How do you post pictures???

[jeep]

Please step me through the process,thanks in advance?

[Boge Quinn]

You have to have the pics hosted on some server - many use Photobucket, I am lucky enough to have a couple of servers at my disposal. Photobucket is free and easy to use, many of the folks on the Forum use it. Once you get the pictures on a server, it's a simple matter to point a message to them, using the buttons on the "compose message" page. Let me know if you need any more help.

Boge

[jeep]

[/img]Sorry to keep bugging you. Does Picasa 3 work the same way? When I press the picture button shows up. How does the photo get inserted ? I would like to post a picture of the 1871 open-top and uberti hombre 357,thanks in advance,Dave I can email pics,I give up.

[Boge Quinn]

In between the & [/IMG] should be the URL location of the picture, hosted on Photobucket, Picasa, Gunblast or wherever.

[majorKAP]

Ask a neighbor if you can borrow his teenager for a few minutes.

[jimmarch]

I prefer flickr over photobucket. Here's the key: once you have the pic online and are looking at it, right-click on the picture and do a "copy link location" or similar command (it will vary slightly between browsers).

You then "paste" that link between the "img" and "/img" codes (with square brackets instead of quotes).

Here's a link from my Flicker set:

farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/5620542471_5a622db37a_z.jpg

And then here's the same between the two codes:



The "copy and paste codes" go like so:

CTRL-a - "select all" (highlights all text in an area)

CTRL-x - "cuts" the highlighted text - removes it, but copies it to the "clipboard" memory area that deals with this copy and paste stuff.

CTRL-c - "copies" the highlighted text - same as CTRL-X but leaves it where it is in addition to copying it to the clipboard.

CTRL-v - "pastes" from the clipboard to wherever your cursor is right now.

"c" and "v" are the ones you'll use the most. In all cases hold down the "CTRL" key and hit the appropriate letter. On a Mac it's not "CTRL", it's that weird thing that looks like a freeway overpass, left of the spacebar somewhere.

You can also select, copy and paste pictures - but you can only paste them into a program that can take them. This forum can't, not directly as a picture, hence the codes and link. Most word processing programs can take a picture paste, as can any graphics program (photoshop, GIMP, Windows Paint, etc.)

A couple of other things here...if you're using Internet Explorer as your web browser, you're not doing it right. Go download Mozilla Firefox or Google's Chrome. If us geeks could wave a magic wand one day and make every copy of IE vanish one day, we would. In a heartbeat while grinning. IE has basically zero protections against attacks coming from rogue or infected websites.

I may be 46, but I bought my first computer at 16 and did the IT thing for about 18 years . I run Linux, personally, few damn teens would know what to make of my rig.

[jeep]

Thank you for the info. Unforturnately, in Picasa I don't have the option. The only option it gives is just plain copy. On the right side of the web album gives me the option to copy the link (which I have tried) and it doesn't seem to work.

[jimmarch]

Flickr works. Dunno about Picasa.

[robl]

Did you drop the link into the spot between the brackets?
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[tek4260]

Jul 19, 2011 8:22:06 GMT -5 jimmarch said:

I prefer flickr over photobucket. Here's the key: once you have the pic online and are looking at it, right-click on the picture and do a "copy link location" or similar command (it will vary slightly between browsers).

You then "paste" that link between the "img" and "/img" codes (with square brackets instead of quotes).

Here's a link from my Flicker set:

farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/5620542471_5a622db37a_z.jpg

And then here's the same between the two codes:



The "copy and paste codes" go like so:

CTRL-a - "select all" (highlights all text in an area)

CTRL-x - "cuts" the highlighted text - removes it, but copies it to the "clipboard" memory area that deals with this copy and paste stuff.

CTRL-c - "copies" the highlighted text - same as CTRL-X but leaves it where it is in addition to copying it to the clipboard.

CTRL-v - "pastes" from the clipboard to wherever your cursor is right now.

"c" and "v" are the ones you'll use the most. In all cases hold down the "CTRL" key and hit the appropriate letter. On a Mac it's not "CTRL", it's that weird thing that looks like a freeway overpass, left of the spacebar somewhere.

You can also select, copy and paste pictures - but you can only paste them into a program that can take them. This forum can't, not directly as a picture, hence the codes and link. Most word processing programs can take a picture paste, as can any graphics program (photoshop, GIMP, Windows Paint, etc.)

A couple of other things here...if you're using Internet Explorer as your web browser, you're not doing it right. Go download Mozilla Firefox or Google's Chrome. If us geeks could wave a magic wand one day and make every copy of IE vanish one day, we would. In a heartbeat while grinning. IE has basically zero protections against attacks coming from rogue or infected websites.

I may be 46, but I bought my first computer at 16 and did the IT thing for about 18 years . I run Linux, personally, few damn teens would know what to make of my rig.

Hey Jim, Smith solved the revolver ejection problem with the top breaks followed by the hand ejectors(plus gave us double action).

[paulg]

I have to agree with majKap. I grabbed my daughter (21 yrs) and she had my pics up from photobucket in about ten minutes.

[jimmarch]

Yeah, but wait until I get the magazine feed system done for the other side , Spring-loaded feed tubes that plug into a hole in the frame just left of the hammer, pointing backwards. 7rds of 357mag in a 1ft tube appears workable. Reloads should be on par with a 1911 or faster. The gun would start in the holster with no mag, feeding out of the cylinder, and once a mag is slapped in will feed from the mag once the cylinder is dry. Once the mag is dry, swap and keep going. The gas-eject system will keep kicking out the empties.

Same feed cycle as the 20mm cannons on an F86 Saberjet. Never been used in a handgun that I know of. The ultimate is to run it in a local Steel Challenge match against DA wheelguns - and beat 'em .

Earlier version in action:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAGpJr5RsU

By the time I'm done I'm going to have the most "tacticool" SA wheelgun ever made, period, end of discussion .

Oh yeah: the sight. It's blacked out (or wrapped in leather in the video) because it's a pre-production prototype of a design I don't own. It's a variant of the Goshen Hexsite that Tim Sheehan plans to build but hasn't yet. He let me make one only under a non-disclosure. It's still a hex-based target-focus design like the real Hexsites made so far for Glocks and the like.

[tek4260]

Well my hat's off to you on taking tinkering to a new level. That thing would be fun to shoot just to see it function. But, with my luck one of the hulls would chip a tooth or something.

[paul105]

Jim,

I applaud your ingenuity and inventiveness, but that thing looks like it should be used to make corn likker, not powder smoke. I know, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Paul

[jimmarch]

Trust me, once I have the mag feed system working I can completely revamp the gas-eject side. For starters, the manual ejector can then be ditched and I can run a copper gas line right to the frame hole for the manual eject. I can also bring the front sight base rearward a bit and tap the barrel directly, which will let me screw on a much cleaner gas tap cap as opposed to that "top section of a motorcycle fork tube" monstrosity. Yeah, that's what that huge silver thing is! The original plan was for a nice copper and brass muzzle cap - worked great in 38Spl, vanished downrange like RIGHT NOW under 357 pressures! Ooops.

I might have enough extra muzzle gas pressure to add a compensator in addition to a gas tap. I'll probably build several caps with and without comps of various types. There's a LOT of gas pressure available with 357 though, esp. if I tune it for 125gr. I may be stuck with that because of the need for fairly pointy bullets for feed reliability out of the mags...I'm considering the Hornady Critical Defense 125gr 357 load as the carry standard due to it's shape and rubbery nose that shouldn't set off primers in the tube mags...that would be really, really bad (!) considering the mag tube will be pointed at my chin.

Oh, and a hammer-mounted brass deflector is in the works too. Gotta drill and tap through the hammer though, that'll need a carbide drill and a good drill press. It's on the "soon as I get it in a machine shop" list along with the mag feed.

What you see so far is a working proof of concept, not at ALL a finished design .

Oh, and I did manage to figure out what to call it. "Maurice". A reference to "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band...because "some call it the space cowboy" .