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Teaching drivers to keep their reflexes sharp would be a good start. This applies to both young and old. "Fuzzy" thinking is behind a lot of accidents. What do you think went wrong here?

https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-hilux-dash-cam-crash-australia/

Of course, the figures are deceiving, because they presume that every person on the planet is going to purchase a sizeable fossil-fuelled private aircraft, and travel in it exclusively. 

The bottom line is that the number of people doing this, are but a tiny proportion of the people travelling every day.

They might as well focus on the bogans from Lower Bumblegum driving 1980's models diesel Hiluxes with 400,000 - 500,000km on the clock, that are spewing out loads of CO2, NO2, and visible smoke and carbon particles.

They exist, but only in numbers equating to private passenger-carrying aircraft - but of course, private passenger-carrying aircraft are such a more highly visible target than the bogans from Lower Bumblegum.

So, essentially, the Victorian Govt has coughed up $33M of taxpayers money to keep aggrieved parties quiet, and to ensure there's no investigation into the competence of the Box Hill Institute, as regards setting course structures?

And the BHI continues on its merry way, in its time honoured manner, taking students funds, and accepting no responsibility for stuffed-up course arrangements and schedules, nor any examination of the value of its operations.

I guess it's so easy to come to this arrangement, when it's not your personal money, and taxpayers money is there to be thrown around with gay abandon.

......a major discussion commenced, centred around the Wackley Award, which was originally initiated by the Ukrainians, and which Award referred to the number of Russians whacked.

The highest-scoring Russian-whacker amongst the Ukrainians got the Wackley Award.

Unbeknowns to all the NES readers and participants, Dimitri Wunski had more Ukrainian ancestry than any other NES participant, and also unbeknowns to those NES participants - Dimitri, as an already highly-respected and heavily decorated War veteran - had been called on by President Zelinskyy to go back to his ancestral lands, and assist with repelling the Russian caveman hordes.

To this end, not only was Dimitri engaged in training up more Ukrainians as Commanddos (Ukrainian spelling) - in his spare time, he engaged in close combat with the Russians in the trenches, and as a result, won the Wackley Award twice in consecutive months (the Wackley Award was handed out monthly, such was the speed of the Ukrainian War) - and Dimitri incurred some jealousy amongst other, lesser beings, who thought he shouldn't have been given the Wackley Award twice in a row.

This jealousy was something that Dimitri endured regularly, but he brushed it off. The others were also jealous of his speed in re-tracking blown-up Russian tanks - which, if they'd been completely gutted, he utilised as false Ukrainian tanks, to further demoralise the Russians, as they thought the Ukrainians had now accessed a hidden armada of T-54's.

Then again, the Russians considered it was possible someone in their ranks had sold off most of their T-54's that were in storage, to the Ukrainians - in exchange for a whole shipload of Vodka. Stranger things had happened.

Once Dimitri saw how useful Vodka could be as a War weapon, he decided he would build a Vodka Distillery in the Ukraine. To this end, he sought out.........

A narrow (20-25mm wide?) piece of insertion rubber under the hose clamp should fix any potential filter cracking problem? Might even produce a bit of vibration/noise attenuation.

The AGM batteries have very little liquid in them that you can't afford to lose via the vents (and yes, AGM batteries do have vents, that only release under pressure). If an AGM battery gets hot, the vents vent, and a portion of the water in the electrolyte paste is lost.

You can easily determine this level of loss by weighing the overheated AGM battery, and checking its current weight against a new one. If the battery weighs 20kgs new, and it now weighs only 19kg after being overheated, then you've lost a litre of water from the gel - which seriously affects the AGM batterys life and performance - and that water loss can't be replaced, unlike a standard lead acid battery.

For that reason, battery manufacturers insist that a dedicated AGM battery charger must be used on AGM batteries, as the dedicated AGM chargers have temperature compensation logic, which reduces the charge rate, and therefore the temperature rise in the battery, if the temperature of the battery being charged, is rising to battery-damaging levels.

Not everyone understands how important it also is, to watch your maximum charging voltage with lead acid batteries. Many batteries carry a warning against exceeding a certain charging voltage - over which voltage, overheating and cell damage is occurring. 

I've recovered quite a few dead flat batteries that shows all the signs of sulphation, using my Infinitum 12V desulfator (U.S. spelling) and a simple 4A basic battery charger, charging over an extended period.

They never recover to as-new, but they recover enough to perform quite satisfactorily in the average start battery position. The Infinitum 12V desulfator also prolongs the life of good batteries, if you use it on them permanently.

A toolkit is not complete without a pair of genuine 7LW Irwin Vise-Grips! (correct spelling). They will substitute for all the spanners you forgot! You always need to HOLD things!

The most important thing to is let reliable, responsible people know where you're going and when you expect to get there, so they can be on alert for when you don't show up at allotted places and times.

.......put Diamonds logos on his fleet of Drifters, that he acquired in a swap deal with a little-known Arabian Prince. The Prince had ordered a fleet of 50 Drifters for tourism entertainment, after he read about Farri's exploits on the WreckedFline site, and thought it would be an excellent money-spinner and drawcard to bring in badly-needed Tourist Dollars to Arab countries, now that Petro Dollars were taking a hit from the huge surge in sales of EV's. 

However, the Princes hired Drifter plan, fell over like Cappy's last effort at sandbagging against the floods, and once Turbo got a sniff of so many Drifters going cheap, he offered the Prince a swap deal with shares in Turbine Cat Farms, and the Prince was all over it, like he'd just.........

There is no equivalent bearing to Jabiru bearing P/No PB0029N in any bearing cross-reference catalogue that I have access to - and I can usually find one.

It's quite likely that Jabiru have initiated their own part numbering system that is not cross-referenced by any major manufacturer. You have two options;

1. Look for a number on the actual bearing itself, and cross-reference that number.

2. Take the bearing to a bearing supplier, and get them to measure it and produce a suitable equivalent or replacement.

Don't buy any Chinese-manufactured/branded bearings, their bearing quality is still suspect. Stick with the major "known" brand names in bearings.

But what about the 5-engined 747? 

https://aerosavvy.com/auxiliary-power-unit/

It's still readily available - Utilux P/No UTIH2397/1.

https://www.repelec.com.au/grease-joint-compound-4c-aluminium-250gm-tube.html

https://www.rexel.com.au/are/category/Hardware/Cable-Resin/Jointing-compound/UTI-350-GRAM-JOINT-COMPOUND/UTIH2397-1/p/10284056?showBackLink=false

And so is Alminox ...

https://www.rexel.com.au/are/category/Hardware/Cable-Resin/Jointing-compound/SEALING-COMPOUND-ELECTRICAL-JOINT-ALMINO/DULDULALM325G/p/10279276

Crate it, as I initially suggested - and that solves all the problems of transit damage - and makes it highly attractive to transporters/removalists. Removalists generally perform removal work at very reasonable prices.

.....obsidian jewellery, which Cappy always thought was obscene jewellery, but this time it was.......

Jack, tell us more about this Aluminox product, I can find little on the 'net about it, is it a paint or coating process? The name seems to be used for a lot of unrelated areas.

.....acquire a voluptuous redhead, to match the Blue Head, which only made the other AUF fliers jealous, and more intent on.......

To ensure verifiable accuracy in weighing, you really need "trade-certified", or "trade-approved" scales - which simply means bathroom scales don't cut it. Certified or approved scales are readily available from professional scales retailers.

https://www.instrumentchoice.com.au/news/what-are-trade-approved-scales

Yes, the BOM really does need to change its name - preferably to a much catchier, long acronym. As it stands, "Bureau" is a word with French roots, and refers to a covered desk. Not a good starting point. No-one likes the French.

"Meteorology" is a confusing word, this has a Greek origin, and comes from the Ancient Greek words "μετέωρος metéōros" (meteor) and "-λογία - logia" (-(o)logy), meaning “the study of things high in the air.”

Thus, "Meteorology" makes the plebs imagine these people study up on meteors, to acquire weather forecasts - which may seem pretty right to a lot of people, such is the BOM's weather forecasting accuracy on many days.

I'd like to suggest the BOM change its name to "Dept of Good Guesses Sometimes" - because it becomes quite obvious on many days, that the BOM forecast was little more than a good guess.

"The DOGGS reckon it might rain today", has a good ring to it, and it sounds like a good reference to animals - and everyone knows that animals are the best weather forecasters, by far.

No need to thank me for this catchy and important upgrade to the BOM name - I enjoy this sort of nation-building work, and my consultants invoice will be in the mail shortly.

P.S. - As a interesting footnote, the Bureau in W.A., many years ago, had the brainlessness to announce that they had achieved a record result in weather forecasting accuracy - they had reached a new, high accuracy level, of 48%.

Right about then, someone pricked their balloon by stating, that if the BOM had totally reversed its weather forecast for every single day of the preceding year (i.e. - said it was going to be sunny, instead of forecasting rain, or forecasting rain when they said it was going to be sunny) - then the BOM would've been able to claim an accuracy level of 52%!! 

I guess I don't need to mention that we never heard the BOM mention accuracy percentages in annual forecasting performance, again.

I've always used override hydraulic brakes. Never had a problem with either brakes or the mechanism, unless the wheel cylinders leaked. Always kept everything in good order, and drove to the conditions. I own 4 trailers, 2 single axle and 2 large tandems (6' x 12' fully caged and a 14' x 6.5' car trailer).

I've recently bought a 7x5 trailer single axle trailer with cable disc brakes. I had to rebuild the entire braking system on the 7x5 trailer, it had been used on a minesite and red mud and salt water for dust suppression took its toll.

I got it all working spot on, after much rust removal, sandblasting of parts, plenty of Never-Seez, new stainless cables, new pads, machined discs - and it works a treat. The trailer's licenced for 1.25 tonne, and I have no problem in traffic with it loaded.

All the trailer and caravan prangs I've some across (and that's plenty, I saw 13 in just one year), were almost always related to driving like there was nothing attached - or improper loading that caused tailwag - with almost aways, immediate loss of control. Top-of-the-wozza electric brakes don't compensate for a badly-loaded trailer or caravan. There's a lot of bad trailer and caravan design around, too, with a lot of them, just an accident waiting to happen. 

Electrics on trailers in my neck of the woods suffer from constant corrosion from ironstone gravels that also often contain a high level of salt. They're a PIA to keep operating. Add in some water immersion, and you've got continual maintenance.

The ASN has clarified that the aircraft involved was a Mooney M20.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/299440

I reckon Martys come up with the best solution. Shipping a 20 foot container across to Tassie should be a reasonable cost.

You can even hire a container for 30 days - although buying one, and then selling it in Tasmania, would probably end up costing less overall.

The only problem with buying and selling is that the sea container must still be in certification - whereas when hiring one, the container hire company supplies a certified one.

https://containerzone.com.au/container-to-tasmania/

The victim is in a critical condition with burns to 80% of his body, plus multiple fractures. He's been placed in an induced coma. I wish the gentleman well, but I hold great fears for his eventual survival, with that massive level of injuries.

There's a typical degree of misreporting from the media, with many reports stating the aircraft was a Cessna, but others stating it was a Mooney.

https://www.2hd.com.au/2022/10/17/man-seriously-injures-after-plane-crashes-explodes-into-flames-at-luskintyre/

Shaz could also investigate/calculate an exercise doing a one-way U-Haul trailer hire to Tasmania, loading it and towing it herself. It's certainly the only way to ensure careful handling all the way.

https://www.trailerrentals.com.au/k/one-way-hire-to-tasmania

Nev - Yes, I guess it's not as catchy a name as a marketer might produce - but in my experience, I've found Loadshift very good for transporting items. It's basically a truckies bidding platform, and as soon as you post for a quote required; if it's a reasonably attractive job, you get the truckies calling you direct, to discuss pricing, terms, any problems, etc. 

I've had a number of successful freight jobs that were quoted through Loadshift, but you need to find the transporters who have experience in the various types of load transport.

Many specialise in just a small range of load types, a lot depends on their level of equipment, the type of trailers they use, etc. 

Dimensions are often the most critical part of freight movement, not a lot of people understand that dimension limits are usually quite strict limits.

The main problem involved in transporting an aircraft is simply the volume involved. All freight operators work on 333kg per cu m3 for a weight/volume ratio. So if you have a bulky, light load, you'll pay the same rate as someone shifting a bulldozer that weighs 10 or 20 times times as much as your aircraft, but which only takes up the same volume as your light bulky load.

Ideally, Shaz is probably best advised to find someone with a big car trailer, or maybe even hire one. uShip often has movers who have trailers, and who are looking for loads for them.

Moving equipment from NSW to Tas is fraught with quite a few unique problems, not the least of which is ferrying costs.