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....one of the few things I miss is the great people in the (PNW) local Porsche club.....
We lost something valuable when you left. Very glad to have met you Dan. Class act in every way.

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....(my favorite being "color case hardened", like on the frames of Colts and other guns). ...
Professor Higgins shared an amusing factoid with me about this. Apparently, case hardening involves heat and carbon. In the olden days, they got the carbon from chicken bones. In other words, they basically put those gun parts in a bag with chicken bones and threw it in the fire. Or something like that. It explains the randomly mottled grey/black finish on those guns.

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Dunno, but cameras are not allowed at my gym, either. That one is even harder to figure.
That one's easy for me to figure out.
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