smidey

what is the val that is legal?

yes totally, there is a good & bad use for everything 8)

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but that doesn't give you a good excuse to buy more shooters

not that it worries me in the slightest but some of the smilies available are contrary to the rules aren't they? these ones could create drama when used couldn't they? :digH: :facepalm: :-? :yaw2: the rules state: Topics of this type will be removed and action taken against the poster(s): - sensitive topics (political, religious, sexual reference or sexually oriented content etc) - subjects/content not suitable for children to read - profanity, swearing or implied swearing - disrespectful, obscene, vulgar or abusive posts - posts intended to create a reaction - personal attacks and/or slander - illegal, or promoting illegal behaviour

that is a big rat

i am pleased you picked that up

horses for courses. 1000fps air rifle for rats, 308 for larger pests like dear. every job usually has it's tool

that would make a cool tang tank. cover the bottom with lots of shells, sand & rocks then throw in 20 shellies. add a colony of trophs, pembas of course & some leilupi & brichardi.

aren't the 620T's known for their breakages? i had one that had been repaired.

nah, it didn't have the elongated snout or long rear legs.

this one actually looked quite nice, it had a nice coat & was well fed on molases coated corn & maize & didn't have huge teeth so looked "tinda toot" as my 3 year old said.

i have had some issues with rats in the shed i keep my chook & calf feed in. I threw in some paper wrapped paste baits on wednesday which all disappeared that night, today I discovered a dead rat which i thought was pretty large next to the shed early today when i was mowing. i had a look under the shed & saw another one peering at me so I got a gun & shot it. it was 21cm from nose to the base of its tail, i won't post pics as its head is a little re-arranged but i'm pretty sure that is the biggest rat i have come across so far. can anyone confirm they have had larger?

i think your tank will be plenty big enough for the stocking including the dems but as the dems only grow to around 5cm then I think they may become a tasty morsel for the haps when they are big enough. I have seen a pic of a full grown large e yellow bitten clean in half by a front so that gives you an idea of what they are capable of. In saying this you have plenty of time between now & when the haps are huge so you may simply have to remove them from the tank in a year or so time.

nice effort. I'm not sure how the dems will be when the haps & fronts get big. the dems don't get very big fully grown & I amagine an adult front or giraffe will swallow one no problem.

henward may know how to get in touch

have you used one of the brand you are buying? i used to have the same thoughts until i threw out a couple of jebo 150's for a jager 300. as long as teh tank has some flow it is fine to have a single large instead of two smaller. I prefer to use heaters suited for the tank size so i have jagers, 50W, 2 x150, 200 & 300.

i used some test pots from resene which is the water based paint & it stuck very well & i used a brush. It looks mint from the tank side, a little rough from the back but it goes up against the wall so who will ever know.

my old man bought his which is plenty for fire wood or the odd tree trimming & it was around $800

i use a round air powered filter in my fry tank that size & have never had an issue

i thought AVESCO changed the rules so the holdens had to fit wishbones? when they did they were off the pace for quite a while before they got it right. the super cars used to be road cars with cages but now with all teh rules they are almost purposed scratch built cars, i don't know about the falcon but the VE commie has to have the body shortened in length & height to comply with the rules so they aren't racing holden vs ford any more at all.

historically there were plenty of truely great limited editions, these days very few if any that i know of. limited edition is simply a marketing angle trying to sell more, i have seen limited editions when they aren't really that at all, greg Murphy Commodore for one. often they have had a particular spec of car that hasn't sold as well as projected so have re-marketed it with different wheels, some different stickers & maybe a steering wheel but the facts are the are just the same car aside from that & if they could sell 1000 or more of them they would just keep supplying. :lol: clearly this marketing angle works for you but if you break down the facts of limited editions these days they are the smae base model car with a few minor changes. The Tommi Mäkinen limited edition Evo 6.5 was not allowed to be registered in Australia as the govt deemed it to be the same as the Evo 6 which already had its alloted registrations. I read an article about this when a guy imported one into australia from japan & couldn't register it until a evo 6 was de-registered. the aus govt realised it was teh same car with a different paint job & stickers, marketing at is best.

we sell hyundai, nissan & vw & those three don't have any limited eddition models. some are taken off the market for a period of time if they run out of stock but are replaced when they can supply. At the moment the VW polo gti is unavailable due to more orders than stock so they are offering the cross polo in lieu until more gti's are available. nissan doesn't import some models here now that we used to get because they didn't sell, but they are available in other countries. the discussion was about fords/fpv's which i am confident in saying that they aren't limited edition models in the context of a special model & only 50 units made, i'm sure they didn't make as many as the xr6/8 but that will be due to previous market demand. if the FPV's are less common that the HSV's (which i don't know if they are or not statistically) it would be down to the fact that more people like the HSV's & not because HSV made more. if you make lots of something then you still have to sell them which means people must like them & be willing to part with their $ to have one. we also sell a brand of car named Geely, they aren't common & that is not because they are a limited edition or there are not many made. it is because people test drive them & simply do not like them & they are easily the cheapest cars available. I also suppose that every car is a limited edition as there are not infinate numbers of them, it depends on how you want to argue the point. so you think they are in limited numbers so they can keep the price high? the price is generally determined by the build cost which is directly relevant to the design & development cost, parts & labour it takes to build the machine. if you spend 100 million in design & set up & only sell 1000 cars then the cost per unit will be very high. If you sell 1,000,000 cars then the set up cost per unit is much lower. I think that if there were 10,000 people in every country that would buy a lambo then they would make that many. the facts are that there are not that number of people so there cost per unit is very high hence the high buy price.

the holdens don't have a wishbone part so they must be in the general term of substantial compression link I will base this off my VN model commodore. their front suspension is set up with a macpherson strut which is supported by a control arm. the control arm is a single sectional type member which has additional support from the sway bar & a radius rod so there is no wishbone part at all. macpherson struts are the shock/damper with a spring encompassing it which suspend the car creating its ride height firstly then having the ability to compress the damper when bumps are hit to enable the chassis to remain level & the spring is for expanding the damper back out. wishbone refers to components that have the "wishbone" shape, this link shows a "double wishbone" as it has two. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doubl ... ension.jpg