little jim
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You blokes ARE funny!!
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Dunno if these help. on a 4A
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Many years ago when I was a kid, one of my brother's friends let me go for a ride on his Vincent HRD.
I found that on sharp bends the huge flywheel it had, caused 'gyroscopic precession'; bends one way it took like a dream, the opposite direction you had to fight it to get it to go round.
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While not a joke but a true story you might get a larf.
Bob Catter senior told it in his retirement speech from the Oz House of Representatives. He represented the huge country electorate of Kennedy that goes from the eastern side of Qld to the NT border. He always tried to get round the electorate to meet all his constituents once a year.
Towards the end of one such trip he driving down a hill in the ruts of the one lane dirt road, when he saw a cloud of 'bull dust' in the distance indicating a car coming the other way, towards the bend at the bottom of the hill.
He thought "I'm knackered, I don't care if JC himself is driving that car, they can pull over on to the verge - I'm staying in the ruts!!"
As they passed in the bend a woman leant out of the vehicle on the verge and yelled out at him "Pig!!"
He said he just had time to yell back at her "bitch!" when he smacked into a huge wild boar standing in the middle of the tracks. -
The Canberra authorities would pull all the houses down at great expense because of the asbestos dust.
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13 hours ago, barkerwilliams said:
From Oz views of how much sun you get in the UK (except for '76 when we were there) and Pete's comments on Vit D3 levels, the Vit D deficiency level of 15.6.% doesn't seem all that high a figure.
Maybe it wasn't just D3 being measured, even though most likely, and Pete's recommendations on blood levels are much higher than the accepted norms anyway.
Sometimes these articles don't always tell you what you thought from the heading you were going to find out.
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?? heatgun on highest setting on the shaft opposite?? Quick spray of penetrator on the key before applying the gripper.
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1 hour ago, RogerH said:
She said 'everybody knows that' At which point I said I didn't know that. I turned and walked off hoping never to see another police man.
The sad thing is I know and knew many coppers and they were/are all very good folk. But stick a TRuncheon in their pocket and they change.
Roger
I found the opposite.
probably the day we went to visit Stuart to say thanks for all the info.
Quite late at night. missed a turn and went up a long steep hill, no traffic, did 'U' turn to get back on track. Road wasn't quite wide enough so went on to the dirt verge.
The 'dirt' turned out to be loose coarse gravel for a speed trap for trucks that lost brakes coming down the hill. Stuck.
Several kind people stopped to offer help, but there wasn't much they could do. one young lady phoned the cops, who didn't do a 'uey' but went to the top of the hill to turn round.
They spent the next 45minutes helping me get out of the gravel.
When back on the road I pleaded with them to take enough money to have a beer at the end of their shift, but they refused, and said they were just doing their job.
As you can see it stuck in my memory.
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I've never used my Oz NRMA breakdown service. But having joined as a brand new adult (21 in those days) I was well on the way to 'gold' membership when the 2 yr posting to Brize Norton occurred (36 yr old). Think I joined the AA in the land of the pom.
Came back and rejoined the NRMA, back to yr zero!! previous membership counted for nought.
The gold membership cuts in at 25 yrs and brings a number of 'goodies' into play discounts on other insurance, free overseas travel insurance etc.
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Mr Trump now has it, (corona virus).
Wonder if he is glugging down a bit of bleach, instead of rubbing it in his toupee??
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golly, never thought I'd see Roger get cranky at anything.
Obviously he's pretty impressed with the info that Peter has been providing us with.
To me Peter has been using a slightly evangelical approach to get his message across on the benefits he sees from Vit D3. Especially earlier on, no one else was even mentioning it as a possible benefit, so I was happy that he pushed the message.
Personally I'm relying on the Oz sun to provide me with enough of it, my bald head ups my dose quite a bit, and the quick action by Australian medical/administrative authorities has limited the effects of the Covid virus over here. Victoria is doing the worst of our States. here in the ACT we haven't had a case for ages. With Sommer y commin in we should be even better off, and our Vit D levels will also be higher.
To me, until we get a a decent vaccine the risk will still be there, but one of the beauties of Peter's advice is that it 'fails safe'. Even if someone comes up with an experiment that says it makes no difference to Covid, the high dose hasn't hurt you and probably helped your body in other ways anyway. (We were in the UK in1976, plenty of sunshine and Vit D around that year.)
Governmental management in many countries including the UK (and US) hasn't looked too good from afar, wish you all the best for the coming winter. I'd be heavily into the vit D tablets myself.I'll get out of your way now.
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To remove recalcitrant pedal cranks cyclists can buy a 'puller' (only costs about $14). (See arrow photo #1) In practice I found this saved at least 5 or 6 nanoseconds.
Stripped about 1/2mm of metal from each side that I didn't have to cut through in phase two. (See photo #2) This particular bike appears to have the chain wheels swaged on to the pedal, so looks like I replace the chain wheels as well as the pedal shaft. (sigh!).
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Pete will feel a bit like saying "I told you so" when this article gets a bit of publicity.
However for a cure/not getting it, I'm sweating on the vaccine.
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21 hours ago, ianc said:
Warm the oil (in its container) as much as possible prior to filling - speeds up the process considerably.
Ian Cornish
That sounds like a very 'English' tip.
(Should have added it's a good tip for Canberra at this time of year.)
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On 8/26/2020 at 8:03 PM, stuart said:
Last British car manufacturer that produced reliable cars was probably Bristol unfortunately another gone.
Stuart.
Are Morgan still producing??
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True Roger.
But any air bleed will alter thrust/efficiency, and some admino will be tempted alter the costs at some stage, as in the past.
Academic item for airlines at the present time eh!!
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One of my pilot friends was one of the Canadian Airlines pilots who went on strike when the airline wanted to change the cockpit air supply from 50/50 fresh/recycled, to the passenger cabin 40/60 ratio. The cabin fresh air is bled off the compressor on one of the engines, so the move was to reduce fuel consumption on that engine (the bleed reduces power). That was to save some dough for the airline.
Would think that even on the more modern planes the same balance of cost versus air quality has to be worked out.
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Towards the end of my posting in RAAF Butterworth, 1962, I applied to do a pilot's course. This involved a medical and the various psychological tests, mostly borrowed from the RAF and not updated since WWII.
Because they hadn't had a dentist apply for a flying course before, they attached me down to Kuala Lumpur to to the same stuff again. This was followed a week or two later by repeating the exercise at RAF Changi in Singapore, medical and psych tests. By now I knew that Gainsborough painted the Blue Boy, and knew a few other answers in the psych tests, and was altering my responses as to whether I loved my father or mother better at 14yrs old. (Just for the hell of it.)
When I got back to Australia, I got attached down to Sydney and went through it all yet again. I was starting to get a bit p**sed off by now, and the doctor doing the medical told me all about the Air Force while he did the medical, and I knew he was a civvie not a RAAF medico,. After a while he started getting on my 'wick' and I was looking forward to getting out of there.
After several of the routine checks he asked me to bend over and pull my cheeks apart. I thought " 'For Chr88t's sake what's this all about." So I grabbed my cheeks, and pulled them apart at the same time as I bent over.
He then explained which 'cheeks' he wanted pulled apart.
(Fell at the first hurdle -the 25hr test. Back to the surgery)
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Good luck over there. On this side of the planet we've had a 'rebound' in NZ and in Victoria.
A good run with zero or a low number of cases, and then suddenly a big ( for here) increase.
Numbers are still very small in comparison to the UK/US and other places.
'Sommer is y commin in' so maybe things will get better.
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Mick,
I think the kiwis are pretty happy with there Covid death rate at 1 per 219,192 head of population, as against the UK rate of 1 per 1,463 head of population.
Oz is doing 1 per 101,210 head of population.
Stepping in early with isolation measures looks like it has more effect on the numbers than the amount of sunlight, to me anyway.
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13 hours ago, Peter Cobbold said:
Oz - Melbourne - is now at the stage of running out of solar D3, and numbers are soaring. In six months I reckon we will see much the same.
Peter
Suspect there is a bit more to it than that Pete.
Tasmania is quite a bit a bit further south than Melbourne and covid rates are much lower, and recently nil.
Further south still, is New Zealand, where they have nipped it in the bud completely, despite winter levels of D3 generation. Perhaps it is just one of many contributing factors; the experts are certainly rating personal contact (or lack thereof) as very high on the list.
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19 hours ago, Charlie D said:
I made myself a CNC machine … (And then could not find a use for it….)
Next I designed a vac forming machine …(And then could not find a use for it…)
Charlie
Not bad! Sorry, but A bloke called Fraco has already beaten you to inventing the full-scale road map, and 'non-stick' velcro.
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On 7/23/2020 at 5:28 PM, ianc said:
If skin is damp, might well sense a shock with 30 volts.
50 years ago, working at Kingsnorth Power Station, we had a West Indian electrician who had exceptionally dry skin. Lloyd was able to determine whether a conductor was carrying 240 volts or 110 volts by just catching hold of it. Quite useful in his trade!
Ian Cornish
One of my friends worked as an electrician in the mines years ago. Because of the strict unionisation they always had to check that the 415V power had REALLY been turned off before they started work on anything. No way did they 'grab' or 'catch hold' - they brushed their knuckles across the wire, if it was live it just booted their hand away (still wouldn't enjoy doing it myself.)
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12 hours ago, RobH said:
The origin of the story seems to be much, much older than Ned Kelly. This link suggest it goes back at least as far as the ancient Greeks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Perhaps each generation re-invents the concept ?
great find Rob. Looks like having a larf goes back a long way.
Also remember a 'grey nomad' telling about a visit to an aboriginal reserve, still waiting for his ATSIC approval but the aboriginal elder said 'b888er ATSIC' come on in.
They were having a beer by the river. when an egret landed in the tree across the river and nodded off to sleep. A bit later a crow landed on the opposite side of the tree, then slowly proceed to hop across the tree until it was beside the sleeping egret. It (crow) then made a loud crow's squawk which woke up the egret which then flew away. Looks like crows like having a larf too.
Stale Petrol - is it a myth!!!
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Here we get told which of the petrols available have ethanol in them, I always use the one that has none (boat and car, both precede the arrival of ethanol.)
The boating forums are always on about it, and some owners are pretty paranoid about freshness, They always dump their fuel after a month or two and use it in their mower. I can never work out why the boat won't run on it but the mower will be OK.
When I consulted Shell they informed me with a sealed tank the fuel would last for close to 12 months (that's from memory, sorry).
In practice I've found it to be true, and have never had any starting problems with the donk, even after long periods of no use.