The Plant Plan;This was probably a bad idea...

So my uncle was given a Walmart bag full of old plant seeds, all kinds of plant seeds.  Most of them were flowers, but there were also some vegetable seeds, and some mystery seeds.  Heres a photo:

I remember adding a lot of sun flower seeds and sweet corn seeds.  There was also some bag of yellow flower seeds that there were a lot of.  There are also a number of vegetable seeds, cucumbers, tomatoes, a couple peach pits, different kinds of pepper seeds, some seeds that were not marked.  Honestly we didn't read what they were just tore the packages open and poured them into the bowl. Most of these were in store bought packages, some of them were mystery seeds packed in cling wrap.  They were planted by just throwing them out by hand and letting nature take its course.  Here is a photo of the packages.

I am not sure how old all the seeds were, at least one of the packages was marked used by 2004...  I'm sure some of it will grow, and maybe a lot of it in a really crazy garden of sporadic flowers and vegetables.   If they do grow I will post an update in the future.  If this plan goes horribly awry and we end up fighting pod people or Triffids start sprouting out of the ground I'll try to take some video of the ensuing chaos...

Double Barreled Shot Gun Internal Hammer Repair.

In today's adventure we repair a internal hammer of a double barreled shotgun.  This hammer has been used so much that the striking face has been dented from normal use.  It as also been worked on at least one time before in which it was hammered thinner to elongate the striking face.   You can clearly see the dented strike face in the above photo.  Also note that the width of the strike face is thinner then the lower part of the hammer which was not subject to previous repairs.

The first step in the repair is to weld the strike face to add material on to it.  Its good to make a few test welds on similar sized material before welding on the actual part.  For this I used the piece of metal plate in the back ground.

The next step is to rough out the shape of the hammer using the finer wheel on a  bench grinder.  This removes most of the extra material and saves a lot of time compared to using a Dremel or file.
 

  After roughing it out, I used a Dremel to clean it up better, then used two different honing stones to finish it up.  One of the stones I used was a fine grade triangular Gun smithing stone to clean up all the other contact points. 

The final step is to reassemble the lock plate mechanism and instal it back into the gun.

That's today's adventure.