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I went to the local farm store to buy an oil filter and oil for my Craftsman mower with Kawasaki FR651V motor. They were insistent that I get the SF off brand oil. I hesitated as I thought an SG is required. I bought it anyway, and once home checked the Craftsman manual, which notes SG oil...

I'm trying to do some calculation for bitumen stiffness - and have read that Shell published software to calculate this. The nomograms I have are really coarse, so hoping to see if anyone knows where it can be downloaded. So far no good on google... http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=360250

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ns...2-1227289839570

I took a flight on a SAAB 340 this week. It is pretty comfortable, compared to cattle class on an B737 or A320... Noticed the de-icing boots working on descent. Never seen it before and have been doing some reading on it. Very Interesting. Must say it surprised me to see the leading edge blow...

Is there a relationship between these 3? I have been doing 5,000 mile OCI's for 90,000 only to have a weeping rocker cover gasket on my camry. Seems like the extra OCI didn't do much?

Had my ATF done today part of my 100,000 mile service. '04 Camry with U241E tranny. Invoice said Texamatic 1888 had been used. I googled it when I got home and got http://www.caltex.com.au/FPL%20PDS/Texamatic%201888.pdf Which specifically says it is a D-III product and not suitable for late...

enjoy http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ide...5-1226786328928

I have travelled through this intersection in my neck of the woods many dozen times, and always slow and grimace at that side road coming in. Apparently some folks saw a truck with leaking oil drums a minute before. Hairiest thing is seeing the tree stumps coming towards the truck cab...

We took a flight from Johannesburg to Sydney recently on Qantas Flight 64. It is operated by a 747-400 with Rolls-Royce RB211-524G-T engines. We were sitting on the right outside window, and could see engine #4 (and none other). On taxi we noticed smoke coming from a port on the side of the...

http://australianaviation.com.au/2013/10/photographs-capture-united-747-400-tyre-failure/ I was actually watching this on Flightradar24 and noticed the UA flight out of Sydney flying a hold over the ocean while dumping fuel. Wonder if a low pressure issue or debris on the runway?

Today I went out to the range to test some different types of ammo. First range visit couple of months ago went bad, using Highland RX Hi velocity solid nose bullets. Constantly shot high then, 4 MOA above where I needed to be with a centre hold. Today I tested: WInchester power points (hollow...

Just in the process (a few years into it) of storing only e records. I use TIme machine to backup to an external HDD. I have two external HDD's, and rotate them weekly. That way I have an offsite backup that is between 0 and 7 days old, and an on site backup that does the Time Machine Schedule...

I have a Lenovo E530 laptop that has wifi. The laptop had Windows 7 64 bit. After the laptop crashed, I could only reinstall Vista 64 bit (only reinstallation disk I had). I hadn't bothered with recovery disks etc as the Lenovo was full of Bloatware. They also didn't provide a windows 7...

http://www.news.com.au/money/cost-of-liv...v-1226690750065 I'd be fuming!

Privatisation is being pushed down our throat and being sold as increasing competition and therefore good for consumers. Yeah right. here is the last three increases in electricity rates for me: 2011: 19% 2012: 23% 2013: 10% But the government statisticians tell us inflation is 2 to 3%. So...

SO I finally got my license, and will be visiting the local store for a look around tomorrow. To start with i am going to get a lever-gun, to do some target shooting, including lever action silhouette. The Browning BL-22 and Marlin 39-A both go for around $1k here, and Henry base model $750...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-08/gu...buy-big/4742048

http://www.toyota.com.au/megafactories-toyota?WT.ac=HPBSL4Megafactories At least Toyota Australia appears to be doing OK, other than Ford Australia. ABout 60 % of their production is exported. I can see some AZ motors in there, even though they are touting the new AR series.

Anyone here saving up in bonds instead of CD's? Where I am you can get marginally (0.5%) better in bonds than CD's. Thinking of doing this savings for my car savings and other longer term savings. Not huge amounts but slowly chipping away at it. I tend to use Vanguard bond etf's but iShares...

http://www.tds.castrol.com.au/pdf/10774_Castrol_Magnatec_Fuel_Saver_5W-30_3374402_2011_06.pdf Seems mighty thin for a 5w-30, but has high TBN. Low HTHS as well, meets the spec, but lower than M1 5w-30 for example. Tempted to use this in my Camry (short tripper, 5000 mile OCI)