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Squirrels! One of my sons had squirrels chew through the fascia trim and siding into his attic. We typically had a squirrel electrocute itself on the transformer at our former home. They would clime the pole and short across the top terminals, causing a loud bang and flash and blowing out a...

Mice can be a real problem. Our old landline telephone wire was chewed through by mice in a box behind a wall mounted phone, and they chewed and shorted out wires to a bathroom exhaust fan, and also repeatedly chewed the wires on a wall light switch. I think that we took at least 5 dead...

Those look like the kind of illustrations that I recall (especially page 272 and similar) but it has been over 60 years ago that my dad borrowed the book.

I've thought about that a lot after it was too late to ask my dad, but I think it may have been Diderot's Encyclopedia. It was a very old volume and not in English, if my memory is right.

Has anyone on this forum ordered any books from Tee Publishing and had them delivered to the USA? I'm curious how the process went.

This discussion of cannons brings back lots of memories and got me searching through my stuff for my cannon. Back in the late 1950s early 60s my dad made 2 sizes of cannons. One was a naval gun and the other was based on a French cannon traced from an antique book that a friend of my dad's had...

Moving my shop equipment from the old barn shop to my new, much smaller, shop in town. Luckily, we were helped by a son and a friend of his for most of 2 days.

A Phoenix log hauler is scheduled to be at the Pioneer Days engine show at Eau Claire Wisconsin, August 12-14, 2022.

We've been driving electric cars for 15 years or more, and are currently driving a 2017 Nissan Leaf. We have never had a problem charging as we charge at home, and my bookkeeper wife says we save about $150 a month compared to our previous gas powered car which got over 40 mpg (Chevy Metro)...

The reports of temperatures are interesting, comparing degrees C and F makes it more so. I'm in Wisconsin, USA, where we get cold winters (can be minus 40 on rare occasions) and summer can get over 100F (38C) and we have reached that a time or two this summer. If you can consider 23C (74F) to...

We're in the long process of moving from a farm with lots of buildings and many acres into town to an old house on a city lot, with everything we need on the ground floor to accommodate my knees and back. So I am gradually disassembling tools and moving what I can manage by myself. One lathe...

We had a light switch in our old farmhouse that somehow attracted mice. They would crawl up the wall, squeeze into the fiberglass switch box, and then short themselves across the wires. I had cleared mice out of that same box 4 or 5 times over the years. One time there were 2 electrocuted...

We've always grown as much of our diet as possible, and had about 1/2 acre of garden for decades. We've moved into town now and cut way back on garden, as our town place has a half dozen or so raised beds and not much else for garden space, so we will probably get a garden plot in the local...

I remember the rocketry craze after the Soviets launched the first Sputnick back in 1957. My dad was a high school chemistry and physics teacher in a small high school and his science club members built some rockets. I was in grade school but got included in the projects. I remember them...

According to at least one study of locomotive steam engine efficiency that I read, a lot of the black in the black smoke is wasted (unburned) coal that is sucked through the system when the throttle is suddenly opened. This was reported in a book "A Study of the Locomotive Boiler" by Lawford...

I found a bit about my friend Dan's model of the Phoenix log hauler. https://www.smokstak.com/forum/threads/1-6-scale-phoenix-log-hauler.20321/

The Phoenix log hauler was build in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Somewhere I have more info on the company and the machines. I think that the local steam engine club might have one, and a since deceased carpenter friend of mine had built a model, using measurements he took from the real machine. I...

I find that post office policy a bit odd with no exceptions for out-of-date publications.

Don't believe me, check the post office site: https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121.htm Most books that I have don't contain advertising, by the way, and the occasional advertising in some books is specifically acceptable by the post office.

Bob, if you have a weight for the packages of magazines, anyone with computer access can figure out their cost of shipping once they know your zip code and the weight. If there is a best/easiest way for you to ship, mention that also.