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mechanical sanding vastly improved by the use of a near-disposable drywall sander. Ozito is Bunnings house brand of cheap nasty power tools, but at only $159 retail this 225mm random orbital drywall sander is great for this purpose. It has built in dust extraction so you dont need a big workshop vacuum and much to my surprise this feature worked fine. It comes with a pack of shitty cheap velcro discs in almost entirely the wrong grit range (150 to 400) but getting 80 and 120 grit discs isn't a problem. You wouldnt want to put it to a professional work program, but for this one-off

BBC. Stiff upper lip, but straight up. New York Times (partially paywalled, but worth it) The Guardian. Telegraph for balance. The Atlantic (paywalled, but worth it) for its long-form journalism Al Jazeera, with provisos Stuff - distinctly improved on its earlier incarnations Newsroom has interesting mix of opinions and has added to local investigative journalism The Spinoff. Its miles from balanced, but open about it and doesn't keep trying to sell me a house

nope. Some publications have editorial integrity and can report a situation with appropriate and balanced coverage and/or without linking the reportage to a strapline like "What is (put name of situation here) going to do to your house value?"

Tried making my own once. Used my cutting/dicing hand to wipe my eyes part way through. When I recovered, I vowed to always buy it in a tightly sealed bottle, never to make it ever again.

disaconnect the battery at the battery before everything else. the live supply to the starter should be connected to a stud on the starter solenoid - be gentle loosening it. Hold the cable firmly, and gently remove the nut. If it won't turn, use your normal sprays and potions to get it to release. Starter should just unbolt (un-nut?) from the bellhousing.

Meant to be an hour after high tide on the Manukau - looks more like an hour either side of low.

Odd, cos us radical leftie woke socialist sychophants think Granny Herald is a capitalist clickbait property developer advertising flyer with the additional downside of having self-promoting opinion pieces by centre-right hacks and lurid talkback hosts flanking every advert for a DGZ Des Res house. Potentially, we are both correct - the paper and its website are a mess of bullshit that would be an embarrassment if it was produced by a first-year journalism student let alone from what was once one of the leading publicaitons in the country.

yup - makes it operate better. Exhaust wrap is used to retain heat in the exhaust so the engine is more efficient (especially in turbocharged engines, but also elsewhere). Cooler engine room temps are just a lucky by-product.

They could have a special siren that signalled when they were on a delivery run - I'd imagine something like this would work and be recognisable.

I see Brutalist is still a preferred architectural style in Europe. 😀

i prefer the drama of the shotgun cartridge starter, but a spring powered impulse starter is pretty cool. I don't think there is room in our boat to swing the winding handle though...

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thats just so the grinders don't feel excluded

Garnet-blasting happening on Saturday. I may video and post here so others can see the process and outcome...

yup - specific fuel curves are usually available for marine and industrial engines. Our old Yanmar QM is sitting in hte middle of its curve at the moment. As Jon notes, increased rpm make a large difference for a not-so-large speed gain. This is the nature of IC engines and physics.

conservation of energy is the rule - you cannot make something out of nothing. you will use more fuel running at 1500 than at idle, and you will use more fuel running at 1500 with any load than at 1500 with no load.

Ducati vs Triumph, Ferrari vs Lotus, Sophia Loren vs Elizabeth Taylor. And now Luna Rosa vs Ineos. Well Done LRPP, roll on the actual AC Lets see how a Ducati goes against a Brtten instead of the British.

The one with the best maintenance record and all signs of being loved. After that, get everyone aboard and move around the cabin and cockpit. See who falls over who, who smacks their head, who gets stuck in the head or can't get into it etc. That should eliminate at least one of the three. Lastly, the additional equipment and features. Fridge, fitted GPS/plotter, quality cooker, anchor and all the lines (not really additional equipment on a yacht, but often overlooked). Then survey.

Yup - been through all that thanks BP! Upside - it seems everyone at PYBC has either owned or knows of a Saraband at some stage. They are all coming out of the (ply)woodwork... Its telling that they all say they loved them but none own one now....

Update from the op who is far more impoverished than others in this thread. OK, turns out that we are going to fully strip the existing layers. Every time I wet-sanded, a new pressure bubble and crack formed in the upper layers (about five different layers of af) Looks like it hasn't bonded at about layer 3 but was dealt with by heavy application of the next coat. I started scraping today with a carbide scraper, but, fork that. Soda blasting is arranged for next weekend. Do it once eh. Plenty to get on with - a new TP32 auto-tiller, the solar panel, and an isotherm fridg

sanding antifouling sucks.

Update. Hauled out this morning and waterblasted mainly slime and light clusters of tiny barnacles of what looks/acts/smell like #5 that is at least 2 years old. I was pleasantly surprised. A big buildup on the bottom leading edge of the keel and one water intake (toilet) has a mussel growing in it, other than that just what you would hope for after a year of indolent disrespect by the owner! The #5 has been applied over something else and has not bonded well in a couple of locations. After discussion, we have decided to sand and feather and apply primocon in those locations,

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Near-misses are a pita in reporting environments. Its pretty hard to define. I could write up 20 or so near miss reports based on my 20km daily commute each day. OTOH, if your insurance company was to get a claim from you and then uncover a history of unreported indiscretion, that could be a problem. Lose/lose as they say

must be australians