Commies gonna Commie, they have been after this for years.

Get them now while you still can and stack ’em deep.

As pretty much everyone has seen, the price of gas took a major jump everywhere yesterday.

It went up thirty cents a gallon all over around here in one day. The cheapest I could find after hauling The Wifely Unit around was $4,27.

I think the most expensive I saw was $4.79.

This was right after we went grocery shopping and one cart full of groceries was $300.

Every time these asshole Democrats get in power, the American public takes it in the wallet and every time that happens they get thrown out of office.

Apparently they have supreme confidence in their vote rigging system now.

So far, 31 Democrats have announced that they are not going to run for reelection.

What they have right now running the joint is arguably the most inept bunch of morons to ever hold office to begin with.

Allow me to present Exhibits A and B.

Three more years of this?

Really?

Between these two they could break a cast iron anvil using a rubber mallet.

Then we have the freak show supporting cast.

It’s too damn early in the morning for me to be posting pictures of that on an empty stomach.

I’m sure you can remember several sterling examples anyway.

The way I see it, if they don’t break the country completely, which seems to be their goal, they are going to finish turning it into a Third World Shithole.

Then two years from now they are going to come around begging for everyone to vote for them again, even if it is just for show because their vote rigging system is still in place.

I don’t see this vote rigging system being able to overcome what I see to be a complete rejection of these assclowns coming.

Even the lowest information voters have to eat and some of them even have to drive.

Basic math is going to be showing the results of massive inflation and runaway cost of living increases.

Then we get down to brass tacks.

There aren’t enough Republicans to pin the blame on.

They are going to have to come up with some pretty wild stories to try and defect the damage they are doing and hope enough stupid people will blindly vote for them anyway.

Wild stories like The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the reason we don’t have any gasoline and Climate Change or the Chinky Flu can be used as a handy excuse for everything else.

Oh but the Mid Terms are coming you say.

I’ll believe that when I see it.

I put nothing past these people at this point.

Looks like ammo cooking off to me.

Skip all the history and the long road he takes to get to the point here. Go directly to the 28:05 mark and then start paying close attention.

If he talks too slowly for your taste you can adjust the speed settings to 1.25 or even 1.5 times as fast and still understand him clearly.

Spoiler alert, look for China to do the same thing Putin is down in Taiwan for the same reasons.

It’s all about the Biolabs and the NWO.

This level of retardation isn’t easy to top.

The End of Empire is within sight.

The Dollar’s days are numbered.

That’s all your friends when your old lady loses her shit on ya in public.

H/T to Clif for retweeting it.

I have been keeping this quiet because I am still trying to figure out how I am going to accomplish this.

A couple of EXTREMELY GENEROUS readers who are within a half hour drive from me and who would prefer to stay anonymous, dropped by a week ago last Saturday and gifted me an awesome little present.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a brand spanking new, Variable Frequency Drive and a used 240 V three phase electric motor.

Already wired up and ready to install on my Smithy 3 In 1 lathe/mill combo machine.

I am just beside myself with gratitude for such an excellent gift.

These guys are just awesome and it’s not the first time they have dropped in and showered me with awesome.

I tried to return the favor a bit and they didn’t go home empty handed but that is beside the point.

You guys know who you are and I thank you again!

So now I have to figure out how to get all that installed, no easy task because that 240 volt motor is quite a bit larger than the little 120 volt unit that is on the machine.

In other words, it’s not even close to being a straight swap.

Ve Haf Vays of getting around such things though.

My plan is to make a Jack Shaft that will install in the spot the original motor is at right now and then mount the new motor underneath the table with a belt going through an opening I will have to cut.

Something like this, that was also in a bunch of stuff I got from Old Chuck, except this one just has bushings and I want bearings.

I will have to make a riser for the Jack Shaft pillow bearings to sit on to get close to the centerline of where the motor sits now.

I already have the material for the shaft and the riser and the pillow block bearings are sitting right next to the machine.

I went and bought a big hunk of some tough assed Aluminum yesterday and got it cut down so it will fit where the motor is. I still have to keep the machine in one piece for the moment because I am going to have to mill some keyways in it for the pulleys I am going to use, also courtesy of Old Chuck across the street, who gave me a whole tool box full that he was going to throw away.

It took my Harbor Freight Chineseium Special Horizontal Band Saw and hour and a half to cut through this 5X2 hunk of Aluminum.

The saw is 3 years old now and still has the original blade on it. I’m thinking maybe it’s finally time to put the new one on….

But, it did finally make it, after I realized I had to flip it over and take off one of the vise extensions so it would clear.

The shaft only took a couple of minutes, I’m thinking the Aluminum was clogging up the teeth on the blade even though I was pouring oil to it.

So I now have some of the parts ready to put together. I still have to drill a bunch of holes and fabricate a way to make it slide for belt tensioning purposes. I may just use the idler pulley already inside for that.

That set up will replace the motor and then I am going to figure out how to mount the new one underneath. It will be on a shaft with a plate on it and be able to slide back and forth as it tilts so I can put that step pulley on it for even more speed control.

It’s pretty big project for me and my humble skills but I think I will get it figured out and done eventually.

It’s something I have been wanting to do pretty much since I got the machine but thanks to a couple of awesome guys I don’t have any excuses not to anymore.

I’m pretty excited to get this done and working. This will make the little machine way more user friendly.

So that is one thing I have going on among many. There has been quite a bit going on in my life for the last couple of months and a new chapter is going to start tomorrow. I have been staying quiet about most of it except for family and a couple of friends.

I am fine so don’t worry about me.

The Good Lord must still think I’m not done with whatever it is I am supposed to do down here this go round and hopefully I’ll be around long enough to get a quarter of all of my projects done.

I would be happy with that.

Stay tuned as I try to avoid complete catastrophe yet again with my little project.

I will take some kind of video of it when I get more of it done.

Because there just isn’t enough comedy out there.

Thanks for stopping by and my heart felt appreciation to everyone who is helping me out here.

Holy shit.

Watch this a few times, the gray car coming towards the camera even had the air bags go off.

Dayum.

Blew every fucking window out of the place. I still can’t believe the people in those cars right next to the blast didn’t get killed outright. Probable blew their eardrums out.

The Wifely Unit tells me that I need to quit worrying so much about shit and that I need to get off the internet more.

Must be nice living in La La Land.

Meanwhile, everywhere I turn I am seeing more shit coming down the pipe.

The price of gas in Europe just went up sixty fucking percent.

I wonder how long before we start seeing shit like this?

Either way, Sweet Crude hit $112 a barrel earlier today, seven dollar a gallon gas in some places will be following along shortly.

Still beats the shit out of this nonsense though.

All I can say at this point is to keep your eyes open and take advantage of any sales you can find on the things you need.

The Shit Storm is gathering strength.

There is some good news occasionally, Pfizer is having to dump their secrets and it is going to horrify a bunch of dumbass Normies when it all sinks in.

BIDUMB just shit the bed and rolled around in it yesterday so that is keeping his handlers busy trying to spin it all. His approval numbers are on their way to the Waste Treatment Plant as I type.

Chipping away at the stone.

That’s all we can do.

You know, the one guy within a twenty five mile radius who makes a run up to Wally World to load up on 6 bags of frozen corn at 9:30 at night because my dehydrator just got emptied out and I didn’t have enough to make a full load.

While I was there I snagged two flats of pint jars to put it in. When I get enough done I am going to fire up the vacuum canner.

Speaking of vacuum canners.

A reader was kind enough to send me pictures of the one he made dirt cheap after watching the video I posted a couple of years ago.

I love the vintage vacuum gauge he scored at a yard sale.

He got the canner cheap and already had the vacuum pump if I remember right.

It just goes to show that you don’t have to run out and spend a bunch of money on this stuff.

He says it works great.

If you are curious about this process, there are a couple of posts still up on my old blog that explain it and how to make one of these things.