Quote from: Danjal on October 31, 2025, 11:17:49 AM

Nice work, about the only thing I'm not a fan of is the high vis sights. They look a little out of place on an older rifle. Otherwise she's a looked. Hopefully she shoots as well as she looks.

  Yeah, I hear you there. I had considerable consternation over the sights. Keep it old world or go practical..... I kicked it around for a while. I have a copy of a folding leaf that would be similar to what was in the dove tail but the dove tail in the rib is way, way forward. I just barely cover it entirely with the front of the Rem ramp. So a notch way the heck up there would be impossible to find in low light. My top goal was to get the most accuracy out of the gun in hunting situations. When weighing that in, unfortunately, originality had to take a back seat. Those fiber optic sights sure do build confidence in a clean shot when there is only faint color on the western horizon. Here in TN I'm able to take 2 bucks and 3 antlerless deer during rifle with no permit or even license as on Land owner land. For 60 bucks I bought the life time everything Senior license anyway. TN is forcing me to put Venison in my freezer. Sitting in the woods idle for hours on end gives me the restless hebie gebies. THIS particular rifle gives me something to look at while I wait for a volunteer target. 

I hear ya there. Oddly I was running how hard it would be to make a sight cover going through my head. Blued steel and brass to match for a small cover.

Thanks GG. This install was really easy because I bought the whole system as a kit.
It basically had everything I needed except the brackets that the panels rest on. Those I was able to easily source.
The wiring was easy, all the connectors were already on and you can't hardly mess up the connections.
Also, I had done a lot of reading before I bought the system.
And I talked to some Amish folks that use solar. They were a good reference.

Last Fall I put in a two car garage so that I would have some more storage space and room to park the spare vehicle.
It's turned out real well, whichever car I'm not driving gets to stay there as well as the log splitter, sprayer and some other stuff.
The only drawback has been the lack of electricity.
It was going to cost a little more than I wanted to spend to trench a line and lay wire. I started pricing solar and it wasn't all that expensive for what I needed.
The plan was to just put a few lights in but, I started testing this rig and I think it will support a garage door opener.

The panels are two 100 watt panels. I sat it on a 4 x 4 that's in 5' deep and cemented.
https://imgur.com/a/SAbQnjG

I made the base myself out of scrap from the shop. It's built to rotate.
https://imgur.com/a/zNQPsPD

The charge controller. Right there it's showing 14.5 volts in the battery, which is a 100 amp hour Lithium Ion unit.
https://imgur.com/a/e8T0aKq

The rest of the controls. The inverter is a 1100 watt Pure Sine Wave that has a couple 110 outlets and a hardwire feature that will let me connect a small circuit breaker box.
https://imgur.com/a/ymwHvrK

I still have some work to do tying up loose wires and such but so far, I'm pretty happy with what it's capable of doing.
And best of all, no electric bill.

Melting it is not such a problem, its getting it to puddle up right that's the trick.   

If I could only melt steel with fire, I'd be dangerous, PAX