Recent content by colmiller

Of course the only answer, until our chicken s*&t governments step in, is to refuse to buy Chinese product. Avoid the mass market stores, in Australia that's Bunnings, sounds like its mainly WallMart in the US. Support your local specialist tool store and tell him you don't want cheap you want...

Someone earlier in this thread objected to my suggestion that tarrif protection was the best way to save American or Australian jobs and that they wouldnt tolerate government telling them what they could and couldnt buy. Reading the whole thread most of you appear to think your government has...

Guys i'm over sixty and I care. I'm not even American & I care, I'm an Australian & I'm fed up with how polititians spruking "Free Trade" have ruined all our manufacturing industries. I'm fed up with the "it must be cheap" phylosophy. Mind you neither will I tolerate the rip 'em off because we...

Hey Dave, I've only been here a few days myself but welcome. Whereablout on the North Shore are you. Like you I make a living out of IT but its the cars that keep me sane.

I just can't believe how neat and clean you guys are. Your toolboxes look as though they would belong in an operating theatre. Do they ever get used on a real car ???

Piper you have to realise you cant be too precious with old computer equipment these days, it not worth anything. I took a trailer load of working computers to the dump the other day. Just sit the monitor on the desk, hook it up wireless by all means but dont sweat the keyboard getting dirty...

Hi my name is Colin. I live in a rural area known as the Hawkesbury about 60 kilometres North West of Australia's largest city, Sydney. I'm more of a farm shed type of guy but this forum looks pretty cool. I came here via a link on the Off Road Fabrication Network which if you don't know it is...

Isnt it normal in the US for local delivery trucks to be fitted with Hyab or Palfinger type hydraulic cranes when delivering heavy equipment ? No one in Australia would expect to deliver a couple of tons of equipment without a crane to lift it off the truck with ! Damit the customer is always...

Work out how many cubic yards you will use ((60/3) X (40/3) X (5/12/3)) for the shed plus the drive ((20/3)X(20/3)X(5/12/3)) for a 5 inch deep concrete layer. I guestimate thats about 40 cubic yards. Where I am readymix delivered within about 10 miles of the plant costs about $150 per cubic...

If you are having trouble seeing the weld puddle with aluminium it could be that the lens in your welding goggles is incorrect. Standard grade 5 oxy goggles will not penetrate the sodium flare that is caused by the flux needed to weld al. ColbaltBlue lenses used to be the thing but the health &...