too! I have a bunch of gun cleaning kits, most specific to certain calibers, and it would be nice to have one more condensed and organized to cover a range of rifles and shotguns, as this appears to do. Now you've reminded me I'm very belated on giving the guns a good cleaning and oiling...