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    5hp Briggs And Stratton

    Briggs and Stratton is your problem.......B urn them or S **** them.
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    Scanner?

    Iphone app with bluetooth OBD adaptor? Android do them also.
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    Workwear...what's your preference?

    What do you wear day in and day out in your profession and why? What brand do you demand or wish for? I'm In Australia and our choices over the counter are 1, Chinese cheap 2, Hard Yakka 3, King Gee. Sick of the overpriced **** that doesn't suit my needs and wears out too quickly so I was...
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    "Robin" gas motor?

    Far better than Briggs and scrap iron....and Honda for that matter.
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    Ricky's Garage

    Smoking is bad for your health. LOL Beautiful 2 strokes.
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    Down Under: Tools from Australia?

    Last week got 60% off at Repco for 1/2" drive Sidchrome socket set and metric OE ratchet spanners. Repco and Sidchrome seem to be parting ways.....Then again Sidchrome aren't what they used to be either. I collect Siddons / sidchrome where I can and the new stuff is fairly ordinary in finish...
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    the MOST expensive wrench set I have ever seen

    Well heres a question...or 2 1. How on earth can the price be justified for a piece of inanimate steel? 2. What sort of half sensible person or company would pay that price?
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    Water to the shop

    Water tank and collect off the roof. Thats how its done here in OZ unless you need permits and **** for tanks over there.
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    advice on starting a tool collection

    Secondhand? Perhaps ebay or CL would be good starting point. OE / ring spanners, 3/8 socket set, screwdrivers, hex keys, pliers, and a flogging stick. Thats a start. Buy tools as needed thereafter or as skills increase. Alot of what you have mentioned is well meant advice I know but if all he...
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    Krakatinee Lodge

    Boxed up awaiting concreter to get back to me with a time to pour...Paying him cash and refreshments. Will get the trusses delivered this week. 7.6m span, 22.5 pitch $75 a piece and enough to do the workshop and a carport. Cheapest quote I got for fully installed tin shed on slab was $12300...
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    $54K worth of tools

    Scare yourself. Add up all the DVD's and CD's in your home....Soon to be obsolete. Tools add up even quicker but at least they will always have a use.
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    Krakatinee Lodge

    Getting serious now and down to the pointy end. Not long till xmas and I still dont have a shed. Working 14 to 16 hours a day at the moment...cashed up but time poor. Pulled the pin on work at half time and went and got a loader from Kennards, 13T of crushed rock and levelled the site ready to...
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    Krakatinee Lodge

    Still dreaming. Money all got up and left soon after it started raining....thank fark spring is here ( I cut grass for a living). Dog needed $5k worth of knee surgery, got some teeth removed from my head $3k, missus ill and more medical expenses. But this thing will be built before xmas. After...
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    An Aussie Barn Build

    It happens. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2009-06-18-online-scams_N.htm?AID=4992781&PID=4177199&SID=cft7ywqzdvu2 Sorry for the thread hijack. Just be careful what details you post when linked to your personal property.
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    An Aussie Barn Build

    Just moved from NW Melbourne earlier this year for all the reasons you listed in the first post. It got a bit out of hand after 8 years there when it went from quite and friendly to noisy and feral..... Cars getting broken into. Every house had at least 2 dogs and 2.5 children....the dogs were...
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