Fab1
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My results when it's a bit quiet,when 10,000 fisherman are 2 foot away filling up eskies,when it's summer,autumn,winter,spring,high tide,low tide,mid tide,day,arvo,night.
When I'm sitting at home day in,day out,week in, week out,month over month thinking of fishing.
When there's a moon,no moon,new moon.
And most importantly my results when Yowie has a piece of old mono with a hook in it tied to his big toe dangling it over the side catching fish like that.
My results never change.
Argh,yep I'm consistently a 💩 fisherman.
Well done once again Yowie.
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Just now, zmk1962 said:
You invented a JAR ! .... man o man ... you are amazing ! 🤣
Sorry, I make my own back lapping paste using various grits.Still laughing.😂😂😂Works excellent.That's my garnet variety.😂
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Another one of my inventions when I've run out.😂😂😂
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On 11/16/2021 at 10:57 AM, James Clain said:
Priacanthus macracanthus
I live in Macarthur.That sounds like a Macarthian latin name that's not a nice person..😂😂😂
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12 minutes ago, kingie chaser said:
Nice job Fab 👌
I really enjoy doing things myself as much as possible because you test yourself & learn something rather than just taking to the specialist like a mechanic who unless you find a good one can do a half arssed dodgy job & still charge you $100hr.
The problem solving is half the fun 🙂
Thanks mate.A simple idea for a simple job.I agree with what your saying mate.That's how you learn.
Doing things yourself you can do them in the comfort of your own home when you want and take as long as you want.You also know 100% what you did and didn't do.
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4 minutes ago, 61 crusher said:
In the building game I’ve seen plenty that come to mind, from clerk of works, some architects, various tradies & especially council inspectors. It’s one thing to have a a great degree or distinction on paper but applying the knowledge in the field with some commonsense & practicality is an art that you either have or learn as you go off others.Unfortunately the skilled knowledgeable people are slowly disappearing & the newer & up coming generations are being taught in a restrictive or dumbed down sort of way & relying on google search & the internet for the answers. The other day I heard that math doesn’t need to be a compulsory part of the curriculum anymore FFS almost every job needs some form of math wether your in a white or blue collar job
Agree 1000% mate.We are being programmed to use our brains less and less .You either want to learn and expand your mind/knowledge or you don't.
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28 minutes ago, 61 crusher said:
Way back when I got my first mobile phone a Motorola brick, I was out on my own plumbing I used to come across a lot of gutters sagging off facias & would use a twisted nail & the back end of a cold chisel & hammer to reattach with a lot of cursing & cuts
I came up with an idea of using a bit of half inch pipe that stuck out further than the gutter & some 3/8 rod inside, loved it less cursing & blood particularly when the roof was corrugated metal or slate. 6 years later stumbled across a tool that was made for the job (doubt I invented)
That's what I'm talking about.Brilliant idea!!! I would of went a step further and used that Motorola as a hammer.😂
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Love how you hung your reels mate.Smart thinking 99.👍
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4 hours ago, frankS said:
Fab. Should have mentioned it. I have the correct tool here I could have sent down to you to borrow, give me a call if you need to do it again.
Frank
Thank you very much for your kind offer mate.I could have gone and bought one today but the tool shop was closed at 4am when I changed the boot so I made one.😂😂I now have a tool to do it next time in 20yrs when I'll need to do it again.🤣🤣.
Thanks again Frank.
4 hours ago, big Neil said:Hey Fab, you remind me so much of my neighbour. He too is a mechanic, a diesel mechanic, and he is very creative when it comes to problem solving... just like you. Many tradies are content to do what they have to but guys like you, who think outside the square. are invaluable. Thanks for your post. I enjoyed it. bn
Being creative and having a go is how you learn and become good at what you do.Having a trade doesn't mean you're any good.
I know and have seen plenty that are as useless as anything yet they are tradies on paper.
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8 minutes ago, Rebel said:
When I was Motor Racing I had to bend spanners to fit situations or file down a spanner to fit or make up a tool to align the clutch, because they didn't make the tools that they do today.
Very time consuming.
I kept all the tools I made. I will never know when I will need them again.
Cheers.
I fully understand the clutch aligning tool and modifying spanners. Sometimes tools need to be sacrificed to turn them into new ones.
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New boot installed.
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I always try to think outside the box when I'm in a pickle with anything in life.Just today I replaced my cv boot on my lux that was torn and didn't have the special tool to fit the cv bands.
So I came up with this with things I already had after a bit of thought.
5 minutes later she was ready for testing.
Works a treat and has become an addition to my growing tool collection and saved myself a few quid on a tool that will gather dust.
Intrested to hear what have you guys done over the years when in a pickle doing something?Anything?
Here's a short little video.You slip the boots on the axle,set up the clamp,do it up tight with a ring spanner,bend it back and hammer down the ears.Not shown in video for obvious reasons.
Cheers.
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27 minutes ago, Yowie said:
Catch and cook the fish, and I will visit and tell you what it what. 🤣
You'll starve if you really on me catching fish to feed you.Besides I think my wheel bearings have rusted solid on my boat it hasn't moved in such a long time.
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11 hours ago, kingie chaser said:
Sounds like you had the same thought as me Fab which I referenced on page 1 as the Pepsi-Coke blind tasting(remember those 70's/80's ads that were stacked 😅).
We have the luxury of sight & in direct association with texture in the way a fish looks when it flakes, the method its prepared in reference to its moisture content, scent well that would be an interesting subject on its own.
Imo it would take a trained genius/connoisseur to be to be able get close to naming just 2 fish in a taste test even when cooked the exact same way.
As humans we have to bring the all the senses into play to really know what we enjoy in the end, then we are able to put an actual name to it.
I remember the adds.I agree with what you're saying mate.Half the people you hear say I won't eat this or that if you cooked it up and have it to them they wouldn't even know.
5 hours ago, noelm said:Lots of fish would be easy to pick, some would be impossible though, if you couldn't pick (say) a Mullet or a Snapper, then you're not a fish eater.
All I know is this mullet would taste horrendous.
1 hour ago, frankS said:True but if you catch a certain species and eat it and you can remember you enjoyed the taste then you can state what in your opinion had the best taste at the time. And that is what people no doubt are basing their opinions on.
Frank
True.
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What makes me laugh I bet most of you if you had a blind test with 20 different fish you wouldn't know what's what.
Same as if you did it with meat say rump vs Tbone etc.
I certainly wouldn't know what's what.
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3 hours ago, frankS said:
Noel. If you go alloy for the guards just buy a sheet of 1.8 checkerplate around $140 and make your own, easy as.
$3000 will see you with some change, axles wheels brakes is where the big bucks come into it. As you would know.
If going steel and galvanizing, make shure each section has a breather hole to allow the gases to escape or they won't touch it.
Frank
If I ever build a gal trailer I will be drilling holes in all sections with a nut welded on so I can plug it all up with a gal bolt after it's galvanised.
It's to hard for the trailer manufacturers to do this though isn't it?Yes, I know they want them to fall apart around your ears so you come back to donate more $$$$.
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Excellent work Frank!!!
Be careful if and when you do leaving that trailer at ramps with the Scum around these days.
Those rollers are like candy at a lolli shop to said Scum.
Keep up the great work!!
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On 10/27/2021 at 5:43 PM, Yowie said:
Headed out early this morning for a fish in the deep up from Lilli Pilli. Pulled out the reddies and flounder on bait strips and pillies. Apart from that, no decent hits other than little plenty of small reddies and a few trumpeter stripping off the baits.
At the bottom of the tide, I motored up to Grays Point for something different. Pumped a few nippers, not many there but they were of jumbo size. While doing that, a cloud of whiting turned up around my feet, but none of legal size. Also a few poddy mullet, so I caught a few on my bait line.
The tide was just starting the run-up, so I drifted along and spooked a flattie about 60cm in the shallows. It swam a short distance from the boat and stopped, so I lobbed a nipper out and it landed in front of his nose, but the flattie swam off a short distance and stopped. I lobbed out a poddy again in front if it's nose, but the flattie swam off again into the deeper water.
I kept moving on the drift and a poddy produced the flattie for me, but the only one I could find. The bream took a nipper. A couple of more drifts and I hooked a good whiting, had it beside the boat with the net ready and the hook pulled out. It was close to 40cm.
A nipper hooked me a Long Tom about 70cm, which jumped and splashed but did not bite off the hook even though it was down the throat. Cut off the hook and released it. It was a fat Tom, so I'm guessing a Stout Long Tom - most I catch in the Hacking are Slender Long Tom. Another Tom grabbed a poddy later on but did not hook up.
The wind picked up so I headed home.
Bloody Yowie again.😂😂Well done Sir Yowie of the hacking.Love your work.
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Don't go fishing like I do and all your terminal tackle will last a life time.Circle hooks tend to snag less I find.
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Good hack mate.When my pull start doesn't work I turn the key.When the key doesn't work I pull the pull start.When both don't work I yell at them.
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1 hour ago, pegz said:
Dont go near them on weekends
I hear you LOUD AND CLEAR!!!
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5 hours ago, noelm said:
Pretty much normal around this way, Oak Flats ramp in Lake Illawarra was not crowded yesterday, Shellharbour is OK if you're early or mid week.
I have always used windang bridge ramp with no issues.Guessing it's a different ball game these days?
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8 minutes ago, motiondave said:
I'd say avoid the hacking and possibly George's like its plagued, well....on weekends....
I've only been out on Friday as of recent and even it was 2pm arrival, Drummoyne ramp was near full.
I've heard stories that places like parsely bay was chockers, not sure about other ramps.
@Fab1 what day and time and where were you planning?
Overall, I expect ramps to be busy till intrastate and interstate travel resume and then overseas travel.
I won't be going anywhere on week ends.If I could only go weekends the boat would be gone in a heartbeat.
Waiting more than a few minutes at a boat ramp isn't for me.
I was thinking hacking, windang or Greenwald point during day or night.
The beauty about night time is there's less idiots out and about and I don't know...There's something about being out at night that we like and you don't end up baked.
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11 minutes ago, zmk1962 said:
Knowing you Fab - “you’re gonna need a bigger boat”
cheers Zoran
With the amount of muscle (ahem) I've put on during Covid I think you may be right.Last time I went out I was about 110kg.I weighed myself the other day and sitting at a feather weight 124kg.🙄🙄
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This is what I've always done.Here is a common issue with the boating public at one time or another,the stiff steering/throttle etc caused by neglected cables and moisture getting in them or worse totally frozen and unable to move freely.
Im maintaining a teleflex steering cable hear but this method works on cables ranging from bicycle brakes to hand brakes on cars,trust me I've used it on everything and do all my outboards cables like I'm about to document.
What I like to do is disconnect the cable from the outboard side and the helm side leaving the cable in place and force feeding transmission fluid through the cable using an adapter I have made up using compressed air to clean and lubricate the cable.
As alot of you guys don't have access to a compressor for demonstration purposes I have totally removed my cable and used a small portable air matress inflator to achieve the same thing.
Years ago I used a tyre valve contraption and even hanging the cable up vertically with a funnel attached and gravity feeding the trans fluid will work but much slower.
The first step is to undo the drag link retaining nut as shown here and thread the 2 washers and nut back on the thread so that they don't get lost-If the outboard moves freely by hand it indicates that the bushings are in working order and lubed,if its stiff you need to pay attention to the pivot bushings.
If the helm is stiff there's an issue with the cable or the helm itself,if it moves freely it indicates a helm and cable in good order.
Next you want to remove the plastic nut from the tilt tube,be carefull there's an o ring inside that's suppose to stop water/moisture entering-
The plastic nut showing the o ring that lives inside-
Now remove this large locknut for the steering cable-
With the locknut removed you can start sliding the ram out of the tilt tube-
You can see the oil has become emulsified if you look closely,only one thing can cause this-Water.
Here the ram has been removed further and you can clearly see the contaminated sludge on the ram-
Inside the tilt tube is the same,rust coloured sludge-
Here I've wrapped some emery cloth around a steel bar to use with brake cleaner to clean out the tilt tube-
You can see the rusty colour of the rag I've placed under the tilt tube opening(Why manufacturers don't make the tilt tubes out of stainless I don't know)Maybe I'll fit stainless to mine.
This image shows the ram starting to rust-
A bit of a sand with emery cloth and it's like new again-
Ram cleaned up with brake clean and rag-
Tilt tube nice and clean also ready for assembly later-
Now that we have the outboard end all disconnected and cleaned up it's time to move onto disconnecting the cable at the helm.
This is a shot of the helm where you need to first remove this R clip-
Now you need to push this pin in with a small screwdriver or similar to unlock the cable and pull on the cable to pop it free-
The cable is driven by a worm gear inside the helm which feeds the cable out of it's housing automatically by turning the steering wheel to starboard you'll see it feed itself out-
Once the cable comes all the way out of the helm it's simply a matter of feeding the cable back along the Gunnel and completely removing it from the boat-
Ok it's time to clean out the old gunk from the cable and lubricate its entire length with fresh transmission fluid.
On the helm end of the cable I've attached a 3/4 diameter piece of hose around 2 foot long using a hose clamp-
You want to hold the open end of this hose vertical,Here I've utilised the garage roller door track and wedged the hose in the channel(fits like a glove)-
Now add approximately 200ml of transmission fluid into the hose(don't worry any excess just pours back into the bottle later)-
Here's the portable pump I'm using to force the transmission fluid through the entire length of the cable until it comes out the outboard end of the cable for this demonstration(If you have compressed air,use it)-
Now attach the pump to the open end of the hose with another clamp as shown-
Place something to catch the oil coming out of the outboard end of the cable,here I've used a bucket lid-
All you need to do now is turn on the pump and work the outboard end of the cable in/out by hand for a few minutes until fresh transmission fluid comes out indicating that the cable is now clean and lubed throughout its entire length as shown here-
I've now got a clean and lubed cable ready to install back on the boat-
Now it's a matter of feeding the freshly refurbished cable back up the gunnel-
The cable coming out under the dash-
Now you need to feed the cable into the helm and turn the steering to port to feed the cable all the way into the helm as shown-
Once the cable is pulled all the way into place it will automatically lock in place by the pin you depressed at the beginning and then install the R clip you removed-
Now that the helm end is finished its time to re-install the outboard end making sure you use transmission fluid in the tilt tube,anti seize on the threaded locknut and loctite on the drag link nut and your done.
Hopefully this aids those of you that have cable issues and want to maintain them.
You can use marine grease,lithium grease in the tilt tube if you want but nothing lubricates the cable like tranny fluid in my experience.
Cheers.
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