G'day. Jus lerned me self ow ta put pitchers. Yippee.
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Hey dude.
You'll see a dude down there wearing shredded gear or vintage stuff one day and wonder, "Where the heck is he going?" and come and say G'day.
Hopefully Sarah will be with you.
Kenwood Chef, Mixmaster?
Am I giving the wrong impression of the DownUnder People.
"Mate" of mine about twenty years ago, he did a commercial course in the mid seventies, named one of my personalities "The Riddler" gave him the ***** too.
Today it's just "MADder" as in the magazine.
I lived with a couple of hundred kangaroos around the house on the Murray River a couple of years ago.
How do you get them to do that?
Cheers. Emile.
You'll see a dude down there wearing shredded gear or vintage stuff one day and wonder, "Where the heck is he going?" and come and say G'day.
Hopefully Sarah will be with you.
Kenwood Chef, Mixmaster?
Am I giving the wrong impression of the DownUnder People.
"Mate" of mine about twenty years ago, he did a commercial course in the mid seventies, named one of my personalities "The Riddler" gave him the ***** too.
Today it's just "MADder" as in the magazine.
I lived with a couple of hundred kangaroos around the house on the Murray River a couple of years ago.
How do you get them to do that?
Cheers. Emile.
burna
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Drop us a line when you leave Bris-Vegas and come back to the to the 21st century, I'll dive with ya no probs...I think!!! 
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Man, you downunder folks are a laugh.
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VINTAGE DIVE STORY #1
About 20 years ago I purchased some dive gear from an elderly gentleman who told me how he made his first set himself. I cannot remember all the details, and I invite corrections if I make an error. Here is what he told me.
"In those post war days you could get aircraft oxygen bottles. They came 4 in a wooden box. You took them to British Gas where the necks were drilled, tapped, and valves fitted. The first stage was that commonly fitted to the gas tank on caravans."
Unfortunately,I cannot remember how he made the second stage, but there was no purge button, just a hole through which you pressed directly on the diaphragm.
"There was nowhere in Brisbane to get airfills. However ,at the end of WW2 a man had come over from Germany and settled in Gladstone. He brought a high pressure compressor with him. You took your crates of oxygen bottles down to the railway station and sent them by train to Gladstone. Eventually they arrived back and you could go spearfishing"
Knowone,I think my setup is from this era, it even has the hole in the 2nd stage that caught my attention 20 years ago. It is not the Porpoise that we all know and would give an arm to possess.
About 20 years ago I purchased some dive gear from an elderly gentleman who told me how he made his first set himself. I cannot remember all the details, and I invite corrections if I make an error. Here is what he told me.
"In those post war days you could get aircraft oxygen bottles. They came 4 in a wooden box. You took them to British Gas where the necks were drilled, tapped, and valves fitted. The first stage was that commonly fitted to the gas tank on caravans."
Unfortunately,I cannot remember how he made the second stage, but there was no purge button, just a hole through which you pressed directly on the diaphragm.
"There was nowhere in Brisbane to get airfills. However ,at the end of WW2 a man had come over from Germany and settled in Gladstone. He brought a high pressure compressor with him. You took your crates of oxygen bottles down to the railway station and sent them by train to Gladstone. Eventually they arrived back and you could go spearfishing"
Knowone,I think my setup is from this era, it even has the hole in the 2nd stage that caught my attention 20 years ago. It is not the Porpoise that we all know and would give an arm to possess.
VINTAGE DIVE STORY#2
My father usually never talked about the war. However, when I took up scubadiving, he related to me that while in Milne Bay in New Guinea, some soldiers constructed their own dive setup.
They modified one cylinder of a Harley Davidson motorbike as the pump.The other supplied the power. The "helmet" was a gas mask. Apparently there were a few "incidents" using the apparatus and I believe the experiments stopped.
My father usually never talked about the war. However, when I took up scubadiving, he related to me that while in Milne Bay in New Guinea, some soldiers constructed their own dive setup.
They modified one cylinder of a Harley Davidson motorbike as the pump.The other supplied the power. The "helmet" was a gas mask. Apparently there were a few "incidents" using the apparatus and I believe the experiments stopped.
How many arms did you say you have?
Hey burna, I'm shedding tears of joy.
QLD is the hillbilly state to which I was referring in that mumbo jumbo of a few months ago.
There's a diving show on TV and I'm two finger slowly tapping this rubbish.
Cheers. Emile.
Hey burna, I'm shedding tears of joy.
QLD is the hillbilly state to which I was referring in that mumbo jumbo of a few months ago.
There's a diving show on TV and I'm two finger slowly tapping this rubbish.
Cheers. Emile.
burna
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Yeah, I lived just north of Bris for 5 years. Moved back to Melb 2 years ago, haven't missed it. It's a nice place, don't get me wrong, but is a bit backward isn't it. And the roads! Don't get me started on the roads!!
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