Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by scarry

Most of our insurances have gone up 30%,particularly the commercial stuff.

One specialist insurance went up nearly 50%,but i dont give two hoots as they pay it not me🤣

A mate runs a commercial laundry,his business insurance has just doubled,and has to fit $30K worth of smoke sensors to the shed.😩

Waiting for our home insurance,we have a bit of Aboriginal Art,so that gives them an excuse to keep it up pretty high😩
Had to get valuation certificates,Bla,Bla so they would insure it.

And they recon CPI is 3.5%,they are dreaming,its probably running about 10%.

Have they checked out the price of fuel,well obviously not.That is the ones that calculate CPI.

Jesus Paul, you are not helping. Roughly speaking, on a 3 grand premium it has gone up by 900-ish. GST on that has also jumped a few $1...

Nope, the Bentley will deffo have to go followed by the Jet if pushed, but we can manage without the Bullion Bars being covered, who in their right mind would nick those anyway?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Jesus Paul, you are not helping. Roughly speaking, on a 3 grand premium it has gone up by 900-ish. GST on that has also jumped a few $1...

Nope, the Bentley will deffo have to go followed by the Jet if pushed, but we can manage without the Bullion Bars being covered, who in their right mind would nick those anyway?

Yep,about 30%.

Anyway,you have it sorted,replace the Bently with a Prius,should save on fuel as well?

Oh,and the Jet,maybe Clive will want it

The Bullion,FFS,you certainly are loaded,bury them in the yard,but dont forget to tell the kids where they are just in case you suddenly decide to move on......

Shouldn't take long for them to cash them in and spend the $$$$

Originally Posted by 4bee

Yes, they had their limitations alright.

From what I can recall the biggest service problem was that the internal two Gases (?) separated & to rectify it one had to turn the Cabinet on its top for an hour or so.
That apparently sorted those out but the Absorption system was always behind the eight ball with cooling.


The other Icy Ball System in that link was another thing altogether. I "had the Privilege" of being shown possibly the last operating one in Adelaide at that time in a Butcher's cool room just off Anzac Highway but this one was different in that an electric motor (a Wagener RI Brush type) drove the balls or one (?) via a flat drive belt to the second one in a Brine Bath on the Cool room Roof.


That one should really have found a home in some engineering Museum somewhere sadly it was probably scrapped when the building was demolished.

Today's"DROP-IN PLUGS" owed their beginnings to some of these systems in that when manufactured the smaller ones servicing could be lifted out of the top of the cabinet that were fitted with Sealing gaskets.


I tell yer, there is nuthin new in the whole wide world just that some "bright" young engineer reckons he has revolutionised refrigeration systems.

Well let me tell yer sonny Jim, there ain't such a thing. ( Attributed to Adam Lindsay Wordsworth)



EDIT.

RE Cold Spot Refrig. Audells (remember that, The Bible?) printed USA 1944 tells me that it's Gas Charge was 2lb of liquid Sulphur Dioxide & most at that time would have been the same.

Many also were fitted with Rotary Vane Compressors, certainly a new thing back then. A spring loaded vane ran on the surface of the shaft & was the difference between the Hi & Lo sides

Looking at Audell's flyleaf I see it cost me 42/- & I recall paying back my old boss each week a couple of bob.



Ah, Happy Days.


EDIT. Paul have a shufti at this link which I found most interesting.

Refrigerator - General Electric (GE), Monitor Top, White, post 1935

HereAbsorption Chillers we go Paul, i have never seen one either but they certainly are big MoFos


I reckon if I told the kids where the bullion is hidden it would be gone by Spoggy Fart the next day They won't wait around you know & they'd have an excavator in here quick smart even while I am still warm.

Originally Posted by 4bee

I reckon if I told the kids where the bullion is hidden it would be gone by Spoggy Fart the next day They won't wait around you know & they'd have an excavator in here quick smart even while I am still warm.

Yes well,i dont like our kids even knowing where the spare car keys are hidden....

i can just hear one of them now "we just took it for a run to see how fast it goes"

That chiller link,mighty interesting.

Dunno how they get them upside down for a few days when they stop working

YORK,bloody bursting discs that kept failing on Centrifs under warranty.R11.
Never have any trouble with them, the warranty guy said.
Spare parts guy had a different story.We sell heaps of them and are out of stock....

Originally Posted by scarry

Yes well,i dont like our kids even knowing where the spare car keys are hidden....

i can just hear one of them now "we just took it for a run to see how fast it goes in Reverse"

That chiller link,mighty interesting.

Dunno how they get them upside down for a few days when they stop working

YORK,bloody bursting discs that kept failing on Centrifs under warranty.R11.
Never have any trouble with them, the warranty guy said.
Spare parts guy had a different story.We sell heaps of them and are out of stock....

i can just hear one of them now "we just took it for a run to see how fast it goes in reverse"

Never have any trouble with them, the warranty guy said.

I reckon Warranty blokes go to a Special Liars School but oddly, the Service & Parts blokes go to a Truthful School down the corridor a bit.l.


Guess which one my money is on?


Re York. I think they must turn the building upside down for a few hours. Could you not Supaglue a Steel Blank in it's place?

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

"Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, 22 years after they were last seen.



The small leather-bound books are worth many millions of pounds and include the scientist's "tree of life" sketch."

Feel guilty or just a huge fan? No bother they came back Link to yarn
Attachment 177960

Occam's Razor.....

Thief found God.

... who incidently, does NOT abide 'Evolution'.....

Disgraced Gold Coast rich-lister Craig Gore has been sprung by corrections officers virtually meeting employees and taking a digital tour of a building connected to a business he was illegally running from jail. Link

"Gore was on a video conference at the jail on March 11, 2021, when a corrections officer saw the person he was speaking with showing him pictures of a building via Facebook.The corrections officer then saw the man on the video call walking around with his phone and introducing Gore to employees.
He was also given a tour of a building via video link"

Remote working is not new. Mr Gores not Drugs, mobile phones and cigarettes. A virtual property tour hits new heights I think and only cost him $1500x2. I wonder how much he made???

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Disgraced Gold Coast rich-lister Craig Gore has been sprung by corrections officers virtually meeting employees and taking a digital tour of a building connected to a business he was illegally running from jail. Link

"Gore was on a video conference at the jail on March 11, 2021, when a corrections officer saw the person he was speaking with showing him pictures of a building via Facebook.The corrections officer then saw the man on the video call walking around with his phone and introducing Gore to employees.
He was also given a tour of a building via video link"

Remote working is not new. Mr Gores not Drugs, mobile phones and cigarettes. A virtual property tour hits new heights I think and only cost him $1500x2. I wonder how much he made???

I think more, how much did it cost the taxpayer& how long has it been going on without detection?