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Monday, August 31, 2009

Shooting Accessories

Victor Nunn

Accessories for shooting come in so many classifications. These consist of ammo types, eye and ear protection gear, gun cases and cabinets as well as bags or pouches and holsters or slings.

Starting off with ammo types, sub classifications include Shotshell Ammo, Centerfire Ammo and Rimfire Ammo. Shotshell Ammo or Shotgun Ammo can be purchased starting at $3.99 a box up to $28.99 with various brands to suit your shotgun needs. Centerfire Ammo, or bullets whose primer is located in the middle of its cartridge case head, can be had from a low price of $12.99 up to $64.99 a box. Rimfire ammunition cartridges usually have an extended and a widened cap and go for a price range of $6.49 to 12.99 a box.

No hunter should go without certain essentials in hunting gear which includes ear and eye protection items. Ear or hearing protection comes in different earmuff and earplug brands. Some of the brands on sale are Browning, Peltor and Radians. Remington is also a brand that carries guns as well as eye and ear protective gear. Eye protection or glasses and goggles come in brands like Smith and Wesson, which is also a popular gun brand, as well as Peltor and Radians. Some of these popular brands also sell hearing and eye protection packages, like Remington, which is selling its package of M-22 Muffs combined with a pair of T-40 shooting glasses at a reasonably priced $29.99 and its T-10 eye and ear protection set manufactured for younger users at $22.99.

Gun cases are classified into two types, the soft cases and the hard cases. Hard case type gun cases offer padded interiors and can be bought for various gun types. Soft cases are often built with fabric or leather and may or may not have some padded protection inside. These soft cases are relatively water resistant and easy to carry with sling straps often included. Soft cases are the cheaper alternative at the lowest price being a really low $11.99 while hard cases can go as high as $339.99 for the top-of-the-line watertight, crushproof security case from Pelican.

Gun Cabinets, Safes and Racks also come in your choice of brand, size and design. Racks can be bought starting from $19.99 while Gun cabinets are sold in prices ranging from $99.99 to $1199.99. Personal fire protected safes also sell for prices between $39.99 to $1499.99, depending on size.

Bags and pouches are used to carry ammo and are sold between $5.99 up to $69.99 and can carry a few bullets to as many as a few boxes. These usually come in camouflaged colors that blend in with the surroundings.

Holsters and slings are also available for sale with different designs and colors to choose from. Slings may come as padded cloth types or may be built of fine leather. They may also have decorative and colorful designs on them. Holsters come in shoulder or hip configurations and are priced at $17.99 up to $44.99, all in basic black.

Other shooting accessories for sale also include barrels and stocks, choke tubes, trap and skeet shooting accessories, targets and gun cleaning materials.

Trouble Shooting Residential Tanning Beds

A residential tanning bed is often purchased by individuals who want to have a tan without bothering to dress up and go to a tanning salon. A tanning bed at home makes it more convenient for a person to get that wonderful tan. But a residential tanning bed also means additional responsibility for the owner. Technology is never perfect, like the humans who use them. Thus, the home tanning bed may be subject to several problems. Fortunately, the owner of such tanning bed need not call a technician every time something goes wrong with it. Here is a guide that will be useful for the owner of a residential tanning bed.

If the bed refuses to start or to turn on, there could be four possible reasons:

1. There is no power supplied to the bed
2. There is a bad relay
3. There is a loose at the relay
4. There is a loose wire at the dial timer

The owner must inspect the plug and the breaker to make sure that there is power going to the bed. If the relay is bad, then there is no other way to fix the bed but to replace the relay. As for loose wires, all the owner has to do is to tighten the loose connection.

If the lamps don’t light up, there are five possible causes:

1. Malfunctioning lamps
2. Malfunctioning ballast
3. Malfunctioning lamp holder
4. Malfunctioning starter
5. A loose wire at the ballast, or at the lamp holder or at the terminal

For any malfunctioning part of the tanning bed, the owner will need to replace it. The owner should not attempt to fix it by himself. For the loose wire, the owner may just tighten the loose connection.

If the bench lamps will not light up, the cause could be any of these:

1. The bench is not plugged into the canopy
2. A loose wire in the connector between the bench and the canopy
3. The wire in the bench-to-canopy connector may be burnt

The owner must check if the bench is securely plugged into the canopy. If not, he should correct the situation. The loose wire needed only a tightening. But if the wire is burnt, the owner must retrieve some electrical tools so that he can strip the wire and replace the connector.

If the lamps do not work well but the fans are working fine, there are only two things to check:

1. The relay
2. The wire either at the terminal block or the relay

The owner must check whether the relay is malfunctioning or not. If it is not working properly, this relay should be replaced. Any loose wire at the terminal block or at the relay can be corrected by tightening the connection.

For other tanning bed troubles, it is best that the owner consults the technician of the tanning bed supplier.
 
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