Retrieved my boat this arvo from one of the GI end ramps, very sandy, guy next to me was stuck for awhile then I got stuck, both managed to get out with a lot of forward reverse action.

 Hey guys was wondering if anyone on here has stayed in contact with wombat from hookah dive. Need an email or phone number as I would like to see him when I go there in few months. Cheers

 Thought I'd kick it off seeing as the other thread was ridiculously huge.

 Well, I have been pretty busy lately, working and doing some projects to make the house a home, I thought I might share.

1-3. Kitchen Ladder Project - Place to hang pots and pans, free up cupboard space.

4. Bathroom hanger Project - Make thing to hide marks in wall from old cistern and remount toilet roll holder.

5. Original Timber - Coffee table project.  We decided to buy a new couch and nearly died at the cost of a coffee table to match.  So I made one with the help of some borrowed and some bought tools, Jane and my fathers help. Material is Jarrah 17 x 105mmx40mm x ~1200mm kiln dried and dressed $346 from aus west timber orrong rd. Total material cost, timber, biscuits, glue, biscuit joiner, fancy router bit, sandpaper, turps, brushes, rollers, bondall monocel satin is less than $500.  I already had a circular saw, drop saw, router, planer, belt sander, mouse sander, set square, chisel, hammer, drill etc. 

6. Top Cut Lengths

7. Biscuit slots cut and ready for glue

8. Biscuit Joiner - Winning !

9. Cutting Leg Slots for the tray 

10. Tray and leg clamp

11-13 Top - First Varnish

14 Top - Second Coat

15-20 Coffee Table and new couch together at last.

Thanks for reading.

Bryan

i have had heaps of pms asking what the outcome was after my dog deisel latched onto a cop , well what happened was a council ranger turned up with a notice to take possesion of my dog . I asked what was going to happen and he said they would be shooting him .I hit the roof and said like f### he would be , he said he had to be put down so he followed me to Waikiki vets and I had him put down by needel and i cryed as he passed away . if that copper had just let me get out of the car all would have been good .8 years ago i carried a cop that had been knocked out in the Mermaid hotel Dampier during a brawl to safety not sure i would do it again now

hi guys im building a aluminium trailer im using i beam just want to no how the springs are mounted to the beams do they weld the spring hangers to a piece of plate or angel and bolt it up to the ali in one piece or do they weld the hanger to a smaller piece of plate and bolt them up by them selfs so each hanger is on a differant plate i guess both will work just want no whats better any pics would be great

 Just watching the footy show and saw that not fyfe himself but others were appealing for him to be allowed to go in the running for the brownlow this year. Thoughts?

 Hi everyone,

I recently serviced one of my reels and did the usual complete strip down / clean everything with white spirits and brake cleaner, reassemble with quality grease on the gears and oiled all bearings ect.

i was wondering what people normally do for servicing and lubricating anti reverse bearings (for a spin reel I mean) located just below the rotor head assembly. I know that if anti reverse assemblies are over oiled they can start to slip and not function correctly.

so if you do a strip down of a reel and you clean out the anti reverse bearings of any debris or foreign particles do you slightly grease the small roller bearings? Or give them a very light oiling? After all the do still rotate around a small rounded collar that attaches to the rotor shaft.

if anyone can shed some light on the best options for libricating or basic servicing for this particular reel part that would be great.

scano

 Thinking of heading up to "The Spot' Two Rocks this weekend one morning and chasing some Tailor. I have never fished there and would like to know what are my best options.

Lures etc or can you bait fish. Have checked out google maps and seems a lot of reeef

im getting bigger tyres put on going from 265/70R16 to 265/75/R16 what are your thoughts as to possible brands?

90% on road 

Do you like hankook tyres?

 a few nice games this weekend...could shape the 8 to a degree...

ESS V RICH

CARL V GC

PORT V SYD

GEEL V SHOCKERS

WC V COLL

Essendon to give richmond a reality check

Carlton to upset GC 

Port to knock off the red & white

GEEL to show the world they are contenders

and the mighty blue and gold to put another dent in the pies apparent run to the finals....and under no mean do i think WC have a chance at the finals.

starting this thread early due to many of fishwrcked members being toothless PIES fans......ha ha ha

hope to hear randall & dale barking there one eyed ways about the shockers (mind you there final win there last year was impressive)

Oh learned travellers....

Planning a 2 week trip to exmouth in early October (school holidays) and chasing some info on expected weather at that time of the year from those that have been up there. 

We typically head up to Kalbarri & Shark Bay at that time of the year and generally find the weather a bit hit and miss for boating/fishing (small 16ft runabout with kids on board - so generally have to settle for pretty calm weather). 

Not sure if I can justify dragging the boat all the way to exmouth for a few decent days, so hoping for a "heads up" on weather conditions.

Thank guys.

Jim 

Went out for a shoot with a mate to get some goats to feed his bloody great Irish Wolfhounds.
Finished up with 7 and a half including a couple of nice big billys. The half is the bit that really gave me the shits big time. We came up to a turkeys nest dam and as we circled it a nanny stood up and instantly we could see it was injured so the 243 put it out of its misery. On closer inspection it showed it had been chewed up around the hind legs and somehow had escaped the dog that bit it. No problem, skin and gut it and cut out all the bruising because it was going to go through a mincer anyway. Not 2 km further down the track we come across a dead goat obviously pulled down by a dog, shot, then left to rot, no doubt for someone's sport? The probabilities of a wild dog in that country are small so expect someone in town who has a good knowledge of the station and its tracks are doing their very best to get everyone else banned from shooting there.

Sorry, no pics, never even thought of taking a camera, though the two real big billys would have made fine trophy shots.

Final score, mate with the 243, 7 and a half, me with 1947 Lithgow hornet nothing but who cares, as long as there is something in the icebox who cares who got it, same goes when fishing.

Just throwing this out there, After you put something up for sale and you get a response and all looks good , But after 3 messages and no response how long should I wait before offering it up again? Should I also offer it to the person who made next contact?

 how you going guys 

spent this fine saturday improving the tinny after spending the last 4 weekends out on it.

basically tried sinking the floor but the ribs were to high so decided to put in some carpet and put in a cast deck that also acts a lid for storage

wasn't happy with this spare space so after sourcing somemarine ply made a casting deck/seat/bed

hung some apolic and hung some rod holders and will eventually mount the epirb there 

the last thing is a question

there is a fair bit of salt build up and was just wondering if you guys knew any remedies toscrub the outside

 Howdy all

i have just bought a 1999 Toyota hilux duel cab 3l turbo diesel

i have one issue with it the bloody heaters don't blow hot air going to work at 5 in the morning with no heating sux big time this time of year. The engine temp sits just under halfway so I would say the thermostat is working and I can't see any heater hoses leaking. So is there anything else I should look at as to why it's not blowing hot air any info would be great

                   Cheers

 Shes all done on the inside , changed the dash around and flush mounted the sounder.Very happy with the way it came out .

BEFORE

AFTER

 Can anyone tell me whether it is open over the winter months please

 Did anyone else see the very bright orange tailed shooting star falling low over the Estuary. 

Certainlywas big and impressive.

the dockers tonight were lucky they need to lift , in saying that Nat Fyfe better have picked up 3 brownlow votes there is a fix in if he didnt , which I suspect might be as the AFL don't want a suspended player toping the votes again

 What do you reckon about introducing a draft lottery to help fight against tanking? Every club in the AFL has a chance to win the #1 pick, albeit the teams that finish last have a significantly greater chance than the teams that finish in the top of the ladder (like 1% vs 45%). Just like in some of the US leagues like the NHL, each club has a certain number of tickets in a raffle depending on where they finished. I think the raffle also determines the order of the draft for the teams that did not get the #1 pick, so as far as I'm aware, if you finish last, you might not get a pick until later in the top 5 choices depending on how the draft order plays out with the lottery.

i think it would be a huge measure to fight against tanking because the last few teams would each have a big chance of getting the highest pick- but not guaranteed. With the way things currently are, if you don't Win the flag you may as well finish last and have all the best players in the country without any risk.

what do you think?

 Ok, I'll start.

Freo to towel up the blues tomorrow night.

Collingwood and The Egirls to also get towelled up.

HEAVE HO!!

Dale

Have to drive down to the big smoke on either tomorrow or Friday and back either Sunday or Monday, if anyone wants a lift or needs anything brought up or down give me a PM.

hi I recently purchased a 12 foot fiberglass dingy with trailer ect
noticed the bearings need doing so I took them off and took the hub to my local trailer place and he informed me they are off a valiant car over 30 years ago and are unreplacable
he said my only option is to buy a new axle new hub and new bearings with new u bolts ect. my question is that is gonna cost me 250 plus the person to do it is 2 hours labour which is gonna cost me 160 so im looking at 410 all up instead of a cheap 50 or so I thought it would cost

does anyone have any suggestions? how much am I looking at roughly for a new trailer or second hand? is it worth reparing? I only paid 1200 all up and don't really wanna keep throwing money into it

 Katie just finished the mural on the cabin door ,UNREAL Not to many boat with a door like this.Afew more finishing touches and ready for a fish.

Just changed car to a 76 series v8 turbo diesel landcruiser having had a petrol GU Patrol in the past . Have towed the 3ton boat to Exy 10 times with the patrol and due to lack of grunt I always stayed in 4th gear . The new car has lots more power being turbo diesel and could probably tow in 5th without any effort .
The question is - should I tow in 5th gear . A lot of the 4x4 forums say its not a good idea to tow in 5th as it will destroy the gearbox . Mainly designed as an overdrive and should remain in 4th when towing. Not sure why myself.
For those with manual gearboxes , what do you use ?

 Anyone else go to the show tonight? The best live concert I've seen in a while. Chris Cheney's guitar solo in While my guitar gently weeps was farking awesome.

Hey guys

Currently looking at purchasing a high top van big enough to stand up inside , for a camper conversion , to sleep 4.

Looking at the lwb transit high top as this has bags of room , but wondered if there were any other worthy contenders worth considering.

cheers for any input

 I have a quintrex fishseeker 4.5m dinghy... I live in mandurah so its a perfect boat for what we do, plenty of crabbing during the summer & fishing when ever we can... at the moment I have the normal bench seats, being a dinghy as you probably already know they can be a bit harsh on your back... I will be upgrading the boat one day but not anytime soon... I was wondering what people have done to make their boat more pleasurable when it gets a little choppy to stop the jarring.. seats would probably be a big improvement but how did you go securing them to the thin skin of the existing bench seat. I have also thought about a underfloor fuel tank approx 70lt (currently have the 25lt plastic in the back) did you notice much of a difference after doing this? anyway any feedback or ifeas much appreciated. 

I'm pretty sure there would be a few ex smokers on fw, how did you do it?  Was it cold turkey or slowing down till you ended up not even wanting one? One of the reason for the question is because I can ignore the urge most of the time but what kicks me is around friends even though most don't smoke.  But post any tips on givin up the old death sticks haha,