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I've seen a NOS Simonini engine for sale here locally, if someone is interested. Not sure why it was purchased, and never used.

.......full metal jacket on the old blind gentleman, and ripped his cane off him, and broke it into pieces, all the while screaming, "Don't you ever call me.........

No fire ants in Victoria AFAIK, and I wasn't carrying honey or honey products, or fruit. Rust? Yeah, I had plenty of rusty components! LOL Never heard of rust being a quarantine problem for W.A., we've had rust in wheat here since the earliest part of the 20th century. Skeleton weed is still a concern.

You'll be right. I went through the border in mid-May with 4.5 tonnes of earthmover parts covered in Victorian dirt and crap, and the young bloke on duty was pretty cheery, and simply blew the load down with a leaf blower, and let me through! And the truck was unregistered, too! LOL However, he did need my movement permit number for his records. Weed seeds are what they're mostly concerned about, and if you've come from any area where known problems exist.

.....who was above all this crass, class-crawling behaviour - our indomitable Capt bull. bull knew, as a prawn trawler Captain, he was above all this kind of stuff - and besides, he preferred to sit alone all the time, anyway, just to keep himself apart from the Turbine and Cappy and sales rep rabble. Naturally, having a very strong, clinging odour of prawns about him on a constant basis, only ensured that bull always sat alone, anyway. That was, until the day a senior............

So.... these often exorbitantly expensive heat transfer compounds are revealed in the TDS's, to contain nothing more than silicone oil, and zinc oxide as an inorganic, largely inert filler. Both are relatively cheap - silicone oil is noted for its heat transfer properties, and zinc oxide is used widely in a large range of products, with sunscreen being a major user. Silicone oil has been used in viscous fan clutch hubs for donkeys years, it's not exactly worth stealing, like catalytic converters are. So why the massive charges for this heat transfer compound as soon as it's labelled for aviation use? It sounds like the classic sideshow spielers have got into the heat transfer compound market. Skippys on the mark - no point in being ripped off simply because Rotax recommend a certain brand of the product.

....Made in China!!!", he exclaimed. "Well, I'll be f******!!" exclaimed OT. "I didn't see those little stickers on them, when I bought them from TurboCrayBoats, Inc! There'll be some repercussions come out of this shady deal, for sure!!" - and OT reached for..........

Ian, I'm quite happy for you to amalgamate the two sites. I'm sure you'll be able to set it up so that Social Australia is identified as a social forum, and a separate area to RF. There's always going to be some "pollution" of content, no matter what you're running - threads going off-topic are common on most forums, anyway. Moderation keeps them on topic. I'm surprised that there's a higher percentage of spammers and scammers on Social Australia. Is there something you do on RF, that keeps spammers and scammers to a low level? I've reported scammers in the RF classifieds numerous times, so they must still get in. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in keeping spammers and scammers out of forums, one just minimises them with intense moderation. I quite enjoy the S.A. forum and I was hoping my annual $50 contribution went a good way towards covering the cost of operating it. Please don't ever transfer anything to FB, it's the home of scammers and the owner's morality and ethics is suspect, too. Plus their format is utter crap, it's all centred around "likes", and much puerile content.

There's a big difference between grams and millilitres, you're comparing apples to oranges. Grams is weight measure, ml is volume measure. You can have a vast difference in quantity for the same numerical amount, depending on the S.G. of the particular product.

Stainless steel bolts can never be rated as "high tensile", you need low-alloy steel for that requirement. 6mm diameter sounds to me like a serious under-estimation, or under engineering, of the loading on them, in a major crash.

John Wagner of Wellcamp Airport fame, has thrown his fat wallet down, to help finance infrastructure for pilot-less eVTOL taxis. Of course, with him owning an airport, he can see more money-making synergies in financing the infrastructure for uncrewed air taxis . Businessman John Wagner signs deal with Skyports to develop air taxis for south-east Queensland - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Businessman John Wagner backs the use of flying taxis ahead of the 2032 Olympics but there are still a few hurdles for the technology to overcome.

........the major carrot farms were located, looking to haul back a decent supply of carrots, to enable them to carrot a few more of the........

I've heard nothing about the flying hoverbikes the Dubai Police were supposed to be using by now?

.......bull, who wanted the NES to continue broadly along the lines of his story involving the Gubbmint taking every right and possession off every upstanding citizen, in a slow and stealthy manner, over many years, under the guise of, "we're from the Gubbmint, and we're here to help you.......

Scrap was gathered from everywhere to fuel the furnaces for war. I can recall when in the U.K., learning how the steel and wrought iron fences around many important homes and places were pulled out and melted down. Aluminium scrap was sought far and wide. Every single item with even a small amount of aluminium in it was gathered up and fed into the furnaces. Cars, trucks, tractors, anything deemed to not be repairable was sent to scrap. I can recall an old Italian wrecker at Dog Swamp, W.A., who retired in 1974, telling me how he nearly cried when he thought back to how many beautiful brass and chrome radiator shells and headlights and trims, from now rare and outstanding vehicles of the 1920's and 1930's, were sent by him for scrap, for the War effort. Check out the photos on the AWM site, of the monstrous piles of scrap gathered up for the War effort. Even old tyres assumed enormous value for their rubber content when the Japanese had cornered the rubber supplies in 1942 and 1943.