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I love Australia

I was born in Chelsea a Melbourne seaside suburb not twenty miles away from where I live now. I lived in the inner city for 22 years. I speak with a typical Melbourne accent, which is well enough received...

37 comments    family relationships travel
When you look in your wheel the disc rotor is visible. This one is perfect.78

Who fixes your brakes?

Do you know enough to fix your own brakes properly? Most workshops don't either! They contract the work out to brake specialists, who often cut corners and consequentially endanger your family! Braking...

20 comments    car safety vehicle
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How to save thousands on car maintenance

Maintaining your car is important to your safety as well as your wallet, and we all know that right?. I was always one of the good guys. My expertise is in automotive engineering., running quality workshops...

34 comments    maintenance repair parts
I purchase a Ford same color and condition as this one. Advertised for market value $11,990. Paid $6,000. repairs $200. I replaced all the brake discs cos I'm fussy, they were just within specs, so I replaced them.76

How to save thousands buying a car.

This is not your usual buying information, but the inside running from someone who buys as many as ten cars a year for friends and family these days, with a background as a pro buyer. Buying a car is a real...

39 comments    car cars paint
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Inside The BB Quartz goldmine an Australian Story

In the seventies I went back to the BB Quartz, but this time well equipped to enter the mine.No gold detector needed for this type of trip. My staff at the bike shop were amused to see me design a miners...

23 comments    gold track dangerous
Camping in comfort. Snow outside warm as toast inside!63

Rediscovering the BBQuartz Goldmine

BY 1935 the last goldmines in and around Jericho had pretty much closed down. Costs had been high, gold prices low and the area just stopped being viable. The Chinese miners had been last to leave and...

8 comments    australia jericho walhalla
On the river flat at Jericho72

Jericho with the kids.

In 1968 I started a motorcycle business, it went well, so I had some time, and plenty of motorcycles.I also had a wife and 2 children now old enough to take camping. I had not been back to Jericho for years,...

21 comments    gold camping motorcycles
Camping and prospecting. Jericho 196870

Goldmine A true Australian story.

The BBQuartz mine took it's name from the BB Creek. What is perhaps less known is how BB creek got it's name. When the early gold diggers tried to get through the wiry dense undergrowth along the creek, it...

16 comments    gold australia jericho
The Township of Walhalla 64

The Golden Triangle

In Victoria there is an area unusually rich with gold quite close to our Capital city Melbourne. It is called The Golden Triangle Melbourne is built around Port Phillip Bay, with other major cities like...

19 comments    gold australia mountains
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Goldmine a true Australian story

I was a little boy, the first time I saw gold in it's raw state, straight out of the miners pan and in to a bottle! Deep in the Australian Bush our neighbor's ancestors had hacked a farm out of the dense...

23 comments    gold australia cities
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