Joe Hohenfels

Pistol Cleaning!

This is what I do for deep cleaning my pistols. I do not do this after every range day. I don’t want to get into the endless debate over how over you should clean, that’s up to you.

This is a shot of one of my setup before initial take down.

I use my Harbor Freight ultra sonic cleaner with a 30:1 ratio of distilled water:Simple Green set on heat for 16 minutes. 8 minutes flip / adjust parts another 8 minutes. Small parts go into a jar or solution filled zip lock bag.

Gun Cleaning Simple Green HF Ultra Sonic

Then I blow everything off:

Then I drop the parts in my Bald Eagle ultra sonic cleaner with a 20:1 ratio of Distilled water:Ballistol set on 122 degrees for 20 minutes. 10 minutes flip / adjust parts another 10 minutes. I put the small parts in a jar with the same solution.

I blow and wipe everything off then lay the parts out back on the work bench.

Then I put it back together and function test. Ready for the range.

3D Printed Lee Load Master Gear Holder

A box to hold all the Lee Load Master Items for a single caliber. Yes it might be over kill, but I like it. If you are going to go, go all the way, plus at least 10%

I made a box to hold the boxes:

As always if you want me to print you one or just reach out to us on Discord

Or you can print it your self. Files located HERE

Small(er) drawer cabinet

wanted a a tool cabinet with smaller drawers to hold tools. I got tired of looking in a drawer that was over full with junk or wasting space with only one small item.

Started by making a standard box out of ¾ ply:

Then I gave it the seal and sand, nothing fancy, just a couple coats to keep the Kool-Aid stains off it.

I cut up the wood for 5 drawers:

Glued them together, ignore the ugly ones….

Mounted them up with full extension drawer slides. Shout out to habitat re-stores!

Put the faces on and finished it up with some pulls I had.

Here is an action shot before the face plates made it on:

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Ansible Tower / Automation Platform Install / Upgrade NOTES

As root:

#Remove old ‘latest’

rm ansible-tower-setup-bundle-latest.el8.tar.gz

#Run a backup

ansible-tower-setup-bundle-n.n.n-n/setup.sh -b

#Copy the backup to /root I remove the colons in the cp

cp ansible-tower-setup-bundle-n.n.n-n/tower-backup-2022-05-26-13\:28\:57.tar.gz /root/tower-backup-2022-05-26-13-28-57.tar.gz

#Copy the inventory to /root

cp ansible-tower-setup-bundle-n.n.n-n/inventory /root

#get the new latest

wget https://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup-bundle/ansible-tower-setup-bundle-latest.el8.tar.gz

#Un-tar it

tar xzvf ansible-tower-setup-bundle-latest.el8.tar.gz

#Copy inventory to latest

cp inventory ansible-tower-setup-bundle-n.n.n-n/

#Upgrade

ansible-tower-setup-bundle-n.n.n-n/setup.sh

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Installing Ansible Tower – NOTES

##Get the tar to /root

wget https://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup-bundle/ansible-tower-setup-bundle-latest.el8.tar.gz

## Make Sure your hosts file has it self in it

vi /etc/hosts

192.168.1.5 localhost myservername myservername.fqdn

##untar it

tar xzvf ansible-tower-setup-bundle-latest.el8.tar.gz

##get in the directory

cd ansible-tower-setup-bundle-n.n.n.n/

##edit the inventory file

vi inventory

##EDIT

[automationcontroller]

vmyservername.fqdn ansible_connection=local

[all:vars]

admin_password=’PASSWORD_GOES_HERE’

pg_password=’PASSWORD_GOES_HERE’

automationhub_admin_password=’PASSWORD_GOES_HERE’

automationhub_pg_password=’PASSWORD_GOES_HERE’

#save

:wq

##Attach the subscription

# subscription-manager list –available –all | grep “Ansible Automation Platform” -B 3 -A 6

subscription-manager attach –pool=<pool_id>

##run setup

./setup.sh

##################################################

NOTES:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/quickinstall/prepare.html#prerequisites-and-requirements

18. Bubblewrap functionality and variables — Ansible Tower Administration Guide v3.8.3

##FOR Ansible Automation Platform:

sudo vi /etc/sysctl.d/52-app.conf

#added for AAP

user.max_user_namespaces=15000

## sudo sysctl –system or reboot

##To Verify:

cat /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces

dzdo sysctl user.max_user_namespaces=15000

user.max_user_namespaces = 15000

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Drill Press Table

I made a new DIY Drill Press table to replace the very small one that came with it.

First thing I did was cut a piece of ¾ inch plywood 24 x 18 inches, cut a notch in the back for the support tube and drop in 4 carriage bolts spaced to fit through the existing table. I used the wing nuts and washers to temporary hold them in place.