Monday, October 08, 2007

Winner

Spencer is the winner of last weeks contest. Not that his answer was particularly close, it's just that he was the only one to take a shot. Spencer, name your poison.

The actual answer was Sears catalog, circa 1931.

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9 comments:

Robin said...

karl, somewhere else you wrote a few months ago about a question on choke tube wrenches, still need an answer? If so, kick me an email.

10:40 AM
Chaon said...

Let me see if I can find why I needed to know that, 'cause I sure don't remember. I'll let you know if I do.

11:09 AM
dildofuc said...

Wow. Now THAT is some marketing copy; I can smell the hubris wafting off of my mouse pointer.

I think uncle Sam looks back in his scrapbook at times and sighs to himself, "Ah, to be young again."

My favorite line is "Because let well enough alone is no longer typical of the American's way of thinking..."

It appears meddling has always been part of the national psyche.

Anyway, another interesting post by Karl. I always enjoy your perspectives and finds such as this.

I love to win by default!

As far as the poison goes, since I'm often floating between Taipei and Genovia, I don't make it to Taichung that often. If we're ever at Party Animal, a green Taiwan beer would be nice.

Another weekly quiz would be cool and we should get Red A and the NiHowdyians play as well.

As long as there aren't too many questions about airports in China because that would be unfair.

11:46 AM
Robin said...

This was your comment, Karl: "There is a small tool for shotguns called a 'Choke Tube Wrench'. Can someone tell me what it's for?"

I didn't see it until this evening but I think it dates back to early August.

12:45 PM
Chaon said...

Robin, in the chance that an explanation will jog my memory, please tell me what a choke tube wrench is anyway. It was probably something that I wanted to know if we could produce.

1:08 PM
Chaon said...

Spencer, that catalog caught my eye not just because of the text, which does read like U.S. WWII propaganda, but the cover image that looks straight out of the Socialist Realism school of aesthetics.

I get a kick out of antique tools and old tool catalogs. Before you laugh, please note that at least I own no Star Trek paraphernalia.

I'll see what other non-Googleable quotes I can dig up.

1:13 PM
Robin said...

Karl, shotguns have a constriction at the muzzle of the barrel that is called "choke" which, in greater degrees, produces tighter patterns of shot at range.

In the past, these constrictions were a part of the barrel, made during manufacture. Therefore a single shotgun had a single choke or combination of choke if a doublebarrel. But different situations would require different choke, an upland game bird or trap clay target is shot at closer ranges and wants a more open choke, waterfowl at longer ranges and a tighter choke more suitable. If a shotgun did not have a suitable choke, a shotgunner might need several different expensive shotguns for different scenarios.

A few decades ago, the idea of using a screwed in metal sleeve at the muzzle that could be removed and replaced with others of differing choke to make a single shotgun more versatile.

http://www.gunnersden.com/index.htm.shotgun-choke-tubes.html

These choke tubes can either fit flush to the muzzle or extend out beyond it. A wrench that matches the slotted end of the cylindrical tube is used to remove them. That wrench is the choke tube wrench.

Here is a link to an aftermarket choke tube manufacturer and their higher-end choke tube wrench. The blue colored fingers support the interior of the choke tube, the aluminum colored section has fingers to fit in the slot at the end of the choke tube.

Many choke tube wrenches are less complicated. See this link for other variations:
http://www.choketube.com/accessories.html#e

6:41 AM
Robin said...

This is the Briley link to their wrench that is missing above:
http://www.briley.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=145

6:45 AM
dildofuc said...

Karl, can you send me an email at spencerpangborn_at_gmail.com?

I have a question about trademarks and from what you've written on here it seems like you know something about this stuff? Nothing detailed about patents or anything, just loose usage for some marketing b.s.

10:50 AM

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