I somehow managed to run across a couple of really good deals when it comes to belt sanders recently.

This first one I bought off of VEVOR, I’ve had pretty good luck when dealing with them.

It wasn’t cheap cheap but it was almost $700 cheaper than the full size one they and everyone else offers.

It’s a 30″ X 1″ mutli function model and I am going to love using this thing after I get it mounted on a stand.

I love that it flips sideways and that you can put a wheel out on the end.

Like I said, I have to put it on a stand and I’m going to have to add a vertical plate to mount the control box on but I am plenty tickled with it.

I also ran across a good deal yesterday. I had to go to South East Portland and snag a free 4K Coleman generator and a spare mower deck off a John Deere riding mower my brother gave me. His wife, my Sister In Law, was helping family out at an Estate sale where some older gentleman who was into woodworking had passed away.

I literally could have had a complete Run Away at that joint.

Holy Moly there was some cool stuff there.

I did manage to semi control myself but when I saw this old Disc/Belt Sander it was all over.

It’s an 8 inch Disc and a 42″ X 1 belt sander.

I am currently waiting for an Amazon driver to drop off some new sanding discs and belts as I type, they are readily available.

I did some quick research on it and they were made back in the 80’s and 90’s in Taiwan, not Commie China.

They are made out of metal.

Metal guards, a SOLID cast iron table for the disc and a 1/2 Horse motor instead of the newer 1/3rd hp motors.

The On/Off buttons alone should tell you that it’s not a piece of Chinesium garbage.

$55 out the door.

It also needs a stand, I swung by Horror Freight and picked one up but I need to find an 18″ X 10″ piece of plate for the top of it to bolt it down to. That should take all of ten minutes at work.

I can even have it custom cut out of some scrap if I have to.

Gotta love that perk.

I also have aan New Old Stock Central Machinery belt/ Disc sander on it’s way from EBay.

I paid too much for it with the added shipping but it’s what I wanted. I have already had 2 and given them away. I had The Wifely Unit get me the newest one from Harbor Freight a year ago from Last Christmas and I was disappointed with it the minute I tried using it.

They literally cut corners on it trying to save money and the pressed out sheet metal table in front of the disc is only supported on one side.

Any time you have to push down or have to put anything even mildly heavy on it, the damn table sags on the one side.

It’s also got a bunch of plastic parts on it so screw that. I am going to give it to my Son In Law who is doing lots of renovations to their house which includes a bunch of wood work. It will be fine for his needs.

Sure, I could have screwed around and made a support for the table but screw that. How about you just make it right in the first place instead?

You will also notice the bed for the belt isn’t level and they didn’t give you any way to adjust that.

Cheap crap.

Bye Bye.

So anyways, The Lord has been good to me and now I have even more crap that I have to try and find a home for which means something else will have to go. Shouldn’t be too hard to make that happen. Getting rid of Mid to Low level machines to replace them with higher quality ones does not give me any heartburn.

I’m sure I will find a home for them.

As Tom Peterson always said,

“FREE IS A VERY GOOD PRICE”.

You had to live in the Pacific Northwest back in the 70’s and 80’s to get that reference.

The guy has been pretty quiet for a while so I decided to check on him.

I texted him and told him to blink twice if he was being held hostage in a North Korean whorehouse.

It didn’t take too long and he replied to me so he is indeed alive and kicking.

Apparently some lowlife tried to steal his vehicle and did a bunch of damage to it and he has been thrashing on it trying to get it back in working order, along with dealing with the Little Guy he wound up taking care of after the suicide of Gretchen’s daughetr.

he says the little guy is currently teething and that is obviously causing him some serious discomfort. I feel for him. Tooth pain is the worst.

So BC has replaced the back window in the vehicle and is now currently repllacing jacked up switches etec on the steering column. I can tell you from personal experience that that sucks bigly. Not something I would wish on anyone.

He is also still looking for work so he pretty much has his hands full. Eventually he will sit down and update everyone but I decided to do it first.

A full tank.

I love the fact that this guy is fear mongering and stirring up the Liberals.

Apparently some local Billion Dollar company called Maddox has been buying up property all over town, including the local newspaper just recently. The claims are that they are White Christian Nationalists and are quietly imposing their views all over town. Claims of them being a cult and their being the Christian Taliban are rampant.

You may have seen a recent video of an ANTIFA chick getting arrested at a small Town Hall meeting a week or so ago. That was in this little town, Battle Ground Washington.

The best part for me is that it’s literally about 5 miles North of me and I have a cousin who has lived there for about 5 years.

The fact that the local Liberals are crying in their soy gives me great joy.

You can click on that link if you have Tik Tok and go read the comments. The Pearl Clutching by the local Commies are priceless.

I most certainly didn’t!

Something a guy tends to do when he has pinched his own pecker in between two boards.

We didn’t even know it was “Poor Food”.

I liked Cinnamon Toast even better and ate that every chance I got.

Godless fucking Liberals anyway.

Fuck ’em.

A brave young Dane approached an LGBT event where they were going to mock the “Last Supper,” and he tore down a cross that was about to be desecrated. The blasphemers were left staring, powerless to react.
Do you support the young man’s reaction?

I took the meager tax return I got from Uncle Sam’s House of Extortion and splurged a little on myself a couple weeks ago.

Buying these things in Washington State is a giant Cluster Fuck of Red Tape and is designed to make the process as time consuming and irritating as humanly possible.

The first time I went to look into this was right after Christmas when I found out they had added yet another hurdle.

I had to come home,get on the internet, find this fucking web page and watch a video and answer some questions.then I had to download a copy of the certificate and send it to The Wifely Unit so she could print it out for me.

Just one more bit of bullshit the Gun Grabbers in this state found to make the process take longer and be more inconvenient.

I did all that a couple weeks ago,took my narrow little ass down the road, filled out all the paperwork, showed them the damn certificate and paid my money.

Come back on the 2nd of June they said.

OK, today is the 6th, so I took my recept with me, went back down there and spent ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF fucking around trying to ,

A. find someone to help me in the first place.

B. Only to find out that they needed a Manager to come complete the transfer paperwork..

C. Wait for her to find YET EVEN MORE forms for me to fill out.

D. Wait for her to go in the back and find what I paid for..

E. Verify serial numbers.

F. . Sign even more forms.

G. Wait even longer because for some reason she tells me, that when you buy 2 pistols at the same time, the system doesn’t like it and it slows WAYYYYY down.

BTW, she tells me it doesn’t do that if you buy 2 rifles or a rifle and a pistol at the same time, only when someone buys 2 pistols at the same time.

Go Figure. I’m the lucky one.

She also told me that my Background Check didn’t clear until THE DAY BEFORE I was supposed to go pick them up.

You would think that as many Goverment Watchlists I must be on at this point that they could just call some dude named Biff at the ATF and get that cleared right up.

H. I have to go pay for some ammo separately and she has to literally hand me the pistols AT THE EXIT on my way out.

The best part of all?

As I am walking out the door with TWO PISTOLS and THREE BOXES OF AMMO, I glance over to my left and there are TWO, Clark County Sheriif’s rigs sitting RIGHT NEXT TO THE DOOR!

I almost had a fucking heart attack because I didn’t see them inside the store.

Needless to say I was on HIGH ALERT at that point.

But I managed to get to my truck, open the lid on the bed and stick the ammo in it, close the lid, get in and make DAMN SURE I hooked up my seat belt and then slithered out the parking lot with one eye glued to the rear view mirror watching those cop cars.

Must not have been for me obviously but it was quite the coincidence.

I made it home and am now the proud new owner of a Ruger .380 and a Sig Sauer 9mm P365.

BFYTW.

No need to berate me on my choices, I got what I got and am happy.

I also picked up a Green Dot laser sight for another as yet to be disclosed project while I was there the first time.

Now for the next round of bureaucratic red tape horse shit.

I managed to let my Concealed Carry permit expire in March, precisely because I didn’t have anything to carry at the time.

(Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge)

Nothing I wanted to consider sacrificing anyways.

So I get to look forward to that bullshit soon. Bonus, I am probably going to have to take a day off of work to make sure I give them enough time. I also needed a new pair of glasses, like two years ago, anyway. Maybe I can get both things done in one day.

As for now, I have some inspection and lubricating to do.

Working at a Steel Plant, I am constantly getting little metal slivers in my hands.

Tiny Lttle Needle Dick Bug Fuckers that you can’t see even with glasses on but can absolutely feel everytime you grab ahold of something.

This is under heavy magnification and was very difficult to get the camera focused on,

Next to the tip of a Ball Point Pen for comparison,

I have two tools I use for digging the little bastrds out that work REALLY well.

First up is a very inexpensive lighted magnifying glass you can get at Harbor Freight,

I bought 2.

There is a little circle in the glass that really blows things up good so you can see them. I use it for reading drill bit and tap sizes too.

The other is a pair of Kick Ass tweezers from Tweezerman.

Get the pointed ones, trust me.

They are not cheap, about $25.50 but they are worth their weight in Gold to me.

You could pick a single hair off a Gnat’s ass with those things.

So if you have to deal with little slivers like I do, there is your Go To tool box.

You’re Welcome.

And these are some quick ways to find out which one is yours.

Today is June 3rd, 2026.

As of yesterday, I have been sober for 14 years now.

Longer than at any point in my life.

They say you are not a true alcoholic if you can’t remember your last drink.

God is good.

I also remembered that as of early March of this year, I have been blogging for 20 years.

That is a geolgic age in blogging. Literally millions of Blogs have come and gone in that time.

And THAT, is thanks to you guys for chipping in and helping me pay the outrageous hosting fees. Because of you I don’t have to worry about posts getting deleted by freaking GOOGLE because God Forbid, we might say something they don’t like or an occasional nipple might peek out from the page.

Dirty Bastards anyway.

Don’t ever think that I will ever forget your extreme generousity.

So take a bow yourselves and Thank You again from the bottom of my heart.