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A Man's Age -- as Determined by a Trip to Bunnings You are in the middle of some kind of project around the house --. Mowing the lawn, putting in a new fence, painting the living room or whatever. You are hot and sweaty, covered in dust, lawn clippings, dirt or paint. You have your old work clothes on. You know the outfit -- shorts with the hole in the crotch, old T-shirt with a stain from who-knows-what and an old pair of tennis shoes. Right in the middle of this great home improvement project you realize you need to run to Bunnings to get something to help complete the job. Depending on your age you might do the following: In your 20's: Stop what you are doing. Shave, take a shower, blow dry your hair, brush your teeth, floss and put on clean clothes. Check yourself in the mirror and flex. Add a dab of your favourite cologne because you never know, you just might meet some hot chick while standing in the checkout lane. And you went to school with the pretty girl running the register. In your 30's: Stop what you are doing, put on clean shorts and shirt. Change shoes. You married the hot chick so no need for much else. Wash your hands and comb your hair. Check yourself in the mirror. Still got it. Add a shot of your favourite cologne to cover the smell. The cute girl running the register is the kid sister to someone you went to school with. In your 40's: Stop what you are doing. Put on a sweatshirt that is long enough to cover the hole in the crotch of your shorts. Put on different shoes and a hat. Wash your hands. Your bottle of Brute Cologne is almost empty so you don't want to waste any of it on a trip to Bunnings Check yourself in the mirror and do more sucking in than flexing. The hot young thing running the register is your daughter's age and you feel weird thinking she is spicy. In your 50's: Stop what you are doing. Put on a hat; wipe the dirt off your hands onto your shirt. Change shoes because you don't want to get dog crap in your new sports car. Check yourself in the mirror and you swear not to wear that shirt anymore because it makes you look fat. The Cutie running the register smiles when she sees you coming and you think you still have it. Then you remember the hat you have on is from Gold Coast's Bait & Beer Bar and it says, 'I Got Worms.' In your 60's: Stop what you are doing. No need for a hat anymore. Hose the dog crap off your shoes. The mirror was shattered when you were in your 50's. You hope you have underwear on so nothing hangs out the hole in your pants. The girl running the register may be cute, but you don't have your glasses on so you are not sure. In your 70's: Stop what you are doing. Wait to go to Bunnings until the Chemist has your prescriptions ready, too. Don't even notice the dog crap on your shoes. The young thing at the register stares at you and you realize your balls are hanging out the hole in your crotch. In your 80's: Stop what you are doing. Start again. Then stop again. Now you remember you need to go to Bunnings. Go to K-Mart instead and wander around trying to think what it is you are looking for. Fart out loud and you think someone called out your name. You went to school with the old lady who greeted you at the front door. In your 90's & beyond: What's a bundings ? Something for my garden? Where am I? Who am I? Why am I reading this? Did I send it? Did you? Who farted?

This was more a general battery enquiry, rather than specifically for planes. But thanks.

Thanks Andy. I found out about the Mag' sulphate. I have heard that pulsing AC into some batteries can help clean the plates. A lot of this is too new for me as I haven't done much on batteries recently. There is only so much I can learn. ;) That link was sort of helpful but I was a bit confused with the chemical reactions. But I'm getting my head around it slowly. There is the "Trick" too that in DEEP CYCLE batteries, that the plates don't go as far down - or the batteries are "taller" - so any gunk from the plates falls down into the empty area and not shorting the plates with each other. Or so I am told. But back to what you were saying: Adding the salt would change the PH and/or SG - wouldn't it?

Bruce, I read your post: Although I haven't checked with an oscilloscope, I would expect these capacitors would smooth out the peak pulses. That's what capacitors do. Errrr.... No. That isn't what they do. Well, not the SMOOTH OUT PEAKS part. If there are spikes, they will not reduce them. Capacitors WILL smooth drops in the voltage, but can't reduce spikes. COILS can do that, but it gets difficult to do it because a lot of maths comes into it.

But flying in formation has its own set of problems too!!!! There are tradeoffs on how things are done.

Folks, I'm jumping in here feet first. While bored, I was looking on ewe tube and there were some posts about batteries. I'm from the "Lead acid" genre and know about Mallaroy batteries way back when. Now there are SLA, LIPO, NiCad, GelCel, and so on. The order is just the order I recalled the types. So I'm a bit confused: If you have an old lead acid battery which is "dead" (or dieing) they show taking the acid out and replacing it with EPSON SALTS. Huh!!?? Quick trip in the time machine: School teachings. There are three kinds of PH: ACID, BASE and SALT. I don't remember the exact definitions etc, but bear with me. I get that in an ACID battery, the two plates react with the acid and that causes the electrons to create a charge. So: If you replace the ACID with a SALT, ...... HOW will it work? Granted there are ALKALINE batteries. And they would use a similar principle to how ACID batteries work, but there would have to be SOME differences in the equation. I know the "trick" where you get vinegar and bi-carb to make carbon dioxide. Isn't EPSON SALT much the same? The fact it has SALT in the name must count for something in where/how it fits into the three definitions of which I was told at school. So, could someone give me a bit of a hint/push/help on getting to understand how it works?

This is an interesting use for beer bottles. http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/06/05/what-to-do-once-youve-finished-all-the-beer/

Interesting. To me: Twit - fool. Twat - part of female anatomy. Twot - acronim for Total Waste Of Time.

Anyone watching it? Episode 2. The reporter flys out to....... where ever. (Starts with L) and there is a small yellow plane in the background. Skyfox, gazelle? Anyone?

Haven't watched it, but from the comments, is that the one where the guy is standing there hand on copper and it circles him? Yeah, great flying. Shame the fun police have stopped it.

Yeah: It wasn't a Cessna this time! ;)

I'm (kinda) at work. As much as I am allowed a few indulgences, I can't spend the day doing searches on shows. I'll try to remember. I am close to "OVERLOAD" with other tasks just now.

Well, maybe. I have been wrong before - I think. ;)

But the shots of inside the cockpit showed it IS side stick controlled. So the question remains about the Air Crash Investigation episode which showed an (aledged) A350 cockpit with a yoke control. And it was a LONG TIME AGO too!

Ok, here's the thing: I watch Air Crash Investigation. ALL of them! Don't know when, but NOT recently there was an episode and it was an Airbus plane in the story. There was a cockpit view and HANG ON!!!! There is a YOKE! Can't be an Airbus! They have side sticks. I think I know enough about the differences between Boeing and Airbus! And the people who make "ACI" aren't that cheap to use incorrect cockpits! Later it was said it was an Airbus 350. I know the Airbus 310, 320, 330, 40 and 80. But hadn't heard of the 350, so accepted it. Now Airbus are saying it is their new kid on the block. Huh?

I've flown into Hotham twice. Just ring and inform them. They don't mind. It is a short bus trip to the "fields" if you want to go skiing. Nice people. They helped me with fuel there too.

I was in hobbyco today. I was looking at the models and finally realised which plane I had seen. I knew one of the airbus planes had a "weird" set of wheels. A MIDDLE set. Now I know it is the 340. But looking at the models, there are two kinds of that too! One has a single set of wheels and the other has two sets of wheels. Comments?

'twas just a suggestion.

Um, I'm scratching the brain cells, but instead of tracking from the "dam" to Q1 and having that height restriction: Why not keep going north. Sorry can't find my charts. Go up towards Watts Bridge then go South Stradbroke. It keeps you over ground longer. You just have to watch out for a little airstrip somewhere near the northern bit of Surfer's, just south of Sea world. I haven't been that part of the world for a LONG time now, but flown past it about 6 times. Good luck.

Marty, So: Who's a Doctor Who fan then? ;)

And another question: (Though I don't mind) Why was it reported in a Kiwi paper and not a "local" one?

For anyone up tonight ABC2 has a show called "fear of flying caught on camera" at 21:30. From the shorts it looks funny.

Found this on the tube: And, it was done here in Oz. I'm impressed.

eightyknots: I don't think that would be a good idea, Coz the other person may ....... take offence. (think about it)

Yeah, well on the other side of the coin: If she offers you one, but DOESN'T allow you to pick a name, be careful in accepting, coz you just don't know who the third party will be - or more importantly: The sex of said party. That is: ACKWARD!