Recent content by Anakist

Machine levelling feet and a coat of Colorbond "Ironstone" paint on my 6x2x2 fish tank stand. James

Headed out to Stonehenge over the weekend to lay a plaque for my Wife's Grandmother who died earlier this year. She grew up out there and her will requested her ashes be scattered and a plaque be laid next to her Brothers at the natural springs near their property growing up. Amazing stories...

I recently read a great article by an Australian online magazine called Autospeed about books to have. He is a great tinkerer with a passion for testing and publishing accurate results, even if they don't agree with his initial hypothesis. Here is his list of 10 books. I mention it because he...

Re: "Lyndon's Western Sydney Garage (amongst life's other stories)" My wife and I drove from Churchie out to Akaroa in a Daihatsu Sirion when we were there on our holiday. Awesome bit of road! It was infested with a bunch of new Ducatis when we were there. So nice to see them all, and even...

I find the trash panda name amusing. I know how you feel, our tanks have been in storage between houses for 12 months and we are both pining to have tanks set up again! We are mainly into freshwater fish. Mostly addicted to catfish in all their wonderful forms! My Wife loves fish with...

I think it is because our possums are different from yours. Ours are much more like your trash pandas. Now that it isn't in our house, I will definitely be feeding it. I don't know if I want it to be a girl or a boy. Seeing the babies will be cool, but the mating ritual and prowling males are...

Hurray. The operation was a success. Although I tried to decant the possum out of the cardboard box we trapped it in into the wooden box outside it jumped outside the fence and ran off somewhere. Still, the box can stay there and the possum can move in whenever it likes. James

Well that was a fun night. Three sides of our roof have been finished so far, the guys are here again today doing the last side, and the carpenter is here starting on the fascia and some other stuff. As part of this, I have asked for mesh to be put in as the eaves so the house is pest proof, but...

Got one tank set up tonight (the smallest!). From memory it is a 5'x20"x20", or about 1.5m x 50cm x 50cm. The Wife and I are sick of tanks that aren't level so we put threaded inserts and adjustable feet in last week and levelled the base. One Bunnings trip was for tank bulkhead fittings and a...

They were linked from imgur before. Now they are hosted on GJ and linked from my album. More fish stuff today. Waiting for the roofers to go so I can get my power and space back. Two trips to Bunnings so far since I haven't been able to do anything! James

Right. Time to start one of these things. I am a Fitter in Australia. Nearly on the East Coast and nearly on the Tropic of Capricorn and this is the story of my workshop / garage. I am seriously addicted to tools! Both buying them and making them. Luckily, my Wife understands as long as I don't...

Here we go. Main workshop area. Cupboards on left were left by previous owner. I have power tools, stock and rags in there at the moment but it isn't working for me. General workshop space and storage area. Wooden shelves are POs, **** everywhere is mine. Sigh! Double inline carport...

Hi all. I have been lurking for a while and decided to join up and start this thing. My Wife has decided she loves you guys because I am cleaning up my workshop with ideas from here! I am a Fitter over here. Like an industrial mechanic or millwright. I usually work in Mining maintenance, but...

We had the Stertl Koni's where I used to work picking up coal carriage bodies. They were really expensive, required significant training time for all the old timers, took ages to sync then set correctly to height, were slow AF to actually lift, and were worse than the frames that had been used...