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.....asked her if she flew a kite.[avref]

Mainlanders May not know the significance of this, but in Southern Tasmania (which excludes the scroats from Launceston) it has a very specific and anti-diversity meaning, so she picked up a piece of 4x2 and wrapped it around his ........

.........trouble and the Governor’s patience was sorely tested over the next few years, because as everyone knows there’s nothing to do after 5 pm when all the shops close except make trouble, and Jack b  made it with a capital ‘To grabbing the Governor’s daughter and tying her to the railroad tracks, and then realising there was only one train per fortnight and having to bring her McDonalds every night until it was due, then....

On 01/03/2021 at 7:01 AM, RFguy said:

Hi Turbs, you make a good point on the engine runtimes.  As a kid with Datsun engines for track I used to run a pipe cleaner through oil galleries and actually removed quite alot of rubbish , in attempt to improve oil flow. Those internals were generally cast (rough) finish that I think tended to catch and buildup.

 

What is state of art these days for block lube paths ? I used to (30 yrs ago) have dreams of aux high pressure oil sprays up the bottom of the piston and walls from a separate oil pump ..... oil foaming and bubbling  was stuff I didnt really understand how to avoid/correct then. glen

There are still engines with flow problems in galleries and manufacturers select oils which will handle the problem, or specify more frequent oil changes to do the equivalent of your pipe cleaner. I once connected one bank of a Ford 272 cu in V8 from a gallery with good flow to overhead gear on the opposite side with a piece of steel brake line. Worked like a charm.

..the convict based environment, which reminds one so much of 1852, when Jack Bull, who was a game keeper on the Estate of Captain Gawain Vickers Cooke in Sussex, south of Wessex and west of Essex, was found with the remains of a roast pheasant on his dinner plate.

Bull was innocent of stealing the pheasant because the Captain's wife Chatterley, had brought it down to the Gamekeeper's cottage, to share a leg with Jack.

In spite of Jack's protests which were all pretty lame because he couldn't give Chatterley away, he was sent to Tasmania where he made wooden chess boards from the local forests, and Bull's Timber is still ripping down old growth forests today.

Bull had made an escape attempt at one stage and the Governor removed the capital "B" from he name. "That will fix the blighter" said the Governor, but .................

.....the Turkish community, which these days outnumbers Australians in Melbourne. In fact there are rumours that Lord May Sally Capp, who would leave a Spanish clapper for dead when it comes to talking to the media about anything, is considering renaming Melbourne Melbournestanbull  (the double ll being a secret memorial to bull who passed through Melbourne on his way overseas to Tasmania, and .........)

....pointed the nose directly at the ground, and ................

"Thanks to bull for once again exposing media inaccuracies. Turbo was flying an Auster J3, but the journalist wrote a beatup about a Piper Cab" - Mod 16

"once again unsuitable flying activities have been shown on the site. It's bad enough now when builders are gluing in recognisable faces in their planes, but after this we're likely to  see model aircraft with the "pilot manipulating the controls, or grinning out of the side of the cockpit as the model aircraft is brought in to land, or even "passengers" throwing up over the side" - President, MAAA

[Odour should read "Ossie"]

........excitement as the rubber bands called ‘suspension’ got ready to give Ossie the Auster a massive launch back into the air the minute he touched the first blade of grass but Turbo was too smart fo that and landed like a feather on goose fluff. Odour went into another fit of wheel vibrations and.....

On 25/02/2021 at 8:18 AM, facthunter said:

It will show bore scratches and rust and that's about all.  Nev

If you can see that, you have an indication of whether there's a problem.

If the rust is just powdery the rings will scrape it off.

If the scratches are shallow you might not be losing any seal because they fill with oil.

If you see mild bore scratches and rust and the engine is turning over ok, then do a compression test. That will show up any leakage due to the cracks or rust ridges.

For racing engines I normally hand rasp the sides of the piston which allows the piston to hold a lot more oil, helping to cool the sides and augmenting the ring seal. (I didn't just think this up one morning, it comes from Phil Irving, one of the best engine designers in the world). However, remember that racing engine pistons are pulled out after a very short life, so I wouldn't recommend doing this on a standard engine, I just metion it to show that a scratch in the bore may not necessarily be causing a loss in compression.

........I've never heard of any of those people. Are they members of Collingwood football Club?

"Lydia Thorp is a swimmer I think" said Turbo trying to be helpful "Her brother is Ian Thorp."

Everyone had forgotten about flying, just as they have  on the other threads, so Turbo dragged out his 1953 Auster J3. He had found a way to start it by himself, by looping a rope over the prop, hitching the rope to the collar of his draught mare Betsy, and shooting Betsy in the bum with the 410 once he was ready. There was no need to yell out for Betsy to stay clear because she was in the next district by the time the reverberations from the gun died down.

Turbo line the Auster up and went for a 30 minute spin then decided to go back to the field and take his good friends Cappy, OT and bull for a spin. The strip had a hump in the middle. As Turbo came down the six finals and rounded out over the strip the aircraft sank..............

.......which read "Austria has just announced it will legalise the supply of Quoaker meat in order to feed homeless people and assist them buy affordable homes.

Nobushi was inducted into the Maori Hall of Fame, had his own Haka created for him including a few "Banzais!", and given a lifelong unemployment pension.

Turbo decided not to go ahead with cat meat venture, but to expand into furs, where the spare meat provided food for the cats before they became spare meat. He named the fur products PUSY, and ran ads saying "Wear a PUSY around your neck every day" and the market exploded with film stars, football champions and late night TV Icons all draping a PUSY around their necks, but when Joe Biden was approached, he said ................

.........mutton birds in season.

Mutton Birds have very interesting flight characterisics [avref] using dihedral to fly low to the water without being blown wing-first into a wave of icy water.

Nevertheless, low flight has its consequences and from time to time they fly into a wave or cliff.

The cliff usually produces a definite result, but to cope with the more frequent flying into waves the birds build up a heavy layer of fat.

According to Tasmanians, when roasted over an open fire they taste like mutton, but for mainlanders they taste like ........

[..........six of Turbo's posts deleted due to questioning Mod 17's use of commas and colons ..........Moderator17]

Although Turbo couldn't get his friend bull off the hook, he thought the moderator was heavy handed, given that bull is now forced to live in Tasmania, eat in restaurants which close at six and only have things like "Ploughman's Lunch, pastie and eggs, fried bread, jellied eels, and .......

....withering description of [unacceptable personal reference - Mod 17] and recommended Cappy go and [could upset some people - Mod 17].

Turbo understood where Mod 17 was coming from, and hopefull he would return there sooner raher than later agreed to change his description to 150 mm from the mean stabiliser chord line, in order to .........

......aft fuselage in the upper.....................

....a week every month listening to the wonderful stories of adventure and checking out the latest toilet cleaners.

We can't say who it is, but one of the main forum complainers goes under the name Capitan, and he is the loudest complainer of the lot, having almost brought Toyota to its knees with complaints about the weak spots of the Land Cruiser. Jack Absalom might have been able to cook a roast in a saucepan on the exhaust manifold but Capitan can tell you where every manifold crack starts and every noise............

.....wad of notes would be required because it had glass slippers and one had cracked off, and ..........

....off road caravan suspension where you proudly leave the city after spending th $80,000.00 which included the 15 minute outback training module. You get to Broken Hill from Sydney and notice in the Mirror that the front window is at an angle, pulls into the Bunnings size Caravan Centre with the “City Drivers Welcome” sign you be told......

....being of Scottish origin, he had never worn knickers, and wouldna ever.

Cappy had painted himself into a hole, so he vowed to walk throughout the land until he found someone who was size 46 and would admit to having worn them.

Turbo pointed out this had been done before with glass slippers but ............

.... in Cappy's letterbox.

'That XXXX" said Dan "I gave him private briefing meetings, but he blurted out the secrets after every one, so I've had to feed him BS at every meeting since.

This sounded very familiar to Turbo who was still smarting after Cappy let out the secret that he was the one that hung his girlfriends nickers from the flagpole at the local High School, and ................

Turbo would like to inform NES viewers with that photo of Dan Andrews (above)

The photo had nothing to do with smugness; Turbo had just told Dan that Cappy's fly was undone, and Dan was desperately trying to stop himself from laughing.

......Ant Trap story.

Turbo looked at Dan with a pained expresson "I told you never to talk about the Ant Trap" he said

"Why won't you talk about the Ant Trap?" asked Dan

"There you go again, don't mention it! It got you the Belts and Roads money didn't it"

"Well yes" said Dand and despite his best efforts his top lip slipped over the bottom one and began to quiver.

"The Ant Trap is not an Ant Trap; it picks up all communications from the Chinese Navy to the leaders in Beijing, translates from Mandarin, and cross references the times and subjects. We know what they are going to do before they've even thought about it."

"Well how can we know before they've thought about it? they haven't spoken" questioned Dan with that clever look on his face, but Turbo was ready. "Because of the ingredient I top it up with" replied Turbo And I can't....."

[Special Note, this is secret information just for NES readers; please don't mention it of Facebook news sites, the pub etc because it is classified information.]

....streamlined teeth, and I've got a spare Jab 3300, so all we need to do is make a harness to strap it on and you'll be off with the fairies [LoxieRef].

Dan looked a bit doubtful. "This sounds like another.............."

.....skyrocket.

And using this information Turbo, on his return from the Spratleys with the Corsair safely parked in its hangar, ant trap topped up, and passing sea traffic recorded, was able to update ASIO on the current state of the Indo M. and then ............

..........nuts [avref] rattle around unless they are loctited on.

Cappy turned his attention to bull again, and what to do about the joyride in the Corsair which even now was risking the life of Turbo who was following the Avmap line from Australia to the Spratleys, and was currently climing up the side of a 15'000 foot mountain somewhere in New Guinea, faithfully  keeping to that 6'8" agl. It was going to be one hell of a ride down the other side he thought, but just then.........

[Re Turbo's use of the word Ond; NES readers should have not fear, it's merely the latest in word on the Melbourne latte ans smashed avocado circuit and sounds much mor In than and.]

.........he didn't need it any more.

Wow, that brings back memories of when Turbo used to sing, and meny people thought he would take over from the Beatles on the hit parades, but then there was that incident where his agent was caught skipping the country with all his money, and the agent got off by telling the judge it was drug money Turbo had made selling pot. He certainly was a good looker in thise days.

And How's Cappy down the back looking like a Dork.  The three years at the London School of Deportment made Cappy into the gentleman he used to be.

Ond look at OneTrack, he .............