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Hints, Tips and Great Ideas
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After reading the recent threads on the water hose bag etc and the info on the Generic Nappy Soaker, I thought it might be good to have a thread specific to various hints and tips etc.We are all quiet clever at coming up with ideas to make our lives on the road better in one way or another so now is the time to...
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Welcome to Hint, Tips and Great ideas
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Hi all, We’ve collected a huge amount of hints, tips and great ideas from members since the ‘hints, tips and great ideas’ thread started approximately 18 months ago. It’s a great resource but it has become quite difficult to navigate and several members have suggested breaking it up by topic. I wi...
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Dinosaurs and Dinosauress's - Paper Bills
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If you still want paper accounts/bills, then be aware 1. Telstra is planning to migrate 800,000 of us to email accounts soon unless you protest. 2.Origin Energy text us yesterday " Get your account emailed. Australia Post is too slow and may result in your account being received after it is due". Che...
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Suction caddy in shower
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Hi has anyone had success with suction caddys in shower. We bought one at Bunnings about $35.00 and tried to put it up,it keeps falling off. any ideas
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Best Sullage Pipe to Purchase
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What are users experiences? Do "Lay Flat" run clear and not clog? Does the internal diameter of the hose effect its efficiency to run clear and not clog? Appreciate any advice. Thx
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SOG Toilet Cassette Ventilation System
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Hi Folks, I just had week away with our SOG fitted and operational, WOW what a difference, absolutely no toilet smells, both chemical smells and the other smells are totally eliminated NO SMELL AT ALL, FANTASTIC. Fitting was fairly simple, I followed the manufacturers instructions and also the ver...
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Family Silverware.
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I have an old "Silver Tea Set" entered the Possum Family back in the 1800's, it was Silver plated over Pewter (from memory). Over the years it became a daily use item with the resultant dents and plating wearing thin, in the late 70's, I took it to a company that specialised in "Silver Restoration". The...
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Unclaimed money
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https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/unclaimed-money/search
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ABC Emergency - active incident locator
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Search any location in Australia to find nearby active incidents: https://www.abc.net.au/emergency/
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Clarifing 12Volt cable size
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I came across this site when trying to work out what cable size I needed for a van mod. Interesting the need to add the length of positive and negative cable when calculating cable size needed for amp load and length of cable run . Some good info here. https://topwiretraveller.com/sizing-automotive...
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Streamlining your Internet experience -- browser tips, extensions, scripts
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I'm proposing a unified thread for collating all the tips and tricks that people use to manage their Internet connection. I'm particularly interested in those ideas which deal with annoyances or which make better use of expensive mobile bandwidth. I use uBlock Origin for blocking ads: [url]http...
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Car acoustic insulation
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My car was pretty good acoustic wise, but I wanted to improve it regardless. Still going to do a bit more when I find the time, but it is really not absolutely necessary. I have added about 1.8m2 of butyl, you don't need it everywhere. So far about 5.4m2 of acoustic foam & have about another 1.8m2 read...
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Reinstalling gas lilfting struts.
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Last January while on a trip down to Geelong the roof lifting gas strut on the front left hand side of the van gave up and leaked black oil everywhere. I bought a replacement from Jayco in Geelong but then was unable to fit it 'in the field' so it had to wait until I returned home. Then when packing up the mis...
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Smelly toilet
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Hi. My wife and I recently purchased a 2nd hand 21' 6" jayco heritage. We are very happy with the van except for the toilet. We cannot get the smell out. We have used the Woolies nappy san equivalent for our previous vans and found it okay. Not seeming to work now. Any suggestions? Thank you.
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Car and Van setup
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Hi folks does anyone based in Perth have any recommendations about who can advise me how to get my towing setup right ? I have a Land Cruiser 200 series 2018 model towing a Jayco Starcraft Outback. The van drops down at the tow point, this could be due to the hitch towbar tongue, a genuine toyota part, whic...
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Generator
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Hi all, Can you tell me if many travelers use a generator? We do have solar but hubby is concerned it we get a week of bad weather we'll have no power! Many thanks in advance
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Raising/Lowering a pop top roof !!!
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Hi everyone, I just tried to raise the roof on my new (Chinese made) slide on camper, for the first time. I don't have the strength. I'm 64 years old, 5'10" tall, mild build male, and I could not budge it (and yes the corner clips have been released). Could be that its sticky as its not been raised since mad...
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Painting an Aliner
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Hi everyone. Recently joined, my name is kelly. I not long ago bought a 1996 Avan Aliner. Absolutely love it. Now the original stickers are old and peeling and i wish to remove them and give the surface a new white paint job. Does anyone here have experience or advice about what kind of paint i use? ...
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Custom GPS magnetic mount
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Custom GPS magnetic mount: I have made a lot of modifications to my car, but I have tried very hard not to drill holes everywhere. So I used some Neodymium 32 x 8mm north south pair of magnets with 25kg pull force. They are less than 25kg as the magnets are about 3 to 4mm apart through the plastic trim panel....
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