New - looking for advise.

[Karbinator]

Yes it is and yes I do!

There are a few pictures at the link below, under "bees". I designed and conducted a research project using Honeybees. Strangely enough, I've lost the taste for honey. There are also a few pictures of my other interests, namely old cars and motorcycles, furniture building, old clocks... Too many irons in the fire!

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v307/dandomatic2/

Welcome Apis. Sorry to be off opic here, but I seen your pictures and thought to
say your not alone here with beekeeping. Most of the bees here in Va. forage tulip poplar, and
it's bitter on the throat.
My inlaws actually talked me into having a few hives.
I was able to keep them alive for 4 whole years without losing a queen (painted/numbered)
I see you have the stackable supers. My wife and her family are Russian, and they use the
horizontal type....which I had. You don't have to upset 15 Lbs of bees with this type since
you flip open slats that expose just a few frames at a time. The only thing I found bad about it was
they could not flush the heat when the dead of summer came, and they would all camp on the front
of the box to fan. It certainly is an excellent box for the likes of russia, and places with extreme cold
climates.
Anyways,..... Welcome !!

[Keep Up The Fire]

If you are machinist and skilled craftsman you have a fighting chance in building a sa42 or if you even know of one you might have a chance. They are a pain in the butt,you got to fine all of the right combinations to make this beast to work and it is not overnight believe me. I bought one on a brp receiver ready to shoot, that was four months ago and still having problems,but you do what you have to and may be one day you will get it right. What the hay it is a challenge and when you do get it right feels like you have done something . But buying the receiver from brp is the right thing to do ,it gives you a clean starting point to begin.

[ScottD]

Hey Propos, I gotta tell you that this is the second time in a few weeks that you have re-focused my energies.

Last time you told me "just build it, there will be no more MG42's....and I bucked up and drove on.

Well, tonight I was having a pissy night again because my project car is gonna need a new engine (that I JUST replaced) and I see you wrote "What it all comes down to is attitude. If you are willing to let yourself be limited by yourself, fine. But I will not. I took the project knowing that whatever happened I would persevere and succeed." Damn man, that is prophetic. Thanks. You should become a motivational speaker or something.

Wanna help me build my gun?

[propos]

Thank you for your kind words. My attitude comes from being in construction for over 30 years. We always had to find a way to build what the architect put on paper. That and forcing yourself to go to work when the temp in the low teens and all your work is outside.
Plus when I was running projects, I had to find ways to get the subs to do what I needed to be done.
I don't know how many times when the job was finished how many of the guys would come up to me and say how much they liked working for me. Makes feel like you really accomplished something. My ex-brother in law was working for me once. He was a carpenter but he told me he learned more about carpentry with me than he had with anyone else he had worked for before.
I was always willing to work with the men to solve a problem. Just because I was the big dog on the job didn't mean that I knew everything.
I once fired the estimator for continually screwing up the estimates. 15 minutes later I hired him back. But he got the point. Later he said that he had learned a lot from me and understood why I had fired him. He had a job to do and he wasn't doing it.
I am continually pleased to see how many guys are building these SA42s in spite of the difficulties that we all have experienced in building them. That's the spirit that has made this country great. We set our minds to do something and then by God, we do it.
That's why I get a little pissy when someone starts with the negativity. Don't tell me why you can't do it. Tell me how you ARE going to do it.
rant off. Sorry guys