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16-09-2021, 06:02 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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I got to take my car for a decent drive today for the first time in 5 weeks. Over 70km to get my first Covid jab
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17-09-2021, 09:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Well just drove to local BP servo to buy my newspaper, all parking bays empty, front page pic shows Morrison, Biden and Johnson underlined by the word " GOODFELLAS " in block, was a good movie though but not sure about the headline, on their TV debut last night each spoke in turn, when Biden spoke he forgot Prime Minister Morrison's name!.....
 Called him " that fellow from down under "........ Geez God help us all, but it just made me laugh, it really did...... And the cats fast asleep in front of the heater, and its cold too, but we are both very happy! Cheers Billy 
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17-09-2021, 01:23 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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17-09-2021, 03:17 PM
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
Posts: 22,361
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…Discovering how nicely grey 20mm electrical conduit bends with just a gentle nudge of the heat gun.
Will be square setting the walls for a P50 ceiling finish, so I wanted the conduit decently buried. |
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17-09-2021, 03:27 PM
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Man from Ironbark
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: north Qld
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started kicking when i put on some salt ,noisy little bugger it was too  ah well too late now...
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17-09-2021, 03:40 PM
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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But shoving a bending spring with a bit of wire attached to it 2m down a legnth of conduit, its a 30 second job. Doing multiple bends in 1 legnth of conduit with a spring, that takes a little more experience by keeping the bends on the same axis, but its not unpossible. Maybe it is seemingly unpossible on the 1st few attempts, but practice makes perfect. |
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17-09-2021, 04:09 PM
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Can you bend 20mm comms conduit? I’m all ears.
It’s probably what you get used to. I could have “sprung” it in position without any bending and let the mud take care of holding it forever, but the heat gun looked like a tidy option at the time and delivered to my spec. By the time it’s ready for my sparkie (who lives near Coogee, so not close, and it’s not essential work so has to wait until 70%x2 vaxxed) it’s going to be 30°+ in the roof cavity - but his problem, not mine… |
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17-09-2021, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Hey CB, what you have done is perfect, get it done by any means available, simple is always the best, you seem to know what your doing, good luck with it all.......
Cheers Billy
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17-09-2021, 09:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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Fully vaccinated!!
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18-09-2021, 07:16 AM
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Al
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18-09-2021, 07:32 AM
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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18-09-2021, 02:23 PM
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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I noticed today the (i think it was the same one) bluetongue lizard that was cruising around my backyard a week or so back was back. Let it go about its business, then i noticed another one. So ill say it again, i dont mind native animals about, especially since i live in the suburbs so not in a bushland area. Dunno what they're trying to find in my yard, a dont have a vegetable patch or a snal/slug issue. The grubs place i border that sold, the pool still is full of frogs. So dunno if they thought the frogs are greener on the other side, but i got rid of my pool 9 years ago so i don't harbour frogs.
But still, good to see a couple of seemingly healthy bluetongues getting about, both about a foot long or maybe a tad longer. 1 was a bit more portly then the other, but still, neither was hurting anything. So no concern to me. If it was say a couple of red belly blacksnakes, that would be different. I'd consider grabbing the file and shovel, but probably be a wimp and phone it in. |
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18-09-2021, 03:01 PM
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18-09-2021, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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The humidity/temperature sensor inside my Chrysler SRT8 went faulty. I hunted around on the interwebs and found one at a wrecker that specialises in high performance Euro cars and it's less than 2 ks from where I live. Turns out Maserati used the same sensor in their 2016 Ghibli M157. $29 later, fault fixed
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18-09-2021, 04:36 PM
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18-09-2021, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2019
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Recently I've gone several times to a newsagent to see if the latest UK mags 'Classic & Sports Car' and 'Thoroughbred & Classic Cars' have arrived, but no luck. I phone a local library to see if they can put out some car mags for me in the foyer (under their click and collect arrangement) and they put out 8 mags for me: Aug 2021 issue of 'Classic & Sports Car', three 'Unique Cars' (including a recent one with a Phase III feature), two UK 'Classics Monthly' and two recent 'Motorsport' mags.
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18-09-2021, 05:51 PM
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18-09-2021, 10:36 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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It was yesterday afternoon actually, but too close to bundying-off time for a post. Topped up the below-minimum hydraulic shift fluid in the latest Alfa, only needed ~100ml, and off she went. So much for all the doomsayers in Melbourne who reckoned new Selespeed unit required etc etc. Sunday I’ll replace the bald front tyres and adjust the clutch travel. Should be a great little jigger then!
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19-09-2021, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2013
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My father reaching his 78th birthday today. A couple of years ago I thought it was all over when he told me he had cancer.
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19-09-2021, 09:36 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Location: Perth
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She still looks good, but you?... well... you have more hair
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19-09-2021, 10:15 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Waking up this morning unscathed!......
Last night pulled out across 2 lanes of no traffic, one way only, so I stop at stop sign, look left, why look right on a one way street! But I saw a glint of light to my right, millisecond thinking going on here, its a one way hwy, only look left?.....thought it was the yard lights over at the Ford Dealership, but it was moving! Just about to pull out from stop sign, then heard a horn sounding, brakes and tyres screeching, and a white twin cab shot past front of my car, only running parkers, and must of come out of pub carpark turned west on a two lane east running one way street, his passenger abused me and couldn't see number plate, but 100 metres on he realised his drunken error ànd crossed median strip when he saw 2 lanes of headlights coming at him, all flashing their big eyes at this idiot  Lucky bugger me, very lucky, last thing I need.......  Cheers Billy
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