Put A Cork In It
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Owner:
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Thot
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Released:
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
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Origin:
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Texas, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In the hands of bestwacko.
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I'm a cork collection. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to pick me up, add a cork to the collection, and put me back in a cache.
Feel free to move me even if you don't add a cork, but if you add a cork please post a picture so we can see the collection grow.
When logging the bug, the last character is a zero
The pictures below illustrate how I drilled
the original three corks, but if you make the hole any old way, I'll be glad you
added a cork.
I first use a 3/32" (actually it was 7/64 but
that's an odd size) bit to pilot the hole because it's small and easier to
control.
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I begin by looking at the cork from the
side and choosing a location between a quarter and a third from the end to
start a hole perpendicular to the centerline. With the drill at
slow speed I drill a small way into the cork. |
| Then I switch to
looking at the end of the cork
and drill a little further in aiming for the center of the cork.
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| I alternate this side drill; end drill; etc.
in small steps until the drill it all the way through. Then I
switch to a 3/16" (actually it was 5/32, but that's an odd size) bit
which I run
through several times to clean the hole and make it a size the chain will
fit through easily. As long as you take it in small steps it's easy
to go pretty straight through. Note: The pictures are with
the larger drill because I had finished before I thought to illustrate the
process. |
| This bug has had two previous lives: First, as a bug named Current
Events. Current Events died after it's second hop in September 2008
when the cache it was in got muggled. Any logs you see prior to 2011 are from the previous
life. I can't delete them as this would affect the history of the two people
who moved it. It's second life was as this cork travel bug but it was
stolen from a cache in September 2014. I gave it a new life as the
cork bug in February 2016. That's why there may be more corks on it in
pictures than it has when you see it. |
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The Rest
I’m not a trade item, you don’t have to leave anything if you take me
Please don’t put me in a travel bug "hotel," "depot" or "resort"
that
requires you leave a bug if you take a bug. Sometimes they're more like
prisons than hotels -- I might have to stay there a long time until someone
rescues me.
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