Perhaps the moderator could extract all the random stuff which has gone onto both the "Class 6 rules" and "Building a Mini Magic" and put them in a "Random ramblings" thread?

is this considered random enough, haven't seen it elsewhere .

60 mph for the Texas Tanker is pretty good going.

Gee kemosabi, I am really tempted to go and live there now.

The concept is interesting Joe. A whole lot more information would need to be gathered before any sort of committment could be made.

Do you think we could afford to pay enough to have Gizmo come along as "Resource and Logistics Manager"?

j murray said...

another one i found, from a different era



dont ya just lovem

this yacht is in the "old Mens club" in De Panne, Belgium. It is still a work of art.

Bazl, this has to be a pilgrimage to the Aussie mecca of landyachting 2010. This message is cast in brine and recently found by wandering grey headed gnomes [}:)].
That Kambalda mob who's just made them carts [ Lefroy Mini's ] need a bit of time to have some practice, couple-o-moths or so after completion. Then they need a good flogging by the rest of Australia on their home turf.
So i recon the rest of us should get organized to wander over there and give them a demo,.....whipping even.!!!!! Westys always say of the rest of Australia, that we are the wise men of the east.
Cisco, has hit the burley field and wants moooore addictive aint it. well cisco i-been thinking about all this from a personal point of view....untill now, then it struck me , others may be interested .. Seeeeeee i have plenty of time , and would like to do my last interesting final trip, a bit like little johnny farmhand
The hardest thing for me would be to organize/steal my finances so i would start now salting a little away now. Sharing may be of some help, cars, trailers, costs, company etc then information and ideas. Someone gotta start......the cart rolls....

Landyacht.... The book mentioned, by Jan Leye is an elusive creature. I have been trying for a couple of months to find out more about it. Communicating with overseas has come to a wall. Cant find it anywhere thru book purchasing sites, ebay nor librarys it seems no one knows or all denigh any knowledge. Can you help..please

landy...have you one... How good is it , have you seen one i would have expected that there may be one some where that would be marketable. They must be quite valuable. I'm very interested historically but i don't wish to reinvent the wheel.

It celebrates 100 years of landyachting by presenting a landyacht photo from almost every year. Lake lefroy made it to page 2 and 3 , ie 1898 , the same year as the belgians. There is supposed to be an english photo that predates this but I dont know the details

One for the DIY/Handyman - Tools

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Anyone with a shed will relate to these....

1. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying.

2. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, "SH**!!!"

3. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age

4. PLIERS: Used to round off hexagonal bolt heads.

5. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle: It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

6. VICE GRIP PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

7. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for setting various flammable objects in your shed on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside a wheel hub you're trying to get the bearing race out of.

8. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 14mm or 12mm socket you've been searching for.

9. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering a vehicle to the ground after you have installed your new disk brake pads, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper bar.

10. 100x50 HARDWOOD WALL STUD : Used to attempt to lever a vehicle off a hydraulic jack handle.

11. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing splinters of wood, especially hardwood.

12. TELEPHONE: Tool for calling your neighbour to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.

13. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for removing dog faeces from your boots.

14. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.

15. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of bolts and fuel lines you forgot to disconnect.

16. CRAFTSMAN 12mm x 500mm SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on one end.

17 AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

18. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home builder's own tanning booth. Sometimes called drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.

19. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and squirt oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off the interiors of Phillips screw heads.

20. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 kilometres away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to an pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 70 years ago by someone at Ford, and rounds them off.

21. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

22. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 10mm too short.

23. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer is now used as a divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object you are trying to hit.

24. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing upholstered items, chrome-plated metal, plastic parts and the hand not holding the knife

Nice!

Here's some more:

SOCKET WRENCH: Tool used to store potential energy then expend it suddenly into operators knuckles by way of surrounding sharp objects.
Also used as temporary transportation device for socket; releasing socket at most opportune time as to make it irretrievable.

WELDING HELMET: When raised; Device is used to measure distance from wearer's head to all nearby objects. When lowered; device is used to induce symptoms similar to "blind monkey" disease.

SQUARE: Tool for measuring and marking precise 90 degree angles used to remind operator where he should have cut.

Not sure if this is the right place, stumbled upon this thread:

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=50678

Someone was asking about the IMac Breezers, as it happens the yellow one is my father Kevin's. The photo looks to have been taken by Ian as it is at our house. The little car in the background was used to carry the Breezer broken down to and from the beach, the mast which is a 2 part mast with sleeve hung out the back by about 50cm but apart from that everything fitted into the little car really well.

As far as how the yacht sails, I have sailed it a couple of times, handles really nicely and as a novice I always felt safe in it. Has a seatbelt fitted same as that in a car which goes across the waist, and the rope configured steering works fine and stays tight.

Any questions about the iMac Breezer feel free to contact me, unless Ian is running around on these forums.


Kind regards


Aaron

Yes he is still landyachting. The Breezer photo was taken about 5 years ago I suppose. He still has the same yacht as well as a Fed5 built by Ian at IMac also.

Sorry just spotted that my country is set to Australia, we are in New Zealand.

He sails on the beach (Waiterere beach) on the west coast of the North Island close to Wellington roughly. Long smooth flat beach and when the tide is out it can be great at times, providing the beach isn't littered with rubbish and driftwood.

Have to keep your wits about you at times like that.


Kind regards



Aaron

j murray said...

Some thing a bit more....pushing the envelope, or a natural progression
The rescue wagon, possible first to the scene, maybe the cheapest to inaccessible sites after disasters



and the site, www.therawfeed.com/2007/12/canadian-inventor-creates-flying-wagon.html

maybe it would be the reason that the rescue services had to be called out