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  1. nucopia

    Fossicking Historical Treasures…Western Australia

    Some nice finds along the Golden pipeline to Kalgoorlie
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    Military Exercises

    A few times a year, we were sent on combined live fire exercises with the Airforce and Navy to practice calling in fire support from Navy ships and Aircraft. At the time I was an FO radio operator in an artillery forward observers party. It was an amazing experience to call in a fire mission and...
  3. nucopia

    Are we there yet ?

    Well its almost the end of our 10 day trip to Melbourne and Mildura. Its been quite the adventure too we left lake Mac mid morning on a friday to drive down to Albury were we had a 2 bed apartment booked , a 7 hour drive with my 90 year old mom constantly asking are we there yet and were are...
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    Minelab GPX4500 for sale.

    Purchased from Miners Den Bendigo June 2018 Excellent condition asking $3,500 ONO Comes with 2 standard coils plus a 14 inch Advantage Elliptical coil . External speakers, Harness, head phones and all standard inclusions in the original minelab box. Help will be given to new owner with...
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    Looking for ideas from the mechanically minded

    Looking for practical suggestions. We have a water bore on a piece of land we own that has a hand pump ( piston pump ) connected . I think the bore has 2 inch diameter pipe (?) going down about 30 meters from memory .. Its used to water a half hectare vegetable garden by filling up a couple...
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    What is wrong with some people

    Today we went shopping at our local Aldi store ..out the front of the store was a booth for the RSL art Union and a young bloke selling subscriptions.. On my way into the store he politely asked a 30 something man in front of me , if he was interested buying a subscription.. This guys answer I...
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    Question for the tradesmen..

    Question for the tradees out there.. How to address the issue or what to use to seal between the bottom edge of the wall cladding where it sits on the bottom seal plate. Over the years for what ever reason its become a problem allowing water to pool there after rain and is causing mould on the...
  8. nucopia

    What's members opinion...fake or real ?

    ;) https://youtu.be/JKBUS2ofStk https://youtu.be/Mqo3xbBFalE :playful:
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    Workshop Tool suggestions

    Im making a Bunnings Supercheap Auto - wish list for my farm workshop.. So far I have accumulated machines and tools we used to build the warehouse and other buildings on the farm. Cement mixer hollow block making machine, hand tools such as shovels concreting hand tools Hammers , chisels wood...
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    Wanted crevice pump

    Looking to buy a crevice pump Or alternatively make one , if some one has simple to follow instructions. :Y:
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    Being asked to act as executor of a friends will

    A close personal friend of myself and my family has asked me to be the executor of their will. They are in their 90s still active but their health is failing them. They approached me because they wanted to write a new will to revoke an older will that named their now deceased child as a...
  12. nucopia

    Older style LPG Propane or similar Tank Wanted

    Looking for an older style elongated LPG gas bottle 11kg <13,5kg Empty not wanted or needed. :Y: similar to these EXAMPLE shapes of bottle
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    Alaskan gold

    Intersting doco covering the historic alluvial gold mining process in Alaska from 1949. https://youtu.be/Cly8z4tR1kk
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    Which would you choose ?

    Which would you choose ? A 10oz Silver bar :Y: Or The Hershie chocolate bar ... :N: https://www.facebook.com/MarkDice/videos/983991974979522/?hc_ref=ARSwUfhlUPqhhB9UHPDz5j72kwh2FTTEI5k6Cgvu1tHdBqAjaCgZ5np4dqfhtmBBqlI
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    The goal is Tokyo 2020

    My two eldest have been living in Naples Italy for just over a month now. They are living in the dormitory of a large sport centre located in Pomigliano d'Arco a suburb of Naples. The sports centre provides live in accommodation plus 3 meals a day and training for athletes in various sports...
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    The reason for the season.

    To all my fellow P.A friends May your Christmas be filled with the love of family and friends. The vision and hope for a peaceful future and the heart felt thanks for what we have. My year as been the richer for your friendship ,comments and presence on this forum. All the best for a...
  17. nucopia

    VMS Touring 700 HDX

    Does any one have a VMS Touring 700HDX 7" Off Road Navigator ? I am thinking of getting something like this to put in my Prado, instead of a TomTom Looking for something that gives me more than just street maps but also off road maps , way points and other capabilities.. VMS looks pretty good...
  18. nucopia

    Goldern triangle suggestions for 2 wheel drive access

    The digger and I have a few days (up to a week) were we can get away to go detecting. One of our problems is that we will be using a front wheel drive Toyota Camry, instead of the Prado this trip. We will be driving down from Robinvale and looking for a place with in the GT that is 2 wheel drive...
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    Deteknix x-pointer repair needed

    I bought a refurbished Deteknix x-pointer a while back and it worked fine the last time I used it. Yesterday I got it out to go for a swing in the local park and found that it had a problem with the rubber grommet on the start switch. :| Looks like its broken and I need to send it some where to...
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    98 Toyota Prado duel fuel check engine light frustration.

    issue with my 98 5vz-fe dual fuel . First fault code was only Code 55 (no signal to ecu for crank revolutions between 1800-5600rpm- *open short in knock sensor circuit*knock sensor may be loose *ecu) replaced both knock sensors with new units also replaced bottom harness and did continuity...
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