Stop in for a cup of coffee

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Carquest/Advance Auto Parts has been an outstanding tenant of mine for over 24 years......:thumbsup:
That's steady income. Dan's store front is in a small river town on the Mississippi River. It is a touristy little place with artsy-fartsy businesses. Tough to make a living in those places. He bought it to put in a coffee shop but he retired and doesn't want to work that hard.

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Question: at 19 years time in service completed, I’m in sanctuary right?
What do you mean? You still have to play the game. Usually by when your enlistment ends, Say it ends next week they grant either you can or cannot re up. Saw that happen 19 years and gone. Kind of a slacker PIA though.
 
Speaking of coffee, I think I am going back to the brown colored filters. They seem to drain a little faster (compared to the white ones) and the grounds don't overflow. :BangHead:
 
Speaking of coffee, I think I am going back to the brown colored filters. They seem to drain a little faster (compared to the white ones) and the grounds don't overflow. :BangHead:
I switched to a peculator a couple of years ago.. no filters at all, has a stainless hopper you just empty when done
 
What do you mean?
From what I’ve been told by the unit, I’m in “sanctuary” meaning the only way I can get discharged now is retirement or medical retirement. Unless I commit a felony.

I ask because I’m about to go way out on a limb here and kind of jump up a few level of the Chain of Command to try to solve a major issue on behalf of my soldiers that unit seems unable to solve.

My entire section, none of us have been paid for drills or AT since June. While not affecting my much(all my drill pay goes 100 percent into TSP), I have soldiers with severe financial hardships right now due to missing work for AT and or drills and not getting paid. Unit claims it’s DFAS fault, I called a friend who’s worked in DFAS the last 15 years, the unit hasn’t submitted pay since June.

So I’m about to pull a thread by calling the state CSM. A guy I’ve known longer than even being in the Guard. He was my e6 when I first joined and worked with my dad. He’s also been my boss on the civilian side and at one point a neighbor. I’ve never used that connection ever . I’m about too here but curious how much **** that’s gonna stir lol
 
Make sure you are in the confidential talk with him. How the hell the unit not submit pay documents since June? Thats already figured into the units budget for the year.
 
Make sure you are in the confidential talk with him. How the hell the unit not submit pay documents since June? Thats already figured into the units budget for the year.
We don’t know. Some other sections aren’t having this issue. But they all have NCOS with direct access to milpay to submit for their own sections. We and one other section don’t. So the unit readiness NCo who also happened to take over in July… has to submit our pay for those two sections.
 
We don’t know. Some other sections aren’t having this issue. But they all have NCOS with direct access to milpay to submit for their own sections. We and one other section don’t. So the unit readiness NCo who also happened to take over in July… has to submit our pay for those two sections.
UHM report him to your first Seargent of section officer. No reason to jump the chain.
 
No one seems to want to fire this up the chain for fear of reprisals. Me? I don’t really care much as I’m retiring once I get my 20 yr letter next fall.
 
UHM report him to your first Seargent of section officer.
We’ve done that. We’ve reported it as high as the Battalion Commander.

We’re not 100 percent sure it’s not a DFAS issue but no other units in the state are having this issue so I find it hard to believe that it’s a DFAS issue and not a readiness NCo problem
 
Chance of rain tomorrow. I had better get the leaves taken care of today.
 
RAMPAGE!!!

Morning Crew


Needs a motor though.... Cool color scheme. 5 speed Body and interior in good shape $2,500

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Chance of rain tomorrow. I had better get the leaves taken care of today.
We supposed to get 2-4 inches tomorrow thru Friday. I’m hoping so but I have a deer stand to finish so I’ll be working on that this evening
 
@RustyRatRod If you do see this **** bout rear ends, since i don't have a 240lb torque wrech, ok to air gun down a 742 since there is no crush sleeve anyway?

Speaking of rear ends...
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The best way is without the carrier in so ALL you feel is the yoke and pinion gear resistance. But you can do it with it assembled but you just have to be careful. The way I do it, if I HAVE to do it assembled is, tighten it down a little too much first, so I get a feel for that, then back off and ease down on it from there. With blue Locktite in it of course.
 
The best way is without the carrier in so ALL you feel is the yoke and pinion gear resistance. But you can do it with it assembled but you just have to be careful. The way I do it, if I HAVE to do it assembled is, tighten it down a little too much first, so I get a feel for that, then back off and ease down on it from there. With blue Locktite in it of course.
I bought a beam torque wrench to check preload, just not a massive 240lb bastard for torquing the yoke
 
We need the moisture for sure.
Yep. They took out another dam 15 miles north in addition to the one locally and now our river is a a dry bed. Its dropped killed the underground aquifer too. Several of the neighbors are 100 percent on well water, they have all but nearly dried up. Neighbor was over here on Saturday talking about how he’s gonna have to either pay 200 dollars per foot to drill deeper or pay 4500 to hook out to rural water
 
The best way is without the carrier in so ALL you feel is the yoke and pinion gear resistance. But you can do it with it assembled but you just have to be careful. The way I do it, if I HAVE to do it assembled is, tighten it down a little too much first, so I get a feel for that, then back off and ease down on it from there. With blue Locktite in it of course.
If it is a solid shim pinion, then the yoke nut just holds everything tight, yes? I think the problem he is having is the pinion depth is wrong, which is the shims. The nut is just holding everything tight and holding the yoke on. The crush sleeve needs to have it snuck up on.
 
Yep. They took out another dam 15 miles north in addition to the one locally and now our river is a a dry bed. Its dropped killed the underground aquifer too. Several of the neighbors are 100 percent on well water, they have all but nearly dried up. Neighbor was over here on Saturday talking about how he’s gonna have to either pay 200 dollars per foot to drill deeper or pay 4500 to hook out to rural water
Yikes.
 
If it is a solid shim pinion, then the yoke nut just holds everything tight, yes? I think the problem he is having is the pinion depth is wrong, which is the shims. The nut is just holding everything tight and holding the yoke on. The crush sleeve needs to have it snuck up on.
Right, no crush sleeve. Nut has zero to do with pinion depth.
 
Right, no crush sleeve. Nut has zero to do with pinion depth.
Thanks. I think he was concerned about not tightening the nut to 240ftlbs. I have the means to do that, but an impact should be fine. Can chatter the teeth and cause bearing issues if done often on the same sets.
 
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