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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 31, 2020 10:25:09 GMT -5
Where do they go?...and why would they want to run away?? They only have a simple job to do; I give em a nice resting place ,here on my desk ,in an old 1889 match holder along with 2 three-way pipe tools.
pipe tools just aren't the same as pipe nails, and I do my best tamping with a pipe nail...not a golf tee, not a roofing nail, not a pipe tool , not even my index finger works so well.
Some time ago , the wife and i discovered that our house was swallowing up many important and useful items, a gold ring , two special cake pans, a small brass owl, hand tool of all kinds ,and now this...
where will it all end???
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2020 10:37:23 GMT -5
I don't know, maybe they are with the other socks. I lost my favorite Snake tamper over a year ago and I was sure it would turn up when we moved. It hasn't. 😕
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Post by Darin on Oct 31, 2020 10:46:43 GMT -5
I blame the gnomes … little hoarders!  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2020 11:04:09 GMT -5
I blame the gnomes … little hoarders! In AZ I thought Coyote caused all the irritating problems. 😉🤠 |
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Post by Darin on Oct 31, 2020 11:12:25 GMT -5
I blame the gnomes … little hoarders! In AZ I thought Coyote caused all the irritating problems. 😉🤠 Could be Coyote, could be a Skin Walker … hard to tell sometimes!  |
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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 31, 2020 11:33:32 GMT -5
I don't know, maybe they are with the other socks. I lost my favorite Snake tamper over a year ago and I was sure it would turn up when we moved. It hasn't. 😕 everyone knows it's the dryer that eats up all the socks, but at least the dryer spits out a dime or some pennies now and then to cover the loss...I have nothing to show for my two missing pipe nails, just an empty feeling... |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2020 11:40:07 GMT -5
Some place I used to buy tobacco sent a pipe nail with every order. I have no idea what happened to them. Right now I am using a hex head sheet metal screw for a tamper. My alternate is a 300 Blackout shell. My tampers are still packed.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 31, 2020 12:23:59 GMT -5
300 WM case works a treat. 30-06 about the same. Seat a bullet point first. Handy.
As for disappearing items, have you somehow annoyed the Good People? Also known as the Faerie Folk, but ‘Good People’ is better b/c it flatters them and perhaps avoids their ire..
(An Irishman was asked if he believed in the faerie folk. “Of course not!” he replied. “Mere superstition. But they exist nevertheless.”)
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Post by rconix9 on Oct 31, 2020 12:30:54 GMT -5
Some place I used to buy tobacco sent a pipe nail with every order. I have no idea what happened to them. Right now I am using a hex head sheet metal screw for a tamper. My alternate is a 300 Blackout shell. My tampers are still packed. This is a great idea in a pinch - I have hundreds of sheet metal screws floating around and in my car - I'm in the sheet metal trade - Local 18 |
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Post by sperrytops on Oct 31, 2020 12:35:38 GMT -5
Ghosts
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2020 13:51:41 GMT -5
Some place I used to buy tobacco sent a pipe nail with every order. I have no idea what happened to them. Right now I am using a hex head sheet metal screw for a tamper. My alternate is a 300 Blackout shell. My tampers are still packed. This is a great idea in a pinch - I have hundreds of sheet metal screws floating around and in my car - I'm in the sheet metal trade - Local 18 I use a 1.75 inch self tapping with a 5/16 hex head. 😉 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2020 13:53:39 GMT -5
300 WM case works a treat. 30-06 about the same. Seat a bullet point first. Handy. As for disappearing items, have you somehow annoyed the Good People? Also known as the Faerie Folk, but ‘Good People’ is better b/c it flatters them and perhaps avoids their ire.. (An Irishman was asked if he believed in the faerie folk. “Of course not!” he replied. “Mere superstition. But they exist nevertheless.”) I like the pipes that I have that I can use a 50 M2 case. They smoke a long time. 😉 |
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 31, 2020 14:09:40 GMT -5
300 WM case works a treat. 30-06 about the same. Seat a bullet point first. Handy. As for disappearing items, have you somehow annoyed the Good People? Also known as the Faerie Folk, but ‘Good People’ is better b/c it flatters them and perhaps avoids their ire.. (An Irishman was asked if he believed in the faerie folk. “Of course not!” he replied. “Mere superstition. But they exist nevertheless.”) I like the pipes that I have that I can use a 50 M2 case. They smoke a long time. 😉 A Ma Deuce can do some smoking, too. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2020 14:14:32 GMT -5
I like the pipes that I have that I can use a 50 M2 case. They smoke a long time. 😉 A Ma Deuce can do some smoking, too. 😉 |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 31, 2020 14:46:27 GMT -5
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 31, 2020 14:56:17 GMT -5
I've yet to lose one.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Oct 31, 2020 19:53:15 GMT -5
This is why I buy 200 count bags of golf tees.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Nov 1, 2020 11:27:32 GMT -5
I lose most of mine. Except the ones from Walt and the one from Adui. They don't leave the porch.
All my others? Hard telling where they go. I cant count how many nails I've heated with a torch, beat flat on one end and lost by the time the sun set.
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Post by bigwoolie on Nov 1, 2020 16:34:10 GMT -5
I have the beautiful tamper made for me by Adui, and my little, antique pocket knife that I use often. Other than that, its a spent .45-70 or .416 Rigby brass. Nails have never lasted me, they're too small and indistinguishable
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Post by Gypo on Nov 1, 2020 21:53:54 GMT -5
I made a set of tappers out of two railroad date nails 41 for small pipes and 63 for the bigger ones. Have a tiny forked horn shed to make another some day. The larger date nail works great. Also made an ashtray out of abalone shell and a large cork with a short screw and washer through one of the holes in the shell.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 2, 2020 10:36:14 GMT -5
I made a set of tappers out of two railroad date nails 41 for small pipes and 63 for the bigger ones. Have a tiny forked horn shed to make another some day. The larger date nail works great. Also made an ashtray out of abalone shell and a large cork with a short screw and washer through one of the holes in the shell. No idea what a railroad date nail is. When I was a kid my friends dad was a shopwright for Southern Pacific. He had some great stories about tricks about how to get things done. I still have a big tube of railway wheel bearing grease that he gave me 55 years ago. A little bit goes a long way and anything I grease with it stays greased! Edit : I looked them up and they are really cool. I can see that they would make great tampers. 😀👍 |
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Post by daveinlax on Nov 2, 2020 10:48:38 GMT -5
I collect pipe tampers and I picked up a birth year Rail Road pipe nail with a forged spoon from a guy on Instagram a while back. It's a fun little curio but like with most nails the back of the head picks up ash and is very messy.  |
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Post by Gypo on Nov 2, 2020 11:20:23 GMT -5
Yes they ash up a little bit.
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Post by mrlunting on Nov 2, 2020 12:18:01 GMT -5
Did a dingo eat your pipe nails?
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Post by Goldbrick on Nov 2, 2020 13:43:58 GMT -5
One pipe nail has returned home ,without a word as to the whereabouts of the other...all is not lost...the flame of hope still burns!!!
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