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....just keeps playing, as hits are very common when you have partly-trained Maraca players, as Turbo is.

However, as Turbo has Mexican ancestry, there is hope that he will turn out to be a good Maraca player, and won't have to keep impersonating Peter Allen.

Of course, only a few people know that Turbo has Mexican ancestry. This is because he prefers to keep that part of his family history secret, due to longstanding tensions between his family and some families in NSW, who fought in the Mexican Wars, and who would love to "even the score" if they found all about Turbos family roots and secrets.

Of course, Turbo has to be very careful, because he sometimes accidentally slips into Mexican vernacular, such is the strong strain of Mexican in him.

He's been overheard to accidentally say things such as, "güey", "No manches!", "¡Órale!", and "Eres un pinche idiota, Cappy!!" - which goes right over Cappys head, of course.

Then there was the day he was in Sydney, and he accidentally met up with an American acquaintance from New Mexico, and soon they were......

My workshop neighbour Joe (since retired) had a Peugeot in his workshop several years ago, that he was servicing. He was ranting about "mongrel French engineering and costs". I inquired as to what was setting him off.

He said, "Come and look at this!". I went and looked under the bonnet to see what the problem was, and he pointed out the radiator hoses he was replacing.

The top radiator hose had 2 x 180 deg bends in it - because the top outlet on the radiator faced the exact opposite direction to the thermostat housing outlet mounted on top of the engine!

So this entailed an unnecessarily long hose with 2 x 180 bends in it, to enable it to connect the two outlets. The combined cost of the radiator hoses was $180, and he could only acquire them from a Peugeot dealer!

Mate bought his missus a Citroen C4. What a pile of crap. Key remote broke and Citroen wanted ... wait for it ... $800 for a replacement!

I got her a replacement remote case off eBay for about $25, and her truckie hubby pulled all the electronic gizzards out and installed it all in the new case.

But he got sick of paying out on too many other things that broke on it, so he sold it, and got her a Hyundai i30, which she's really happy with.

I once had one of the Missus' Camrys for sale privately, and one interested buyer sent around an RAC serviceman to inspect it for him. We started talking about cars in general, and their reliability.

He reckoned all the Jap stuff was pretty good, but then, out of the blue, he said, "Don't ever buy a bloody French car!! What pieces of crap they are!! 4 hrs to change a headlight globe, and you have to take mudguards and bumpers off, to get at the globes!! They are just CRAP!!"

He went on at considerable length, and I guess he'd developed a real hatred of them, because he had to fix them a lot more than any of the Japanese cars.

This is the way to crank up recalcitrant, old, cold, aero engines!

I'm a little surprised they don't use a large compressed spring to initiate ejection, then ignite the rockets, once the seat is outside the cockpit.

I beg to differ, as do many other mechanics and owners who have been shafted by the Beemer wallet-emptying schemes.

Not only is the scan tool BMW-specific, the BMW parts costs mean you have to hand over your first-born, as well giving them an arm and a leg.

And if you want to see shafting on a scale unparalleled, buy a 7-series BMW. I've seen people try to sell their 7-series, at 99,000 kms, because the 100,000 km major service runs to 20%-30% of the value of the vehicle.

This BMW fanatic says the Bavarian Technic scan tool is the only tool to buy, if you own a Beemer. The cheapest I could find it, was $470 on eBay, landed in Oz from the U.S.

.....just a small sideline to the airline business. Even Louda Air got its name from repowering Drifters with turboencabulated 1200cc Harley Davidson engines, and adding 2 extra seats.

The noise from the unmuffled Harley Davidson engines was necessary to drown out the screaming from the pax, as the Drifters barely got airborne as they reached the perimeter fence at every airport.

The upside of all this, was the waste collected after the near-misses with the fences, was much more than your average airline toilet collects - thus improving the yields at the TH&H Farm.

"This is incredible!", exclaimed Turbo as the money rolled in. "With no-one else flying, I've got the air traveller market all to myself!! I'm going to be richer than Branson, before the year is out!"

"Hold on," said Cappy, waving an index finger. "There's just one little thing here, that is going to........

Here are the other sites to lodge a freight request. Make sure your engines are securely strapped to a pallet (or pallets - don't have anything overhanging the pallet), or in compact crates that can be forklifted on and off.

If the buyer has no forklift, you will need to request a depot pickup (engines are shipped to the nearest transport depot, and the buyer collects them from the depot).

No freight operator will manhandle engines, they must be lifted on and off with a forklift.

https://www.uship.com/

https://www.freightseek.com.au/

https://www.e-go.com.au/home.do;jsessionid=4FF93D8843A7ADCB1A743655F434C4A8

https://www.truckit.net/

....decided to try pulling out his, just short of a wall. Unfortunately, what Cappy pulled out was also just too short, and he ended up with splashes on his shoes.

But meantimes, the French had made great gains in the aviation field, even managing to produce a French fighter that stayed airborne just long enough to self-destruct.

This led to the famous French Fighter Pilot joke, repeated ad nauseum, about Pierre "going down in flames".

It was all based on the alarming fact, that every second French-built Fighter went down in flames - even when there was no War on.

But I digress. There was a hurried meeting between the Moroccans under seige from the French, as to what to do about the regular French air raids.

"We don't have to do anything", said the Morrocan Captain Mustapha Adib. "The way our blokes are so expert at pilfering their fuel, they'll run out on the way here, and all we have to do then, is just pilfer the wreckage".

"But", said Lt. Hassam Aboud, "Our blokes are stealing so much of our fuel, we can't even get our fighters off the ground! So we have good reason to worry! One of the French Fighters just might........".

Turbo - A friend is home-schooling two kids due to the virus. She has it all under control, as any parent should do.

The first thing she does, is to make sure they are dressed in their school uniforms, and they then know, they are at school, not just at home mucking around on the computer.

When the schooling is finished for the day, they know that school is out, they can put their "home" clothes on, and go play and muck about.

There is no mucking about, no excuses, no diversions, while the school uniforms are on - they are at school, just at home, instead of at the school buildings!

That undercarriage looks like its designed for landing on water, what's he doing, lining up with a sealed runway?

Study up on the paint you propose to use, and utilise the recommended face mask and vapour and skin protection.

If you plan to use 2-pack, polyurethane or any paint with a hardener that contains iso-cyanates - then use an air-wash mask and hood (respirator mask).

The beauty of air-wash or respirator hoods is that they assist greatly in preventing fogging and moisture build-up inside the mask.

I can assure you, if you get a lungful of iso-cyanate paint fumes, you will become very sick for a very long time.

Blokes who have sprayed iso-cyanates without proper breathing and face protection end up with industrial asthma - along with other nasty complaints such as greatly increased sensitivity to paints and paint smells, and allergies associated with paint.

Here's some highly recommended paint-spraying reading ....

https://www.paintandpanel.com.au/article/FDE814F0-7ACB-11E0-BFE9005056B05D57

Thruster88 - But, when the "check engine light" comes on, you'd better have $3000 on hand to fix it. Or alternatively, the special $3000 BMW-specific, code-reader.

......"I'm ready to throw up!" But the pilot of the Rafale B was intent on giving Turbo the ride of his life - even though Turbo started off thinking he'd be giving Maveitte the ride of her life.

But all those thoughts were left behind as Turbo gripped everything he could find, to try and brace himself against savage Negative and Positive G's.

He moaned, and his tongue lolled out of his mouth, and his eyes rolled back in his head, and he wished he'd never volunteered for this ride.

It was while Turbo was being subjected to some particularly severe Negative G's, that he reached out and accidentally grabbed........

Not for nothing are BMW's nicknamed "Break My Wallet", "Bring More Wrenches", and "Brutal Money Waster".

Re the snide comment about "burns survival theories" - I can assure Flyboy1960, my burns survival potential comment is no theory, it is widely accepted in medical practice, and it's known as the Baux Score.

However, in recent times, with improving burns treatment methods, and fast action in getting burns victims to major hospitals, the Baux score has proven to be somewhat pessimistic.

Our own Dr Fiona Wood has been an outstanding medical leader in the improved treatment of burns, and has produced a correspondingly higher survival rate. She was responsible for the survival of a lot of Bali Bombing victims.

I had an Aussie Skil drill that went for years and years and years - and the only reason it stopped was because I dropped a sizeable piece of lumber on it accidentally from a serious height, fracturing the casing.

The underside of my bench is full of burnt-out Chinese 125mm angle grinders. If I get 18 mths out of them, I'm doing well.

...... he would end up with warehouses of unsaleable stuff, and be down to his last $10M, with no suckers in sight. Then he had a brainwave. He knew some Middle-Easterners, that would be desperate for any medical help.

To aid this sale, he got some "Halal" and "Allahu Akbar" decals made up, plastered them all over every flat surface (and curved surface) he could find on the equipment, on the bottles, and on anything a Muslim would see, when he bent over for prayers.

Then he started dialling, and the ringing was answered, "Ahl-loh!" came a distant voice. Turbine said, "Mustafa! Is that you! I have the deal of the century for you, on medical equipment you surely need! Also - The Imam of Lakemba Mosque sends his regards, and asks after your family! Allahu Akbar!!".

He heard the startled voice on the other end. "Who is this?", said a thick Middle Eastern accent. "Is that you, Hammad? Is this 'medical equipment', our new code for our deliveries?"

Suddenly, Turbine realised he had the wrong Mustafa as a contact on his phone. He cut the bloke off quickly, and went looking for.........

......everyone knows stuffed customers, is not a good look".

However, the board of directors refused to accept Turbines recommended renaming, choosing "Turdstra" instead, in recognition of their outstanding customer service and Turbines involvement.

"But what about my involvement?", complained Cappy. "I deserve some recognition here, after all I've been craving recognition for decades, and haven't got it yet!"

"Well, I did think about including your name somewhere", said a miffed Turbine - "But there were major stumbling blocks to acceptance of a name involving.......

Flightrite, on every forum you get the one regular poster who posts a lot of crap from a highly self-assured position, based on his extensive knowledge, gained from intellectuals of the first order - know-it-all shock jocks, such as Rush Limbaugh.

I find, anytime I buy something from Europe, it has a slew of hidden taxes and costs attached, as part of the deal. I detest buying from European sources, for that very reason.

.....sit and discuss their chances of ever becoming people of influence once again. Cappy wailed, "No-one takes any notice of me any more! I'm just irrelevant now, in the overall scheme of things!"

"I wish I could still command the audience I once did, who I could hold spellbound with my speeches, and have them begging for my autograph!"

"Yeah, me too", said Ita. "I miss being able to guide 5 million Australian women towards the kitchen, and clothing stores, as they all should still be doing! No wonder the economy is a mess!"

"It's all the fault of this smartphone generation!", moaned Cappy. "I don't know what we're going to do about........

So ... the problem here, isn't related to weakly-constructed landing gear?

There are multiple reasons why we no longer have a large-scale car manufacturing industry in Australia. The exchange rate was only one of the reasons. Many bad deals are part of the whole story.

The fact that we reduced tariffs on imported vehicles to virtually zero, while other countries didn't lower theirs, is another reason why our car manufacturing was pushing the proverbial sXXX uphill with a pointy stick.

We used to export vehicles and equipment to many countries in the Oceania region. Holdens were exported as early as the late 1950's.

The local manufacturers failed to grasp the subtle changes in consumer desires, and failed to build lightweight diesels, SUV's and dual-cab utes - and kept on with models such as sedans and wagons, that very few people now want.

Local build quality fell far below imported build quality. This is a failing of management and factory floor supervision.

The overseas manufacturers keep their initial sale prices low, and make up the lack of initial sales profits on parts and servicing.

We may see a revival of manufacturing here if we go over to EV manufacturing, where automation in manufacturing will be a method of levelling the playing field. But we need innovation, as well as the manufacturing, to keep ahead of the pack.

https://www.globalfleet.com/en/manufacturers/asia-pacific/analysis/end-car-manufacturing-australia?a=YHE11&t%5B0%5D=Australia&t%5B1%5D=Ford&t%5B2%5D=Holden&t%5B3%5D=Toyota&curl=1

Scania has only gone bankrupt once, in 1921, after the upheaval of WW1. There was a worldwide economic recession in 1920-1922. Saab never ever got on top of its design, reliability, buyer acceptance, or manufacturing problems.