The Job, Motorbike Riding, Lexi, The Garden & Tools.
I went back for the medical and drugs test yesterday and passed!
Which is great as I've been off work for over 2 weeks now!
So hopefully next week I can start the new job, find out Monday.
Motorbike.
I've been going out for rides on the bike to keep myself busy.
Been going to my local
legal tracks which are a 20 minute ride away.
The main track is a ridge track with working quarry's each side.
So great views at times.
Found a burnt out pit bike.
It was only a cheap Chinese one, but I salvaged a few bits off it.
Got a brake lever and both foot pegs.
I hoped one of the foot pegs could replace my broken one.
Close.
But sadly a bit different.
Lexi.
Lexi graduated from puppy school this week!
She had great fun playing with the other border collie on the last night.
Shes decided she loves digging!
So its a constant battle to keep an eye on her if shes in the garden on her own.
I caught her the other day and she was funny! She knew she had been naughty so she wouldnt look at me properly!
She decided to do some furniture re-arranging the other night and this is what I found in the morning!
She has a really tough life!
The Garden.
I needed more pot/bed space on the deck to plant more veggies.
So after giving it some thought I decided the best option would be to make some nice industrial hanging baskets out of the salvaged sinks I got from the casino hotel.
First job was to remove the plug/waste fittings.
Next I needed to add some chain.
As I may want to use them as sinks again one day I didnt want to drill holes in them to attach the chain, so instead decided to wrap chain around them and re-join the 2 ends back together to form a loop.
Added some more chain, attached with zip ties.
Hung them from a shovel between the 2 benches so I could fill them with potting mix and plant some seeds.
Planted spinach in the top one, the bottom one I've left empty for now.
And hung it on the deck.
The rest of the plants are continuing to be fruitful!
The tomatoes are continuing to be productive.
As are the strawberry plants.
Our first capsicum decided it was ready and jumped off during some high winds we had.
And the baby carrots are almost ready!
Tools.
I did some work in the garage.
I decided to change the last of the plugs on my tools from UK plugs to Aussie ones.
Picked up some plugs.
And some new twin core for my heat gun.
Both my Black & Decker heat gun and bench grinder must be approaching 30 years old as there both good solid, well built, made in England ones, rather than all the made in China stuff they sell now days!
The cord was looking slightly worse for wear on the heat gun hence why I decided to replace it.
Going through all my tool cupboards I found a few other items still with UK plugs.
I've come to the conclusion that the Aussie plug is a much better design than the UK plug!
The only downside to them is the flimsy pins which if they were the same thickness as the UK ones would be much better as they do bend very easily.
Not only are the Aussie ones much easier to wire up and much less fiddly than the UK ones.
I love how the wires lock in in such a way as that if you pull the plug out of the wall by the wire or dangle a tool by the lead to lower it to the ground from a ladder etc. With the Aussie one your not pulling the wires out of the terminals like you are with the UK ones.
The tools didnt take long to change the plugs on and then they could all be put away.
I went for a 4 meter cord on the heat gun as it will make it much easier when I'm shrinking heat shrink with it when doing automotive electrics inside vehicles, as thats all I really use it for at the moment.
I picked up an electric die grinder ridiculously cheap off Gumtree!
The guy selling it didnt really know what it was so had listed it as "hand grinding tool". So not many people had spotted it!
My air one works OK but even with a 50 litre tank on my compressor I can only run it flat out for about 30 seconds before the tank is empty.
This will be much better!
I did a little woodwork job.
It all started when I acquired 2 off cuts from a laminated, structural beam I fitted a few months ago and was wondering what to do with the useful looking off cuts which are laminated strips of Tassie oak.
Then I remembered I no longer had a decent, big, wooden mallet as I broke mine when I foolishly used it to bed slabs down with when I built my parents a big patio a few years ago.
I still had a small wooden mallet which I used as a guide and just scaled up from that.
So the nice big chunk of timber.
Cut a section out for the mallet head.
Machined a handle out of some other hardwood.
Marked, drilled and then cleaned up with a chisel, the tapered mortise joint.
The handle could then be hammered through the head.
That will now live in the carpentry drawer in the wood working bench.
When we eventually get our dream piece of land and build I'm going to have an awesome woodworking workshop next to my main automotive/metal workshop!
But first I need to crack on with the new job and get our saving account built back up so we can put a deposit down on a house next year and then we can finally start renovating and flipping houses!
Keep posting matey 
