Recent content by Flash Jack

Yeah, but you invest in gold as a "hard times" nest egg. It's not about making money. When the shit hits the fan and money is used to paper the walls, gold can be exchanged for things to keep you alive. Food, shelter, services or ammo. Gold, unlike shares and cash, is ALWAYS valuable.

And the Iranian drone strike might push it higher still. We'll find out on Monday.

Smoke! Yeah that will do it. I should have checked the CFA site.

Do you think that perhaps it is "seeded" from ploughing, which creates big amounts of dust?

Must be movements in the atmos! :oops:

I'm watching BOM, I'm in Victoria, and there is a rain event just east of Ararat. It is growing out from some point and I don't know that I've seen anything like it before. Maybe I have but it does look strange.

Yeah Grubstake, there is a Gilbro Engineering but it's a different address. It could be the same company, and I will contact them, but I thought I'd try PA first to see if someone had an old brochure or story or something first. Thanks for the reply.

Hi all, I'm in the process of restoring a Gilbro Jointer / Planer and I have had no joy in trying to find out about Gilbro Engineering, the company who made it. It was made in Preston, Melbourne in, I guess, the 1950's. I was wondering if anybody had any information on Gilbro Engineering. I've...

Happy Straya day Jen. Crack a tinny! :D

Aah, so that's how it works.

Yeah, but I don't need that many shades of white!

You're not wrong Mackka. The manuals that some companies put out are nonsense. The first 30 pages are safety warnings! They have to assume everyone is a Wally so that they don't get sued. Too many d*ckheads and too many bloody solicitors!

Is it just that I'm an old fart, or is it getting harder to find stuff on the net? I was searching yesterday for imperial bearings for a planer I'm restoring and it seemed more difficult to find bearings than it normally does. And then again today I was looking for small tins of paint. You know...

You'll win the missus over with that one! Could be a new detector in that!!

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