little jim
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Dunno how well known Oz's outlaw Ned Kelly is known over there. Famous for his shootout with the police, he was wearing his homemade suit of armour. hanged in 1880.
A while back heard about the bloke who owned Ned Kelly's original axe, (a collector's item.)
Since purchase, he's only had to replace the head once, and the handle twice.
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How do you do an anymouse post???
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Brazil nuts on your porridge or weetbix is the nicest way to get your selenium. The daily intake is pretty low and one nut will do the trick.
Have my doubts that it is really the cause of it all.
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Looks like he slips into the red whenever he can.
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I fitted an ARC electric front wheel some years ago. Conversion was cheap ($300) and it was just a matter of replacing the front wheel, and fitting the handlebar speed control. Battery bag straps to front handlebar.
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11 hours ago, EliTR6 said:
Thanks David. We had a great 2 1/2 days. This afternoon was a lot less enjoyable! We couldn't get tickets to the gardens in Giverny so after a walking around the village and an overpriced lunch we decided to drive home.
The gearbox started clattering soon afterwards. Getting towed all the way home wasn't covered by my roadside assistance contract so with some friendly advice from @Chris59 we slowly made our way home.
I stopped halfway and drained and refilled the gearbox. Lots of metal filings in the old oil.
Stopped at a garage shortly after to put the car on a lift. The mechanics were useless and the owner as unfriendly as they come.
They're charged me 50eur to empty the box and fill with 75w90 as the 20w50 was dripping everywhere.
We made it the 130mi home with the gearbox singing away. We had a few spells of quiet then whatever had broken off was been picked up and the noise started again.
I'll inspect the box as soon as I can. Hopefully it will last until I can afford an overdrive unit but obviously a lot of damage has been done.
Fingers crossed!
Looked like this a few years back.
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53 minutes ago, Lebro said:
The last time I tried to add water to a battery (Bosch) I failed to get any access to the cells. sealed for life I guess.
Bob.
I recently replaced a failing battery that had no visible cell caps, but when I took out from under the retainer clamp noticed that the full length plastic cover had a hinge in it!!
Raised the bit with the hinge and underneath were usual cell lids. All the cells were almost bone dry so I topped them up, but had a few "phew just made it" starts after that, and replaced it.
Nothing printed on the battery indicated that it had cell caps or that it needed to be topped up?? (young players. traps etc.)
Replacement battery is totally sealed, not 'fakely' sealed. (Borrowed that from the 'fake' President.)
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Dunno about you Rocky, but I think these blokes are amazing!!
Didn't take them long either.
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On 6/9/2020 at 3:41 PM, Peter Cobbold said:
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I take 5000 IU pd and have noticed several improvrments. No winter colds, no flu. Chronic rhinitis gone, after decades. Poor dental hygiene despite brushing and hygienist twice a year and bleeding gums - gone. I have not needed any dental attention for three years.
Peter
Pete. thought I'd take you up on this.
The vit D might have an effect on your gums, if you were vit D deficient, but no effect whatsoever on the acretions on your teeth that the hygienist would attend to. Vit C and K important too. Capt Cook did his bit for scurvy in the RN with the vit c in sauerkraut he took on board.
Buying an electric toothbrush. (esp Philips type with the oscillating action) and a soft brush, so you brush the gums as well as the teeth, will let you look after your oral health and add to all your vit D gains. If you brush soon after eating, that will shift the plaque before it can be turned into an 'acretion'.
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Got my 80#fine one at a shop that sold supplies for amateur ceramicists. Had a large range of mesh sizes and they were all a decent width and depth. That meant you could do a decent sized batch of garnet each go.
I used a coarse one to get the crud out, then put the garnet into the 80# to get all the dust out. Before doing this, had found that just sweeping it up and putting it back in the blaster, the dust made it hard to see what was going on. (The respirator filters earnt their keep too!)
By the end of the TR restoration sweeping up garnet was my most highly developed skill.
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6 minutes ago, Lebro said:
Was that "googling" or "dribbling" ?
Rugby man, not soccer, Google (a search engine) Bob.
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After a bit of googling I reckon Andrew has aged better.
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Rich's suggestion sounds good.
Dunno if you got rid of all the water jacket 'crud' when you did the FO8s, mine was full of crud back near the drain tap area.
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Suspect the reversal of "oo" and "o" was aimed at the expected target audience's spelling ability.
Wondering why they didn't use "site" instead of sight. (guess they've reversed that too!)
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Is that a Noah's Ark in the wave to your right?????????
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I thought it was a swan, but I have lost my glasses.
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bit on Russia that might make you smile.
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With your summer coming up you'll most likely get some cricket to watch. One would think that the separation of the players on the field would keep the authorities happy.
One of my friends finds the cricket very boring. He finds it much more exciting to sit out on the verandah, and watch the floorboards warp.
(So there's another option for you.)
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Oz isn't in the same league as the Uk for pub names, place names prominent here, but some have some interesting contents:
Meet the Water Buffalo from Crocodile Dundee
The town of Adelaide River, about an hour south of Darwin near the entrance to Kakadu National Park, has a layered history, starting with its role as a base for workers constructing the Overland Telegraph Line and continuing with its military presence during World War II and an influx of gold prospectors in the 1970s. Today, travelers mainly come to visit Charlie, the water buffalo that Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) hypnotizes to the ground in the outback hit Crocodile Dundee. Charlie passed away in 2000, and since he was a loyal patron of the Adelaide River Inn for so long, he was stuffed and hung for all to appreciate.
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On 5/1/2020 at 3:28 AM, RogerH said:
My work friend Sid used to do jobs for one and all. On one he was asked to weld the front forks back onto a motor bike.
This was done and the chap came along to pick them up. Before he got to the door on the way out the front forks dropped onto the floor.
Sid had created Teflon welding - or non-stick to his friends.
Roger
One of our local comedians claims to have invented non-stick velcro.
His other invention was the full scale road map. He said it was a delight to use, but a b***er to fold.
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The pandas seem to like bamboo.
The adults/humans seem to like corn!!
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At risk of lowering the tone of this section of the forum, the office next to mine at Depair was occupied b y the RAAF's head nurse. One day she showed me a couple of coloured cardboard file covers that had been overlapped over each other and in the same position on the desk for a month or two. (We had pretty good overhead fluorescent lighting.)
Under the overlap the dark original colour was there, the exposed bits were a very pale version of the original colour.
Looks like we were getting an unintentional suntan while sitting at our desks.
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Pete,
Great that you are telling us that Vit D3 can help us resist Covid, but it certainly isn't a cure.
The situation in Singapore, where Vit D3 should be high in all the residents, still makes a vaccination the priority.
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Looks pretty recent - they're the recommended 1.5 metres apart.
Ned's axe
in Social Scene
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I'd say the script writer heard about Ned's axe. The Kelly story has been doing the rounds since about 1895.