old man emu Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 3 hours ago, willedoo said: what medium do you use. Just myself, a few friends and a ouija board. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 17 minutes ago, old man emu said: Just myself, a few friends and a ouija board. oops, make that media. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 I bought a 1 kg bag of bonsai gravel from Bunnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Yippee The wife & I Were asked to go and BABYSIT !. Out of the house. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) Hear about the dwarf psychic who knocked over a bank and hasn't been caught? They're a small medium at large. Edited January 9, 2021 by Marty_d 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 So - What you're intimating is - you put something in your home-made tumbler, and it comes out clean and descaled, and 1/10th its original size? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Marty_d Posted June 27, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2021 You might have heard of Dark Mofo - the midwinter festival down here in Hobart. Well, our local neighbourhood friends held a "Dark Lofo" last Saturday, so we each did something to bring a little weirdness to the party. Here's my effort - an armoured Scotsman who contains a 2 litre bottle with a tap at the bottom. He was filled with mulled wine, which made the dispensing a little... disturbing... but caused some amusement just the same. Materials used were some scrap 6061-T6, PVC pipe & elbows, plywood, some Tartan cloth and a stainless steel cup for the noggin. Oh, and a couple of Lindt chocolate balls... see if you can guess where they went! 20210627_193609.mp4 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 He looks great. But must be an old scotsman. I detect a developing incontinence there. Don't think much of the colour of his mulled output either. I'm starting to think you invented him to keep everyone from stealing your mulled cider? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Marty, start a new thread, call it "What to do with all the leftover stuff from your aeroplane build." 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 1 hour ago, nomadpete said: He looks great. But must be an old scotsman. I detect a developing incontinence there. Don't think much of the colour of his mulled output either. I'm starting to think you invented him to keep everyone from stealing your mulled cider? If you're talking about the video, that was water used to flush out the last of the mulled wine. At the party he pissed dark red, which is more of a worry than the incontinence issue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Marty, you've got too much time on your hands. Aren't you supposed to be using these bits to build an aeroplane?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 What, tartan cushion covers? I don't think so!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Living on a farm in a small community and in Tas, don't know what a lock down is. We had a couple of weeks wearing masks early last year and since life has been normal, but wet. I spend my time since being unable to work, designing and making things in my workshop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I spent all morning lapping this bearing to make it fit. Two engineering shops couldn't do it for me. Now I feel good. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 Lockdown is almost second nature to us in Victoria, particularly metro Melbourne. Now we have Chairman Dan back in charge, with a $10K pay rise despite all the pain he has caused. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 PMC That pic looks like a ' crank ' with a ' roller race bearing '. No lapping there !. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 23 minutes ago, spacesailor said: PMC That pic looks like a ' crank ' with a ' roller race bearing '. No lapping there !. spacesailor The outer shell compressed when I fitted it in the eye. So either the outer or the crank pin had to be adjusted. I took .0015 inches off the crank pin diameter using tape and grinding paste. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 Not in lockdown, but this filled in my day today. The little man in the head was telling me to weld a brace on the rusty mixer frame before using it. But what the hell does the little man know. Time for a new mixer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post willedoo Posted September 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 24, 2021 That old mixer is just home built anyway. I found the bowl at the dump many years ago, and that's where it started. Lightburn make mixers, but they also used to make industrial washing machines using a similar bowl design and that's what this one is off, a washing machine. It didn't cost much to buy a Lightburn pinion and ring gear from a local, old fashioned type of hardware store that stocked mixer parts. It was one of those stores that had everything, from Pops ballroom dancing sawdust to live baby chickens. There's none of those types of hardware stores left around here anymore. The wheels are the front wheels off a Howard Kelpie garden tractor. The rest was just scrap steel. The main frame pipes are some old steel bore casing. I don't remember where the electric motor came from. The mixer was built more than thirty years ago, so it's paid for itself. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Old Koreelah Posted October 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2021 My good lady is staying with the kid in Newcastle while she has some eye operations. Their Covid-free holiday is now over, with lots of cases across the city. I hurried home from there last Saturday and started 14 days of isolation. After a week I’m getting low on fresh tucker, so she alerted our neighbours. A few minutes ago a lovely lady delivered a big box full of vegies from her garden, eggs from her chooks and a some freshly-baked sweetcakes! Good reason to keep up the pretence that men can’t cope with being Home Alone! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 OK you're just trading on their caring instinct. You should be ashamed of yourself.. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, facthunter said: OK you're just trading on their caring instinct. You should be ashamed of yourself.. Nev I’ll decide on that after dinner tonight; she also cooked my an exotic feed ready to reheat! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I think you are skiting a bit. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 She's just some Jezebel getting in under your wife's guard. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 The way to a man's heart... ...is straight between the 3rd and 4th ribs, according to my wife. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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