Good ol UPS

[Dean Romig]

[QUOTE=Chuck Bishop;25795]Harry and Francis, thanks for your reply to a non-plumber and Christopher Plummer is a fine actor.QUOTE]

Well and good, but the question remains..... Who is Joseph Plummer???

[Old and Reliable]

Or perhaps the Mid-Western rust belt Stater - Joe The Plumber- election year 2008-- his "Warhol-ian 15 minutes of Fame"?? Amazing isn't it what the change of one letter can do- change the second "m" into a "b" and you have a skilled tradesman who maybe makes as much as the fabled Philadelphia lawyer- and has to put his hands into the same messy goo (clogged drains or a bitter divorce perhaps?) in the course of a day's work.

When I was welding schedule pipe in the power plant, the fitters were akin to Master Plumbers- and it takes years of practice to joint and prepare pipe correctly- just as few rookie welders on API can run the "Arkansas bellhole" first shot out of the box--

Now as for Damascus PVC- no matter the schedule- if Lowe's or Home Deport or Handy Andy Plumbing Supply opens a branch in Syria, there's where I'd place my order for such a "special item"-- But I concur, just as the old saying "A good gun deserves a good case"- it would only be fit and proper to ship those fine Bernard barrels from your 12 ga. CH(E) in a Damascus PVC tube--

[Pa SxS]

Hell, I don't know who Joseph Plummer is but he might be a 10th cousin to Obama just like Palin and Limbaugh!

I'm currently Googling to find the schedule for the PVC 80 pipe. I guess you can only buy it during certain times of the day, therefore they need a schedule.

[Old and Reliable]

Chuck- I'll check my shop inventory for you- I may have an extra capped PVC tube- just need to know your barrel length- as John Dunkle has now added the "Give-Away" section as well as the Parkers for sale for members of the PGCA- we can now swap, barter or give to brother members misc. items- If I read John's post correctly, we are allowed to recover exact shipping cost. Advise

[Marc Retallack]

Hi Chuck,

If you should happen to find the local Home Depot or Lowes doesn't have Schedule 80, try R.F. Fager's. I assume the one on Derry St. (564-1166) would be the closest for you. If you're closer to Camp Hill, their main location is on State Rd (761-0660).

Cheers
Marcus

[Pa SxS]

All kidding aside guys, thanks for the interesting information. I don't currently need to ship barrels but sometime in the future I want to ship Briley a set of O/U barrels for choke tube installation.

[Old and Reliable]

Just received back a 12 ejector LC Smith I loaned to a new friend I made at the June "Yooper Shoot" in MI UP- Arnold is familiar as both a shooter, collector and gunsmith with many European sidelock action shotguns, but had not yet examined an LC Smith. I also loaned him a spare copy of the Brophy book published by Brownell's in 1981 on the specs. and parts schematics for various "Elsies"- both were shipped UPS insured ground rate from Iron Mt. Wed. 10/13/2010 and arrived safely at my home address today 10-15- safe and sound- so UPS does get it 'right" sometimes. The Smith was in a Dokosil padded case and then wrapped in heavy cardboard by the shipper, the book wrapped also in heavy cardboard- BUT- Murphy's Law does prevail at times, to wit: "A three thousand dollar PCB will blow in line to prevent a .30 fuse from blowing, due to a power surge" or-- "the odds of a heavy jellied piece of toast landing jelly side down is in direct proportion to the value of the carpeting upon which it lands"--

Sooooo!- You ship a 12 ga. 870 back to Remington for warranty repair work, and it goes through smooth as silk- but your Purdey best 12 you sent to Kirk Merrington-- well, maybe yes, and maybe no-- One of my good friends has some fine doubles and over-unders, and he will flat outright NOT ship, he will drive to whatever gun specialist with whom he is dealing at that point in time- Not all of us can do that however--