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    Hi MIK,

    Sounds so cool - wish I was there! Even with the low water levels! Walking the ducksin on a lead sounds better than dropping them in from jetty height! ;).

    Have fun!

    Cheers,
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    Plenty of water - just not as close to shore as it used to be.
    Here are some pics of Goolwa wharf/railway station area - site of the wooden boat festival taken in early Feb.
    Please excuse quality - LG TU550 is a good phone but a cruddy camera

    The "concrete" at the base of the piles is bristleworm 'coral', thriving due to unusually high salinity.
    I imagine the organisers will have removed it from the wharf piles at least to allow boats to dock unmolested.
    Not sure which day I'll get down this year. Possibly Sunday afternoon. Things to do, places to be, etc,etc.
    cheers
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    We can loan you some water if you want to send a couple of trucks up.
    Cliff.
    If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    We can loan you some water if you want to send a couple of trucks up.
    Watch out for Hamish though he might dump a couple of truck loads right on top of you

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    Quote Originally Posted by m2c1Iw View Post
    Watch out for Hamish though he might dump a couple of truck loads right on top of you
    They keep saying he is going to go South East but everytime they update the plot he has moved just a bit closer to the coast.
    Cliff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    They keep saying he is going to go South East but everytime they update the plot he has moved just a bit closer to the coast.
    SW is good send it on down

    Um sorry Alex getting a little side tracked here nice work BTW
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    No probs - I'm in a sort of refractory state at the moment, trying to subdue the snout and realign the saw in its table chassis. The former's taken most of the day, the latter maybe this evening, after dinner.

    Cheers,
    Alex.

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    Thanks for the sanps, AJ :).

    Ouch! The water is low. I imagine that the barrages must be even further from the water since the last I saw of then on the 7:30 Report last year :(. The bristleworms have really got throttled up! That's the first I've seen of that bridge reasonably close up and from the ground - ugh! I preferred the punt, although to be fair it has to be said that I don't live on the Island, either ;).

    They're nice snaps - you ought to see what the iPhone's "camera" dishes up (don't get me started, I'd be instantly banned from the entire Woodwork Forums!).

    Hmm... now that I think of it, I'll have a peek at this page's code and see what the attachments' code is doing, then compare and contrast with my own large default (I still couldn't grok what to do after reading Jeremy's link - but I'll blame it on my very handy excuse of the moment - the cold ;).

    More later, I hope, although any pics will be those of the Triton's innards, probably not that interesting in a strictly boat-building sense...
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    Had a browse through the code, found the relevant statments to make up the thumbnails, but still none the wiser about what is actually generating the code, so back to reading Jeremy's link...

    I take back what I said previously about the Triton's saw chassis - the more recent two-piece pressed steel plate design, not the diecast aluminium affair that preceded it (for the Workstation 2000, that is). My memory had played me false, but there is, as usual, a sting in this, er, tale. The new chassis has been cleverly and simply designed to be robust and to lock the saw positively in position, and allowing for quick removal and accurate replacement when necessary.

    It wasn't until I'd made the blade adjustment against the zero-ed fence (the fence itself had about 15 minutes' work done on it prior to this) a second time that it occurred to me to have a closer look at the saw stabilisation bracket. This is a separate item to the the chassis, and after consulting the instructions, I found that I had not read the instructions properly when installing it, herein being the sting. And in the tail, too ;). The bracket was in fact exerting a continual pressure on the saw itself, actively pulling it out of alignment when the saw was being clamped in place.

    Having released the bracket from its moorings, I was able to get the saw lined up, clamped, flipped, checked, and the flipping-and-checking process repeated, without any migratory affect on the blade's position. So another 15 minutes were spent carefully following the bracket's intructions and bending a strategic part (an L-bracket, see photo 1 below) to the correct angle to allow the saw to remain in correct alignment when the bracket is tightened up. Becasue I was nearly cross-eyed by then I gave up for the evening. Not much to do to it in the morning, but I won't be as tired and less likely to mess things up.

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    1. Taken last night, this is the saw in a rather woe-begone state; or rather, what it looks like normally when trussed up in the Triton. It needs cleaning much more often. Note the saw stabilistation bracket, apparent villain of the current piece - well, the villain was me, really, see above - on the left. Its most visible part is the rather dusty vertical steel strip. The problematic part is the arm of the L-bracket that attaches to the vertical strip.





    2. And here is is with quite a bit of vacuuming and brushing done on it. Much better. Won't be like this for long, though ;). And yes, there's the instruction manual, open at the right page so that I can check what I'm doing...





    3. Sawyer's working end view of the machine, top off, saw motor uppermost. Photo is noteworthy for the relatively clean floor of the workshop! That's a cleaning rag in front of the vacuum cleaner, not the vacuum cleaner bleeding all over the floor ;). The Triton's table is just visible leaning up against the wall, bottom right. One of these days I'm going to get the electrician in and have hanging powerpoints installed. This setup is far too dangerous...





    4. Blade up against the fence. Fence arms (marked in mm) not visible...





    5. Blade aligned properly against the fence, top view. I think it's going to stay straight from now on! This was a bit hard to photograph - the teeth against the bottom (critical) edge of the fence are in shadow, unfortunately. But they are even on either side!





    Btw - Cliff, I hope Hamish isn't bearing down on where you are. If so, try and stay safe!

    Cheers,
    Alex.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexN View Post
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    Btw - Cliff, I hope Hamish isn't bearing down on where you are. If so, try and stay safe!

    Cheers,
    Alex.
    It is windy, gusty & rainy but not heavy at present, it looks like it has finally turned to the South East.
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    I can't see any of Alex's pics.
    On any of 3 different PCs
    Is it just me ?
    AJ

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    Quote Originally Posted by b.o.a.t. View Post
    I can't see any of Alex's pics.
    On any of 3 different PCs
    Is it just me ?
    AJ

    go to www.woodworkforums.com & log in there too.

    The links go to albums with that domain name on it.

    You will probly be only logged in at www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au
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    Don't think that's it Cliff
    I can't see any links either.
    Just gaps in the text where the pics would be.
    Or at least, I couldn't..
    Now, for this first time, I can see the pics.
    All of them.
    Th' intarweb is a strange place indeed....
    cheers
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    Thanks for the heads-up. I'm still not quite sure what I'm doing yet, forum-wise. I store all the images in a forum-based "album"/library, and link from there. It seems at the moment the easiest way for me to manage the pics with captions, etc. Something appears to be being done wrong (by me) if the wider net can't see the pics. Will do some more reading.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    It is windy, gusty & rainy but not heavy at present, it looks like it has finally turned to the South East.
    That sounds good (I think!). Last night it was supposed to be heading onshore (west, sou'-west?).

    Sounds wet, though! It's supposed to get a bit damp here tomorrow, but I won't be holding my breath.

    Cheers and (further) good luck,
    Alex.

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