Home Workshop Guns Vol V the AR-15

Book Review: Home Workshop Guns Vol V the AR-15
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Like the earlier Home Workshop Guns for Defense & Resistance, Vol. 2 – the Handgun, the latest volume in this popular and timely series offers detailed instructions, complete with photos and machinist’s drawings, for making a pistol-caliber AR-15/M16 entirely from raw materials, as either a rifle or pistol, open or closed bolt and in semi or full auto.

I have put together several AR-15’s from stripped lowers and parts kits, and find that it is much cheaper to do it yourself, I also find that by putting your own rifle together from scratch you understand it.

This book tells how to build your own AR-15 lower from square pipe.  This lower can either be used with a commercial upper receiver, or you can go deeper into the Home Workshop Guns manual to build your own AR upper also.

These types of books are rapidly becoming non-politically correct, which is all the more reason for owning them.  I do not advocate breaking federal law by constructing homemade machine guns, but I do advocate knowing how.  During the Britich Bombings during WWI the country was unable to supply enough weapons to gear up for war, but bicycle shops and home workshops started mass producing sten guns.  The security of a free state depends on the populace being able to construct these machines in the event of invasion.

Canning Funnel Review

 

Kitchen DIY: Canning Funnel
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I just wanted to share my favorite design for a canning funnel.  For those that don’t know, a canning funnel sits in or on the lip of mason jars to funnel whatever you are trying to preserve into the jar without getting crud all over the lip.

This is important because if you have any remnants of food on the jar lid it can prevent the jar from achieving a seal.

I have owned many kinds of canning funnels in my attempts at learning how to do things, but the type pictured is my favorite.  It has an outer cover as well as an inner funnel so it sits in and on the jar so it is sturdy.

It also has measurements on the outside which help you determine headspace.

All in all, I think this is the best type of canning funnel you can get.

Mason Jar Straw Lid Review

 

Gear Review: Mason Jar Straw Lid
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My wife got into a no BPA phase, and since I agree that BPA is bad when ingested, and I love buying new gadgets I jumped with her and landed with both feet in the gadget aisle of the store.

We started using glass mason jars for all sorts of stuff, from salad containers, to salt shakers, to cup (well I am Southern so mason jar glasses is not new).

One thing we found is a Mason Jar Straw Lid.  This was awesome as the boy loves drinking out of a straw.

Actually, he mostly likes blowing bubbles in his milk through a straw.  However, the lid keeps the bubbles in the jar.

Mason Jar Infuser Review

Mason Jar Infuser
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As you well know, my Genny is pretty serious in her quest to get healthy.  I never thought she would stop drinking diet mountain dew but she quit cold turkey.

I figure that I should do something to support her, especially since I now know exactly how serious she is.

I figure that the best way I can show I am thinking about her goals and how I can help her is to find a replacement for her favorite drink.  To do that I looked to infused waters.  Then I found this Mason Jar Infuser lid.

The lid fits on a mason jar and has a compartment under it that holds fruit under the water so that you can infuse the water with some of the fruit taste without a lot of the sugar.

Cucumber water has long been a favorite of many celebrities and now my wife can have the benifits of it without being too fancy.

All she has to do is slice up her favorite fruit and insert a few slices in the Mason Jar Infuser, fill the jar with water, close the lid, and wait.

She can do this before bed and have a drink ready to go in the morning.

She loves it and I get supportive husband points.