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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Maybe you’re the uncle she never had. Good that you’re helping her.
Just had a new sunroof motor home delivered, the wrecker commutes past my area so he dropped it instead of me driving 90 minutes return. Can’t complain - needed sunroof action because the AC is weak (next week’s job). |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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I finally got a haircut today and thank ****. The mop is gone, my hair was longer than the early or mid 90s!
![]() I went down yesterday hoping the rush was over but lined out the door so said **** that. I went to get my groceries today and noticed there was literally no one there so jumped right in! ![]() I'm guessing with a decent restriction change today everyone was doing something else. Woolies was way dead in comparison to what it has been. |
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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So $1200 is a lot for a carriage for a model train. But he would have made a lot more money using the time spent doing overtime at work. |
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Location: Perth Australia
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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Nah, if he spent 10% of the effort towards his hobby at his day job he would probably keep jobs. He was a funny old bloke but. A bit of an oversharer though. I had an aircon block pull me up one day and he asked 'whats up with the old bloke, you say howyagoing in passing and he stops and actually tells you how he is going'. Although i think the best one was one day my manager tells me he had called in sick. Thats all i need to know. Next morning the bloke says 'you know when you need to fart'. My answer was yes but not knowing where that was going... then he says 'driving in i thought i had to fart and ****ing **** myself'.
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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So the heavier weight shock absorber oil for my rc car came in today. So stock it had 30 weight, but with longer arms and stiffer springs it wasnt terrible, but at times after say jumps or whatever be a tad bouncy and a tad unsettled. But for $12, going to 50 weight, eh if i dont like it it can be changed. So havent made any other adjustments yet as once again the suspension geometry has changed, but on a test run theres deffinately $12 of an improvement.
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Ya train mate sounds like every old bloke I know, but he obviously can turn his hand to making trains etc, so he can't be a complete idiot, probably feels out of place in a modern and progressive world and can't catch up!...lol....lot of folk like him, and I've met em all!
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Kicking back
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Kicking back
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So back to rc crap. So whilst the shocks are different with heavier oil in them, its heaps better. But im thinking for best performance, backing down the spring preload on the front a little bit, and backing down the rear a fair bit. Everything so far is an improvement, but things only get better once dialed in.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2012
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You should've made your own thread...Not dissing you, I'm talking in a +ve sense. |
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Location: Perth Australia
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Tested myself for ADHD this week
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Former BTIKD
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Location: Sunny Downtown Wagga Wagga. NSW.
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Have you got the Liebherr as well Daz?
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Just fitted a Billet turbine wheel to my Merc a few swings ago and realised all my Lego and Models were being neglected and how relaxing they actually are to build.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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I went to a BBQ today where I could sink **** with my mates after a couple months
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Pt Lincoln far side South Oz
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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I remember when I was younger I watched the big trucks racing around a circuit, not dragging. It was a thing back then.
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Location: Kenthurst
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I remember when younger them having massive wings on the back of them as well.
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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I remember watching them at Oran Park, would of been late 90's, very close up too, loud and smoke, and punchups back of the parking area between drivers after getting nudged a little, lol....
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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Still pretty happy with all the suspension bits ive thrown at my rc car. Still tweaking the spring pre load after putting heavier shock oil in the shocks, but regardless that made a big difference. So realistically the only other things i can do to the suspension is asthetics, but im a function over form person, so coloured anodized hardware i dont give a crap about if the factory black works.
So this rc car is very different to what ive had in the past. So previously its been 2wd low centre of gravity dirt track racers. So id throw power and gearing at them, handling last. This one is a 4x4 monster truck with a high centre of gravity. So very very different. So being a lot newer running 4s brushless stock, it is way faster in a straight line. Physics is why its not a dirt track racer, it handled pretty good stock. But wider track, springs, rebuilt shocks it handles so much better. Still no 2wd stadium truck on a track, it would get owned in the corners, but for bashing about in the backyard or local park, its a good bit of entertainment. |
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I am Groot
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Location: Burnett Heads, Qld
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Could not ask for better news to wake up to.
Cleo Smith found 'alive and well' by WA Police in locked house https://www.9news.com.au/national/cl...stralia_021121
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Location: Heading thru Hell (Corner)
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![]() It's been a struggle. The 50+ hour power outage was the worst. But I'm here, I still have a roof over my head and everything is ok. My daughters friend lost her family home during the storm last Friday. That's a mum and six kids that now have nowhere to live whilst insurance sorts out a replacement for them. Keeps my relatively small issues in perspective.
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Perth Australia
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Can't tell you how happy I am that the WA Police, and kudos to them on a damn good bit of real police work, it's a credit to coppers all over Australia!
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