And someone commented and pointed to a gear set that was available at, believe it or not, JCWhitney.

and, while that ISN’T the correct gear, I called the listed manufacturer, who didn’t have the right gear, but suggested a third party, who pointed me to a fourth, who gave me the number of a FIFTH party, who ACTUALLY HAD THE GEAR.

It’ll be here Monday or Tuesday.

Many thanks to commenter “Knucklehead” for the help.

Looks like somewhat less than a half inch. Which is, considering the previous rainfall this week, still significant, but not nearly as bad.

We are still being warned about “Flash Floods” on relatively flat land though. 

I expect a new Gun Control initiative to happen soon.

There is an odd pattern to these hppenings. 

Today some asshole group would object to the stereotypical characterization of 1950’s Italian-American culture in New England and the company would pull the ad and apologize on facebook and make a donation to the Gay Italian Rights Brigade in expiation of the sin of offending the 12 people who screamed the loudest and bring out an organic Gluten Free version of the product to satisfy the SJW protestors.

Back then, it was just good marketing. 

Now I know why it skips time.  I may be screwed here. Terribly worn distributor gears.

Somewhere, I gotta find a drive gear for the distributor…not the driven gear at the end of the distributor shaft, but the one that is attached onto the end of the cam that drives the distributor shaft gear.

I’m thinking NAPA and AutoZone aren’t gonna have a listing.

Anyone got any suggestions where I can find a distributor gear set for a 1927 Chrysler model 50//model 58? (that is the 4 cylinder, not the straight 6 or the 8.

In the last 72 hours.

and another 2.5 to 3 inches in the NEXT 24 hours.

Pretty much things are full right now. The ditches are full, the ground is saturated and there just isn’t much more room for all that additional rain.

The news and the weather forecasters, however, keep talking about “Flash Floods”.
Which we don’t get here. Not enough elevation to create a flash flood.

Flood? Yeah, gonna have a fair bit of that. But they will happen over hours, not seconds or minutes. Not ‘Flash” flooding.

These folks have never seen a “flash flood”: “a sudden and destructive rush of water down a narrow gully or over a sloping surface, caused by heavy rainfall.”

Doesn’t happen here. As I said, not enough elevation. Down south, nearer St Louis, or southern Indiana or Kentucky where they have significant elevation it can happen, but here, there it’s too flat for Flash Floods.

But I guess they have to dramatize everything to keep viewers interested. 

Just the opposite, in fact.

But the current board and the current bureaucracy is not the NRA that was there when I became aware of WHY we need an NRA and why I joined over 25 years ago.

I’m a Life Member. A Firearms Instructor.

The NRA no longer serves it’s core mission, but rather serves the NRA….and now we find out that the NRA served, to a limited extent, the board members instead of the rest of us.  .
In other words, the NRA uses our money, not to serve the members of the NRA, but to enrich the(some of) the board members, and to enlarge and employ a bureaucracy that doesn’t have the members needs,wants,and issues as the primary reason for existence.In fact, I believe that the current management simply sees the NRA members not as a reason to exist, but simply as a source of cash. 

There have been many questionable decisions by the current NRA management. Many that were, in my opinion, wrong. This does not change the fact that they for us, and with us, are a very powerful right organization.

I am, a member of the NRA. I think they are an important part of the shooting community….

But we need some housecleaning. Some sanity. Some reasonableness and some better guidance. Simply some better management. Yes, I’d like to see WLP gone. I’ve said that for years. I don’t know, however, who to replace him with….

The current issues can be fixed….If the Board gets it’s act together and removes the people responsible and chooses to fix it.

If not, our most important advocate for our rights will fade away.

I think that the board is failing the  members of the NRA.

Told him how bad he was.

Told him he should be ashamed to be male and behave like a man.

Who’da thought that this would happen??

Forecast was for “blizzard Conditions” from 2 pm to 8 pm on Saturday.

Not so much. The freeze line apparently went farther north, so we got a few flakes (and some snow) and mostly rain.

I’m glad I didn’t have to pull out the snow shovel, but still, pretty mediocre forecasting there.