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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Work done for the year. **** yeah!
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Putting Xmas lights up - a bit late this year - our neighbourhood is one that has quite a few houses put them up
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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Geeze Trev, you are late.
I saw decorations up in Sydney way back at the end of October.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
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One hour today at Yackandandah to finish this fireplace off for a very happy new owner. Just a small entrance wall to complete before Christmas.
![]() For anyone interested in the process, it begins hand picking the granite at the quarry (in this case 10 Ton) put aside for delivery to jobsite. ![]() After delivery its handling again to sort out and dress each piece for fitment. I like hand cutting stone onsite to achieve squared blocks of varying dimensions giving the walls a random block design. ![]() Lots of carrying up onto a deck, in this instant as its inside an almost completed house with freshly painted features. ![]() ![]() Each corner stone is trail fitted, re cut outside on the deck as cutting granite produces hard sharp shards that can do a lot of damage. The vertical arris of walls are achieved by eye. ![]() Hearth in this case is not needed due to the polished concrete floor and firebox. ![]()
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Registered/ Insured / RACQ as well, all up it has only cost me $2400.
Cannot wait to see my aunties face on Monday when I give it to her... Rego/ Insurance and servicing covered as long as is needed ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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She'll be chuffed with that little rocket.
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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Yaris life is the best, so when i had my ranger, every time i broke it i tried tradesman life out of the courtesy car, that being an 08 yaris. They deffinately do not ute as good as a ranger, but being the smallest car i have ever driven, and possibly the slowest, but thats nothing when you take advantage of how easy the things are in traffic and to park. Now im a bogan so i would never buy a small car, in the yaris i pretend i dont like it, but provided you dont plan on transporting anything big, theyre awsome slow little cars.
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RS The Faster Fords
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What made me feel good today?...
Seeing those pics from Rockwiz. Magic, wouldn't need a tele in the room with a fire going surrounded by that stone. Kudos to you mate.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
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RS, Thank you for your kind words.
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Do I see Turkish delights in one of those tubs ?
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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I was removing a window winder with a door trim removing tool. I've done it a million times, you have to be careful not to push too hard or the c-clip can fly off. Well, it did fly off. I heard it hit the driveway twice before it tore through the time space continuum and disappeared into another dimension.
I conducted an extensive search on hands and knees. I followed the excepted practice of working in a grid pattern to insure no area was missed. After not finding the c-clip I repeated the grid pattern search process. After not finding the c-clip the second time I stopped looking, reminding myself 'it's always the last place you look!' I made the repair to the internal door handle mechanism, the reason for removing the window winder. I then reversed the vehicle back down the driveway and went and made myself a coffee. I returned to my driveway a full hour later. I stood at the point of the initial c-clip lose. I calculated the velocity of a dislodged c-clip for the third time. I concluded that my original search covered all possible variations and permutations of the trajectory of a falling c-clip. In spite of this knowledge I conducted a searched way outside the area any person would consider plausible. I found my c-clip on next doors driveway, a full meter outside the original search area. WIN...
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Work Horse: I’m vicariously sharing your success story!
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Shenanigans..............
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Footscrazy
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WH, as someone who falls victim to this oddity, I've stopped looking for the object where I think it may have ended up, and start looking for where it couldn't possibly end up. This method of search has proven more successful in locating ghost parts and even finding the occasional pot of gold once thought unfindable.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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On a Citroën forum I saw these self-concealing miniature projectiles referred to as “ping****its”, essentially rhyming with “bring buckets”. Always seemed appropriate.
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Deciding to start playing golf again...
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Join Date: Nov 2019
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I decided to find math tutor in Sydney because I need to improve my math skills. I think it can helps me to be better in algebra.
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I once found my lost anchor in a bay that way, pondered along the deck, said to my partner I reckon it must be about here, chuck a grappling hook over the side and bingo, dragged it straight in.
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What made me feel good today ?
Keeping money in my bank account and not buying something I didn't need, just to fit into a group that I don't need to be a part of. That made me feel good ... at least for the moment ! |
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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$1.47 a dozen for cinnamon donuts at Woolies.
I had to buy two packets, just to make sure of the price. ![]() Needed a sugar fix after the gay nomads were skiting about gorging themselves on zefir cakes in Estonia. |
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Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
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New cisterns on the work crappers!
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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My new work car got delivered today. I had given my input as to what service body i wanted etc, but been kept in the dark. I pick it up tomorrow. The boss must have listened. Yeah, its a triton, that was a given, theyre cheaper. But its and auto and a diesil. And its got the body i wanted. Enclosed, 3 full legnth full height doors, shelves on 1 side and 3 roof racks. Added bonus is the body also has central locking. He bought the same for another bloke too. The ranger was a really nice ute, but the tub and canopy setup was dysfunctional. The new one should make work life a lot easier.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Newcastle
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Discovering not to overcomplicate things.
Two years ago I decided to buy a decent sound system for my main TV. But space in cabinet is limited in height and my wife does not want a huge system. So I bought a Marantz Audio video receiver that is narrow and fits, does 50 Watts at 8 ohms by 7 channels. Little underpowered, but I was planning on running 2 speakers Left and right, with a SVS subwoofer. Got 2 SVS Ultra bookshelf speakers that allow dual amping, as does the Marantz Receiver. This means that I run 1 channel 50 watts 8 ohms into the woofer of one speaker, and 1 channel 50 watts into the tweeter of the speaker. So effectively 100 watts of 8 ohms per speaker. I set the receiver so the only speakers were L and R and subwoofer. I assumed this meant all signal processing would be sent to these 2 speakers, as well as to the subwoofer. The sound- dialog was hard to hear. The Marantz receiver has a 500 page manual!!!! - and is not intuitive- and I read through it and tried to jig the settings. But 2 years on- I was sitting there struggling to hear dialog and the volume max was sorta meh. The SVS ultra bookshelfs are supposed to be amazing- and they were just -underwhelming. I started to think about getting a centre speaker and a Emotiva power amp with 300 watts per channel, to drive the left and right speakers. Only thing holding me back was extra boxes and my wife not liking it. Anyway, had a crap day at work yesterday and took today off. Had a coffee, sat down, to try and work out why volume was stuck at going to 80 instead of 100. Noticed front panel setting had been set to surround- turned that to stereo and presto, massive sound that literally hurt my ears listening to Peaky Blinders. For some reason the receiver set to surround was not passing the signals for the middle speaker and other surround speakers to my L and R. Now with receiver set to stereo, all signal is being processed to L and R. Now can turn to 100 volume - but the tweeters and my ears start distorting at 80. Such a simple fix and there I was about to roll thousands for a 600 watt emotica power amp and a couple of gs for a middle speaker- when all I needed to do was apply some of my gray matter. The SVS ultras are now sizzling- music and watching good movies- just mind blowing. Watched that 6 on Netflix with Ryan Reynolds and the sound was incredible with the SVS subwoofer. My wife came home with volume at 73 and she said it sounded like a movie theatre as soon as she opened the front door ![]() Realisation that I am a dumb f&*er sometimes but I am still wrapped- made me feel very good today.
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Ford screwed the Falcon
Join Date: Sep 2013
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The Democrats just got Trump re-elected in 2020.
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Shenanigans..............
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