Good morning!

Followup to our heavy rain/power outage. Last night when we started turning lights on, we found that 5 of them didn't work. Apparently the lightning strike that took our power out Friday night got past our whole house surge protector and got 5 of our LED bulbs in various lamps. No electronics lost, as they were all plugged into uninterruptible power supplies.

We ventured out for lunch yesterday and found water still flowing over the road in 3 places, road seriously damaged in one of those places. Could've been worse.

Some very good info on the Underwood carbines specifically:

https://m1family.com/a-little-history-of...s-t14.html

Mine is also an Underwood 1943. Unfortunately. it’s also a Blue Sky bring back with the heavy import stamp on the barrel. Upside is that I had an FFL back then and it only cost me 135 bucks!

Terry

 
Thank you. I’ll look at that.

I can’t give you a dollar figure, but Dad got both his Garand and his carbine before prices went crazy. I want to say that, together, they cost him under $700. My 1911 isn’t surplus- it’s Norinco. Apparently completely interchangeable with a M1911A1 (but, of course, I don’t really know).

All three are a sheer pleasure to shoot. I loaded some 30-06 a while ago from service rifle recipes in Hornady 11th Edition and they shoot great. I don’t have 30 Carbine dies.

Some very good info on the Underwood carbines specifically:

https://m1family.com/a-little-history-of...s-t14.html

Mine is also an Underwood 1943. Unfortunately. it’s also a Blue Sky bring back with the heavy import stamp on the barrel. Upside is that I had an FFL back then and it only cost me 135 bucks!

Terry

 
Thank you. I’ll look at that.

I can’t give you a dollar figure, but Dad got both his Garand and his carbine before prices went crazy. I want to say that, together, they cost him under $700. My 1911 isn’t surplus- it’s Norinco. Apparently completely interchangeable with a M1911A1 (but, of course, I don’t really know).

All three are a sheer pleasure to shoot. I loaded some 30-06 a while ago from service rifle recipes in Hornady 11th Edition and they shoot great. I don’t have 30 Carbine dies.

The NORINCO 1911 is good to go! It's true USGI specs. Back in the day, when it first came out, it was the only off brand 1911 that many of the big name custom smiths would work on. I had one back then and wish I still had it.

Here's a video you should find useful:

A Reference Guide to M1 Carbines... What to Look For, Is it WW2?



Terry

"The advice I got seemed good- you can’t heat your house on a generator if the furnace or electricity goes out in the winter."

That's why I'll never have an all-electric house. Natural gas or propane is the only way to go for heating, cooking, and heating water. We bought a wood stove 35 years ago and have heated our house with it ever since. But with propane for cooking and water heating, we can maintain a normal level of comfort in winter power outages.

Yep. Refrigerators, freezers, A/C, and one clothes dryer are electric. I have nat. gas furnace, range, one clothes dryer, and a gas log fireplace. I think I could run the fireplace on gas alone as it’s just a millivolt thermostat and has a pilot- I don’t think there’s a 120v connection to it at all.

I considered getting a generator and a ‘jumper’ circuit to run the furnace if the electricity goes out, but most people say generator power is too dirty and will burn out the boards on a furnace, so better to get an indoor-rated propane heater (that’s why I got the propane heater). You can’t afford to run electric space heaters on a generator.