Every day I look here and wish I lived in a country with Harbor Freight
stores, scrap merchants and used machinery dealers.

It is verge collection in our council area this week & I spied a Hilti case
in a pile of junk and got my son to haul it out, figuring it would be a nice
case to store air tools in.

The case contained a 12V Lithiium battery drill, 2 batteries, the charger
and the user manual. Took it home and all seems to test out ok. Drilled a
dozen wall anchors into brickwork no problems.

I still wish we had better scrap dealers here anyway!

D.

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:51:04 +0800, "Dennis"
wrote:


Every day I look here and wish I lived in a country with Harbor Freight
stores, scrap merchants and used machinery dealers.

It is verge collection in our council area this week & I spied a Hilti case
in a pile of junk and got my son to haul it out, figuring it would be a nice
case to store air tools in.

The case contained a 12V Lithiium battery drill, 2 batteries, the charger
and the user manual. Took it home and all seems to test out ok. Drilled a
dozen wall anchors into brickwork no problems.

Somewhere, a mean wife is getting a severe beating for that one...


I still wish we had better scrap dealers here anyway!

And I wish we could still haul junk out of the County Landfill site
while/after we were dumping things there.

--
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
--Jack London

On 9/26/2010 3:51 AM, Dennis wrote:

I still wish we had better scrap dealers here anyway!

Where is 'here'?


Jon

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:51:04 +0800, "Dennis"
wrote:


Every day I look here and wish I lived in a country with Harbor Freight
stores, scrap merchants and used machinery dealers.

It is verge collection in our council area this week & I spied a Hilti
case
in a pile of junk and got my son to haul it out, figuring it would be a
nice
case to store air tools in.

The case contained a 12V Lithiium battery drill, 2 batteries, the charger
and the user manual. Took it home and all seems to test out ok. Drilled a
dozen wall anchors into brickwork no problems.

Somewhere, a mean wife is getting a severe beating for that one...



grin That thought did enter my head! We have a lot of fly in / fly out
mine workers. One might be flying back in this week to a clean & tidy
garage....



I still wish we had better scrap dealers here anyway!

And I wish we could still haul junk out of the County Landfill site
while/after we were dumping things there.

--
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
--Jack London

"Jon Anderson" wrote in message
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On 9/26/2010 3:51 AM, Dennis wrote:

I still wish we had better scrap dealers here anyway!

Where is 'here'?


Jon


Perth, the capital of Western Australia. There's not a lot of manufacturing
done here.

On 9/27/2010 4:14 AM, Dennis wrote:

Perth, the capital of Western Australia. There's not a lot of manufacturing
done here.

Ah. I'm headed to rural NSW in the somewhat near future (coming from
Calif). Trying to think of all the odd hardware, tooling, and such I
might be wanting, and trying to scrounge it all up before moving. I'm
sure NSW overall has some areas with industrial surplus, Wagga Wagga
probably being the closest. But one thing I'll really be wanting to
learn down there, is where to find surplus stuff. I'm also already
thinking of looking into importing. Not too sure if that will be
feasible working from a rural location though...


Jon

"Jon Anderson" wrote in message
...
On 9/27/2010 4:14 AM, Dennis wrote:

Perth, the capital of Western Australia. There's not a lot of
manufacturing
done here.

Ah. I'm headed to rural NSW in the somewhat near future (coming from
Calif). Trying to think of all the odd hardware, tooling, and such I might
be wanting, and trying to scrounge it all up before moving. I'm sure NSW
overall has some areas with industrial surplus, Wagga Wagga probably being
the closest. But one thing I'll really be wanting to learn down there, is
where to find surplus stuff. I'm also already thinking of looking into
importing. Not too sure if that will be feasible working from a rural
location though...


Jon

The East coast is definitely better for surplus than my side on the West -
I'd guess 80% of the population lives on the East coast.

There's a chap who frequents here that lives in one of the Eastern
states.....I'll see if I can find him..........Its 'Andrew VK3BFA', from his
posts he seems like a good guy - he may be able to give you the heads up on
'resources'. From his call sign I think he's underneath NSW in Victoria.

I'm sure you'll enjoy being downunder, just coming into summer now, a great
30C (~90F) today.

On 9/27/2010 11:13 PM, Dennis wrote:

There's a chap who frequents here that lives in one of the Eastern
states.....I'll see if I can find him..........Its 'Andrew VK3BFA', from his
posts he seems like a good guy - he may be able to give you the heads up on
'resources'. From his call sign I think he's underneath NSW in Victoria.

Yes, have exchanged a few emails with Andrew. I have something of a
contact list of metalworking folks down under. As I get closer, I'll be
making contact and soliciting advice on what all to bring. And... I'll
likely have some room to spare in the container, so might just be able
to drag along some goodies for some folks.

I'm sure you'll enjoy being downunder, just coming into summer now, a great
30C (~90F) today.

Have always been there in spring or fall. Was going to try and spend a
month there over Christmas this year, but wasn't going to work out. The
thought of spending Christmas at the swimming pool trying to not get
sunburned would certainly be a novelty!


Jon

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:46:21 -0800, Jon Anderson
wrote:

On 9/27/2010 11:13 PM, Dennis wrote:

There's a chap who frequents here that lives in one of the Eastern
states.....I'll see if I can find him..........Its 'Andrew VK3BFA', from his
posts he seems like a good guy - he may be able to give you the heads up on
'resources'. From his call sign I think he's underneath NSW in Victoria.

Yes, have exchanged a few emails with Andrew. I have something of a
contact list of metalworking folks down under. As I get closer, I'll be
making contact and soliciting advice on what all to bring. And... I'll
likely have some room to spare in the container, so might just be able
to drag along some goodies for some folks.

I'm sure you'll enjoy being downunder, just coming into summer now, a great
30C (~90F) today.

Have always been there in spring or fall. Was going to try and spend a
month there over Christmas this year, but wasn't going to work out. The
thought of spending Christmas at the swimming pool trying to not get
sunburned would certainly be a novelty!

When I lived in LoCal, I often ran around in cutoffs and no shirt on
New Years Day, BBQing between the games. I kinda miss that, but
Oregon is extremely mild compared to _most_ other states, so I still
feel blessed to have remained on the Left Coast doing my Right Thing.

--
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
--Jack London