Another new use for something old.

The bung under the spare wheel of Cubby must have gone missing some time in the distant past and a quick measure indicated a sink plug could be adapted to fit with a tiny modification.

So I got the rotary tool onto the old plug and ground a bit of a groove into the bit that was slightly oversize.

Resulting in a lovely fit.
It looks rat eaten because we had a rat sized mouse in the house in October, which after much effort I exterminated. New plug bought on Saturday $1.69, old plug recycled, despite having a right lean politically Jimmy loves to recycle things.

Yet another repair job.

It seems every time I use something I have to fix it, the drill I used to screw the stand together decided it didn't want to engage reverse any more.

Problem was a bent plastic tang on the switch.

Patched up by a blast of a blow torch and a bit of a twist while it was soft.

Pink arrow shows the location, I expect it will break again soon enough, then I'll just use this in forward and buy another reversible drill.

A Jimmybuilt Stand.

Or in real English, badly built.

It's about 45 cm high and I plan on resting the big TV on it.

A bit sad really.

Ricky Ponting has announced his retirement from cricket, but that isn't too sad, father time has caught up with him just as it doesn't to everybody, maybe sad that he didn't retire a little bit earlier but he still looked like he had the goods, but he was only cheating grandfather time.

The actual sad thing is I'm going to pension this TV off, it's not old and works beautifully but it also acts as a heater in the room and consumes 400 Watts of what is now too expensive, and about to become even more expensive electrickery, of course the heat also means more power used in summer for the A/C to overcome. While Grace was here and we were comfortable we were prepared to spend a bit to give Grace (and Jim) a luxury lifestyle. Now it doesn't matter any more and I've ordered a smaller basic TV that only consumes 90 Watts, it should pay for itself in savings in about two years.
I tried to buy locally but they've been waiting a couple of months for an order for the model I wanted to arrive, so I went online and saved a few dollars, hopefully when I tell them they can use that as good ammunition for their warehouse.

Poor thing.

My neighbour's 4WD got a bit further this afternoon, but not under its own power.
The dry season has browned the grass a fair bit this year, it might be a while before the wet comes yet too.

Way too slow Jimmy.

The 4WD about four houses up the road spewed forth an impressive amount of smoke this morning when it went past, silly Jimmy though went to have a look but think of his camera till almost too late, and certainly too late for the good part of the show.

He stopped, inspected, and turned and went back home, probably with a completely ruined mood.

It created a smokescreen that the Bismarck could have hidden in, but the photo I got was when he was slowing down and was barely producing smoke.
For many years though I've been observing it leaving home and always revving the engine until it just wouldn't spin any faster before changing gear, not in a racing fashion but just casually letting it rev up to the limiter, anyway I wonder if there's any link.
Thinking about it a bit I wouldn't be surprised if it was coolant causing the issue, possibly from corrosion as so many don't bother with inhibitor, or if they're lucky just a head gasket.

Delicious but....

I think these lovely pancakes are also an easy way to increase mass quickly. I think I'll have to go easy on them.