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    GP3000 battery options/ upgrades

    7.2 volt Sony cam corder battery's will run it all day .the conversion is simple as and you can buy 2 with a wall charger and car charger for around $79 .stuck to the side of the machine no more cables to tangle you up...
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    Snake sightings, encounters and reminders.

    Yeah what gives with the snakes lately,was up at the farm on the june long weekend, Hunter valley . All 3 mornings were around zero to one degree, Sat morning walking up to the front gate to unlock it for the rest of the clan coming up ,stumbled across a easily 5 ft brown ,then Sunday at...
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    Swag recommendations, information and questions

    I've had quite a few swags over the years and there all pretty good .but one word of advise make sure you've got enough room in it .No use buying a single if the roof is a few centimetres of your face or the side are right up against you. I got a double just for that reason I can sit up have a...
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    Footwear for detecting

    I picked up a pair of Columbia hiking boots from rays outdoor when they were still in business, so comfortable and not a steel component on them anywhere, yep their awesome
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    Good morning from the Hunter Valley, NSW

    Welcome mate 'we have land and house at cessnock a 1000 acres to be exact but I thought the same 'but I'm also spoilt living in Sydney to as I've got more coins than I know what to do with dating back to 1754.but no the Hunter has quite a few places of historical importance and not just coal...
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    Foreign ownership of our resources and businesses.

    Don't see any wind turbines out here that power it ,it's on the same grid as everyone else here in Sydney
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    Foreign ownership of our resources and businesses.

    It is so wrong in so many ways that foreign own companies can benefit from Australia's natural resources 'and a totally different example is Sydney's desalination plant a kurrnel .own by Canadian company and even though we have an abundance of water in our dams at the moment the plant is still...
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    Living with Electric Vehicles

    The whole electric vehicle thing is just hypocritical, For one it's going to see a increase in extremely destructive mining by 50%or even more ,you own stupid government said this already . There's 17 more high energy processes to making lithium batteries for these vehicles, Then there's the...
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    Lithium battery fires

    Was listening to an expert on energy this morning about EV,s He mentioned that a college of his from the university has just had to replace the battery in his 7 year old Tesla at a cost of over 40 grand ,and a week later his wife's car died too ,he's reaction was that the wife's car can just...
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    Lithium battery fires

    Yep my bad I got that wrong phosphate is actually used as a fire retardant. I must have got it confused with phosphorus which will ignite when in contact with oxygen, yeah my mistake
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    Lithium battery fires

    I'm no expert but if we look at the make up of these batteries,, LIPo 4 , Lithium Li ,Iron Fe and Phosphate PO4 ,we'll surely the phosphate is the most dangerous component hence the amount of fires caused by this new tech ,I remember not long ago when Samsung had a major problem with a few of...
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    Lithium battery fires

    Yep lithium batteries and water don't mix,gezz wee did this exact experiment in science class in the 80s , I'd like to see what the out come would be if a EV had a major crash and ruptured it's battery cells in heavy rain
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    Gold found at watagan mountains

    I wish ,because our property looks right down at the watagans , I have found test holes up on top of our mountain, we also have one ridge that's full of fossilized clams and some old maps show that there was a old copper mine somewhere on our thousands acres of bush ,there are Gems not to far...
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    How Emergency Services View Prospectors

    might be just a Queensland thing 🤪🤣😁 as I normally stay within sight of the car unless I know the area really well or I'm following a water coarse or creek which I can just follow back
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    Murder in the gold feilds sunday night

    Yep was very interesting show But the only thing I real got out of it ,was how unprofessional Western Australian police are in their investigations If you missed it you can watch it again on 7 plus
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