Thread: Scraping Class in Melbourne

Thanks for the feedback so far....

Phil has advised us that 1st/2nd October is the AFL grand final weekend. Upon perusing flight prices for that weekend for our interstate travellers, the prices are not exactly cheap compared to the following or preceding weekend...

Stay tuned...

Originally Posted by Ropetangler

The best time for me would probably be from the last week-end in October onwards.

G’day Rob.

Last weekend in October is Melbourne Cup weekend. Its early this year, Tuesday 1st Nov. That will be the other expensive weekend to be flying into town. I haven’t booked any work yet, but we normally end up working Melbourne Cup as it’s a shutdown period.

Regards Phil.

I'm still keen. Pretty much any date is a total crapshoot for me (hmm, will be interesting to see if the board likes that expression), but ideally would be 12 and 13th of November as I begin annual leave then. Still no guarantee, but at least 90% likely. That is if I my job hasen't been farmed off to China by then, in which case any date would suit me

Richard, have you turned into a smurf with all the dykem? Also I'll join the thanks for those offering to organise this, in return I can offer ... unqualified opinion and really bad jokes. Mainly the former.

Pete

I am reserving the dykem posts for the ones that have important information about the weekend, makes it easier to pick them out.. Was going to use hot pink to match my persona but went for royal blue instead to match my heritage

Just go on strike for whatever week-end we choose Pete....

Originally Posted by .RC.

I am reserving the dykem posts for the ones that have important information about the weekend, makes it easier to pick them out.. Was going to use hot pink to match my persona but went for royal blue instead to match my heritage

Just go on strike for whatever week-end we choose Pete....

Good idea, but I'll have to make a passenger announcement about it first I'm just real peeved that my wife has now found out I make half a mill a year ... apparently

Originally Posted by .RC.

Thanks for the feedback so far....

Phil has advised us that 1st/2nd October is the AFL grand final weekend. Upon perusing flight prices for that weekend for our interstate travellers, the prices are not exactly cheap compared to the following or preceding weekend...

Stay tuned...

I'm still in for it. Don't really care what w/end as I only have to worry about humans not cows....

PDW

Originally Posted by Pete F

Good idea, but I'll have to make a passenger announcement about it first I'm just real peeved that my wife has now found out I make half a mill a year ... apparently

That is why I always pay cash for all my tools and NEVER ask for a receipt. What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

You need to keep close track of that account your *real* salary goes into as well as the one that you periodically transfer what you *say* is your salary into.

PDW

300 bucks sounds good to me
that weekend is in the middle of school holidays but that just means a 7hr drive to the course instead of a 3hr drive no real problem
and yes thanks to those organizing and running the course

cheers
Harty

Originally Posted by PDW

You need to keep close track of that account your *real* salary goes into as well as the one that you periodically transfer what you *say* is your salary into.

PDW

Mate I just can't wait for the backpay News Corp, that pinacle of journalistic excellence, reckons the company owes me based on some of the figures I've seen them quote!

BTW, will I be laughed at cruelly and have things thrown at me if I turn up with a HSS scraper?

Bryan, hopefully by then I will have made a few more versions of scrapers and I'll bring them with me for you to use if it helps. Since I will have made them myself they'll all still be crap however, so you may still get laughed at I accidentally left my argon bottle on and it has leaked out (luckily it was almost empty!). The place I get my steel from is just down the road from the welding dude, so I'll get some appropriate size steel in the same trip and the next scraper should then have an uncanny resemblance to a certain commercially available version. Purely coincidental of course!

Pete

Originally Posted by Machtool

Last weekend in October is Melbourne Cup weekend. Its early this year, Tuesday 1st Nov. That will be the other expensive weekend to be flying into town. I haven’t booked any work yet, but we normally end up working Melbourne Cup as it’s a shutdown period.

Regards Phil.

O.K. on that Phil, I hadn't realised that Melbourne Cup Day was early this year. I imagine that the weeks before that weekend will be busy and expensive too with the Spring Racing Carnival. None of us would want you to miss shut down work and the income from it either. I have just remembered too that BT will be overseas all of October, so perhaps mid November may be a better choice. I don't envy you organisers, trying to suit as many as possible is no easy task.
Regards,
Rob

Originally Posted by .RC.

Thanks for the feedback so far....

Phil has advised us that 1st/2nd October is the AFL grand final weekend. Upon perusing flight prices for that weekend for our interstate travellers, the prices are not exactly cheap compared to the following or preceding weekend...

Stay tuned...

who cares....SA aint in it

I'm still keen... work may be a problem as I have just been awarded a chiller repair ...but until actual date set and parts ETA, I wont know for sure

I'm still interested.

Originally Posted by Bryan

BTW, will I be laughed at cruelly and have things thrown at me if I turn up with a HSS scraper?

I promise not to laugh at your scraper if you promise not to laugh at my Chinese mic. . Besides the only scraper I had used until about 3 weeks ago was an modified file.

Stuart

At least you've used one. Mine is still an ornament until I find a place to set up my surface plate.