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  1. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Shit yeah, the Burt - has sort of sneaked up a bit with new date, haven't registered yet. Best get the Hardley outa Mum's garage, clean up the inevitable oil stains, and get WOF'ed. Natch since it was perfect weather in Nov it will hail in Feb while I'm tenting...
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    Yeah I've been to the States a couple times and have been blown away by the friendliness, even in Noo York where they're s'posed to be assholes. Going again next yr but sadly taking wife/kids so will be severely hamstrung regards looking at cars/bikes/strippers/sports/cool stuff. Will be tourist spec Disney trip. Don't know why I'm bothering really...
  3. Lord Gruntfuttock
    How's this going? Grad engineer at work has just got one. Trying to convince him to café/bobber it, will show him that red/cream one above...
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    I've used a freight forwarding company from Aus before. Buggered if I can remember what it's called though, so shit post really. Depot is near Yatala pie shop on Gold Coast if that's any help...
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    Cool. Digging the crates on the back... Good inspiration to get mine out for a run.
  6. Lord Gruntfuttock
    ABC crate for the LPs. Classy as...
  7. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Same. Hope to be merrily pissed for most of it to deal with inevitable family fallings out etc... (always the wimmins)
  8. Lord Gruntfuttock
    I'm banned from owning sofas/carpets anything like that cos I can't stop myself writing rude words in'em...
  9. Lord Gruntfuttock
    That top pic ^^ - on my phone it looked like you'd erected a giant cross at your entrance. Should keep out vampires if they come from that angle..
  10. Lord Gruntfuttock
    I'm running round like an idiot now making sure dwangs are where we need 'em before gib goes on, things like dryer mount, mirror attachment points etc. Note I used the elegant term 'dwang' as that norf island expression 'nog' just sounds silly...
  11. Lord Gruntfuttock
    T'riffic...
  12. Lord Gruntfuttock
    That is a little flasher than the ones we used to make as kids out of broom and baler twine... As an aside, the guys at work cleared an old site a while ago and the broom had grown to trees. I saved a chunk of stump around 100mm thick to see what it looked like turned on the lathe. Of course it sat for years, dried and split before I did anything with it, but looked like it had an interesting pattern...
  13. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Was at Highlands yesterdee, work social club thing. Shit it's an impressive setup. Wife managed to pop our kart tyre off its rim by driving into a bridge...
  14. Lord Gruntfuttock
    I got my FA to around 64km/h after much fettling. It was a screamer right up to when it seized on a scooter run... They are a fun wee bike but don't expect too much out of them...
  15. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Ah the Falls Hotel, aka the 'Flying Jug'... Nowhere near as interesting as it used to be. Tried to set up our very naive graduate engineer with a local lass last year (footy team road trip). She was pretty good looking apart from the missing teeth, and had just returned from her yr long ban for fighting. She so terrified him he rang his mates in Gore and left...
  16. Lord Gruntfuttock
    There in 5. In green thing...
  17. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Should make it. May even arrive in proper old-school wheels. If mate can get it started...
  18. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Might have to take break from renos to visit the Riviera. I'm over skinning my knuckles on something not oily... Plan is Lorneville 10:30ish...? Will see if can do it. Have to head out to the crib there at some stage anyway. (yeah - have multiple houses cos not Auckland). Be good to do car show with other tragics/Barrys rather than bored wife...
  19. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Digging that massive 7m door/window thing. Enjoying this build as just embarked on our own addition. At first I didn't get why you'd want to do such a thing attached to another house (We're on acre blocks and still think the neighbours are too close) but sort of get it now. Looks great...
  20. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Sweet... Might want to clean the oil screen. Just a crude filter that can get blocked, have to take side cover off. Oh and check the acorn nuts are on the correct cyl head studs for oil flow. Can't offer any more advice as mine parked up still waiting for shakedown run...
  21. Lord Gruntfuttock
    YES!!!
  22. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Open megaphone? How does that work with back pressure? Asking cos 2-strokes zorsts baffle me (ha)...
  23. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Sadly parked... House renos under way and all projects on hold. Amazingly the wife sees me tinkering on bikes as a low priority when our washing machine is sitting outside... Will be next year till get into it. Should have a better shed layout though when house done.
  24. Lord Gruntfuttock
    So dishwasher packed a sad. Dreading expense I googled the fault code, which indicated a faulty heating plate, which would probably be uneconomic to fix unless I faffed around finding second hand parts. I went through the diagnostics, and sure enough plate not heating (you can trigger it on/off via sequence of operating buttons). Testing for resistance the element tested out ok, so possibly worth fixing. It's an F&P dish drawer (early one, been in the house since we moved in) and I was really surprised how user-friendly it was to pull apart. A couple of pins and everything dropped out/unplugged for inspection. Pulling the main board and removing cover plate revealed obvious burn marks indicating a fault at a 24V/230V relay... And cleaning it with Contact Cleaner revealed the disconnect... As the pin had burnt off I looked at sourcing a replacement relay. Of course it was an obsolete item, but Mr Ebay provided one for $10 US delivered. Bit of a time delay to get it but not a major as other drawer operates ok while the guts are pulled out of the faulty one... I got to use my Aliexpress octopus thing, bit of solder action and wahayy, I am an appliance god. Houswives everewhere will offer me sexual favours in awe of my skills... [Disclaimer] apparently somebody wanted a shiny new one instead of faffing about for a couple of months. Sexual reward withheld despite silly bloke feeling rampant/chuffed with himself...
  25. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Curses. Away that weekent too...
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