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You know you're in Australia when;
A five dollar part has been repaired using ten dollars worth of brackets, nuts, bolts and hose clamps.

Feel free to add your favourite dodgy repair experience.

This was my favorite mod, a Victa special with 1 correct wheel and 3 wooden wheels!

You know you're in Australia when ...
Aussie laziness ingenuity takes over:-


p.s. neither of these tanks are original to this machine!

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Jack

Maybe I should start doing that to these Powertorques Jack, get a bit more gravity to make the float needles drop

Yes Norm
one wonders whether the issue goes to quality or design.
I suspect quality control.

You know you're in Australia when ...
The land 'down under' gives us up-side-down catchers ...



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Jack

How many times have I seen this done to a Scotty with the owner not being able to work it out, with the grass deflector being assembled wrongly after going down the path of a full machine restoration, DOH !!!





Cheers,
BB.

You also know when you're in Australia when one spends nearly two full days scraping and sanding deep rust off a 20 inch Model 45 reel back to pristine steel when he could've spent $20 and had it bead blasted and got it back in an hour or so.

Cheers,
BB.