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Here is the old subject again, chemicals or napisan. We were using napisan (Coles generic) for both 1s and 2s with great success, were in a small town with no coleds so purchased black & gold version and it did not work at all (phew stinky) So went back to chemicals, tried a few Thetford, Coleman, Wal...

Well , hi everyone. Have become a little involved here in Yeppoon with several projects( not the van park, yet!) After finishing all the maintenance jobs for my sister, one of the hotels asked me to do a few jobs for them. Ha, still going!. Still, they are paying, so I'm not complaining. Have done a bit...

Currently have a Dometic B3000 Plus in a 20ft van, only 12months old, USELESS!!!! Have only travelled SE Aust to SW Aust so far, cannot cool van with Dometic. Have been advised Air Command Cormorant may be way to go. Appreciate any input or advice before heading north. Dometic defintitely would not h...

bought 2 cartons of beer yesterday from Safeway liquor outlet and got 30 cents per litre fuel discount - up to maximum of 150 litres

hi guys, im usually pretty good on my computers.. but somethngs stuffing me around.. I reinstalled windows 7 home premium on my pc, acer desktop,quad core i7 and some how in the mix the c drive dissapeared and i managed to get it back, but since then i get sometimes a blue screen dump thingy on the monitor...

It was because of Jonathan.s Birthday made me think of this......Are there any Christmas day Babies amongst us ?

Hello all I have finally received a reply from the RACV and it looks like they are at least looking at it. copy of reply Ken Mr Thomas, Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on the subject of RACV's coverage of vehicles longer than that which is covered by our current Terms and Conditions. We have...

It's an 83 Volvo, 40foot, 3 speed auto, 10 litre, 250hp turbo diesel. We pick it up from Melbourne in early January. And I am rather nervous. Not that I'm going to be driving (I don't even drive a car)..... but it's freaking HUGE!! I've been AWOL, thanks to Uni exams, a massive project for Parks and Wil...

Rob and I are on the road now till March because I need to get home to register my car. (left at home while we are away) The van needs to be registered then too. What do you do when registration is due? We live NSW.

Could Nomads please advise on the practicality of carrying a tinnie on the roof for long term travelling. Wind drag, and are there boats for hire at all the fishing spots. I see Dunco has one on his roof in his avatar. We will have no base where we can offload it when not needed. Fishihg is my form of rela...

LPG fuel tax to hit Qld motorists This was posted in the RACQ road ahead mag, cant stop milking us can theyMotoringPosted on December 12, 2011 | 9 COMMENTS Rural, regional and outer metropolitan drivers who use LPG fuel will suffer a blow from the start of December with the introduction of a new Liquid P...

Hi everyone,will any of you be on your own from Boxing day? This will be the 1st year for me on my own :( I am based in Bendigo central Vic,so if anyone is within approx 200km of Bendigo,maybe we could meet up.I will have the 2 dogs (j/russells who are used to the caravan world).Caravan parks are difficul...

Seasons Greetings to Everyone. I have uploaded a new avatar. cheers. strop n rocket

Beth, the Corelle cups have been delivered to the nominated destination, ready for you to collect.

Well the time is almost here, we today at 15:00hours WA time for a month in New Zealand. We are visiting my sister whom I have not seen since 1990, 21 years ago, hope I recognise her.LOL To all have a very Merry christmas and a Happy New Year. Will be back in OZ jan 16th. PS:- Edited for a typo, big fingers an...

Can anyone help us please, we are thinking of putting one of these 12volt draw fridges in our van. We are wondering if any one has done this, and how its working. Sorry guys should have given a bit more info. Its proper name is. WAECO 30 LITRE COOLMATIC DRAWER FRIDRE. We are hoping to install it in our drawe...

My neighbour just informed me that she heard a well know weather guru on the radio saying that this summer in WA will have the highest temperatures on record.......

Management and I were camped for the last fortnight at Boondooma Dam (near Proston QLD). We watched slack jawed as a centre console plate aluminium boat approx 16 ft proceeded out on the dam. We and others were absolutely gobsmacked at the number of people in the boat, mostly adults. A couple of hou...

It is my intention to cross the top from West to East at the start of winter it has occurred to me that other Grey Nomad's may have the same idea. So if a meetup could be organized for April/May somewhere in the Broome region then there would be plenty to discuss about the forthcoming trip. John

for the 18th December 2011