Rinse your glass of ice cubes with water before you pour your soda, Keeps it from  foaming

No shit?  I am going to try that when I get home.

Earplugs are incredibly important to preserve your hearing.  Most people just jam them in, and they don't work well this way (I'm taling about the foam type, here).  The instructions suggest that you roll the earplug into a thin cylinder and push it into your ear.  I find it work better if you just roll half the earplug, and leave the other half alone.  This leaves you with something that looks a little more like a golf tee, and makes it much easier to get into your ear (your fingers can control it better).

Aditional tips:

You can buy them in bulk at the hardware store (they're cheap), but I always pick up a bunch of freebies at noisy workplaces that require them.  I used to work at a newspaper place, and I would always grab a few when I came by the bin (I also do that with free matchbooks).  Either way, there's no excuse not to have lots of them handy.

I carry a set of earplugs on my keychain in a "pill fob" from the pharmacy (along with a few small pills).  Over the years I've found that sooner or later you'll wish you had a pair of earplugs (loud music, rock concert, shooting, jackhammer street rapairs, etc), and having a few on your keychain makes it easy to have them when you need them.

I keep a baggie full of earplugs in my range bag, and an Altoids tin with earplugs and sugarless gum in my truck.  The gum is to keep my teeth clean or freshen my breath, and is the chicklet type (Orbit).

With an AR-15 or any gun that has some kind of internal storage, I like a to cram a couple of spare earplugs wherever they will fit.  Since they're squishy, it's usually not too hard.  Worst case scenario, you can tape or dummycord a small container to your sling to carry a few sets.  The GI earplug case dummycords nicely, and the small Altoid tins tape easily to your sling.

Just tried it, still foamed.

Works every time for me.. Of course you get a touch of foam, but not like dry cubes. Maybe its your water

On that note, the spring from a retractable ballpoint pen (the kind they give away at banks) works for a buffer retainer spring in a pinch.

Tapping the sides of a soda can or bottle will keep it from erupting when you open it! The bubbles collect on the sides and expand when the drink is opened, but if the are not on the sides to begin with, they return into solution.

My wife said no to naked sleeping. Apparently i am to hairy and ugly even for her now!

All BS aside. For the worlds best heating pad. Nothing works better than 2 socks filled 3/4 full with rice for a heating pad. Just put in microwave for 3 minutes and have about 1 hour of super hot heat. Reusable over and over.

When you're at a bar and get a napkin, sprinkle some table salt on it before you put your drink on it.  It won't stick to the bottom of your glass.

If you have a stack of old Berretta M9 Mags laying around from your military days and can't find a use for them and you happen to own an M&P 9mm, 9mmC,CZ75 Variant,Sig P226, Sig P228 and maybe a few others then you can re-locate the mag catch hole (i.e. cut a new one) to the proper place for your pistol. You can do this by disassembling your current mag and the M9 mag the placing them side by side with teh feed lips placed against a hard perpendicular surface and marking out the new location and dimensions with a sharpie or pencil then using a Dremel and a cutoff wheel to cut the new hole.

A few notes on this. The slide does not lock back on the last round with my M&P 9mm and the beretta mag sticks out slightly more than the factory mag and you lose 2 rounds of capacity but 500 rounds later my modified mags have not had a hiccup. They work great in their intended role as range mags and I didn't pay $30+ for them and I have a virtually unlimited supply

Ditto, just had to open up the bottom of the mag catch hole for a Taurus 92.


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I do this so my beverage doesnt freeze to the ice.

This should work with a Browning Hi power, too, as the dimensions of the magazine body sans catch hole are identical.

There is a chemical out there that is so very useful I'm amazed that it hasn't been regulated out of existance.


71 uses for baking soda

I have some mags on which someone tried this and failed. They came with this really great deal
I got on a PT92 and five mags. Only two or three of them that had this modification attempted, so
I can't complain. The gun ran like a champ, except with those two or three mags. I no longer have
that PT92, but I still have those mags, and l can't seem to get rid of them!

the bubbles are the release of co2 from the liquid and has nothing to do with the glass you're pouring it in. simple physics

Ear plugs like these (trim to fit if needed)



work perfect as an "Accuwedge" between the upper and lower AR receiver. They can had for ~$0.10 each and work BETTER than the $4.00 name brand They will also work in a RRA lower unlike the actual "Accuwedge" design.

The UNTHREADED shank of a 1/4" x 3" Nylon bolt works as a perfect 10/22 recoil buffer. Simply cut the shank to the same length as your original bolt stop and replace. This will cost ~$0.75 each as opposed to the $5.00 most want for the same thing.

This also works for the early Walther P99s and the 9mm XD pistols (not the XDm)

If you dont have a set of brass punches and need to drift a sight or such, an empty .22lr case can slip over a steel punch tip and provide a non-mar surface.

That above is a really cool idea! I'll actually be using this one very soon.
Thanks.

A great source for small quantities of padding material... is a Coozie, the 3/8 or 1/2" thick soda/beer can insulators! I have padded many otherwise useful items with these, which are usually provided free with ads printed on them.
One useful item I made with these (the first, in fact) was a gasoline siphon starter for a standard GI jerry can. I cut the coozie into a 5" square, cut 2 holes in it big enough for some 5/8" neoprene tubing, pushed a 4" length of tubing thru one hole and a 4' long tube thru the other, sealed them with aquarium cement and presto*! I put the shorter end of the tubing into the jerry can, and used the Coozie material to seal the can while I blew into the 4" length of the tube to start the siphon. No more 89-octane breath! With a little practice I could refill the gas tank of my van with one arm tucked in my belt!


==||= <== short tube-- blow into this end
==========||====== <-- short end of long tube-- goes into gas can
^ ||
| ^
| | coozie material
long end of long tube-- goes into gas tank



*It's way, way better to let the cement dry before using the siphon starter.