Death of a DVD player
News, Guns ·Saturday July 19, 2008 @ 23:02 EDT (link)
20080713: We went to SVRC early afternoon; shot a few targets, then the EMP jammed while Honey was shooting it. Could have been a bad reload, possibly a bad grip causing the recoil to jam it, but I don't think so. It was jammed shut but I eventually managed to tap and rack it open; a casing was stuck in the feed end of the barrel (definitely only a casing—it had fired—or I wouldn't have been messing with it). I couldn't pry it out even with my Leatherman. We shot a few targets with the Glock, then left. When I got home I field stripped the EMP (had to clean it anyway) and a combination of needle-nosed pliers to pull it and pushing from the other end with my bore rod got it out. There did not appear to be any damage to the barrel. I also cleaned the Glock.
20080715: JMJ Northwest (painters) came by this morning to power wash, and did something to short out the exterior power outlets; I plugged in my lawnmower when I got home, nothing; worked fine in an outlet in the garage. I called them, they told me to try the breakers (already had, none were tripped) or to try to find a GFCI switch (didn't see one outside, and the inside ones hadn't tripped). Still waiting: hopefully it'll fix itself tomorrow, or I can find a reset, or I may have to take advantage of my company's legal plan.
20080716: Called JMJ again (0850); I walked around outside, there are only the two front/back outlets, none have any GFCI buttons. They may come by.
20080717: One of the JMJ people came in the morning and found the GFCI reset in the garage. Mowed the lawn and killed some bamboo in the evening.
20080718: Bought an Olympus DS-30 voice recorder (from Radio Shack, since OCDO mentioned a sale and they were cheaper than Amazon and a few other places I checked). The only one they had had no package, since it had been misplaced after opening it for a customer, so I got a 12% discount, extra batteries, and they doubled the return time. Went shooting, just the Glock.
(Midnight towards Saturday morning) Onkyo DVD player acting odd, died, opened it up, still dead, but at least I got my DVDs back. I'd like to shoot it, but SVRC frowns on shooting at metal because bullets might ricochet. It's just the DVD player; the amp. and speakers are fine, fortunately; I've never had any trouble with them; the DVD player has had problems in the past: new 1 2.
20080719: Gun show in the morning, picked up a soft case for the EMP (same as the one I got for my Glock; unfortunately the told me the company that makes them went out of business, they're made in USA according to their label; probably got driven out of business by traitors buying from third-world sweatshops).
Came home, cleaned the Glock and headed to Best Buy and picked up a new DVD player (Sony 5-disk with upconvert, DVPNC800H/B); their web site said it was on sale for $116.99, store tried to charge the non-sale price of $129.99, but they fixed it when I told them I knew their game. Ordered items from Amazon, including ME-15. People's Court introduces me to the phrase "tooling up"… when I buy my Nikon D300, that's just tooling up.
Books finished: Sorceress of Darshiva, The Seeress of Kell.DVDs finished: The Village.
20080716: Called JMJ again (0850); I walked around outside, there are only the two front/back outlets, none have any GFCI buttons. They may come by.