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They are quite a fearsome bird, and they don't mind having a go at anyone nearby! But I will say the oil is brilliant for most skin conditions, if it doesn't fix it, it'll alleviate it. I have problems with dermatitis in my ears from extended periods spent wearing silicon ear plugs (silicon...

Tea Tree Oil is a fantastic balm, another one that we've found extremely good for irritations and dermatitis/eczema (damn that's a stupid word!) type rashes is Emu Oil. Works a treat. cheers, Ian

Please Tin, anything but yellow text! It's so hard to read! cheers, Ian

NOOOOOO! Sorry, I bought one and can say it's definitely not suitable for anything that approaches any real use for casting, smelting, or high temperature. The heating elements are quite thin and are not designed for many cycles. And at higher temperatures the wire actually breaks due to...

I had to go look up my issues again, that's a great looking engine Eric, and fantastic job on the castings mate! cheers, Ian

I'm all for banning ebay style sellers posting crappy links to the newest this or that, but I for one would be very interested in some of the older stuff for sale, and the fact is that the people who are most likely to get rid of the older stuff we'd all be interested in, are also the least...

Don't the Target stores here in OZ still use the tubes on all registers? At least they did last I went shopping, although admittedly it has been a very, very, long time since I've been shopping! cheers, Ian

There's always miniature lathes like this one! cheers, Ian

I love it!

I now have the same whenever I work with timber for extended days on end. I just use any suitable manly type moisturizer! I think minor contact dermatitis it was called? cheers, Ian

The sad fact, is that increasingly the sales and product forecast for most companies, is only what affects this or the coming quarters revenue and targets. Years ago companies would plan for the future measured in years, the future now is measured in days. And instead of a reasonable profits...

I'm fine with that but my point was that unless the vial purchased was a high precision one already, which i'm fairly sure it wasn't, the inside as well as the outside are going to have imperfections whether you like it or not. And given the stated purpose was to make a precision level, no...

What I meant was, the very minutest deviation from manufacturing will render it useless as a precision level, regardless of length. From the ones I've seen, the small individual glass vial levels are more for determining if things are more or less straight or plumb over a length or height. Any...

Would the glass vial itself be symmetrical enough? I recall Jans Ridders when making his engines found glass tubes didn't have enough tolerance to be used with graphite pistons, and had to get "precision" test tubes. If your tube is even slightly out at any point, the level will be out. Last...

Places like Shepparton, along with farmers in general have really suffered with the squeeze from the big retailers. From what I understand, not so much because costs are high, but to maintain high x% net margins on groceries, the buy price has to be below $x. You really have to feel for the guys...

Hi Paul, I'm not nit-picking but I think the figure of $200 roughly per day might be too conservative and not really representative of the bigger picture in business. I know in the company I worked for previously, if I got paid $200/day wages, any work I did for other groups or customers was...

I have no issues with paying obscene wages for *good* talent in management, but it must also largely be made up of incentives and performance bonuses. Simply paying obscene amounts while suffering losses is plain wrong. And then paying out "Golden Handshakes" to get rid of these parasites is...

I remember years back our boss took us all for a hay bailing weekend on his poll shorthorn farm in Taggerty, and when we went to the pub for dinner, I swear I had almost a whole cow on my plate! Never seen so much meat on one dinner plate in my life! Took a fair amount of beer to wash it all...

I think what Ford decided was inevitable given the global market and the very, very, high local costs (and profit margins), and Holden won't be too far behind I suspect, but it's such a shame, and will hit Geelong especially badly. I really feel for the guys who have spent many years working...

Between the heat, the noise, and the fumes, would it be worth it? Surely a second hand electric motor can't be that much, certainly not compared to the effort required to hook a car engine to a lathe? Even a washing machine motor would probably give the same grunt and you'd get one of them for...