The Never Ending Story

[Captain]

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

They were allowd to be registered as DG Trucks (Dangerous Goods) trucks the same as Fuel Tankers and had to carry the same placarding, including the owners name.

One nororious GBT pulled over by the W Highway Patrol had a placard stolen from the Kalgoorlie strip  reading "For a Good Time, phone Rosie on 0342 223 123."

..... , and it is little known that Rosie is OT's nom-de-plume when contributing to the forums (fora?) on the AOPA, AAPA, OZALPA and the SAAA websites, such is OT's desire to inform all other pilots of the benefits of living in W. (Turbo, on the other hand also contributes jewels of knowledge to those Fora, but he does it just to p**% them all off, same like he does here).

 

While DG Trucks does indeed designate "Dangerous Goods", it is also little known that the CT has a sideline building them in a production line in the DG Men's Shed, as a sideline to his Advanced Welding Course (This has been invaluable in providing practical lessons on the issues around the failure of high tensile steel after welding [and after all what are a few fatalities on the expressway out of DG, when they are only Mextorians] when welders need to be taught), where he ........ 

Edited Tuesday at 09:38 PM by Captain

[bull]

14 hours ago, Captain said:

..... , and it is little known that Rosie is OT's nom-de-plume when contributing to the forums (fora?) on the AOPA, AAPA, OZALPA and the SAAA websites, such is OT's desire to inform all other pilots of the benefits of living in W. (Turbo, on the other hand also contributes jewels of knowledge to those Fora, but he does it just to p**% them all off, same like he does here).

 

While DG Trucks does indeed designate "Dangerous Goods", it is also little known that the CT has a sideline building them in a production line in the DG Men's Shed, as a sideline to his Advanced Welding Course (This has been invaluable in providing practical lessons on the issues around the failure of high tensile steel after welding [and after all what are a few fatalities on the expressway out of DG, when they are only Mextorians] when welders need to be taught), where he ........ 

.indoctrinated all the new ...................

[Captain]

4 hours ago, bull said:

..... indoctrinated all the new .....

.... welders with the ethos "They are only Truckies + they are only Mextorians, so you have to expect to break a few eggs if you want to make some omelettes".

 

This also worked well as the lead-in mantra for his other moneymaker, the CT Cooking School, which is held in the 3-acre outdoor play area at the Men's Shed (The shed employed a switched-on accountant & had cashed in on Julia's free school shed program, after the Men's Shed had been renamed the "DG Madrassa of Peace, Understanding & Bombmaking" for 3 months until the $5 million shed grant came through).

 

The trainee truck welders and cooks had a lot in common and always had lunch together out under the Julia Gillard Memorial Shelter Shed, when they often discussed the ....... 

Edited yesterday at 05:10 PM by Captain

[turboplanner]

.....plan to build a Thruster that actually looked like an aircraft rather than an open-air long drop dunny.

 

They learned how to weld, and the group visits to Bunnings gave them knowledge of the difference between a bolt and a screw. Some picked this up quickly but it was obvious that others had their minds on different things.

 

The first thing they bought was ........................

 

 

 

[Captain]

4 hours ago, turboplanner said:

.....plan to build a Thruster that actually looked like an aircraft rather than an open-air long drop dunny.

 

They learned how to weld, and the group visits to Bunnings gave them knowledge of the difference between a bolt and a screw. Some picked this up quickly but it was obvious that others had their minds on different things.

 

The first thing they bought was .........

..... a seat that did not have a hole in it, followed by a bent piece of metal that could conceivably hold a dunny roll, but was actually for ..........

Edited 17 hours ago by Captain

[onetrack]

.........use as the control column. One bloke found a big Chinese lawnmower on special, whereby the engine would make a superb power plant for the Bunnthruster, another bloke found some big umbrellas in the Home and Garden section, which would yield some excellent material for wing and fuselage covering (and it was UV-proof, too! - Bonus!)....but the real finds came in the Plumbing dept, where........

[Captain]

11 hours ago, onetrack said:

.........use as the control column. One bloke found a big Chinese lawnmower on special, whereby the engine would make a superb power plant for the Bunnthruster, another bloke found some big umbrellas in the Home and Garden section, which would yield some excellent material for wing and fuselage covering (and it was UV-proof, too! - Bonus!)....but the real finds came in the Plumbing dept, where........

..... there was some past the use-by-date PVC tubing which had been out in the yard in the sun since 1985, but which was cheap and on special.

 

While talking with a Buntings technical specialist in the tubing department, Team Member Doubtfire (who was working her 2nd or 3rd job) thought deeply about his question and then advised "PVC tube is much stronger than the equivalent size in alumaminamumiam, or even 304 stainless, and PVC is totally unaffected by UV light, so I'd say you are on a winner, flyboy".

 

Because Doubtfire had a good set, and agreed to have a coffee with him at the Buntings Coffee Shop, he accepted all that she said, bought the job lot, and he ........

Edited 3 hours ago by Captain

[turboplanner]

...unloaded in the men's shed and there was great discussion, and there were speeches from each one on how their modification to the simple Thruster was so much better, how to cut tubing (88 contributions) where to put the fuel tank (132 contributions) whether the Bunnings wheelbarrow tyres were better than the crap tyres from Airways Pine (284 contributions over 3 years) and the first one was ready for its test flight in a mere 60 months (the last five would never be finished despite their builders offering the most prolific contributions drawn from all over the world). Such was the level of innovation and skill in the AUF and the first two, interesting looking machines, lined up for their test flights............................................