spenaroo

of the 60% that actually voted

I dont think this is a Trump victory, its a democrats loss.

The best comment i have seen about the results is:

"the democrats failed to realize that women go grocery shopping, far more then they have abortions"

Everyone ive spoken to in the US all say they would rather have the republicans in for their financial management.
they arent Trump fans, but see the republican party as improving the current financial issues in the USA.

Biden is seen as the "does nothing" president, and they want changes made.
 

On 21/10/2024 at 7:06 PM, old man emu said:

An engine will "breathe" with changes in air pressure brought about both by the movement of weather systems and the heating of air from cool in the morning through wam at midday to cool in the evening. This introduces moisture to the cylinder with the adverse effects that moisture causes over time. If you have a single cylinder engine, then pulling it onto the compression stroke will close both valves and prevent the that daily movement of air. However, you can't use the same technique for a multi-cylinder engine because there will always be cylinders with one valve open. Putting a plug in the exhaust pipe might reduce the daily air movement a little, but unless you can plug both the intake and exhaust manifolds, you are going to get that air movement. The best you can do is remove the spark plugs and squirt some oil into each pot and put the spark plugs back. I wonder if there is enough oily residue left in teh cylinders of diesel engines to protect them.

We call it "fogging" for winterisation of jetskis and motorcycles.

use a light oil, there is specialist oil for it - but WD40 works.

spray it down the intake till the engine starts running rough. then hit the kill switch.

I still like the late Robin Williams joke,

"they get there and find out its actually 70 Virginians, standing ready with baseball bats"

one of the great thing about boats is that you have an almost infinite cooling reservoir,
its a constant stream of "cold" water, without the need for recirculating it. 

in this case the cooling is actually taken off the pump pressure, so as the load increase so does the flow.
need more cooling, drill and tap another line off the jet pump (common modification, with a second cooling inlet added to the cylinder head for race motors)

I remember arguing this point in an old thread about using outboard engines in planes.

11 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The biggest Kwacka  two stroke triple is 750 cc and had cylinder integrity problems..  Nev

your thinking 70's motorcycle not 90's jet ski

16 hours ago, Litespeed said:

Well done Spenaroo.

 

Nice fast restoration.

 

The availability of lots of cheap jetskis makes jet boats easy.

 

 

If you want more speed just add a bigger bucket of jet ski motor.

250hp anyone?

Yes and no,

its a whole system that needs to be matched.
this has more in it for sure, If I work on the trim of the pump and the pitch of the prop.

no point adding power if the prop is already under pitched.

but on a whole yes, 
I happen to know that kawasaki used the same engine mounts through all the 2 strokes of this era...
.... so a 1100cc triple should bolt straight in.

it lives,

Took it for a test run on Saturday with my bro, bro-in-law and nephew,

the performance was really surprising. we all packed in and it actually got on the plane fairly easily.
with a top speed recorded of 54kmh during that run.

later in the day when we were playing with it with only one person in at a time get it to 59kmh

everyone was impressed, it exceeded our expectations.

to be honest I wasn't expecting it to be a great performer, especially with more then one person in it.

was expecting it to be closer to a tinny with a 20hp motor on it.

On 28/09/2024 at 7:17 PM, onetrack said:

We used to waterski on Lake Dumbleyung when I lived in the W.A. wheatbelt. Lake Dumbleyung is a salt lake, but when it fills every few years, it gets quite deep, about 4.6M (15 feet). It's 13kms long and 6.5kms wide, so it's a big lake.

We'd get out there early on a Sunday morning and the wind would not yet be up, and the lake would be a complete millpond.

So you'd be skiing along on this stunningly dead-flat sheet of water, like skating on an ice rink - it was absolutely magic.

yeah we call those the bug runs.... as they also enjoy that time out.
but they are the absolute best times for it

yep,
our manufacturing was on the decline.

but really the death of the car industry was the cornerstone.

It was the trade teaching center - oh how woefully Tafe has failed since

So many industries were built around that with parts manufacturing (plastic molding etc...) that now could have been revitalized and used to expand.
but there is no equipment or knowledge left to re-start it.

I still think it was a very short sighted decision by the government of the day.

the death of local car manufacturing was for a 100 million dollar subsidy...

they gave 285 million in financial relief to the airlines.

but we are also to blame, We have a race to the bottom mindset with prices.

if you go into bunnings and there is a $50 local made shovel, and a $20 import, which one sells more?

how much chinese product floods the market because price is the #1 driver

We could process the Ore here - but China and other markets want the "waste" because they use it in other products

Yeah,

we had a Stirling Monza, called "Tequila Sunrise" covered in orange and gold flake with a straight piped 350 chev,
absolutely gorgeous boat. which was sold when the family got a Malibu Wake-setter (Big wake boat, bought to have 10 people on board with the extra generation of family)
still a regret by my father - he reckons he never got to give it a proper goodbye. brother sold it before the Malibu was delivered.

The Malibu while practical is just an appliance to me, it lacks any soul. 
and with the swap to a houseboat instead of beach as a home base. My stand up jetski is never put in the water...
as its a 500m stretch of marina at walking speeds to get to the river.
plus my Brother tends to fill the Malibu and go out for 3 hours at a time....

id often leave the days upset and frustrated as I couldn't enjoy the parts I enjoyed growing up. 

which was socializing with everyone and swapping between boats/skis etc.. 

so I thought I would give this a try, give an option of a second boat for those who like me don't want to spend 3 hours suck on the wake boat.

or are stuck on the houseboat due to timing/space etc...

and be easy for a 10 minute blast here and there through the day.

apparently there has been some skis/knee-boards behind it. so be interesting to see if I can get up behind it

Im not expecting much performance from the little 750cc

The Malibu:

and "Tequila"

besides the cool factor, and the uniqueness (thought I wouldn't find another - If i didn't take this opportunity)
there was some logic to this.

Its a home built (1990's is mine and the sellers guess) mini jet boat. 3.5m in length. ply construction

it is powered by a 750 Kawasaki 2 stroke engine.

this was a large reason for my purchasing of it - while I intend to restore it, I have a Kawasaki 650sx jet ski, that runs the earlier version of this engine (bolt in replacement)
so I can use it as a spare for that. and I figured the trailer would be worth a few hundred - so my negotiations were based on the worst case wrecked value to me.

the Engine stared and ran off start you bastard - which was enough for me. figured it would need a carb rebuild or crank seals after sitting for so long anyway (seller reckoned 4 years, but last rego was 2012)

Started the process of stripping the hull.
overall its in good shape, a few spots patched with fiberglass (that hasn't been blended properly) and some small patched of wood rot from water soaking. but nothing that isn't easily repairable.

ever get bored so start browsing facebook marketplace.....

well I do, and occasionally I find something that sticks in my mind.

this was one of those. found it one night and shared it with my brother thinking it was cool listed at 3k.

saw it a few weeks later still up but dropped to 2.5k - and made an "I can lose this money and still be okay" offer that was rejected.
then after a bit more thinking decided I would kick myself if I missed out and upped the offer to split the difference and succeeded in negotiations for 1.5k - without ever seeing it...

that Friday it followed me home

yeah, different to what I am hearing,

ton of government contracts cancelled.

basically halted the economy in Victoria at the moment.
(I work in Hydraulics - everyone has swapped from an upgrade mindset to a maintain what they have - cancelled orders on new equipment etc..)

6 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Curious...

Do houseboats have to meet Australian building standards for habitable structures?

Are they even legal homes?

I believe in some places they are totally banned.

And NSW has even strict limits on how long a visiting yachtie can live aboard.

 

I'm not trolling, just curious.

i believe it comes under marine survey.

the standards are pretty strict. and unlike houses they put on a slip and inspected every couple of years.

needs to get a survey certificate for insurance etc...
 

and to get that certificate it must meet current regulations. not those at time of building.
so plenty of things need to be updated with EPA etc... for sewerage and grey water 

apparently it was a scoped AK47.....
.... hardly an ideal assassination attempt.

I think the whole semi-automatic rifle craze is whats keeping them alive.

none of the would be assassins are bright enough to know a hunting rifle would be far more accurate and easy to place a shot with

2 hours ago, Marty_d said:

I don't know why you think most people would disagree with you Peter.

 

It's a weapons convention.  The general public is not going to buy them and in most cases has no interest in seeing them, therefore it should have been held, as you say, on a locked military base in the middle of woop woop with no publicity.

Its a business convention,

my boss is currently there - we are a machine shop, specializing in hydraulic manifolds.

nothing to do with buying arms - its all to do with networking with the defense contractors.

anything on display is there for eye candy - to showcase the companies abilities.

Its not an arms market like the media or protesters would have you believe.
no different to the mining conventions they hold in the cities.

So I had a thought today,

Is there any of trumps team, that has remained from the first term.
seems like all the big names (Gulianie, Pence etc..) have all left....

which would be a very telling sign, how many of us would see a manager that constantly turns over staff as an effective leader?

I plugged an OBD reader into my car chasing a fault the other day,

and had its "dashboard" up on my phone while driving. was surprised to see the difference between the OBD speed reading and the actual speedo reading about 5 under.

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

Smoking rates have massively decreased.  Yes some people are still buying them but VERY few compared to previous decades.

Putting a price signal on harmful products does actually work.  If a slab of Coke cost $100 instead of $25, a lot of people would look at alternatives.

Most of my generation have started to drink coke zero, or pepsi Max.

rarely see actual proper coke anymore in peoples fridges

On 22/07/2024 at 10:08 PM, Litespeed said:

Das Boot, 

 

The best sub movie ever, very real, gritty and nothing like Hollywood crap.

Down Periscope is the best submarine movie.

... and apparently the most accurate

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

If you ignore Kamala's gender and genealogy and simply consider her only as a human being, you would see that she has the knowledge and experience in government that far out strips Trump's. However, we all know what how misogynistic and racist the American culture is. She's going to be pushing shit uphill with a toothpick.

Thats also her problem,

many still see Trump as the anti-government.

and there is a deep dislike for the government in the USA. its why they still think its their duty to overthrow an oppressive regime
in Trumps "drain the swamp" rhetoric Kamala is a Bog monster.

that or a crack.

plan is to drain the diff tonight,

de-grease and clean the area,

hit it with a wire brush

JB weld over the area

cover it with rustkill paint

long-term ill need to find a replacement housing, wouldnt mind building a 3.7 or 3.5 ratio diff for it (current is 3.9 and 1000rpm to high at 100km/h to comfortably cruise)

failing that mig weld it.