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Just had a reasonable storm pass through Victoria and I got 21mm in about 2 hours in Melbourne, with a little more to come over the next hour or so. Rob P

MB, I had no problem with ordering and shipping to Oz via Fleabay. Well they accepted the order at least. Rob P.

Yep, that can happen for a few weeks in some spots. I was flooded in for almost 3 months in West Pilbara one time. Rob P.

Just relaxing after my regular plasma donation at the Blood Bank. How many of you donate? Rob P.

Each to his own. You make the decision, based on whatever sources that you desire, then be prepared to accept the responsibility for use and maintenance of the vehicle. Having said that I run a Prado diesel and all station vehicles where I have worked have been Toyota, all ex mining use so not...

No it was not BlazeAid in this case. This was to the Foodbank in Melbourne for distribution. As said I have done many weeks with BlazeAid in several states, but in this case as I am stuck at home for a while, I was a volunteer for a charity, that was donating food from other sources. I hope to...

I have just helped sort and load 2 full pallets of foodstuff for delivery to Foodbank in Yarraville. They had queues 500m long yesterday of cars delivering stuff. I think that they shut their doors at around 3pm, and opened again this morning at 10AM. I would also encorage people to help...

I do understand your point and in fact there are other related matters that may be worth mentioning. One of the people who does vollie work with the same organisation as me, was an electrician until a couple of years ago, but he was not keen to do any test and tag work, said it was too boring...

I am not sure that I fully agree with you MB, the testing can and does find many very serious issues that could have severe consequences if not found and corrected. I am involved with almost 2000 tests each year (all as a volunteer for a charity, so no-one is being ripped off) and while most...

Good to see that you survived the belt. I believe that reading between the lines that the cause was a mix of things. - The Xu1 doesn't have an earth wire, else it would have tripped - There is a fault or weakness in the double insulation properties of the XU1 - In this case you became the earth...

Gosh, I missed that. Must have been among a lot of other bumf. Nah, I picked you out on the first and only read so far. Keep up the good work everyone, the forum members count says lots about the people on this forum. Rob P.

I do a lot of volunteer work for a charity that started as a club, and I don't begrudge them the time at all. What they are trying to do in most cases is to improve the lives of thousands of others, and while I may frown at some of their costs/expenses a bit at times, I know that what they are...

Without commenting on the rest of your words, during many years as a safety office in a Melbourne office, I collected statistics regarding absenteeism due to accidents and the like rather than illness. Over 90% of the away time was not due to work, vehicles, or crime, but was due to sporting or...

Leatherman do have a lifetime guarantee, I believe. I had a Leatherman Sidekick for many years then one day I found that the spring that hold the tools folded had broken. So I stopped using it. Then while looking at some Leatherman stuff on a web site, I noted that it said lifetime guarantee...

You should have put this in one of the jokes pages to expect 15 + years. Rob P

Condor - Yep I had the Bluetooth freezing problem with earlier versions and reported it, but so far have not had that problem with the new version, not that I am sure that it won't happen again. I have had quite good support from them, but then they are only a few kms from my place, and I call...

I have used several of the earlier versions, but the new "van" I acquired came with a 2000W inverter. Not that I have used it, but it meant that I couldn't run the full potential battery load through the BMPro, and meant that I had to split inverter load to bypass the earlier BMPro. Fortunately...

The link is for the latest BMPro. Do you have it, or an earlier version, as the latest has a better capacity for high current drains. Rob P.

Looks and would taste great, but a lot of effort and cost for a home cooked meal. You will need to fork out for vacuum sealer and Sous Vide cooker, so bang goes several hundred $$$. Me I like just about anything fortunately/unfortunately, so I don't like to go to much time, effort and cost for...