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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Another construction site next to me, they dug the deepest I’ve seen on this block. Now they’ve got a civil works size digger - Sumitomo SH-350 pushing dirt around. This thing is close to the size of a house by itself.
Somehow I can just picture MITCHAY holding a beer and looking across all this, going “**** me, that’s huge!” |
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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Little things that make your day........
The apple danish I bought for lunch yesterday wasn't so crispy and flaky as beechworth Bakeries usual standards. This morning I mentioned it in passing while ordering todays lunch treat (an Apple turnover) the woman serving thanked me for telling her. She then takes the Danish price and the Turnover price of my order. I said I just mentioned it cause I thought they might want to know and didn't want money off as I did eat it. She said no we appreciate your input. Embarassed, I put the difference in Yackandandah's fire brigade bucket on the counter.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2013
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I now eat every second day. Whole foods (not organic or pasture-raised) cooked by myself with no processed crap...this will be short-term.
This is how my Great great great great great great grandfather ate to get me here. He didn't have diabetes, need meds, no gut, no Dementia. No flu shot or covid jab. |
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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So rego ,tick, my car wasnt dirty just dusty. I never take it for a rego inspection squeeky clean with an engine bay stinking of degreaser. The mechanics i trust are brutally honest but in the same sense very good at what they do. So they passed the steed as i was pretty sure it was apples, they had the same opinion. If i thought the car had an issue id take it to the place down the road, drop two $50's on the counter and say do the same with the brake tester.
Anyhow, dusty but not dirty, spider webs. Around the boot and both mirrors. Not so much an issue exept the one on my drivers side mirror was a bit more wooley. Last time i saw a web like that was in my boat and it was an angry redback. So i gave the car a present, a run throught the contactless carwash. Hopefully the spiders decide its a **** place to live. I also filled the tank. It had a bit over half, but its been 6 or 9 weeks since i last filled it. |
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But died of the Plague in 1657 at the ripe old age of 29 regardless? |
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Location: 1975
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But hey, knock yourself out.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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This thing has a large bucket, 1200? and the dirt is flying into the tippers. They’re down to grey-white plastic clay, which can go for metres - suspect piering is next. |
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Am watching Jack Miller in 5th place on his factory Ducati trying to get on the podium at The Circuit of the America's in Texas, 5 laps to go!
Laguna Seca is a better track by miles, but this will do..... |
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Ford screwed the Falcon
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 7,061
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My ASUS G55V which I purchase in 2013 is being retired today as I have purchased an ASUS G513 Advantage Edition. Full AMD system!
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#3702 | ||
Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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Well, 1st, its a lovely warm day, not a cloud in the sky. Secondly, the spiders living in the side mirrors of my car finally vacated. Or atleast i think they have. Normally if i just wiped away the webs, within an hour theyd be reconstructing. So 24 hours after the high preassure blasts from the contactless carwash, no webs. I have no issues with huntsmens or daddy long legs etc. Theyre harmless, all they do is eat flys. However going off prior experience the one residing in my drivers side mirror, and i cannot 100% confirm, appeared to be a redback. Thats a big no for me. But, it seems to have vacated.
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Pt Lincoln far side South Oz
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if he/she/it returns have ready 1 plastic bag big enough to cover mirror completely, 1 ziptie 1 can quality bug spray. liberally spray behind mirror glass, quickly cover with plastic bag, ziptie tight, dont go driving for few hours, but the little ****e will not bother you again.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Just finished applying cyanoacrylate to my Alfa’s HVAC panel rear.
The dials get their “notchy” feel from little sprung plungers which ride on ribs of the dial’s back edge. The plunger springs are too strong, the panel too weak and it all falls apart at the back. So I clean everything and shorten the springs to reduce tension, then reassemble in stages with super glue. It’s such a rubbish design it should have been on a Territory ICC - then again, it uses ‘00s electronics, not eighties… Once this is reassembled, I can find out if the phantom unlocking was spilled coffee “glue” inside the panel or a faulty door actuator. |
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Getting this thing back in one piece,long story short had an incident with front bar insurance company ****ed about then finally found someone to fix it then whilst away we went back into lockdown etc etc got it back Tuesday but weather was rubbish,cracker day today so got home from work and had a wee outing,front bar all fixed n painted,got them to spray out bonnet whilst at it.So very glad to have it back.
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Location: Perth
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Cutting out a rusty piece on the inner front guard and welding in a new bit.
It was hiding under the washer bottle, didn't know it was there until I took out the bottle. Done now, one more bit finished on the old girl.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Location: Newcastle
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Ch 24 ABC news, Australian Socceroos beat Oman 3 - 1, in world cup qualifier, good news!
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Well, it is an Alpha after all!...lol.... |
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Hey jaydee do you use an anti rust treatment in the boxed sections before you weld your patch in?
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Location: Heading thru Hell (Corner)
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Hearing that my daughter's friend's aunt, Chloe McCardel, has just equalled the record for the most number of swum crossings of the English Channel. That's now 43 times she has swum the Channel. She'll be aiming for the outright record on Sunday.
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.co...nnel-crossing/ Well done Chloe! ![]()
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Location: Perth Australia
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Not heard of that, will look it up, my first big rust job in the early 70's was the sills on my 1962 Ek Holden Panel Van, I bought this "guaranteed to last forever" zinc chromate plus "fish oil"....lol, I only did it once, it was more fish oil than paint and I did everything including doors and tailgate, couldn't pick a girl up for the next 6 months, and the cats loved it, everywhere I parked it attracted the local cats, no bull****.....only once jaydee...lol.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Perth
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Haha, yes, did the same with my HD Holden, fisholene everywhere, stunk for ages.
Have used it on my XC in parts, but in sealed cavitys this wax is supposed to be better.
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Yes mate I remember now, it was called Fisholene, and it was true what it said on the can, "you only use it once"......they dident tell you it was because of the smell not its ability to stop rust!.....lol, too funny thinking back now!
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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