Australian Belly Tank

[Dr Goggles]

Sounds like your detailing to me

I haven't even made it to the lake and already forget why I made some bits that way.

the uglier, weirder, lumpier and ost welded parts are the ones to be treated with the most respect. What you don't do at moments like these is think " Bah, I should have done it THIS way, what was I thinking?" because there is nothing surer, that part is like it is FOR A REASON.......copy it accurately.

It is an unnerving feeling when someone points something out on your car and at that moment you can't muster the reason behind it, you just know that there is one........

Those are the moments that are great when you are sitting beside the car in the shed.."re-acquainting" yourself, and you look at some odd part, some little slot, or other oddity and think , "oh yeah, I remember that"...

Hurry up with the motor 

[Jon]

he's getting Pizza

[grumm441]

he's getting Pizza

You know, I wish I was getting pizza.
I'm sitting with a beer, next to the mitta river, watching my girlfriend
riding up and down the track on a club registered 70's trail bike, getting in
some practice for when her 70's Ducati clears Aus customs next week
G

[Jon]

Tough life but someone's got to do it.

What model Duc?

[Dr Goggles]

Sorry but I laughed when I read that, "the Mitta River".........
Where I grew up there were flies, like few places you'll ever see, but when we went for a camping holiday near Tallangatta on the Mitta we were surprised to find more insects there than anywhere we'd ever been.....I seem to remember they were daylight driven....

A friends father was the project boss on the Mitta dam, the story of the beam that went through the system doing untoild millions of dollars of damage one day is an interesting engineering disaster story on it's own.


Hey Graham bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,slap,bzzzzzzzz,slap,bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,slap,slap,bzzzzzzzzz,slap,slap,slap,slap,bbbbZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, BBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

[grumm441]

Tough life but someone's got to do it.

What model Duc?

350 scrambler
And of course, we just had pizza
G

[Dr Goggles]

Got the new helmet, from Wesco in Cal. Plain white Bell . Yes , I know I should have got the sub-atomic helix-honeycomb-recombinant-new-generation Sportsmeister with USB but I just got this one. It doesn't have the micro-nuclear ventilatarium or the jerk adaptor either,it just has stickers.

I fitted the HANS things, OK anchor points and everyone at the Spirit of Sunshine possum park, Cactarium and landspeed laboratory is so happy that we're breaking into spontaneous song. Praise be to Snell. Now I can give our perfectly good, unmarked SA2000 helmet bought in 07 to my Friday night "street drag" friends ...............

39 celcius yesterday, 41 today, prediciting the worst conditions since the 2009 Black Saturday fires here in Victoria where 173 people died. Fingers crossed for all our friends and family here in rural and remote areas and particularly those in established danger zones such as the Dandenongs.

Special mention to Greg Watters (Maj) who is a member of the volunteer Country Fire Authority, good on ya Greg.

[Elmo Rodge]

41 is quite warm. It was 21 below here last night.  Brrrr. Wayno

[Dr Goggles]

I'll send over some empty shipping containers Wayno, get 'em dropped out the front of your place. Just open the doors and leave 'em there overnight then get 'em picked up and shipped over here....we could do with some 21 below air right now........BTW, how do you power things when it's that cold, I thought electricity froze at those temperatures....that was why they didn't invent it earlier, or something like that.......

[Tman]

I'll send over some empty shipping containers Wayno, get 'em dropped out the front of your place. Just open the doors and leave 'em there overnight then get 'em picked up and shipped over here....we could do with some 21 below air right now........BTW, how do power things when it's that cold, I thought electricity froze at those temperatures....that was why they didn't invent it earlier, or something like that.......

We have insulated wires over here that keeps the smoke WARM and INSIDE the wire! Unlike the Lord of Darkness.....Lucas

[Dr Goggles]

Wayno, I neglected to point out that I will fill the containers with air in the low forties. Trent, that is why the British colonised Australia, they saw it as a tremendous natural resource for smoke. What with the vast majority of their smoke being used to color buildings and people's lungs they saw our wide brown land of burning plains as a goldmine, figuretively speaking of course. Hundreds of freighters full of smoke went back to the UK during the war years just to Lucas alone. It is easy to see why the Japanese and their solid state printed circuitry quickly dominated the world market after the war, the smoke trade was devastated. We no longer see old fellas burning leaves by the side of the road, old coots standing next to back yard incinerators or people having a "bonnie" just because it's been a while  as there are no local smoke buyers, people here used to follow fire trucks in the hope they could gather up some valuable smoke, that too is gone.

Ah, the good old days.

[Elmo Rodge]

You'd better hurry with those containers. High temp on Saturday is supposed to be a balmy 0 (celsius).  I haven't bothered with the shop the last few days. By the time I get it warm enough to work it's time to quit.  As I say, this shall soon pass. This has actually worked well for my recovery from the eyeball surgery. I woulda been out there doing dumb stuff and hurting myself. Wayno

[Stan Back]

"It doesn't have the . . . jerk adaptor either."

I'd guess it's of no use to you.  Wanna sell it?  What size?

[Dr Goggles]

You'd better hurry with those containers. High temp on Saturday is supposed to be a balmy 0 (celsius).   I haven't bothered with the shop the last few days. By the time I get it warm enough to work it's time to quit.   As I say, this shall soon pass. This has actually worked well for my recovery from the eyeball surgery. I woulda been out there doing dumb stuff and hurting myself. Wayno

My middle sister had ended up with a detached retina and had surgery on Monday. She crashed her daughter's Alfa last week and there is opinion that the injury was precipitated by that...she hit Armour-rail fortunately after what we suspect was a collapsed alloy wheel.It was on a straight section of the Goulburn valley highway that is lined by trees......many many fatal crashes on that stretch, she was really lucky.

Wayno, you are supposed to rest, and just in case you were wondering yesah, that means do nothing, be calm, stop fidgeting, stop rubbing your brow, stop using your eyes...... I woulda been out there doing dumb stuff and hurting myself ..actually I was thinking of giving Gus a call and getting him to head round there and lie a few rakes on the ground, tines up. Then, if you did head out to the shed where you'd risk getting hypothermia or straining your new peepers you'd be given a timely reminder "GO BACK IN THE HOUSE"........

Hey Stan, it's pumpkin sized, no seriously. When I offered the old helmet to the street drag brothers they laughed and Alex, better know as "Do you race"( said in a heavy Serbian accent) said , "nah mate, we've both got heads like f***** pumpkins", I looked at them , gave it a few seconds and said "your lucky day,it's pumpkin size" , XXL 76cm.

[Milwaukee Midget]

Wayno - If the Sunshine boys are sending you a care package of BTUs, could you drop ship some to me in Beerhaven?  My thermometer hasn't been above freezing since the solstice, and my Lucas was eradicated years ago.